"Snowy Rusted Vintage Truck" Corel Painter

Snowy Rusted Vintage Truck

I chose a different subject, one of my favorites, a "Snowy Rusted Vintage Truck." I opened in Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 and Digitally Painted with Watercolor Sketch, Dry Brush. Saving that I Opened in Corel Painter 11 and used the Tinting brushes to add color to the image.

I saved the large file and opened in Corel PSP Pro X3 to up the Saturation Vibrancy by 33. I also added some Image Information and my signature. I tried something a bit different here, I used the Effects, Textures and selected from the standard textures a Canvas one. I increased the size of it by 1 from 4 to 5. Adding a very nice finished look to the piece. Look at it enlarged to see the texture.

I resized to display size for posting and saved that iteration. Importing here for your consideration.

NOTE: My New Song is about to be released! It is entitled, "Wait Until Morning," and will be posted to CDBaby soon. I will be posting about it as soon as it is available.

"2012 AutoRama Two" Photograph Manipulation - Paint.NET - Corel PSP Pro X3

Blue Flames

Blue Corvette

Red Orange Custom

Yellow Pickup Custom

"2012 AutoRama Two," features photographs take by Keir M. Gatzka. The Photograph Manipulations are done by myself. I browsed in Picasa 3.9 to the AutoRama folder and selected these photographs to manipulate.

I opened them each in succession in Paint.NET where I applied the Ink Sketch feature. I adjusted the Luminosity in Curves and upped the saturation a bit. I also applied a painterly filter to each image. Saving the large image I opened with Corel PSP Pro X3.

There I further manipulated the images. I adjusted the paint strokes on each one just slightly. I used the saturation Vibrancy on them. I used the Smart Photo Fix on each as well. I also added my signature as a Visible Watermark. I finished each with a 25 pixel black border. I resize in PSP for display here.

I noticed that we are soon to reach 50,000 Pageviews and wanted to thank all of our readers and visitors for making that goal possible. We have over 866 posts to date on gatzkART!, and are happy that many enjoy our blog.

Listening --- The Beach Boys --- Fun, Fun, Fun

"HDR Experiments" Tractors and Truck - Picasa 3.9

HDR Tractor One

HDR Tractor Two

HDR Tractor Three

HDR Truck One

I really like the new Picasa 3.9 for it is feature rich and easy to use. These HDR images were all done using the HDR tool in Picasa. I also used the Museum frame feature included in 3.9.

I did use Corel PhotoPaint for some color adjustments in using the Tone Curve for depth. I also added my signature and resampled the photographs for display. These are older photographs and I am certain that the Blue GMC truck in the snow was taken by my son Keir M. Gatzka, but I don't remember the source of the tractors.

The only quirk in the using of Picasa's features is that when you apply them they sometimes change your source photograph, even before you save with a different name. I found that a little disturbing, because I am used to iterative saves of changes with differing names for each file in succession.

In any case Picasa 3.9 is a really good program to keep track of your photographs and images and videos, as well as helping to create some attractive photographs with just a few clicks on the desired feature and some adjustments to each.

Listening --- Kenny Chesney --- She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy

Custom Hot Rod Pick up Truck - ArtRage - Lightroom Trial

While I am testing out the Adobe Lightroom 2 Trial version (full version sells for around $299.00) I am trying it on several differing images.

This image was first of all painted in the Free ArtRage with oil brushes. I added back in just enough detail using PhotoPaint to overlay the original photograph with transparency. I added the frame using Filter Forges' Freepack Frames. Then I saved the image.

I opened the piece in Adobe's Lightroom 2 Trial version and adjusted the Tone Curve, Saturation, and gave it some depth increasing the Shadows a bit.

I really like this program and would like to own it, but it doesn't fit the budget for now, maybe somewhat later. I love the way it brings out details and deepens the coloring and effects the lighting. Makes the image really POP!

I don't have the credits for the original photographer, so if you recognize it let me know so I can give full credit to them.

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