favorite paseq blend&linesetcanlm, then to Painter X to cut and paste figureto separate layer, added cool color overlay in manganese blue to backgroundand warm color overlay ochre to the figure, then on to photoshop where Iused smart blur on the background layer, made copy of background layer andused screen as mode to lighten background, applied a touch of saturation tothe figure, then dropped layers and added texture and sig.Don't know if I could have done all that in SA, might have been able to butnot sure, or at least I don't know how to yet but it does't matter, I've gotall three programs.From a photo of a friend in Haifa, Israel.
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A favorite, for sure, and with the addition of more processing in Painter and PS, it really ties it into a neat package. I don't have Painter, so am not familiar with its possibilities, but I do love the final result you get from all three. Brava!
Glad to hear you are enjoying the PAS. You are getting great results. There is nothing wrong with using multiple packages. The only advantage of staying within one package would be time savings. But your process does give me some Ideas on a mod for the PASeq.
Thanks Dave and Dee. Dee, if you have photoshop, you can get by without Painter, though Painter does have stuff that photoshop doesn't. I already owned Painter when I bought SA. Here's a small gallery that was done exclusively in Painter, which is as close as you can get to natural or analog media. http://www.pbase.com/nmrai/seeded
So I did some experimenting. There are as usual many different ways to accomplish the effect in SA. One might be to use hue im ops on various region selections to cool the background and warm the foreground. But again as I mentioned in a different post these adjustments would be "destructive" to the underlying image, which is to say not reversible. If you were working on a movie rotoscope it might be preferable to stay in a single layer, but as this is a still image. I think that using multiple layers as you did in painter and photoshop would be the better method.
To do it in SA. Run the PAS. Then Lasso select your "foreground figure." turn on mask :paint. Open new layer "White" set the layer alpha to your current region selection (under the canvas tab:set layer alpha:current region) then change your source to fixed color. Choose the color you want as your filter, then set the layer you just created to fixed color 1. You should now have a color overlay of your selected area. Adjust the compositing to your liking (try multi1 @ 25 percent to get an Idea). Now invert your selection so that you have the "background" selected. Open another layer - choose the fixed color to what you want for this filter layer then set this layer to fixed color 2 (or color 1 if your replaced your first choice instead of selecting a second choice). Adjust the compositing to your liking.
You could use the same region selection to run your "smart blur" on the background. And as you did in Photoshop you could create a new layer duplicate of the first and multi3 composite to lighten.
There you have it. Your original layer and 2 adjustment layers, if you were following your own example you'd have one "cooling" layer masked for the background and a second "warming" layer masked for the figure. (and possibly the third for the background lighten).
I tried to build all of this in to the original PAS. It can be done. the Problem is the lasso selection would be specific to the image I used to create the PAS. So you'd have to stop the Pas and hand select anyway. Plus the choice of adjustment layer color is such a personal taste issue that it creating a PAS with a fixed choice did not seem valuable.
All that said, not having to leave SA might save a bit of time once you are comfortable with region selecting in SA.
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To do it in SA. Run the PAS. Then Lasso select your "foreground figure." turn on mask :paint. Open new layer "White" set the layer alpha to your current region selection (under the canvas tab:set layer alpha:current region) then change your source to fixed color. Choose the color you want as your filter, then set the layer you just created to fixed color 1. You should now have a color overlay of your selected area. Adjust the compositing to your liking (try multi1 @ 25 percent to get an Idea). Now invert your selection so that you have the "background" selected. Open another layer - choose the fixed color to what you want for this filter layer then set this layer to fixed color 2 (or color 1 if your replaced your first choice instead of selecting a second choice). Adjust the compositing to your liking.
You could use the same region selection to run your "smart blur" on the background. And as you did in Photoshop you could create a new layer duplicate of the first and multi3 composite to lighten.
There you have it. Your original layer and 2 adjustment layers, if you were following your own example you'd have one "cooling" layer masked for the background and a second "warming" layer masked for the figure. (and possibly the third for the background lighten).
I tried to build all of this in to the original PAS. It can be done. the Problem is the lasso selection would be specific to the image I used to create the PAS. So you'd have to stop the Pas and hand select anyway. Plus the choice of adjustment layer color is such a personal taste issue that it creating a PAS with a fixed choice did not seem valuable.
All that said, not having to leave SA might save a bit of time once you are comfortable with region selecting in SA.