WET #51: Holiday Display November 10, 1999 WET 50: A Holiday Display This image contains all of the individual wet images supplied in the WET 50 original. The wallpaper is a motion blurred version of the house picture (blurred horizontally, then rotated 90 degrees to use as a vertical fill). The shelf was layer blended with the brown background texture to create the stairs. The candles are created from one plant, while the "Christmas trees" were made from the palm (image flipped and some mirroring, as well as color adjustment and hot waxing). The seagull is in each little ball (colorized and circle deformed) held by a buddha (colorized, then adjusted with h/s/l and resizing). The pots are...themselves (with a little color and shadow added)! I did a lot of color adjusting and cutting and pasting, as well as using distortions, hot wax, and drop shadows. I made a new layer for each individual image, and used lots of layers creating those images in the first place. For example, here is how the candles were made: The candle's beginning is basically a square which I filled with several "randomly placed" copies of two colorized (red and gold) versions of the rounded-leafed plant. I then selected all the bits of background and filled with green. I reselected the whole image, then used a very light gold to "hot wax" the entire image. This process gave me my colors and texture. Next I circle deformed the image, then selected the circle, contracted the selection 2 pixels, feathered it 2 pixels, and copied and pasted as a new image on a transparent background. Then I resized the image so it was taller than wide (150 high x 100 wide, or 3:2). I selected (freehand) a rather pointed horizontal oval at the "top" of the candle and gaussian blurred just that portion to look like the melted wax area around a wick. I drop shadowed this selection at 2,2 with black to define the edges. Then I selected the whole candle and drop shadowed it at a softer, wider setting. I used the bezier curve to create the cream colored "wick" on a new layer, then drop shadowed it slightly but sharply once to give it more definition, then again at the softer setting I'd used on the entire candle. Then, on another layer,I created the "flame" in orange with oval shapes (a long thin one and a shorter wider one over the base of it). Then I brushed (with a 10% opaque 3 pixel paintbrush 0 hardness) some lighter yellow into the flame. I saved it the whole thing a a .psp file, then reopened it to make a copy with merged layers to save as a jpg. (The second candle was made by making color adjustments to the hue/saturation/lightness of the original, then making a copy which I resized before saving as the smaller candle.) This week's project was fun, but very labor intensive this time! Everything on this page was done in Paint Shop Pro 5, using only the original filters and functions supplied with the program.

This is a smaller version of the original layered image posted for us to use. Thank you!

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This image was created using Paint Shop Pro 5, especially for the WET #51 project.
It is my original creation based on the original WET image obtained on-line
through alt.binaries.comp-graphics.
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by Diane at
Five Acre Graphics