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Thank you.

Thanks, Bob. Got it and I'll give it a shot. It'll be a heck of a lot less trouble than dealing with the GIMP just to resize a pic.

My three year old has been getting pretty good at PDN. She's able to use the paint brush, has learned to use the bucket fill and filled and outlined shapes. Hasn't been really "getting" filter use though she loves what happens to her drawings when they are applied. Can you just let the kids experiment? Or is this more of an actual class where there is an objective to what they're doing with PDN?

Not yet. Can't wait 'till it gets here. I'm getting some monster .png's with PDN. I've been re-saving my images using the GIMP to kind of knock the file sizes down a bit.

I noticed I was able to get fractal-like shapes in PDN. I call it "fractal-like" because I'm not sure how far down the recursion goes, and if I'm not mistaken, a true fractal must be infinitely recursive. But the image does give the impression of recursion. and a link to the full size 800x600 pic because some of the details are lost in the resized image (warning: ~2mb pic size): 800x600 fractal_like BTW -- Is it possible to control the amount of compression of .png's with PDN? edit -- Updated my site with a link to the .pdn of the image. Leave a comment, mail, pm, etc. if you'd like further info on how it was done. It's pure PDN.

I like that. Were the red areas done with the cloud effect? I've been trying to do a "rusty metal" in PDN and this looks like it might do the trick for me. Yes, I used the cloud effect over a dark red linear gradient with color burn (if I recall correctly) layer mode. And then a bunch of other stuff. Thanks. That helps me a lot. Hopefully I'll have something to put up in a couple of days.

I like that. Were the red areas done with the cloud effect? I've been trying to do a "rusty metal" in PDN and this looks like it might do the trick for me.

At least my Dad does -- rather, it's his "$1000 deck of cards".

I like the texture on the sphere. How did you do that? The translucency is perfect.

I really like the orb in the first image. How was that effect done?

I like it a lot. Did you render the boy's shadow on the reflective floor, or was it created from the reflection itself?

*Much* easier than the way I did it and it allows for more color options/effects. Thanks! Your result is much better though. I really like the shadow of the antenna per example. After playing with the other options mentioned for selective colorization, I also realized this: the way I did it allows for the *actual* colors of the colored subject to come through. Using the other method, you can select a part of the color specturum (say, "orange" in this case) and it will desaturate all but that area of the spectrum. The way I did it, the actual subject shows through a desaturated layer giving the "true" view of the subject and colors. Did that make sense?

me2 =D The selective colorization? Or something else?

*Much* easier than the way I did it and it allows for more color options/effects. Thanks!

Got this image after trying to work out how to colorize images in PDN. If I can figure out a more efficient/better way to do it, I'll write something up on it (providing there's nothing already done on that subject).

Or just uncheck the visibility box on the background layer...