WET #63: For Ron! January 29, 2000 Please click above to view full-sized image. WET 63: For Ron Hi, all, I did make time late last night to work on this week's WET. This still life really is made from all the romantic WET elements that Rita gave us (even if they're not recognizable!), and nothing else except some bezier lines in diminishing sizes for each branch in the bouquet. The flowers are made by copying and pasting, layering and layering and layering! the red heart at various angles and positions. I used darken, lighten, multiply (mostly) and difference blends, all at 100. The wallpaper is from a tile, also made with the single heart: embossed, reduced to gray scale, resized, and colorized. The background was then filled with this tile and then softened with gaussian blur. The vase is made from the boy and girl. I repeated the "apart" figures rhythmically several times on a new image. Then I embossed and adjusted the color. Then I cut out an ellipse with edges feathered 2. I used vertical perspective on this to get the vase form, then used cut-out to put the highlight and shadow on it. The table covering was made by pasting many 25%-of-original size copies of both roses (which I "plumped" with the punch tool first) in a new image. I then made a symmetrical tile from that image and used it to fill the "cloth." The "monogram" design on the letter is made from the lacy outline heart with a single solid heart in the center of the design. The text was not copied directly, but was used as the theme of the letter I wrote to my husband. After writing the letter, I rotated it and resized the image to half the height to give perspective. Some drop shadowing on the edges helped define it. A softer blurred drop shadow was used on all the main elements to help give more perspective to the image. I apologize for the file size of the full-sized image (about 150k), but reds are destroyed by jpg compression!!! Even this low setting (at 5%) has muddied the clarity and transparency of the flower petals. :( I'm still pleased with the result as a whole, though, and hope my husband is too! :) 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 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 #63 project. It is my original creation based on the original WET images obtained on-line from Rita. 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