Two Digital Collages - Paint.NET - PhotoPaint

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I had a couple of more photographs of my Grandson and my Daughter and I decided to do two digital collages with them. I opened with Paint.NET and selected Effects> Collage Paint for the first image and it allows selection of a folder of images, along with the size of the collaged images. I made my adjustments to the selections and let the collage build with images of guitars and other images.

On the second image I opened Paint.NET again and selected a folder full of photographs of my grandson. These made the collage image, if you look closely at the larger images you can see some of that detail.

As the second image's background was dominate I opened with Painter 11 and used the Suminagashi grainy brush on the background. I saved the large file and reopened in PhotoPaint. I used the selection tool to select the background and applied the Local Equalization tool to it. It made the image of my Grandson stand out more.

For both I used the Tone Curve to make adjustments to color depth and saved the large files. Then I resampled to a smaller size for the web. I added my signature to both and saved the smaller file sizes.

Listening --- Pink --- Family Portrait