(OT perhaps:) A demonstration of mesh fills...

[masque]

It’s a photo realistic vector image produced from a photograph as all such images are, buts it’s a Xara trace. The point I was going to make was about the need for photo realistic images from photographs when you have the photograph to start with. Why do we spend hours trying to faithfully reproduce something that already exists, effectively copying someone else’s work, (the photographer), I include me in this criticism. With an image editor you can lift a figure from its background and drop it onto another relatively easily, if that’s what you want.
I much prefer an image like the one attached because its produced with no photo reference purely from imagination. Not photo-realistic as such, but never meant to be.

[-=Drifter=-]

masque - what's up with that black rectangle??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[masque]

masque - what's up with that black rectangle??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

There might be people from the past viewing and I wouldn't want anyone to feint, anyway I attached the xar. file in case you should want to remove it.
Derek

[Mermaid]

The second to last image (of a girl singing into a microphone) was featured in the October 2005 edition of Advanced Photoshop as a tutorial on using the gradient tool. I've been meaning to have a go at it once I happen to have around 30 hours to spare...

For those of you who would like to find out more about the mesh tool, Brooke Nunez, the creator of the image, also has a website at http://www.lifeinvector.com which contains a simple tutorial based on a bell pepper in the downloads section.

Mermaid