"New Milestone Reached - 30,000 Pageviews" + "Hit List" Corel PhotoPaint - PSP Pro X3

Hit List

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Today's image is a Digital Collage created in Corel's PhotoPaint using the scan, cut and paste, and erase methods. The pieces of the collage coming from various sources. After I completed assembly of the collage I saved the large file.

I opened with PSP Pro X3 to add the ornate picture frame I like for these types of collages. I resized for display here and added my signature.

Corel's new version of Paintshop Photo Pro X4 is now on sale with a shortened name at Corel.com.

I would like to update but finances do not allow at this time. It has many new features and includes a improved HDR image creation tool. I have found that it is so hard to keep up with upgrades, I know that others are sympathetic.

Listening to a Hit List right now.

"She is Only a Child" Grunge Bauhaus Art Deco - CorelDRAW - PhotoPaint

Grunge Bauhaus Art Deco

With text from Fillerati and Art Deco Designs by Edouard Benedictus, also a Bau Haus font, I created today's image. I scanned in the Art Deco designs into Corel PhotoPaint and copied them to CorelDRAW where I added the text. After that I grouped all vector and bitmapped pieces and copied to the clipboard.

In PhotoPaint I Tune Blurred the scans and added depth with the Tone Curve. Using Filter Forge's Photo Effects I added a touch of Grunge and Vibrance. Thus I created a cross version of Art Deco Grunge. I used the text phrase "She is Only a Child!" for the title placing it at the bottom of the image in all lower case. The other phrasing from "Alice in Wonderland," I used force full justification on the paragraph.

I created the zigzag pieces on the right hand side in CorelDRAW with the pen tool. I saved the large file first. Then I resampled for display online and added my signature.

Listening --- Jefferson Airplane --- Somebody to Love

"Fireplace and Living Room" Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4

Fireplace and Living Room

Short post today, filled the day with many things! I used my Corel's Painter Photo Essentials 4 program on a watercolor settings and then on the illustration setting. It began as a photograph of my brother's home in Alaska that I took with my Canon Rebel XTi DSLR. I am doing this from our laptop and Windows 7, so I am learning to use this program here.

I like the programs ways of making paintings out of photographs through the settings and it's auto paint facilities. I put it on the laptop instead of my desktop to give me an art program where I could paint and experiment with the styles selections, on the run so to speak.

Many are using portable or mobile tablets and smartphones to create art these days, so I thought I would try it on a laptop. I like the results thus far.

Not Listening to any music at the time of this post.

"Steampunk Experiment II" Corel PhotoPaint

Steampunk Experiment II

I discovered this diamonds light grunge texture online, I love the colors. I opened it with Corel's PhotoPaint and went to Picasa 3 and browsed to my Leonardo folder for some diagrams and lettering. These are DaVinci drawings. I enlarged them and darkened them,after copying and pasting into the background, using the Tone Curve. I applied the property Color Burn to them each, lining them up. I then searched my Dover Publications sampler folder and found four more pieces to add to my Steampunk Theme. 

I used Color Burn on the flute players and Subtract on the car, I made the car smaller and lined it up with the DaVinci drawing. I added the harp player keeping the color. I feathered that piece. The Art Nouveau woman in the circle I added next shrinking it to size.

I like the DaVinci influence for Steampunk, adding his genius makes for a great image. The music themed images and the car don't fit at all until you add the Steampunk Theme.

I added a 70 pixel brown border and used Filter Forge's film frame to frame the piece. This was all to size from the beginning size of the background texture. (Adding 70 pixels made it slightly larger.) All in all not the largest image I've worked on. I completed it with my digital signature.

Listening --- Jethro Tull --- Thick as a Brick

"Steampunk Experiment" Corel PhotoPaint - Corel PSP Pro X3

Steampunk Experiment

I received some Dover Publications samplers recently and among them were some Steampunk clip art. I browsed with Picasa 3 to my Mayang's Textures and selected one. I cropped it in PhotoPaint. I used some of the clip art and cut and pasted into the texture. Using the Tone Curve I gave each one more depth. Then I altered the colors of the pieces with Color Replace.

I endeavored to make a balanced composition with each piece placed individually. I used Filter Forge's Photo Effects Vibrance for color punch. I saved the large file and reopened in Corel's PSP Pro X3 and added the frame. Back in PhotoPaint I added my signature and resampled for display.

Listening --- Bobby Freeman --- Do You Wanna Dance