Week 2
Darkroom Apprentice Journeyman Master Vectors PSP8 PSP8 - Moving Up Butterfly Bark Painting

Terry Grogan

I am absolutely AMAZED at how much I learned this week! When I think of all the struggling I've been doing with PSP up to this point!  First, I never knew you could change the color of a vector after you had done the image (I'd always deleted the object and recreated it... arggg!!!).  Second, I had no idea you could change vector text once it was on the canvas.  Incredible.  Finally, I've always loved gradients but never had a clue how to make one. The one and only time I ever tried, I wound up writing over top a gradient I already had .  

I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't quite understand how the transparency slider for the gradient worked.  After a few students asked questions and Sally answered them, I understood it much better.  So, here's my work...

These are my gradient spheres.  I saved this picture as a GIF.  I probably should have saved it as jpg, though I'm not sure that would have prevented the jaggies around the edges. 

Here are the gradients I made.....

(got carried away on this one, lol)

Here's the result..

 

And finally, here's my vector text..