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**molucca** · 13 December 2005, 02:46 PM

Leaves with Flat Maps. Rich

**molucca** · 14 December 2005, 03:55 PM

A tin map. Rich

**John Rayner** · 14 December 2005, 10:16 PM

That looks pretty cool Rich.

**molucca** · 15 December 2005, 11:44 AM

Thanks John,

I bought a monopod and made a quick coupler. I went to the beach to photograph pelicans. Guess they weren't hungry, and didn't see any. I thought the coupler was too lose, but it did work. Rich

**John Rayner** · 15 December 2005, 11:58 AM

Neat shots Rich...

**molucca** · 15 December 2005, 01:12 PM

John,

A Flower Light. Rich

**molucca** · 18 December 2005, 06:06 PM

Just making a few things for cards. Rich

**TwidderBird** · 19 December 2005, 08:56 PM

Hi Rich......this is cool looking design. And aren't you one of the bug boys on this site? I'm new here; and brand smacking new to computer graphics. What program/s did you use? And for the top one is that done in 3D or did you use a non-3D with some type of 'button' effect? twidder

**molucca** · 19 December 2005, 09:25 PM

Twidder,

That is just an illusion and this is 2D. It is an application of reflection maps in Expression. Expression can handle maps with transparency. This was something I discovered some time ago. You can use maps in other applications, but not transparent maps. I had a problem working in Expression until I discovered a way to enable map transparency on screen. There is a set of bug wings I merged in Xara, and colored in Expression. So, this is an exceptionally easy of coloring objects. Rich

**TwidderBird** · 19 December 2005, 10:02 PM

OK. Well, I'm afraid for a wee novice that this was a lot of information for me. (talk about feeling in over your head--but then this is how I seem to learn best by just jumping in and getting hands on)

You talk about maps and Expression. Expression (assuming?) is a program I've never heard of. Maps--are you speaking literally here, or is 'maps' a type of effect (the new images you included in your answer--the globe certainly looks like that and might imply that you're speaking of maps in the literal sense). And most interestingly you talk about transparency. This is a feature that I am currently most interested in. I'm using PSP 7.4 Transparency can be a difficult feature to save. If you haven't yet seen my uploaded Floral3 you might take a look at that and see what I've worked with so far just really using basic stuff, I think. This upload is actually my first non-practise work.

Any more explanations are welcome.