Week 5
Darkroom Apprentice Journeyman Master Vectors PSP8 PSP8 - Moving Up Butterfly Bark Painting

Terry Grogan

Another enjoyable week. I appreciated the links to some of the free plugins available. This is the experimenting I did with it.

This is the radio button from the tutorial.

This is another one I did. I used a rounded rectangle this time, and used Toadies' linear Living Sine. Still 3, but the third selection I only contracted by 10. The first and third have the same filter settings, the second was off by 5 to help with the raised effect.

Here are my frames, one from the tutorial and one done using toadies Metallic filter.  The inner layer also has a sandstone texture applied using PSP.
Both frames are here for anyone interested.

The butterfly picture was modified using Toadie's Old Photo and Old Color filters.

This is a picture my dad took of me many, many years ago...

And now for the gif's

This one is done without a transparent background

Here it is transparent. I first saved the one above as a transparent gif, but lost the white in the eye. So, I changed the background color to purple. I played around with the tolerance for saving it as the transparency. Using it at the default, I had purple specs around the outside. When I changed it to 50%, I lost all the purple around the image.

Finally, the great thing about gif's is that they can be animated. Here's one I did yesterday.