Creative Computer Art

Lovely! Very frosty feeling- The kaleidoscope effect looks very effective!

 

BECOMES ANOTHER CHRISTMAS TREE
Apologies for the liberty with your pic HB.

 

No problem,Platty. That's what they are here for. Loved your fern effects GW - no idea how you managed them!

 

I was just wondering - would we want to help each other by giving brief descriptions of how we acheived various effects?

 

Yes that would be good....I have been wondering how DO you put something on to a black background in PSP.
Very impressive..........

 

I have no problem with that. It would be great to pick up some new techniques and share some of my favourites.

 

and finally - Diamond Fern

 

for the fern pic i used ulead software
1.used a pic of some grass as my background
2 cloned HB's fern onto it
3 added some cloud effects changing the colours each time
4 used 'punch' effect
5 added black border

 

To put something on to a black background, you isolate it with the magic wand tool. Go to selections and click on invert. Then flood the background with blackpaint using the Paint Bucket tool. The trick is to use the Magic Wand to capture the subject and seperate it from background clutter. Much depends on the nature of the photograph. Even so, it is essential to experiment with the Tolerance levels (1-100) of the magic wand. If you don't get that right you get bits missing or fragments of background atached. You then have to laboriously paint them out.

 

I am back and i too have frost...this is just simple as i was testing the software etc..

 

frosted rose..

 

like that effect w

 

Thanks for the image HB.

I selected the rose, poster edged
it (filter,artistic, poster edge) then selected and inversed the background then filter, styalise, wind effected it! All done in PS 7

 

Glad you are back and your problem sorted WF. Fantastic images folks. Amazing and imaginative.