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Here are my Chapter 6 and 7 assignments:
The flower theme I created for my PSP Graphics site was made using picture tubes that I downloaded from Mark Charneski's Fresh Flower Scans. Go to my index page to see the whole theme.
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Click the thumbnail to see full view. This is the book exercise using layers. |
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Click the thumbnail to see full view. I made this image using tubes and layers as well as pattern and gradient fill! |
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Click the thumbnail to see full view. This one is a combination a face layered over the moon. |
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Click the thumbnail to see full view. Two simple layers - the moon and my cat (there we go torturing cats again!). |
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 Playing with
different wood patterns that I have in my graphics collection. Also making the text
a little more translucent. |
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This I thought was neat. I used the magic wand to select just the face and pasted as new layer onto a black background. Then it was softened, made slightly more opaque and then embossed. |
Here of some of my favorite places to get free PSP Picture Tubes:
This was done following the book's
example.
I did this variation adjusting the wood
pattern's opaqueness rather than the lion head.
I thought the clouds would represent the
lion as a King. I also really blended the drop shadow behind the text for a charcoal
smudge effect.
I particularly like this one because I
used flood fill on the text with the lion head as a pattern. All of these examples could
be improved by expanding the canvas size before applying the dropshadow to the lion's
head. That way it won't be an obvious rectangle.