watercolour

[Tao jones]

Hi, I started out trying to do a watercolour but it finished up like this. Anyone had any success with watercolour in xara? Dow jones

[Tao jones]

Hi, I started out trying to do a watercolour but it finished up like this. Anyone had any success with watercolour in xara? Dow jones

[Ross Macintosh]

Here's something I did trying to have a watercolour effect. It features fractal plasma fills for a soft laying down of colour.

Regards, Ross

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[gwpriester]

Sheesh Dow, Tao, Tjao, etcao.

That's some wicked dithering. I don't think I've seen any image that dithered since I had my 16-color graphics card [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]

I created a few brush strokes for this image, made a bitmap copy and added a ton of Gaussian blur using SL-Blur, available for free in The XaraXone Shareware Page

The blurred image was positioned over the brush strokes and Stained Glass transparency applied.

The canvas image is on the Xara X CD in the Fills > Fabric folder. The canvas image was placed on top and Stained Glass (or Strained Grass) transparency applied.

Gary

Gary Priester

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[Ross Macintosh]

Wow - now I see the dithering! It's funny - when I first saw Tao's image I was fresh from eye surgery that has my vision blurry during recovery. Tao's dithering looked like a nice textured paper to me! Now that the eyes are slowly getting better, I can see what Gary wrote about. Tao is the dithering intentional?

Gary - Those are nice soft brush strokes worthy of further experimentation.

Regards, Ross

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[gwpriester]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Gary - Those are nice soft brush strokes worthy of further experimentation. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ross

Hope all is well with your eyeballs. If you can see the dithering, your vision must be OK.

I think a combination of the Gaussian blurred bitmap, transparency and feathering applied to the vector strokes will perhaps yield an even softer and more subtle water color look.

Gary

Gary Priester

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[Steve Newport]

Hey Ross, here's a slight check for your eyes just to make sure the surgeory was successfull. Found this old eye test in my atic. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] stand 10 feet away from the screen and cover one eye

Steve Newport

[Tao jones]

Gary what dithering????

PS thanks john for your reply on the watercolor.
I am not going to dither around no more my next work will be a watercolor. jao tones

[Tao jones]

Looks like I am dithering here is the the real dither............