Iridescent Roses

Just trying to combine a new technique with those previously described. Again no use of plug-ins; only different transparency settings, fills, shadows and of course profiles.
Only one alterated bitmap copy is added to the first picture.

Enjoy,
ivan

Just trying to combine a new technique with those previously described. Again no use of plug-ins; only different transparency settings, fills, shadows and of course profiles.
Only one alterated bitmap copy is added to the first picture.

Enjoy,
ivan

almost irredescent. Pearl-like.

Exquisite image, Ivan.

Gary

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XaraXone

Thanks Gary.

I find plants in general give very interesting structures to work on and to learn with them. I will provide a mini-tutorial about this one here soon.

Kind regards,
ivan

Be optimist, re-invent the Rose.

Beautiful.

Brian.

Stunning, like from Victorian era.

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Please Please post that tutorial soon.

Christine

Very beautiful Ivan. The bud and the flower behind the main rose looks like they are moulded relief on perhaps a ceramic background. Then the main rose and the bottom one seems have broken free of the non organic back ground and came to life perhaps from a magic spell. Does that make sense?

Judi

I like your words, Judi. That remember me a nice text in an old russian science fiction book. It was about a living transparent lotus found in a cavern in central Asia by some scientifics. It was said to be a remedy to a lot of diseases but when they brought it outside to the daylight it was burned by the sun.

Kind regards,
ivan

Be a poet, re-invent the Rose.

Here are the principles of my "satin" effect. Of course fine tuning must be experimented particularly at steps 2, 5 and 6 in function of your original picture.

-1 The original bitmap is dark as often are Kodak PCD.

-2 Apply a flat bleach transparency (at first your image disappears) ; add a wall shadow with 0pt blur, 0% transparency, only a slight position shift, here horiz 1pt, vert -1pt, above profile on 0 and below profile on -0,72 ; create a bitmap copy and delete this copy but keep it in your bitmap gallery ;

-3 change the settings of your shadow: here blur 4,9pt, positions approximatively to defaults, above profile 0,94, below profile 0,6 ;

-4 clone the bitmap, remove the shadow ; set the transparency to bitmap, using the bitmap copy you have created at step 2 for transparency: center on 0% and handle on 100% (that will add some light) ; using defaults profiles ;

-5 clone it again, convert to editable shapes ; in this case I set the handle of the bitmap fill to orange red and the center to red, with an Alt Rainbow fill effect, above profile 0, below profile -0,62 ;

-6 clone again ; here I set fill handle to orange yellow and fill center to yellow and change above profile to -0,1, below profile to -0,48.

Try it and enjoy,
ivan

Experiment all, re-invent the Rose.