"Lauren and Guitars with Music Stand" Corel

Lauren and Guitars with Music Stand

I used some images I had done work on before to create this layered Digital Collage. I opened the background image of a Free Form Digital Painting done in Corel Painter with Corel PSP Pro X3. The next image was of a Young Woman that had been vector traced in CorelTRACE and converted to a bitmap image. The colors of the Young Woman were also altered before use in this piece.

I opened it as a layer and played with the properties to allow the painting to show through. I then opened a Guitar photograph of two Guitars and a Music Stand as another layer. This layer was altered in the properties as well, adjusting its Opacity.

I Merged all layers and increased the Vibrancy in the Saturation tool. I opened my Signature file and I copied it to the clipboard, pasted it into the image, used the Multiply property for transparency and also merged it into the finished artwork.

I used the Image Information tool to add a Title, Copyright, etc. I saved the large iteration, then resized for display here today.

"The Music Stand" Corel PSP Pro X3 Infrared

The Music Stand Infrared

"The Music Stand" is a photograph taken by me with my Canon Rebel XTi. It features two Guitars as well. I selected this photograph for today's image. I browsed to it in Picasa 3.9 and opened with Corel PSP Pro X3. I applied the Digital Camera Noise Removal and the Smart Photo Fix tools. I made some adjustments, when I did I decided that I wanted to present this as black and white.

Instead I chose the Infrared tool and converted the image. I adjusted with a bit of Curves and saved that large iteration. I added black borders and a Thin black frame with the Picture Frame feature. I resized for display.

Simple workflow for a infrared image. PSP Pro X3 is a great program to work with and Corel has X4 out now.

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