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[molucca]

Not exactly what I had planned. I am still looking for things to use as texture. I was wondering if overlaying transparent objects had a similar effect as under painting to enhance the colors. Rich

[gwpriester]

I like to build up transparent layers like a painter might build layers of glazes.

Like your effect.

Gary

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[Christine Farrelly]

Try stained glass transparency on the overlay, use the percentage slider to adjust the amount.

This works exellently for enhancing any image.

Christine

[molucca]

I am continuing to gather abalone shell colors. A friend gave a few additional fresh shells for my efforts. My puppies went crazy, and I had to put the shells on the roof. I am trying to photograph the shells by placing them under water. This seems to work if I hold the camera just right. I like the patterns and colors, and their use as fills. Rich

[RAMWolff44]

I think I like the first one better, the wings have a translucency to them. The second image looks kinda "rough" for lack of a better word. Even roaches have translucency to their wings even though they are the grossest things skittering around ............ ICK!!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

No one's said anything yet but I think the image is outstanding. You are very talented artist and really like to push Xaras limitations over the edge!!! Bravo [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Richard [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

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[Ross Macintosh]

Rich, since you collect abalone shell for its beautiful pearly colours I thought you might like this one I made in Xara with some bitmap plugins - no real shell was involved.

Regards, Ross

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[molucca]

The files start about 800KB, and then I crop out the usable parts of the images. I put these together, and exported from Xara X. It took a long time. Guess it was all the image data involved. I will probably do a screen capture in the future. Green lip mussels are on the menu for photographing today. Rich