"Acoustic Guitar Player Close Up" Corel PSP Pro X3

Acoustic Guitar Player Close Up

Here is a photograph I got from FreeFoto.com by Ian Britton (see EXIF data.) I downloaded the image at 800x600 and increased its size in Corel PSP Pro X3 to 1220 wide. I used the Unsharp Mask tool on it as well as the Smart Photo Fix adjusting it a bit.

I used the Skin Smoothing on it, too. I Duplicated that and applied the Effect Pencil for an edge and used the layer property Burn on it. I applied the Plugin Flaming Pear's ChromaSolarize for the brilliant color and slight pixelization.

I placed my signature with Visible Watermark and Picture Frame selecting one with edges. I then gave it a black border. I did all this inside of Corel PSP Pro X3 without changing programs.

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Guitar Player and Guitars - Digital Collage - PhotoPaint - Picasa 3 - Flaming Pear

I'm venturing back into one of my favorite motifs in digital collage, that is the Guitar. Today's image is a collage done in Picasa 3 and PhotoPaint where I added together a Guitar Player and differing views of the same guitar piece.

I used Flaming Pear's filters on each Player and guitar image before I added them into a large collage in Picasa 3. I have an individual poster of the guitar player on my Zazzle store for sale and it has proved to be one of the favorites there.

He started out as a photograph that I used Little Ink Pot's Thredgeholder on and then in Painter painted with watercolor. I added him for a special touch to this collage.

I finished up by resampling to fit online and added a light film frame in Filter Forge's frames. The guitars are a Lyon 6-String and a Seagull 12-String in various angles and colors.

Listening --- Kirk Mathew Gatzka --- Norwegian Wood Cover

Guitar Collage - Kaleidoscope - Paint.NET - Painter 8 - PhotoPaint

I was experimenting with collage on one of the guitar photographs I had taken recently. I opened the resized photograph in Paint.NET and applied the Ink Sketch filter. I also adjusted the Curves> Luminosity>. Saving that file I opened in Painter 8.

There I used Flaming Pears Chromasolarize filter. I saved the file and reopened in PhotoPaint and opened a second guitar image and cut and pasted pieces of guitar and placed them somewhat haphazardly into the piece. Saving that I opened it in Paint.NET again.

I used the Kaleidoscope filter and played with the settings until I had an image that was satisfying to me, Here you can see both before and after images. My favorite is the Kaleidoscope piece.





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Now playing: Beatles - All You Need is Love
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Guitars - Chromasolarized - Paint.NET - Painter - PhotoPaint

At a recent visit to Motor City Guitar in Waterford, Michigan I was allowed to take some photographs of the surrounds. I haven't discussed much music on the blog recently so I decided to add this guitar image from that visit.

I had opened the photograph in IrfanView to do a batch conversion of some of the photographs down to 1024 size. I find that program very useful for batch conversion and use it for resizing for the web quite often when I want to do more than one image.

I selected this photograph and opened it in Paint.NET and adjusted the Curves Luminosity lightening the piece. Then I applied the Effects> Artistic> Ink Sketch> with the color turned all the way up, but the ink turned down. Saving that file I opened in Painter 8 for a set of plugins that I haven't added to Painter 11.

I applied the Effects> Flaming Pear> ChromaSolarize> to the image for a unique look. It warmed up the piece and gives it some added punch.

DADGAD Guitar Playing - Beautiful and soothing!



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Now playing: Moby - Guitar, Flute And String
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