Falls

**molucca** · 25 January 2013, 02:51 AM

Falls with an Eye Candy overlay and a couple of saturation transparency s. The EC effect was applied to a trace, and took some time to complete.

Rich

**Tabian** · 25 January 2013, 03:27 PM

Hi Rich, now that looks as if you have spent quite a few hours drawing that one it looks great. Would it be possible for you to post the wireframe of it so I can see how complex it is?

My best Tabian

**molucca** · 25 January 2013, 04:01 PM

Well,

It takes a while to render the plugin if you have lots of tracing objects. I just had my morning coffee.

It is more manipulation than drawing. The image in this post was run through Art Works to simplify the color areas for the trace.

I made a trace in Xara and ungrouped. Then applied Eye Candy Chrome. I use my own environments, and that may have an effect.

A multiple selection will get each object treated. A group would look like one object.

I made a bitmap copy, and deleted the vector trace. The result was overlayed onto the image , and set to Stained Glass transparency.

The I drew a rectangle in front and set it to saturation Transparency. Then selected an appropriate gray scale to adjust the transparency.

Some times I may use an additional object to boost the saturation.

So, you can see it takes longer to explain then do.

Rich

**MarcT** · 25 January 2013, 04:02 PM

Cool image Rich! I really like what you did with the colors.

Marc

**molucca** · 25 January 2013, 04:08 PM

Marc,

It is just the way the combination of layers changes the natural colors. It seems as though water in the shadows gets a blue cast. The rest is a matter of saturation. The problem is reducing the size of the areas of color so that you don't get too many objects. It takes a very long time to apply the plugin.

Rich

**Tabian** · 25 January 2013, 04:12 PM

Thanks Rich for the insight most impressive. I really do have to get to grips with plugins maybe if I check out Youtube or XX I might find a vid or two to help me on my way...

Tabian