Stop & Post April 2010

**gwpriester** · 17 April 2010, 09:02 PM

A Yarhzeit candle, a Jewish tradition (http://judaism.about.com/cs/deathand...f/yahrzeit.htm), is burned on the anniversary of the death or a loved one, relative or close friend.

One year ago, we lost an old and close friend to Pancreatic cancer. This image will appear on Kim's memorial blog. I helped the flame in Xtreme and added some transparency to Kim's photo.

**HayTay** · 18 April 2010, 12:39 AM

Inspired by Rik's QuickShape Tool thread, here are a few kaleidoscope looking images made using the QuickShape Star tool. As you can see, the nifty looking shapes that can be made by bending, twisting and overlapping the control points are nearly endless. If you throw a blend and some klones into the mix, you can further manipulate, scale and/or rotate the shapes to come up with even more visually captivating images. Then, before you realize it, you'll have discovered how something so simple could keep you amused for hours.

BTW, all of the other 5 images were made by manipulating the solid green, 18 point, flower looking (star) QuickShape in the upper left hand position in the attachment. If anyone is interested, I've attached the XAR file so you can check it out and start having some QuickShape fun of your own.

I'll check back in an hour or three

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HayTay

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**Soquili** · 18 April 2010, 02:03 PM

Relaxing this morning after working all night. A simple quickshape, a contour and a random selection of colours. A seamless tile was the result of a few minutes of play with Xtreme Pro 5.

The image on the viewer's left is the single tile.

The image on the viewer's right is an example of the tile in use.

**zaphodeist** · 18 April 2010, 02:36 PM

Very effective Bill

**angelize** · 19 April 2010, 05:56 AM

@ Harry I've been playing around with quickshapes and I've discovered something interesting. Starting with a 20 point star I manipulated it a few times to create a kaleidescope sorta shape and then I squashed it and look what I ended up with

**covoxer** · 19 April 2010, 06:13 AM

Whatever that is, it is nice!

**angelize** · 19 April 2010, 07:00 AM

Here is another. this time I've included the original star, the kaleidoscope and the result of squashing it up from the bottom with the selector tool.

**HayTay** · 19 April 2010, 11:57 AM

Now that is interesting Frances. I must experiment with this. It seems that more than a few interesting effects can also be created by skewing the star shapes either vertically, horizontally, or both.

Nice find,
Harry

**zaphodeist** · 21 April 2010, 01:13 AM

Pooka plus pal ...

**HayTay** · 21 April 2010, 01:28 AM

That's 'different', John. I completely miss the reference on this one (before my time maybe?). Whoever the gent is, he's looking rather ghoulish/vampire-ish. Maybe it's just me but I liked your other images in this style much better (even when I didn't always know who the subject was).

Looking forward to your next one...,
Harry