Painting with PS Filters and Layers (114Kb)

[Erik Heyninck]

no plug-ins

[Erik Heyninck]

no plug-ins

[cleggart]

Nice pic,Erik. Now, I know you can come up with something as stunning in Xara X. Have you done anything similiar in X? Sure would like to see it.
Xara's got some great tools...I think if we give them a real dynamic spin...we can bedazzle PS lovers. Nice "peace".

CYA-Bill Clegg [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]

[Erik Heyninck]

I love ALL my tools and prefer none above the other. And what's more: they are tools, nothing more, nothing less. Sometimes indeed, restriction can make a one master, but I do love "mixed media". The only way to get random information in Xara is using fractal clouds and fractal plasma, as fills and as transparancy. And these are, in fact, patterns that you make bigger or smaller.

Photoshop has Noise Gradients, Clouds etc, and has, understandably, more bitmap possibilities than Xara. But Xara is amazing, also with bitmaps when you do not have to make a too difficult selection. It beats them all in speed within its own possibilities and limitations. Like a small van, it is the best thing you can have in crosstown traffic, but soùmetimes you do need a truck.

But I'll try. Thanks for the challenge. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

If you don't work against time, time often works for you.

[Erik Heyninck]

This was done in Xara. You see the difference, like you also see the difference between a pencil- and an ink drawing.