November 2014 Video Tutorial -- The Importance of Backgrounds!

**Gare** · 26 November 2014, 09:43 PM

Off-Topic with a Seasonal excuse to all our members in the USA:

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Football and Black Friday!

Cheers!

Gary

**Gare** · 26 November 2014, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by Crow Haven

Aarrrrgh! This wasn't my day, but here's one using the tute (yes, I know it's pretty plain and a bit distorted). Would have liked to use the GenoPal color picker options...but oh well.

It's moody. I like it. Three thumbs up for your above and beyond the call of doody efforts!

-g

**angelize** · 27 November 2014, 06:30 AM

Well I have always sucessfully run Genopal 1.0 without problems but my machine won't run this new version either. I get the same errors Maya does and the program won't run. Luckily I can still use version 1 though I'd love to play around with this new version and see how I can use it with Xara and a couple of other programs I like to use. Also the help video wasn't very helpful I found it hard to follow without audio. Perhaps he should get you to do a video for him

Any how here are a couple of compositions. The first uses your hard edged breakfast images and the second uses a mug of piping hot chocolate that I created. It's mostly vector except for the steam. You might recognize those wisps Gary

**angelize** · 27 November 2014, 07:06 AM

The handle of my mug was bugging me I just didn't like the way it looked so I studied the hand of the hard edged mug and I made my mugs handle a little more hefty and less noodle like lol. I also adjusted the perspective of the floor to better suit my mugs perspective.

**Crow Haven** · 27 November 2014, 02:37 PM

@ Gare -- Thanks!

Have a happy day too!

@ Frances -- Those look great, and I especially like the changes you made in the last image with the cup and the added texturing for walls and wood!

I sure wish I could drink that hot chocolate!