WET #56: Sorting! December 12, 1999 WET 56: Sorting! This is my 3rd attempt at a decent WET this week...and it was the first I posted! :) I finally ended up trying to give an idea of what it's like at our house as we go through 30-some years worth of Christmas ornaments, garlands and lights to see what will fit on this year's tree. :) Except for the "wood" flooring that I made (horizontal rectangle using woodgrain spray painted on, then angled and repeated to fill image), all elements are created from the WET 56 images, and all of the images from the original (and there were a LOT!) are used. The fir was the only thing unchanged. The candles were negative colored and hotwaxed, with some minor adjustments to the flames. The tree lights are made from several versions of the clematis and the star (color adjusted and layered) on a bezier curved cord. The text was used to create the pastel snowflake doilies (see my "textflake image," below). The stocking (with some rotating, layering, and blending on "100 lighten" before circle deforming, color adjusting, and hotwaxing) became the purple bead, with multiple copies creating the garland. The globe became the metallic foil ball garland ( consisting of four different balls each made by color adjusting, adding a rotated layer, and blending at 100 difference), and also the white ornament (a rotated layer blended on 100 luminance). The ornament hangers were created from a small bit of this white ornament and from bezier curves. The snowflakes (4 different colorized layers, then multiple copies randomly filling the original rectangle before creating an oval and using cut-out to shade it) became the oval bright pink/purple/blue ornament. "Winter Wonderland" and the plate got together (resized, flower eliminated, layers blended at 100 difference) to make the ceramic ornament. And the icicles became the kaga tamari ball. Here's a rather confusing (but, I believe, accurate) description of how I made it. Make 4 copies of original icicle layer of WET 56; each copy is colorized a different pastel (aqua, pink, lavender, blue) Make an image in layers: 1st color normal, next color flipped, next one 90 degrees left, next one 90 degrees right. Merge visible. Copy. Paste 2 (or more?) of these copies off center (sort of diagonally) to fill in a bit. Merge and copy. Paste 2 of these copies at left and right 90 degree angles over the original. Merge visible. Circle deform. Copy. Paste another circle, rotate 45 degrees, merge. Copy, paste, mirror and merge visible. Copy, paste as new layer. "Cutout" black, 20% opacity, 20 blur, vertical2,horizontal -35 for shading. Merge visible. Hours and hours were spent on this WET, trying to get the right effect (chaos, LOL)! WET #56: A New Quilt December 12, 1999 WET 56: A New Quilt! Here's something I posted that I made using only the stocking from the WET 56 images. I did some flipping, mirroring, and rotating; layering, blending at 100 lighten, color adjustment and a few circle deformations to come up with the blue and aqua patches for this quilt. The border was also formed from part of the blue patch. WET #56: Text Flake! December 12, 1999 WET 56: Text Flake! This is the snowflake I made by copying the text, "Have a Wonderful Holiday," color adjusting it, mirroring and pasting, then layering copies to make a "bushier" tree effect. I then hotwaxed with a very light color. I thought I was done, but started playing with rotated copies to create a circle, made four pastel colored versions, layered them at different angles (0, 23, 45, and 68 degrees) and blended at 100 lighten, and ended up with this! 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 image collection posted for us to use. Thank you!

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This image was created using Paint Shop Pro 5, especially for the WET #56 project.
It is my original creation based on the original WET images obtained on-line
through alt.binaries.comp-graphics.
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