Photoshopping Around

This image was created in Photoshop by importing a photo of Fritz Cove looking towards the Chilkats in the far distance. The island on the right is Suedla. In the middle distance is Portland Island. There was no ferry in the photo (that was added as a freehand selection) and all of the colors were changed to give the picture a bit of "a end of day - moon rise" feel. The final image has about 15 layers. I was going for reflected red glow on the water by using the gradient tool on the water layer. On a separate layer (above the Chilkats layer) I put some yellow highlights (fading sunset). On the sky layer I also used the gradient tool to create the moon in the upper left.

More playing with Painter (Vincent Van Oystercatcher)

This image started out as a photograph taken on a kayak trip this summer. The photo of the Oystercatcher was cropped and imported into Corel Painter. The photo was placed in the background (in Painter). For the most part I used oils and the impressionist and Van Gogh brushes in Corel and just painted over the background. I was trying for a "Van Gogh-ish" look - I don't think I really got there. I think probably some things are just better left to real paint and canvass.

Test of various Corel Painter X brushes

This image was done in class. It was completely done using Corel Painter. There was no imported background. I used the "ink pen" to outline shapes. I then experimented with various shapes and sizes of brushes. You can see the the air brush, and various artist brushes. I used various "paints" as well. You can see the oils on the background layer. I used the "liquidfy" feature to smear the background.

Devil's Club Painted

This image was created in Corel
Painter by importing the "colorless" Photoshop image below. I "selected" for areas of similar light(shades of gray) and then used Corel Painter watercolors and bushes to paint the selected areas. One problem that I encountered when I enlarged the image was the loss of"sharpness". I think all the selecting and importing cost me some of the "prickly -ness" of the Devil's club - which, after all, is its most endearing quality. I was hoping to play the "sharpness" of the thorns off against the "softness" of the water colors - but it didn't quite work in a larger format.

This photograph was taken in the morning light on the trail up Mt Jumbo. It was imported into Photoshop. The background was removed using the technique outlined in the website I mentioned below. I then imported the "colorless" Photoshop image into Corel Painter. See above post for the "painted" version.

A web site with a Photoshop tip for removing a background using channels (which I almost understood) http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/blrbps_2fwks.htm