barbieq25
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Life on a Green Planet is pretty cool but now after @hippiechossaid they reminded them of chocolate wrappers, I see it too!
THe animation is astounding! Yep! Holy cow!!
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Woodsy, @MadJikalso wrote some very cool tutes.
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Thank you @LionsDragon, not cool but I feel more relaxed than I have done in years.
Here are some that didn't make the deadline for the comp.
I got the line idea from Google but I worked the entire image.
The leaf fill was a photo I took of my plants a while back.
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Nice work @MadJik! Fabulous shapes in the second one.
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Thank you @Pixey, @LionsDragon, @lynxster4, & @Seerose. Flowers are always good. Cactus flowers always amaze me. It is such a contradiction.
@Pixey, wow! Feel free to use
The hardest part is always isolating the flowers. Since this wasn't my image, I really wanted to do it justice. Kiss Cut & Dainty are both from the same flower. Jitter is such a wonderful plugin. After I run the Jitter, I select, copy & paste into a new layer & Drop Shadow & some I delete altogether. Hardest part if to make sure that you are very accurate with your selections.
I was devastated that after 7 years of giving my everything, the company I worked for has decided that I must travel to far-flung places & attend meetings (I find it very difficult to hear as I have a hearing impairment). The company believes it is a 90 minute journey - even Google maps shows that it is 3 hours! Long story short - I felt I had no option but to resign. They gave me 2 weeks & I am at the end of the first week & feel good about leaving now. Half of my class will quit too. I requested they give the new teacher a try. I have a number of really lucrative options...not working 5 days a week anymore either. More time to paint. NET, crochet, garden & kiss my rats & play with the dogs.
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Wow! It has been nearly 10 months since I last posted an image.
Thank you everyone for your lovely words. Life has been a little crazy but it is getting better.
Here are some new images I have been working on.
Dainty (Julie's Cactus Flower)
Kiss Cut
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Love the Fuschia Room. I could spend a long time in here.
Great textures & there really is so much to this image. It would have taken an age to do but well worth it!
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Hi @OverraughtEnclave, Welcome to the forum.
Great images you have here. Your experiments are super! The idea in the one here is fabulous. Very Daliesque.
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Hello @Decipher, welcome to the forum.
If you have a raster image (Paint.NET is raster) that is say 100 x 250 pixels & you try to make it 400 x 1000, it will get pixelated.
If you shrink a raster image down, any unnecessary information will be discarded.
If on the other hand you want to increase the size, new pixel information needs to be created and it does that by its best guesses & therefore you will get a pixelly image & it will depend on how much you increase it by.
Vector images are able to be scaled infinitely but since Paint.NET uses raster, it won't help you much.
In my work I regularly use a canvas that is 4 times the size of what I want the finished product to be. Then I scale it down & the result is beautifully smooth work. The maple leaf that I did is not as smooth as I would like it to be because I broke this rule
Try these ideas & let us know how you go.
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It is nice to see Madjik back again.
Posted up my image on my FB page...one lady wanted to know if they were engraveable. What a compliment...
Great theme!
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The stained glass effects are all really wonderful. The "Cheap Plastic Suncatcher" looks clean & very happy. Not at all cheap.
The dragonfly one is really pretty. You have added the most interesting textures to it. I keep thinking his head is missing - maybe I am looking for the big eyes? The colours are perfect & the way you framed it in the diamond shape is spot on. Love, love, love it!
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Both are very good! The David Bowie one is just fantastic as a first attempt. I can hardly wait to see what else you will do with this style.
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On 6/19/2017 at 5:33 AM, Pixey said:
My latest piece - something furry and cute, I hope!
I want to give it a cuddle & a kiss. Those eyes & its little nose - how perfect. The ears are really well done too. It looks so cheeky. The banding & the colouring are spot on. Well done Pixey!
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Lovely birdies Pixey. The red flowers are a perfect to show off the pretty birdies.
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Congratulations Woodsy! Two wonderful images. I hope you get well soon. We sure miss you
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Seerose, what fabulous new additions to your gallery. I'd love my folder icons to look like your!
Your work is so smooth & polished. Bravo!
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@LionsDragon, I rescued one on the weekend. THey said he was flighty & bitey. They called HIM Lucille! I'd probably bite too. He is a sweet boy who needed medication for a respiratory infection. Now settling nicely & we have called him Felix. He is my 5th boy & I have 7 girls
I miss doing my art too & hope to get back to doing some soon. Keep up the lovely work!
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Great entries for the spanner. If we are being pedantic about the "fixed size" then we should not be allowing adjustable wrenches (shifters in Australia) & the spanners are combination - that is open ended/ring spanner. Just to throw a spanner in the works.
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Yarn, garden, rats & art. I barely fit work & hubyy in, though I have not done any art for a while now
Brilliant image. Well done!
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Bitter sweet Lynxster. New Grandbaby is lovely. The passing of your dad is really sad. Hugs to you because there really are no words.
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Impressive works! Nice to see you here. Orbs are awesome & S3D is still an awesome plugin.
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Another lovely bottle from you. Really lovely!
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Barbieq25 Gallery - Gallery update 2 new p. 1
in The Pictorium
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Thank you @Woodsy. They maple leaves were a different way of working for me. Happens sometimes. I got called away in the middle of it. Great theme though.