Vector Graphics - Young Man - CorelDRAW

Vector Graphics - Experiment with Bitmapped Graphics

I love to experi-
ment with bit-
mapped images using vector tools on them for unusual results. This photograph of a close up of sunglasses and reflection, with nose, was taken by my son, Keir M. Gatzka a few summers ago. As you can see it captured my imagination and I used it for an experiment.

I first opened the photograph in Paint.NET and adjusted the size, and used the Ink Sketch filter on it with no color for the black and white image as the basis of this experiment. Then I opened it in Painter 8 and added a watercolor layer and used a large watercolor brush with two colors only for the background.

I copied the image to the clipboard and opened CorelDRAW, pasted it and began to add some vector graphics. I used the Freehand drawing tool and created some bits and pieces of paisley and florals plus some swirled lines. I also built some buildings and a car with a road.

I copied that to the clipboard and pasted it as a new image in PhotoPaint. I added a 20 pixel border and signed it. I made the image a jpg file for display here.

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Now playing: Kirk Mathew Gatzka - Eleanor Rigby Cover
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Zeke Nouveau - Grandson - Texture

The other day visiting my Grandson I took a number of photographs. I selected this one for today's image, where he is standing up, with a little help from his Grandmother.

I opened the photograph in Paint.NET and used the Artistic> Effects> Ink Sketch> filter and removed all color for the black and white image. I had opened an Art Nouveau frame, from Dover Publications, in PhotoPaint and I copied and pasted the image of Zeke into the frame.

I used the erase tool, before merging the object, and erased the upper right hand corner for his name tag and the lower right hand corner for the floral part of the frame.

I opened one of Mayang's Textures of fossilized stone in PhotoPaint along with the black and white image of Zeke. I cut out a portion of the texture and then opened from the clipboard. I then copied and pasted Zeke into the stone texture. I did an asymmetrical placement of the image, added Zeke's name and a black border to finish the piece.

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Now playing: Elmore James - Dust My Blues
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Badcuda - PhotoPaint - Paint.NET

We caught up with this car, driver and passenger after following him for a short while. At first from a distance I thought it was a Charger, but my wife said she thought it was a Barracuda. Now since these cars are among my brother Kent's favorites we followed, trying to keep up until he stopped for gas, only a short way along.

We approached him and got permission to photograph the car. I got a couple of differing angle shots, with this one being my favorite one.

I used Paint.NET's Effects> Ink Sketch> on it with the color turned all the way up and the ink lines down. As it is a black and dark purple car, at twilight I did not want to make the image too dark.

In PhotoPaint I resampled for the web, added Filter Forge's film frame. And I added a KPT's Collection Lens Flare to the image.

I sent all five photographs to my brother along with a couple of new ones of our Grandson. I know he will enjoy them.

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Now playing: BB King - Three O'clock Blues
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Digital Painting - Painter 8 - Grandson

The image shown today is a digital painting that I painted in Painter 8 from a photograph I took the other day when visiting.

I used a Bristle brush for the bulk of the painting and a second layer set at Gel for the background. I used Digital Watercolor brushes for the background. And merged the layers saving to a jpg file for display here on the web.

I brought the file into PhotoPaint to apply Filter Forge's frames a watercolor frame. I added a black border of 10 pixels. I resampled the file from the larger working file while in PhotoPaint also.