Grunge Digital Collage - Mayang's Textures - PhotoPaint

Today I'm back to doing digital collage. I selected a grunge texture from Mayang's Textures while browsing in Picasa 3. I opened it in PhotoPaint and began. Using the guitars as a theme I added them by copying and pasting then applying Little Ink Pot's Thredgeholder for line art. I used the property Texturize for transparency on most of the pieces.

I also used some Dover Clip Art for interest and a profiled face from DaVinci with an out stretched lower jaw. The facial muscles image is from Dover Publications as is the bird on a sprig of a flowering plant. All for variety in the image.

For the larger guitar I used Thredgeholder and Color Burn for transparency. I merged all objects (layers) together and saved the large image.

I resampled in PhotoPaint for display here. I added a 30 pixel blue border to finish. I thus ended up with a deep blue grunge image showing damaged painted metal plating and the guitar theme.

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Now playing: Acoustic Junction - Strange Days
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Crowded Sunlit Atrium - Paint.NET - PhotoPaint

Here is a photograph taken by my son, Keir M. Gatzka. It's an angular view of a crowded sunlit atrium. It has much appeal in it's geometric appearance and the busy crowd bustling about. I opened the image in Paint.NET and applied the Ink Sketch filter, boosting the color all the way up.

I also used the Curves adjustment to the Luminosity for a brighter appearance with an increase in color saturation as well. I saved that large file and opened it in PhotoPaint and applied Filter Forge's Photo Effect Vibrance for more enhancement.

I also added a 30 pixel black border to the piece then I resampled for display here. A simple digital manipulation for this angular piece. I tried to add some texture to the piece in Painter but found it distracted from the overall image so I left it alone and saved it.


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Now playing: Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
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Digital Painting of Linus the Cat

Many people have pets and we are no exception. Ours is a cat we raised from a kitten that was found out of doors. It appears that a family of cats was dropped off near our house and they had kittens. We found placement for most of the family and kept two cats. One of them ran away when we had visitors who had a large dog, guess it did not like that at all.

Linus is now our only pet. I took this photograph of him and cropped it in PhotoPaint. I added the frame in Filter Forge's frames and then decided to digitally "paint" it.

I reopened the image in Paint.NET and applied Kuwahara Modified filter to it, which simplified the image with brushstroke like precision. I altered the Curves Luminosity for a brighter image and upped the saturation to boost the colors.

Paint.NET's filters can be found online and there are many, if you use Paint.NET I highly recommend downloading the filters. [click here for one location]

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Now playing: Kirk Mathew Gatzka - Cats In The Cradle Cover
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Ovation Guitars - Camel Oils Painting - Painter 11

This image started as a photograph of a grouping of Ovation Guitars at Motor City Guitar. Ovation Guitars are unique with many differing soundholes and configurations. These are just a few.

I opened the photograph in Painter 11 and using the quick clone with an ocher background I selected Camel Oils brushes to paint them. I used various sizing's but kept the opacity the same. I applied the Image Luminance texture to the brushstrokes.

I saved the large file and opened it in PhotoPaint and used the Tone Curve to add depth. I applied Filter Forge's frames watercolor frame for a painterly border and added a 20 pixel black border using Image> Papersize> to finish. I resampled for display here at a reasonable size.

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Now playing: Ian Anderson - A Raft Of Penguins
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More Grunge Guitars - Acoustic Electric - Paint.NET - PhotoPaint

More Grunge guitars, Fenders and others Electric Acoustic guitars from Motor City Guitar. I took this photograph myself at Motor City, and I opened it in Painter 8 and used the Flaming Pear tool Chromasolarize on it. This boosted the golden color of the background.

Saving that I opened it in PhotoPaint and used the Effects> Art Strokes> Crayon> on it. Blending much of the line and color in a crayon like image. I saved again with a different name and opened it in Paint.NET to apply the Ink Sketch tool without any color and a light pen and ink look in black and white.

I selected all and copied to the clipboard, closed Paint.NET and pasted the image on top of my crayon image in PhotoPaint. Using the object (layer) property Color Burn I made the white transparent and this allowed the ink lines to show through. I merged these together.

I opened Filter Forge's Photo Effects and used a grunge filter to add texture and a grunge feel to the image. Also using Filter Forge's frames I added a film frame to the piece. In PhotoPaint, still, I used the Tone Curve to give some depth and brighten the image a bit.

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Now playing: My Morning Jacket - Golden
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