Ulead Ice Cube

[Grafixman]

If Kiwi fires anything this way, you can be sure it will inspire me to draw my rusty PI for a return shot... .
Nice ice cube, Kiwi. But I remember a tutorial about making one from clouds. Photoshop has a built in cloud generator. PI does not have one, but you can download this free filter: Cloud 2.2
http://www.geocities.com/Murakuma/mmplugins.html
And it's a lot more powerful than the PS variety.
I used the silk preset, distorted it some more, tweaked the levels, colors, etc, perhaps applied PI's texture filter for some added plastic wrap effect, some airbrushing , dodging and burning... nothing methodical, just going with the feeling, finally added some drop shadow and there you have it, instant ice cube (perhaps not so instant, but trust me, it took me less time to do it than to describe the process...)

[AndFarr]

Wow nice!
I just bought PhotoImpact 11 about a week ago, so I'll have to give this a try. It may take me a while to get up to speed on this software since it is new to me.
I just posted an Ice cube challenge over on the Xara Xtreme thread.
That example took a long time to create.
Perhaps the cloud plugin will work in Xara Xtreme as well...
Thank you for posting your artwork!
It seems like so many post only their complaints instead of their creations.
So thank you for generously sharing your work!
- Andrew

[sallybode]

The Iceman cometh.

And now when someone needs a "chill pill" Grafixman can supply it. Do they come in bottles or one of those nifty blister packs?

[Grafixman]

Great challenge you started in the Xara forum, Andrew. Ice is a tricky thing to draw. Nice entries there, already. I wouldn't even dream of drawing ice with vectors. Too hard for me. Easier with bitmaps since you can smear and smudge pixels.
Problems and things not working. I get them all the time. But I usually solve them by hair pulling and forum lurking. If I have questions, it's usually already asked and answered in the past by someone somewhere. You just have to know where to look.
PI is pretty handy. Don't expect it to do everything PS does, though. But within it's range, it gets the job done.
Chill Pill... that has a good ring to it. Maybe I'll make one later, Sally?

[Grafixman]

The Chill Pill...
(A capsule, not a pill, really, but pills are so small... )
Originally intended to do just one big pill, or capsule, converted to ice, but ended up tweaking PI's preset gallery hand picture's finger into the correct position for holding the capsule and finally turning that into ice as well.
Been a long time since I've done any of those worth1000.com style photo manipulations . Hope this wasn't too shabby...

[sallybode]

Wow, totally excellent. Looks like you scanned your hand and glassified it. Another thing that says cold is low lying fog like you get with CO2. But I wouldn't change this, fine bit of artwork.

Is that a preset or is it one of your own inventions?