Week Four

Kathryn Fletcher, kfletche.geo@yahoo.com 

Part One: Layers

Images:


clip art from Microsoft +


tips.gif


= Combined Result

Steps:

  1. Prepared Clip Art Light Bulb
    1. Reduced image size from 265x357 to 137x181
    2. Used Color Replacer tool to remove the large colored areas surrounding bulb
  2. Extracted another light bulb from tips.gif
    1. Used Freehand Selection tool and Magic Wand to extract light bulb from image
    2. Pasted into new image
    3. Increased image size to be closer to clip art bulb
    4. Made background color transparent because the pasted extract ended up having an orange background (artifact from the original icon image having a transparent background).
  3. Created a new image
    1. Start new image 200 x 300 with white background
    2. Made background pale yellow
    3. Copied clip art bulb and pasted as new layer
    4. Inserted another new layer
    5. Copied extacted bulb image and pasted as transparent selection onto this new layer
    6. Used crop tool to pare off unwanted edges.
  4. Played with layers and tools
    1. Gave each layer a meaningful name using the rename command since I had neglected to do this when creating the layers (right click on layer and choose Rename from shortcut menu).
    2. Set the clip art bulb layer to darken and 40%
    3. Went to the other light bulb layer and used the regular rectangular selection tool to select the light bulb
    4. With this selected, I used the Deformation tool to stretch, rotate, and place the light bulb where I wanted it.
  5. Saved the combined image as a .psp file so I could edit it more later if need be.
  6. Flattened the layers (Layers > Merge > Merge all) and reduced the number of colors so I could save a copy as a .gif file for this web page.

Part Two: Filters

Original Image dog-corrected.tif
(cropped and reduced from a sample image that came with Paint Shop Pro):

I chose to apply the effects individually to the original image, instead of cumulatively.


Artistic > Brush Strokes

Stroke: length= 8; density=25
Softness: 20
Brush: bristles=90; width=1; opacity=50
Lighting angle: 102

Comment: I found this effect to have an overwhelming number of options to set. But I had fun trying to get an "oil painting" version of the dog.

 
Artistic > Charcoal

Detail: 30
Opacity: 60

 

Comment: My result here looks more like a "stencil cut out" than a charcoal drawing. Not one of my better efforts.

Illumination > Sunburst

Light spot: brightness=50; horizontal=96; vertical=6
Rays: density=20; brightness=40
Circle brightness: 90

Comment: looks most like possible reality - as if the flash were reflecting off something on the stairs. This one is my second favorite.
Texture > Soft Plastic

Blur: 10
Detail: 10
Density: 15
Lighting Angle: 24

Comment: I liked the weird, spooky result from applying this effect. 

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