"Oil Painted Guitar Headstocks - Polar Inversion - Textured" Corel - Plus

Headstocks Polar Inversion
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I took a photograph of a shot of two Guitar headstocks on a patterned pillow. I browsed to it in Picasa 3.9 and opened with Paint.NET.

I applied the Distort Polar Inversion with Clamp as the setting. I played around with the cursor setting, moving about the mini picture of the screen until I liked the image.

I then used the Effects Artistic Oil Paint and pushed the settings to the max. This resulted in fewer details and more textures. I saved the large iteration.

I opened with Corel PhotoPaint and used Filter Forge's Photo Effects plug-in Vibrancy to add some punch to the colors. I then applied the Texture Elephant Skin to the image, set at 48 / Black, for additional texture. I added my signature PNG and set it.

I saved it large again, Then for a lark I rotated the file 90% and resampled to display size.

"New Song on SoundCloud 'Come Along II' in Open G Tuning"

Seagull !2-String Guitar Open G Tuning

 Come Along II - I recommend headphones or a good set of speakers to listen to this song.

https://soundcloud.com/gatzka-music/come-along-ii

"Artists In The Plus - Studio Sessions with Tom Strasser" Picasa - Corel

Studio Session with Tom Strasser

+Artists In The Plus +John Voshell +Tom Strasser

Image manipulation with Picasa 3.9 and Corel Products

1. Full Screen Capture in .BMP converted to .JPG
2. Cropped
3. Warmify
4. HDR
5. Lomo
6. Museum Matte

Signature added in white - Corel PhotoPaint
Softened in Corel PSP Pro X3

NOTE: This is a "G" rated blog and some swearing was in the show so I did not include the YouTube link. But you can follow +Artists In The Plus for links.

"In The Spotlight" with Christina Cecrle Picasa - Corel

"In The Spotlight" with Christina Cecrle

"In The Spotlight" with Christina Cecrle

Hosted by +Artists In The Plus Interview by +John Voshell

Full Screen Capture in Picasa 3.9 as .BMP converted to .JPG

1. Cropped
2. Warmify
3. HDR
4. Lomo
5. Museum Matte
6. Signature added in Corel PSP Pro X3

Wonderful show you may have missed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voIZD0Phg4w#at=78

"Dual Guitar Wrap" Paint.NET - Corel

Dual Guitar Wrap

I opened from Picasa 3.9 a Dual Guitar photograph with Paint.NET. There I applied the Effects, Distort, Polar Inversion to the image. I used the settings Wrap with the Quality set High.

I used the Adjustment tool Hue/Saturation and increased the Saturation a bit. Then I applied the Curves set to RGB and lightened the colors back slightly.

To Soften the tones I used Effects, Blurs, Surface Blurs on the image. I Then Sharpened the image with a setting of Seven.

The resulting image is a Kaleidoscopic style piece, which I saved the large iteration. As you peer into the center you kind of get lost in the fractal likeness of the guitars.

I opened with Corel PSP Pro X3 and using the Visible Watermark I added my signature, saving again, and resizing to display size and saved the final.