# Horse workmates

**URL:** <https://community.topazlabs.com/t/horse-workmates/6290>\
**Category:** Education & Training\
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/horse-workmates/6290 "2018-06-08T04:04:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![knokin](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8491ac/32.png) [@knokin](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/knokin)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 4:04am UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/horse-workmates/6290/1 "2018-06-08T04:04:48Z")

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Playing with multiple layering in Topaz again… Started with AI Remix Desert Mirage to render the horses painterly.  
Then went back to the original and did a Da Vinci sketch with a stronger canvas colour and increasing the visible texture.  
Dragged the AI Remix image over this Da Vinci image as an image layer. Using masking, I brought through the horses and left the background as the Da Vinci one.  
It wasnt defined enough so I then did a Fine marker sketch of the original, thickened the edges; removing fine lines etc so it was a sharp a black and white set of lines as possible.  
I then dragged that Fine Marker sketch over where I had got to with the others. I set this layer to Multiply so only the black showed, and the white disappeared. Using a mask on this layer I selectively added lines from this here and there.  
The background needed something more, so I then added a Texture layer from the Topaz choices. Again with masking I removed it where it covered the horses and left it in the background for some extra grit.

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**Author:** ![KenKv](https://community.topazlabs.com/user_avatar/community.topazlabs.com/kenkv/32/32_2.png) [@KenKv](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/KenKv)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/horse-workmates/6290/2 "2018-06-08T14:45:37Z")

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Great work and very clear, helpful illustration of your workflow. Very inspiring!

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**Author:** ![knokin](https://community.topazlabs.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/8491ac/32.png) [@knokin](https://community.topazlabs.com/u/knokin)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.topazlabs.com/t/horse-workmates/6290/3 "2018-06-08T23:20:31Z")

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Thanks for the enthusiastic feedback. Glad you are inspired to take your own direction from something there.