Re: Pholiage in Photo-PAINT
Ron Francis
Not bad for a pixel painter!
If I can make a suggestion... you would see quite a lot of the leaves from
the side so they would look thin, especially at the side of the tree.
This would take away some of the 'blobby' effect.
Note: Disregard if you are trying for a pointillist effect, but knowing the
little about you that I do, you want realism.
The grass looks great.
Regards,
Ron Francis
www.RonaldFrancis.com
"Jeff H." <Je...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:41467fad_3@cnews...
>
> Thanks to Ruth, foliage is a breeze. Here is a sample and the stock PP nib
> used for most of it. I made another nib for the grass. It's incredible how
> powerful the "random" painting capabilities are in PP... :-)
>
> JD
>
> Fun, useful, and usually CwAzY CorelDRAW and Photo-PAINT tutorials are at
> http://unleash.com/jeffh/ Some are FREE! Go check right now. You know U
> want
> to!
>
>
>
Ruth H.
I was leaving well enough alone! You can change the shape of the circle to
make the leaves look more skinny. Also, try to make some more different
greens. The trunk looks really good!
Ruth
"Ron Francis" <rfra...@senet.com.au> wrote in message
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Jeff H.
> I was leaving well enough alone! You can change the shape of the circle to
> make the leaves look more skinny.
After playing with this, making the nib skinnier for the outer thirds helps
to tree look rounder as Ron suggested.
>Also, try to make some more different greens.
The colors you pick for your pics seem more lifelike, I'll need to keep
trying. There IS quite a variety for the ground foliage - but I know what
you mean in regards to the tree.
>The trunk looks really good!
Thanks! Ancient Romanian Secret, using a bark texture, a merge mode, and the
brightness effect tool :-)
JD
Jeff H.
> Not bad for a pixel painter!
> If I can make a suggestion... you would see quite a lot of the leaves from
> the side so they would look thin, especially at the side of the tree.
I gave your idea a try, and the top of the tree started looking more
naturally dimensional and real.
>
> The grass looks great.
Thanks! It was the first grass nib I made - kinda rushed it just to try it
out. I've believed for years that PP is underrated - it keeps surprising me.
Another concept I want to explore soon is creating my own leaf image lists.
I've made other lists before from images found here and there, rocks etc.
With a nice new digital cam I can have much more control over the
components. I have a nice fig tree in my office that I'm about to pull 5-8
leaves off, having full control over the variety and resolution of the list.
This is great, since trying to make good lists with poor low-res images
scraped up from the net is not really using this tool to its potential. Will
post some results when done.
JD
Jeff H.
I'm still working on trying to create a nice "tree skeleton" to put leaves
on. My branching attempts need work....Maybe I need to just go look at real
trees and try to break down how they assemble themselves, analyze how to
simulate that with layers in 2D.
In your orig. pics, you seem to have darker areas in the lower parts of the
foliage, surrounded on top by lighter greesn that would be striving towards
the sun, which looks good to me.
> This is my 10 minutes playing! One thing that didn't set too well with me
> were the leaves that were "floating in space". I changed the shape of the
> leaves and added another green to this. The tree would look better if it
> wasn't ball shaped but I'll let you do that!
>
> Ruth
Jeff H.
Hi Ruth,
Thanks for the info, will play with later tonight if possible.
JD
> I should have done this last night. This is the brush I used on the
leaves.
> I switch back and forth between Impressionism and Water Color Brushes and
I
> vary the numbers in the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. My only real
problem
> I have with Corel is that when I use one of the other colors in the same
> color range I have a hard time remembering which one I last used. It would
> be nice if it was highlighted some how when I went back in there again.
I'm
> assuming everyone knows that if you hold your mouse down over a color, you
> get 49 colors to choose from. I also keep another palette above my regular
> one that I can add and subtract to when I get a color I want to use more
> than once.
>
> Ruth
Zam
"Jeff H." <Je...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:4147c907_2@cnews...
This has been a really useful thread for me; it's led me to explore and use
PPT much more effectively. Thank you!
One thing; could you please expand your comments past the "...a merge mode"
point? _Which_ merge mode etc. I've explored them now and understanding
their effects takes quite some time. On coming to this thread at first I
spent some time looking for the word "merge" in the list. (Daft me!)
Thanks again for a truly educational thread,
Best,
Zam.
Ruth H.
Go to Help in Paint and type in Merge Mode and Paint Mode.
Ruth
"Zam" <zam8890...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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Jeff H.
Hi Ruth,
WOW! that looks great! Would love to see a bigger version, the colors are
very pretty. The mountain looks awesome too.
JD
>
> I had to make a small JPG file of my latest PhotoPaint picture to send to
> someone, so I decided to drop it in here also! It is for a contest for the
> cover of our local phone book.
>
> Ruth
Ruth H.
Jeff, how big do you want it and where do you want me to send it?
Ruth
"Jeff H." <Je...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:414f9889_2@cnews...
Jeff H.
Hi Ruth,
How about 800 pixels tall by whatever width? 72 or 96 DPI will be fine.
Send to Jeff AT pmgindex.com
Thanks, looking forward to it!
JD
Ron Francis
Ruth,
I have seen a lot of your work and I am inclined to say that this one is
your best, or at least the most realistic.
Well done and thanks for the peek.
Regards,
Ron Francis
www.RonaldFrancis.com
"Jeff H." <Je...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:414f9889_2@cnews...
Ruth H.
Thanks Ron,
Would you like a copy like I sent Jeff?
Ruth
"Ron Francis" <rfra...@senet.com.au> wrote in message
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Ron Francis
Yes please.
The same size would be fine.
The colors and lighting are great. Couldn't look more like sunshine!
Regards,
Ron Francis
www.RonaldFrancis.com
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