WET #62: Rare Medallion! January 21, 2000 WET 62: Rare Medallion Ron Hull gave us two gorgeous African images this week for WET 62: a leopard (oops! cheetah) with cubs, and a gorgeous background view of the veldt. I took the layers apart to make this framed medallion. Everything in my image is from the original WET This rare carved medallion that I've found was definitely made before there were humans. It's the first actual proof we have that the felines were a well-developed intelligence before mankind appeared on earth. As most of us know, cats became so intelligent that they mainly occupy themselves now with thinking wise thoughts. They have trained the upstart humans to be reasonably good servants (not perfect, but then look what they had to work with. Grin!) Making the picture: I made the frame first. I resized the background picture to 600 x 55, then cut out the left (about) half of it. I mirrored a copy and added it to the first half to make one side of the frame. I made a copy, "mitered" the ends, and used more copies of it to complete the frame. I added a thin line of dark drop shadow to the inside of the frame, and that's all! No buttonizing, no color adjustment...the image just lent itself beautifully to this treatment. Now I cut out a portion of the mother leopard. I made a new image of this. I copied it, flipped the copy, and pasted to the first to make a vertical image. I now copied this and pasted as a new layer, then rotated 90 degrees and blended at 100 lighten to form a cross shape. I merged these layers, copied, and pasted as a new layer. This time I rotated the new layer 45 degrees, then blended at 100 darken to form the 8-pointed "star." This was then embossed. I resized this image to fit inside the frame, then pasted it as a new layer on the frame image. I drop shadowed with blurred black for the shadow, then dropshadowed with white for the highlight. I used a feathered oval to cut out another copy of the lioness, which I placed in the center of the medallion, inverting the colors, mirroring it, and doing a bit more shadowing to enhance the raised effect. The last thing I made was the background. I cut out a tiny square of the grass in the original background picture. I used this to make a symmetrical tile. I adjusted color to get a tealish blue that went with the frame colors. Then I filled a new layer of the main image with this tile. I softened it with gaussian blur at 2.8, with a radius of 3. Everything on this page was done in Paint Shop Pro 5, using only the original filters and functions supplied with the program. These are smaller versions of the original images posted for us to use. Thank you! You can express your opinions in my guestbook or send an e-mail below I'll be glad to hear from you. :) This image was created using Paint Shop Pro 5, especially for the WET #62 project. It is my original creation based on the original WET images obtained on-line from Ron Hull. through alt.binaries.comp-graphics. Thank you! 5acreart@usa.net All original graphics on this site Copyright 2000 by Diane at Five Acre Graphics This page hosted by GeoCities