"Surreal-E-Scapes"
August 27, 2009 08:52 AM EDT
(Updated: September 10, 2009 05:35 AM EDT)
A few of my 2-D, surrealistic, digital artworks presented as a slide show with "New Age" soundtrack and image transition FX. All pieces created using PaintShop Pro (by Jasc) "picture tubes" and other, various graphics FX.
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Comments: 8
Just out of curiosity - how does one do that? Do you find images - edit your own - where do you get the background?
I'm just floored - this piece really spoke to me - I wish I could have seen a nice large image across my screen. Lovely, just lovely, Jean! You made my day - a visual energy drink:)
Thanks, Sue! (I do a lot of these with butterflies! ;o) )
Rose: I use "PaintShop Pro" (I have version "9" from Jasc software but Corel bought them out and I think they're to number 11 or so by now...). I usually start out by "washing" the entire digital canvas in a "gradient" (one color into another -- sometime more than one color). Then I add the "objects". Almost all of the "objects" in the pictures are "tubes" (aka, "picture tubes") -- the mountain peaks, water, grass, hills, etc. -- most of which are "standard" (in other words, they come WITH the program or as an add-on). But I like to also take images I find online (most from the "Dover Publishing newsletter" that comes out each week with free, non-royalty sample images) and make my OWN "tubes" by erasing out the background from the object and then using the procedure to save it as a "tube". (I wrote a couple of articles on how to do this, search under "how to make your own picture tubes" here on Gather) which can then be recreated on ANY digital canvas with a click of the mouse. (You can even adjust the size by percentage of the original.) By adding different objects to the canvas, it eventually creates a "scene".
Some of the objects (the Egyptian figures that look like they're made of rock, I made using a process I invented that I call "Silhouette Pattern Fill" where I take a black on white line drawing and change the black outline to some other texture by using the "color changer" feature in PSP. (You can find one of my articles on that, too, by using the quoted text.)
Glad you liked them so much! :o)