An image with no drawing

[Egg Bramhill]

Sunset apple.
This is a nonsense image. It was a composite of the apple and sunset photo's. They've been traced, then a bevel applied. Finally the apple was given a glow shadow and a clip view
Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

This one was made using the same process, but the tracing was set to an accuracy of 2. There was over 8000 objects so it did take a little time to process, export the image and save.
The painting is of an original done by Arthur Hudson, a great marine artist. I'll see if I can get his permission to post the original

[Ross Macintosh]

Great technique Egg! I especially like the boat image.

If I could offer a humble suggestion for your consideration: Maybe applying a fractal plasma based textural overlay (like a bump map) to the beveled image could make it look even more like you are a master of the palette knife technique. A wee bit of linen texture might add to the already impressive technique. Currently the flat areas of colour are just a little too flat. I just looked again at your famous post in the main forum: "transparent bitmap overlay". I wonder if some application of that kind of technique, combined with the one here, could give the flat areas a realistic 3d texture. I figure you're the guy who ought to know.

You are an inspiration as well as an egg!

Regards, Ross
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[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on January 22, 2001 at 05:39 PM.]

[Ross Macintosh]

Egg - Why didn't you use a MacIntosh apple?

Regards, Ross Macintosh

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[Ross Macintosh]

To explore the idea (hope you don't mind Mr.Egg)I tried adding some texture to your image.

The cloth texture comes from the Xara online fills - it is the denim one.

Regards, Ross

P.S - I think I like your original better.

[Soquili]

Egg you always post great images. Applying a bevel to a traced bitmat never would have occured to me. Thanks for sharing.

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[joroho]

Your bitmap tracing idea got me to thinking. Thought I'd try to apply the same effect to a photo I took recently of the Battleship Texas moored at the port here in Houston.

Pretty nifty trick, thanks for pointing it out to the rest of us.

joroho

[Egg Bramhill]

joroho,
Great image. This is a great effect that I've never seen in other image manipulation programs.
I've tried Ross suggestion of applying a texture and it works excellently. I found that is was best to apply the texture first, then create a bitmap copy and then trace this.
Some other points to bear in mind. Do a 2 pass trace. Enlarge the trace once you've imported it. Give it a 1 pixel bevel. (I actually download your image and did all the above, but unfortunately it crashed Xara. I've just checked and I've only got 87 Mb left free on my C drive and this obviously is'nt enough for additional ram.
Also most the images I've been using have been already compressed .jpg's.
I did this one earlier which was a bitmap.

[Egg Bramhill]

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[gwpriester]

Eric

This looks like the heavy application of oil paint. What's that called, impasto, anti pasti, something like that.

Cool technique.

Gary

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