WET #19a: Treasure from the Titanic March 26, 1999 The WET image for this week contained a platter holding a lobster and a heap of clams. Groan! My first image is made from the entire photo, but I manipulated it so it doesn't look like what it was, yet still reflects its oceanic origins. It is supposed to be the disintegrating remains of a jewel box from a sunken ship (Titanic?), and someone has just pried the top part off of the rather formless lump to find the pearl jewelry still inside. I copied the original image, then used the Blur: motion blur feature at "full blast" twice in a nearly vertical direction, twice more at an angle about 20 degrees off vertical. I then hotwaxed the image 3 times with a light aqua in my foreground color window. Next I selected what HAD been the lobster (LOL) and added 15% noise, then motion blurred a different direction twice. I then used unsharp mask twice at very drastic settings. I think I hotwaxed once after that, then chiseled it broadly, then de-selected it. This made my old corroded jewel box interior. Now I made the pearls. I filled a square with the light aqua. I added noise and then used gaussian blur to get a subtle bumpy effect. Then I hotwaxed once with the light aqua. Now I picked up a darker shade of aqua from the waxing as a background color. I selected a circle on the bumpy square, promoted it to a layer, then filled the layer with a sunburst gradient of the two aquas to get a highlighted effect. I blended this layer with the bumpy layer to make it more realistic. I copied the circle and pasted it as a new layer on the "jewel box." I added a drop shadow to the pearl. I continued to add "pearls" and drop shadows until I had the bracelet, ring, and earrings. Next I used two shades of gold and the line and shape tools to create the metal parts of the ring and earrings on a new layer. I used the lasso tool to cut away the unwanted parts of the circles. I highlighted in the lighter gold, then hotwaxed the "metal" parts with light gold. Then added the same amount of drop shadow as for the pearls. I added some more drop shadowing and used the smudge tool a bit to smooth the base of the chiseling into the background. As always, this image was done entirely in PSP5. It was a real challenge to try to make something a little more elegant than a plate of seafood! This time, I wasn't sure what I was going for; I just experimented and went with serendipity each time I liked what happened! WET #19b: Lobster Eggs March 26, 1999 These Easter Eggs are really made from the lobster and a clam! This second WET image was made by selecting a 70 x70 pixel rectangle from the original photo, then copying it and doubling the canvas size. I then pasted 3 more copies onto the canvas, flipping one, mirroring one, flipping and mirroring the last one. I then copied this image and doubled the canvas size again and pasted 3 more copies without any flipping or mirroring. Next, I used the circle deformation on this image. Then I copied it and pasted it as a new layer. Then I rotated this layer 90 degrees. I blended the layers at 50% on normal. The next step was to use vertical perspective on the circle to make it an egg. When this was done, I used the gamma correction to create several different color variations of the egg. I made the background by sunburst filling a square with two greens, then putting light noise into it, then motion blurring one direction, then another. I selected the center circle for the "bottom" of the basket and did the same process again. Next I chose one egg at a time (each as a new layer) and added the drop shadow to each as it went onto the "basket" background. I merged all layers and saved at 10% compression as a jpg. This is a small copy of the original image posted by David for us to use. Thank you! You can express your opinions by e-mail below. I'll be glad to hear from you. :) This image was created using Paint Shop Pro 5, especially for the WET #19 project. It is my original creation based on David's original image obtained on-line through alt.binaries.comp-graphics. Thank you! 5acreschool@usa.net All original graphics on this site Copyright 1999-2001 by Diane at Five Acre Graphics Site created 3/28/99 Page last modified 7/29/01 This page hosted by GeoCities