Art, photoart and Photography by me. Imagik = image magic. Magic is the effect that image-play has on me. I hope to share that. Images, eclectic, whatever turns me on at the moment. My creative play. To say it, cross imagination with magic.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Not a fractal in Green
Not a fractal in Green, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. I have trouble with the fractal programs still, so I tried to make one myself in photoshop.
I find them both confusing and difficult to use. Each has it's own problems. They do not seem very user friendly to me. I end up wasting a really lot of time dorking around with them.
Andree made a nice tutorial, but I just haven't had time to learn it properly--my own fault, prolly. If you have any good suggestions, let me know. Shortcuts and ways to make the images BIGGER would be helpful. I just feel as if I am floundering around.
I have made some nice images, but it seems to be mostly by chance rather than understanding.
Is there another better program? I think I'd be willing to pay for something more user friendly.
In photoshop I used the paint bucket set to pattern and laid down a pattern of squares (black and white) and then used the twirl filter under distort to twirl it. I made a duplicate layer and blurred it and used layer blending set to exclusion to get the color effect which I sharpened with auto levels. Then using hue, I moved the color slightly toward blue to make it a little more dramatic.
6 comments:
This came out very well, Mary. I don't remember what fractal generator you said you're using but what sort of trouble are you having?
I have both Apophysis and Oxidizer.
I find them both confusing and difficult to use. Each has it's own problems. They do not seem very user friendly to me. I end up wasting a really lot of time dorking around with them.
Andree made a nice tutorial, but I just haven't had time to learn it properly--my own fault, prolly. If you have any good suggestions, let me know. Shortcuts and ways to make the images BIGGER would be helpful. I just feel as if I am floundering around.
I have made some nice images, but it seems to be mostly by chance rather than understanding.
Is there another better program? I think I'd be willing to pay for something more user friendly.
This is really cool. I'd love to know how you made this.
In photoshop I used the paint bucket set to pattern and laid down a pattern of squares (black and white) and then used the twirl filter under distort to twirl it. I made a duplicate layer and blurred it and used layer blending set to exclusion to get the color effect which I sharpened with auto levels. Then using hue, I moved the color slightly toward blue to make it a little more dramatic.
I made it as a gift for my daughter for her birthday.
I hope I didn't leave out any steps. When I am working in photoshop, I don't aways remember everything I do.
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