More Typography Play - A Clean Page - CorelDRAW - PhotoPaint

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I've been reading about Typography quite a bit lately. So I made up this image for display. I opened CorelDRAW and used some grunge fonts for the text. I copied them to the clipboard and pasted them into a large file in PhotoPaint.

There I used the Effects> Distort> Wet Paint to add the dripping. I used splatters to mess up the page even further applying the Wet Paint to them as well.

I wanted a messy page that had some humor to it thus the Clean Page phrasing. I kept it minimal in it's presentation using only a bit of design work. I saved the large file, resampled for display here with my signature.

Listening --- Kirk Mathew Gatzka --- Blues Fun One

Learning to Walk - Digital Collage - PhotoPaint

A simple digital collage today of my Grandson, learning to walk. The floral frame is from Dover Publications as well as the Art Nouveau fill. The tree bark texture seen in the frame and my Grandson is from Mayang's Textures.

I opened the frame in PhotoPaint and resampled it to 96 dpi for a working size. Then I opened a photograph of my Grandson leaning on the coffee table in Painter 11 and applied the woodcut tool to the image. Back in PhotoPaint I cut him out with the freehand lasso tool. I then pasted him into the frame image.

I browsed in Picasa 3 to my Mayang's Textures and selected a tree bark texture and copied and pasted as new image in PhotoPaint. There I cropped it to size keeping the texture bold.

I took the image of my Grandson framed and copied and pasted it into the tree bark texture and made it transparent for the bark to show through. I set all the objects (layers) with Ctrl-Shift-Down Arrow. This left me with a white background.

In PhotoPaint I opened the fill window and edited the fill, and selected the Art Nouveau piece. After I pressed OK, I used the fill bucket to add it to the masked in white space. I added the words with the text tool and selected the text as an object to stretch it to fill the space.

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