digital art help

**rahmama** · 22 May 2007, 05:56 AM

I have been playing around with a fractal program and have seen beautiful digital art that I'd like to try my hand at.

I tried importing my fractal images into the layers gallery hoping to be able to add other fractal or images but the layers just cover each other up and you can't combine these images.

What am I doing wrong here? How do digital artists get images transparent so they can combine them?

**gnurf** · 22 May 2007, 06:09 AM

try different transparency settings, for example stainned glass

**gwpriester** · 22 May 2007, 01:22 PM

Try Bleach (additive) transparency which treats black as invisible. If you clone the image, the image gets more opaque but the black remains invisible.

Gary

**Shaman** · 22 May 2007, 05:29 PM

Hi rahmama:
Here's a small example of what can be done using Gary's and Paul's suggestions and adding a touch or two of my own.
Sorry Gary, no gnome in this one.
Be willing to play and experiment with the tools.

Scott

**handrawn** · 22 May 2007, 07:01 PM

Hi rahmama - all with the one shape

**molucca** · 22 May 2007, 07:51 PM

The later versions of Apophysis will render to transparent. I was using Apo 2 with UF3. I haven't recovered those programs after a power problem.

You could make an nverted copy of the image and use bitmap transparency, too.

Rich

**Mike Bailey** · 22 May 2007, 09:26 PM

IF you want to make beautiful fractal images, Get Apophysis and learn how to use modifier scripts on the output. My favorite is spiralize. see attached.
You can get it here, under flame modifiers.
http://apophysis.wikispaces.com/Scripts

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 May 2007, 11:45 PM

That's very impressive Mike. Digital art has a very unique beauty all of it's own.

**rahmama** · 23 May 2007, 12:49 AM

Wow. Thanks for all the help. I am planning on having fun with this tonight.

very cool fractal images attached. Instead of playing addictive computer games like normal people

, I'm addicted to 'spinning' the fractal wheel. If I can create
some digital art images with them, then so much the better!

**rahmama** · 23 May 2007, 06:02 AM

Thought I'd share my first fractal designed with Apophysis.
I was using Chaoscope, but Apophysis is much better and I can export the images easily with transparent background. Thanks Mike for the link and the beautiful fractal images you included.

I took it into Xara, put it on a black rectangle, duplicated and flipped it.

Be careful if you try these fractal programs! They are rather addictive!

Rahmama