Images were taken from stock photography... (Whew... it took as long to hunt down the perfect images as it did to make the nozzle!) When developing the images I find it's often best to cut and paste them from their original file into the nozzle rif file and then use scale to reduce the size. This seems to soften the edges somewhat. Then it's merely a matter of dropping a shadow, flipping horizontal, rotating or whatever else I feel is necessary.
Hmmm.. well, this started out as an exercise in trying to create a nozzle in Detailer, Painter 5's 3-d sister, mainly because I had failed to accomplish this in the past without losing the floater. The "worlds"/"bubbles" were the result, and I just picked up a couple stock Painter nozzles to finish a totally wishy-washy sub-surface disco effect. Oh, well I learned a lot and hope to do something a little more pre-planned the next time. Any questions are welcome. Cheers
I first created a simple landscape background. I found photographic examples of oak trees and maple trees. I scanned the image of the trees into Painter as two separate files: oak and maple. I masked out the background of the tree files and saved them as floaters. I then brought the trees into the landscape background. I then clone the image and used tracing paper. I redrew the image using first water color and then artist pastels, charcoal, and airbrush. I created floaters out of clip art of maple leaves and oak leaves. I built two 2-rank nozzles with the floaters: one maple leaves and one oak leaves. I then sprayed in the various leaves. I created floaters from clip art of houses and brought them into the image and sprayed in a few more leaves. I used the lighting effects to give the sunset extra glow by using yellow-orange ambient light.
This was my first attempt. Trying to open my vein of Goal for the first time was a journey to my creative heart.
Okay this is for those of you that got tired of my bug obsession. The corn (4 kernals) was taken from Kai's Power Photos. I then placed it over my CPU --hit the TURBO button and BLAMO fresh popcorn in half the time it'd usually take. WARNING remove from the computer before adding butter!
Living on a very small Caribbean island one cannot help but get caught up in small town thoughts. In my recent collection of works I decided to expose some social secrets and include myself in the "Melee" This collection of floaters and images nozzles were used throughout the 8 images.
The flower nozzel was made using images from slides I had taken in my garden. The back ground was composed from images collected in my garden using my digital camera. The image of me was also done with the digital camera. I combined the images to make my composition and cloned it. I rendered the image using water color and then artist pastels. The flowers were sprayed on top of the rendered image. A floater of a butterfly was created and given a drop shadow. The butterfly was scaled to size and placed on my nose.
