messing about in Painter...

[telophase]

...and not doing much fancy, because the things like turning a photo into an oil painting that looks like an actual painting take a lot of time and prep time. So I'm just messing with small techniques, like using the Clone tool, and learning how to make crackle-glaze texture and canvas texture appear. I will admit to being vaguely mystified by the Papers palette in Painter, so this tutorial in "painting" a still life was useful.



It allowed me to turn this picture I stole from rachelmanija's camera of mysterious vegetables...



...into this picture of almost-identical mysterious vegetables, only with a canvas texture and a crackle glaze texture. Woo.



I know. You're all so impressed. :D

Comments

[assume-a-virtue.livejournal.com]

Those are some scary lookin' apples. Or pears.

[assume-a-virtue.livejournal.com]

Possibly mutated pomegranates?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. I am down on record as officially being deficient in fruit-identification skills.


You see, back in the 1st grade, right after I'd got back from Tanzania, one day I was called into the counselor's office with another girl and underwent psychological tests. I have no real clue if it was something to go in my record, or if it was research being done by the local university. Anyway, the person administering the test held up flash cards, and we had to name the object on the card. One of the cards showed this round orange-colored fruit. I knew exactly what that was, and named it. "It's a tangerine," I said. The woman said no, and asked me what it was again. I insisted it was a tangerine. She said no, and asked the other girl. The other girl named the color, instead of the fruit. She said, "It's an orange." I knew this was completely wrong, because it was obviously a tangerine, anyone could see that, and it was just silly to name the color when we were supposed to be naming the object.

Alas, my wisdom was dismissed, and from then on I harbored a sneaking suspicion that my permanent record - my permanent record! - contained a note to the effect that I was deficient in my fruit identification skills and should be admitted to remedial education immediately.

[assume-a-virtue.livejournal.com]

XD THta is one of the most fantastic things I have heard in a very long time. If it helps, though, we had to solve a riddle as a group in middle school, and while I don't remember the riddle, the key phrases in it were lightning, key, and cracked bell.

Somehow I was the only one who got Philadelphia. :D

[oyceter]

Oh hey, those are the wax apples from Taiwan! They are very tasty, and definitely fruit ;).

[telophase.livejournal.com]

See my reply to assume_a_virtue about my deficient fruit-identification skills. XD

(It's so funny paging through Rachel's pictures on that card - it goes from the muted colors of Europe to the BLAZING REDS of Taiwan. XD)

[oyceter]

Hee! I never knew fruit identification skills could officially be deficient ;).

BLAZING REDS is Taiwan all right. Er, hopefully she didn't have the goat head picture in there as well...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's there! XD

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Paint the goat head!

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

They grow in Hawai'i too, only there the name is "mountain apples". Mmmmm, TASTY!