"Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Six" Impressionist Version - Corel

Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Six

I just installed Corel Painter Essentials 4 on my main PC. It allows you to select a painting style. the colors type, the paper roughness, etc. Then you can allow the image to be Auto-painted in that style with your selections.

So one more time I grabbed the Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck for an image. I opened in Painter Essentials and selected the Impressionistic style with basic color, and Rough Paper. I pressed Start and the program "Painted" the image for me. I saved the large iteration.

I opened it in Corel PSP Pro X3 and used the Saturation Vibrancy tool set at 33 for a boost to the colors, which those of you who read my posts know I like to do. The Orange and Blue and Green's dominated the image.

I added Image Information, Title, Copyright, Camera used and Programs used. I saved that and then resized to display size to post here.

I thought I was done with this series of the Vintage Truck, but I wanted to try out the Auto-Painting of Painter Essentials 4 again. I hope you enjoy the Impressionistic image I have shared.

"Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Five" Paint.NET - Corel - Painter

Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Five

This close-up of the Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck was taken pointed directly at the Sunset. I used my Canon Rebel XTi DSLR Camera. In the original photograph the sky was washed out with white, and a tad of Sunlight was peeking through.

I opened the photograph in Paint.NET and used the Saturation tool on it at first. Then I decided to try my hand at Digitally Painting a Pen and Ink image. So I selected the Effect, Artistic, Ink Pen tool, no color just Black and White, and created the effect I wanted to Paint.

I saved that as a separate iteration and opened it with Painter 11. I used the Digital Watercolor Brushes Dry Mop, and Dry Coarse Mop at differing sizes to Paint the watercolor. I attenuated the Sunlight (with sun rays and spots) and made the Sky a Cloudy Blue. I saved that iteration with another name.

I added, in Corel PSP Pro X3 the Saturation Vibrancy for that Punch to the colors I like so much, though the image was quite vibrant to begin with.

I added my signature in black and gave the image a black border. With the Image Information tool I added Title, Copyright, Camera, and Programs used. It appears that Paint.NET also strips out the photograph's EXIF data.

Number Five will probably be the last in this series of the Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck. The Five shared images were selected from a number of photographs taken that evening beside the paved road. I believe I selected the best photographs to share. I hope you have enjoyed them.

"Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Four" Corel

Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Four

Today I selected this Head-on photograph of the Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck. I opened it in Corel PhotoPaint and created the image here. I used a different approach than the more straight forward photographs I shared in posts prior to this.

I first rotated the image to portrait, then fit to page. I applied PhotoPaint's Local Equalization for an almost HDR look and feel. I took the Tone Curve tool and added depth to the colors.

Applying Filter Forge's Photo Effects Vibrancy I added Punch to the colors as well. I selected a Texture from my Free Friday Texture collection of a panel of wood. This I copied and pasted as a layer upon the image. I adjusted the property of this texture and also the opacity of it. You may see the vertical lines it added.

Back to Filter Forge's Frames I added a Grunge variant Frame to the whole image. I then added my signature in white to another layer and merged them all. I saved this iteration as a large file.

I then opened with Corel PSP Pro X3 and used the Smart Photo Fix on the image, lightening it up slightly. Using Image Information I added Title, Copyright, Camera (Canon Rebel XTi) and Programs used to the information. It appears that PhotoPaint strips all EXIF data from the image when altered. I resized this image for display here.

"Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Three" Corel

Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Three

Here is a third view of the Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck taken one evening recently. I opened the photograph with Corel PSP Pro X3 and kept my approach to enhancing this photograph simple.

I applied the Saturation Vibrancy set at 33 to it for punching up the colors. I only added my white signature and a black border to this photograph. I saved the large iteration with Image Information, Title, Copyright, Program used and the EXIF data.

As you can see on the sign on the back of the Truck it had been used for the Oak Haven Farm Market in the past. You can almost imagine the Truck loaded with fresh vegetables for the Market, traveling there to sell it's wares.

I also like the large Barn in the background, as the surrounding ground is just now greening up with vegetation. It is sitting right on the property near the paved road where we parked so I could photograph it. I have wanted to do so for some time and that evening I had my Canon Rebel XTi ready and fully charged for use. I, unfortunately, am not always that prepared.

"Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Two" Corel

Vintage Ford Rust Orange Truck Two

I took this photograph with my Canon Rebel XTi, I pointed the camera directly into the Sunset. Thus you will see Rays of the Sun behind the Vintage Ford Truck. It also adds white space to the upper portion of the photograph. I opened the photograph from Picasa 3.9 with Corel's PSP Pro X3.

There I applied the Smart Photo Fix tool. After That I adjusted the image with the Saturation Vibrancy tool set at 33. I also used the Curves tool to add depth to the color of the Truck and surrounding grass.

Using the Picture Frame tool I applied a jagged edge to the image, and a black border. I opened my white and black signature file and added it to a new layer, using the property Lighten I made the black transparent. I used the Highpass Sharpen tool for addition details. I saved the large iteration with Image Information of a Title, Copyright, programs and camera used, along with the EXIF data.

I then resized the image for display here.

I have other angles in photographs that I will garner some of the best for additional examination on the blog.