bug inside !

[RUSS-USSR]

This is a new BUG (2 million problems per second), updated against all patches you know.
WINDOWS X000
User needn`t to install, just show where is your chief computer.

[RUSS-USSR]

This is a new BUG (2 million problems per second), updated against all patches you know.
WINDOWS X000
User needn`t to install, just show where is your chief computer.

[Ross Macintosh]

Valery - please do tell us more about this exciting image. How did you create it?

Regards, Ross

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[s.winders]

Very nice [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Is that a Scarab beetle?


Stu.

[RUSS-USSR]

Hi Stu,
It wasn`t introduced to me but I hope this beetle dimensions are same .
Hi Ross,
This picture was made in PhotoPaint. Maybe on weekend I`ll find time to share with you the way I did it.

[Steve Newport]

there is no way u made that bug completely in Photopaint!!! that has to be 3d! or did you mean you rendered the beetle in a 3d app. and applied a background in photopaint!?
If you did draw that bug in Paint, gongrats, awsome image! If you didn't, all the same, great beetle

Steve Newport

[Ross Macintosh]

Steve - When Valery says photopaint, that is likely just what he means. Just photopaint. And you know many of us would bet that you could do it too!

Great image Valery! Great image Valery! (So nice I had to say it twice).

Regards, Ross

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[RUSS-USSR]

Well, this story begun when in 1997 in Ottawa I`ve bought the calendar ‘Beetles�. There are nice photos of ones from entomology collection. Most of them are from S. America. It was a seed and drop of water was the book “Corel DRAW 8� by David Huss. It was a moment when I started to learn that program. Beginning from Photopaint 9 every object in image has own properties . Artist can separately change transparency of dark or light places In Object Property manager . I decided to use this feature and I looked for a moment . One day when I remember about beetle I decided to change one into electronic device that looks like Macintosh ( not you, Ross).
1. I scanned beetle from calendar.
2. Made regular mask to cut off background
3. Created 2 new same objects from beetle wings.
4. In channels manager I choused channel with most contrast highlights and copy it to clipboard. Then past it in new layer . Change the layer from normal into additive. So dark places became invisible and only highlights looks so naturally (right).
5. Change main body so it looks like brass or gold using duotone mode in separated image. Then past in the main one.
6. Above Wings I change by “Hue/Saturation/Lightness� into any kind of blue
7. Between Wings objects I put some electronic board (middle).
8. Select above Wings and using Object Property manager I made dark places transparent so board can look through it (left).
OK . It` s main steps of this work. Sorry for poor English.

[RUSS-USSR]

Right image hasn`t highlights. You can see it on a final one .