"Blue Halftone Grandmother" Corel PSP Pro X3 - Plus

Spouse's Grandmother

Browsing in Picasa 3.9 I was struck by this image of my wife's Grandmother. I opened with Corel PSP Pro X3 and adjusted the tone with Curves. This added some facial features that had been washed out.

I applied the Halftone feature, and then changed the Color to a Blue tone. I added my signature with the Image, Visible Watermark. Then I took that and applied the Picture Frame Cyan-tone frame. I also added a blue border and again using Picture Frame added the Black frame. I saved the large iteration and resized for display.

I opened with Corel PhotoPaint and used the Tone Curve on it for just a bit more color depth, resaving it.

Listening --- Bob Dylan --- Tangled Up In Blue

Dreamy Focus - Tritone - PhotoPaint

I cropped today's image from a color photograph of my Grandson while in PhotoPaint. I had downloaded Filter Forge's Freepack 2 Photo Effects to test them out.

First I created an 8-bit Tritone of his photograph and then converted it back to RGB 24-bit in PhotoPaint. I used Filter Forge's Dreamy soft focus filter on the Tritone image and put the focus on his eyes, nose and mouth. I tried a couple of variants in Filter Forge before I was satisfied with the piece.

I then applied Filter Forge's Film Frame to the resulting image for a dark frame. I like the focus of the Tritone as it gives us a soft focus and clear view of his smile, and the vignetting of the darkness surrounding him leads the eye to his face.

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Now playing: Bob Dylan - Series Of Dreams
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Bob Dylan - New Found Tapes - Demo Trailer

Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan - Digital Expansion - CorelTRACE - CorelDRAW - PhotoPaint

Bob Dylan was an influence on my earliest musical experience, as he was for many. He currently has some of his early work out on CD and you can read about it on his site [click here] BobDylan.com.

Mr. Dylan is also an artist and you can see his art online as well [click here]. His work is simple, colorful and extraordinary.

I found this image of him browsing in Picasa 3 and am not certain of the photographer. If you recognize it please let me know so I can credit them here.

I first opened the file in PhotoPaint and resampled the image to 1200 pixels wide. I saved that file and opened it in CorelTRACE and turned it into a traced vector image, which I saved in cmx format.

I opened that in CorelDRAW and ungrouped all the vector pieces and selected some at random and exploded them out from the center of the image. This gave me white space to use for additional color.

Using the rectangle tool I created one larger than the expanded image. I placed this behind all the other pieces and selected a purple color to fill the white spaces. I selected the white of his face and added an outline to it.

I copied this to the clipboard and pasted it into PhotoPaint where I adjusted the size and converted to a jpg file. I opened that file in Painter 8 and used Apply Surface Texture> Image Luminance> for texture. I reopened it in PhotoPaint and used Filter Forge's film frame on it and added my new signature.

If you are a Dylan fan and you have yet to visit his official site don't hesitate to click on the above provided links. His art is a visual treat and his musical history goes on as bright as ever.

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Now playing: Kirk Mathew Gatzka - Mr Tambourine Man Cover
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