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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Digital Painting of Linus the Cat


Many people have pets and we are no exception. Ours is a cat we raised from a kitten that was found out of doors. It appears that a family of cats was dropped off near our house and they had kittens. We found placement for most of the family and kept two cats. One of them ran away when we had visitors who had a large dog, guess it did not like that at all.

Linus is now our only pet. I took this photograph of him and cropped it in PhotoPaint. I added the frame in Filter Forge's frames and then decided to digitally "paint" it.

I reopened the image in Paint.NET and applied Kuwahara Modified filter to it, which simplified the image with brushstroke like precision. I altered the Curves Luminosity for a brighter image and upped the saturation to boost the colors.

Paint.NET's filters can be found online and there are many, if you use Paint.NET I highly recommend downloading the filters. [click here for one location]

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