barbieq25
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Thanks EER
Thank you Maximillian.
Ishi, we all have different ways of working. Some images come together very quickly. Others take time. I enjoy the process sometimes more than the end product
Thank you Helen & Seerose.
I had to make this one. As much to see how the orchid would look like isolated from the green non-descript background. Photomanip of an orchid someone posted on a Facebook page that I belong to. Again the scroll is clipart.
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The aspect of the boat one is really cool. The beach one is really fresh. We have summer here & it is a scorcher. Lovely work on the sword one too. The play of light is great!
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Ishi, the flowers are done by line tool & lots of layers. I posted up the photo that I took it from. I really don't think I can do a mini tute on this. It was painstaking hours of work.
I use either Bezier curves or the spline one (whichever works better for me at the time) use the right mouse button to move the curves. Once I am happy with the single line, I add a new layer & draw the next line. I can only do one curved line at a time because that is the limitation of the tool's nubs. Once I have the next one done, I merge it down. All the flowers are on their own layer. I used a bit of blur for the centre (again on its own layer) & the flowers were Drop Shadowed individually.
The white dots are on their own layer as well as the little stamen bits which were either Drop Shadowed or I used Outline object on very low settings. The petals were coloured with the paint bucket & added the extra depth by drawing lines & then using a combination of blurs (I think it was Fragment, Splinter, & True Blur) & repeating the layers until I was happy with the depth of colour.
Does this help at all? I did the Dickie Birds the same way but they didn't take nearly as long.
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Dickie Birds with the corrected colouring. Thanks again Ishi for your keen eye
New one: Tacitus Bella
Black scrolls are clipart.
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Thank you Seerose!
Ishi you are so right! Thanks for pointing that out. I don't have the pdn file here but I will fix it up & re-post
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Looks great! Good enough to eat
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Oh Seerose, all of the images are so lovely. Yay! I can see Stuttgart! Love what you did with the poppy. That is really special
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Thanks Lynxster4, Seerose, Red Ochre & Ishi for your positive comments.
The Puss image is 100% PDN. A combination of line tool with Bezier curves, Furblur, layer blend modes, blur & layers. The dotted line was a dashed line that I used Noise ->Median & played with the settings until it got rounded. Also used Feather & AA Assistant & the Curly lines plugin.
Here is another one that I made. I like this style
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Thank you Helen & Doughty for your lovely comments. One of my fellow teachers found it
I haven't either Helen.No Doughty you had not mentioned the heart before but thank you. I have used it a couple of times now in different images because I like it a lot & you can do that easily with a digital canvas
I thought I'd try another way of working - taking a leaf out of Pixey's book, no, not an animation. Gave up on those years ago. Just a different style. As always constructive feedback is always appreciated. I did have a reference picture that I found on Pinterest - no longer there. Just called Puss.
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Pipped by EER
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Very nicely done Skullbonz. Lovely colour & texture too. The shape is way cool too. I'd think twice about keeping the maid on...bit slack.
It lends a whole new dimension to the image. Nice work!
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Nice one Eli! A very pretty outcome.
Why not make it a tute in Creations so anyone else who might want to make one can find it easily.
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The dark one with the buildings & fire reminds me of Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple when the Montreaux Casino burnt down on Lake Geneva. Nice summery image for the next one. When we look out to the ocean, we see islands.
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Aside from being my friend & inspiration, your input into the forum with your knowledge has been invaluable. Your images & ideas are fabulous & a testament to the perseverance & tutelage from AFG. I hope, like many of us here that it will only be a break.
Thank you DrewDale for stepping up. Like Pixey, you will be a wonderful host again.
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Totally love the egg image. The textures are very pleasing & so is the colour. Great use of the Furblur plugin too.
Your images are always so pleasing to the eye.
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Oooops my bad! CTRL + G turns the image 90 deg clockwise. CTRL + SHIFT + G turns it to black & white. I use this method when I want the gold to be silver without having to break my head on settings for silver
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Totally shocked. Some much better ones in my eyes. Thank you
A bit of a cheat entry - without the tutorials and plugins I would still be drawing gradients. Congratulations to everyone
That is what the tutes & plugins are there for
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Nice outcome Marilynx. If you want to turn the gold into silver you can press CTRL + G. Then tinker with the Brightness/Contrast in the Adjustments menu.
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Si Borg, congratulations on your win. Really powerful entry!
Well done Pixey. A great entry & thank you for hosting too
All great entries.
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Hehe, that's the old Laplacian Pyramid Filter - not good for brakes. Used this previously but added to it. My friend who owned this bike loaned it to another of his friends who crashed it. We are all sad about it. Rider is fine, bike is totalled
Owner was riding another bike (trail bike) compound fracture to his arm & I have lost count of the number of operations he has now had. So the sig is really a tribute to him. Time will heal him eventually -
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Clock face: http://i.ebayimg.com/00/$T2eC16ZHJH8E9qSEWy20BRY0lOb2uw~~_35.JPG
Brake disk photo is mine.
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Beautiful glossy/swirly clouds @Helen ........... perfect name for them too
.Absolutely! Well done Helen
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Owner was riding another bike (trail bike) compound fracture to his arm & I have lost count of the number of operations he has now had. So the sig is really a tribute to him. Time will heal him eventually 
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It is up Ishi.