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.
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?
ReplyDeleteI have both Apophysis and Oxidizer.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
ReplyDeleteI made it as a gift for my daughter for her birthday.
ReplyDeleteI 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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