Blend

[ginger44]

like the 'jewellery'

the waterfall has an eerie quality

[molucca]

An old composition where I was trying to get the effect of seeing the stems in the vase.

Rich

[molucca]

Blending two images

I made a black linear transparent image in Xara and saved to PNG/alpha. Just one way to get there. The image was used in erase blending on the top image. The E3 way.

Rich

[ginger44]

That erase blend is very effective and I do like the design that the stems in the glass produced

[molucca]

More designing your resources. An assembly I made to make light strokes. I just need to place an image in back and save the crop mark region. Variable width is used to shape the beam. I designed erasers for the vase as well.

Rich

[ginger44]

nice shape to lights, which resemble the landing gear of an alien space ship

[molucca]

A light stroke with the ripple image in erase blending.

Rich

[ginger44]

that works well, are we going to see the pic that you you're using it on

[ss-kalm]

Rich,

Your effects just blow me away. They are so many light years ahead of my abilities, that even when you explain how and why you did what you did, I am still no wiser (Please ..... someone else admit they don't know what he's talking about, or I'm going to look really dumb ......)

[molucca]

Yvonne,

I think I lost all those images when the tree hit the power line. The surge was too much for the surge protector.

Keith,

These are very simple ideas. Realizing how simple they are is the first step in doing them.

You should be able to adapt the idea to other applications. You just need to find the right path.

In E3, I made an image that would erase parts of the light stroke. Opacity erases in Erase blending. So, I needed to make the image white where I wanted to light stroke to remain. As an image, there are several ways to make a grayscale image transparent.

The erasing image is placed on a layer above the the ripple image, and set to erase blending. The light stroke is drawn below the erasing image. You have variable width to adjust the stroke profile.

The hardest part is keeping track of the layers. Not that difficult.

In Xara, you have bitmap transparency. Think about it.

Rich