Featured Work
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Thousand little lights by CanDuCreations
This festive card looks like a big ball surrounded by many little glowing lights. / I created this fractal work with Apophysis 7x plus a script. I used Photoshop to enhance a few of the little balls/lights.There is also one with the text Wish you a Merry Christmas. Designer: Thea Walstra /
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Crossroads by Martilena
Manipulated image in Photoshop and PaintShopPro / November 19, 2009 Featured in: / Creative Cards
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Angry Cat.... by nishagandhi
featured in Live love and dream everything is drawn in photoshop cs2…. Its the first time i have made a digital drawing : )
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florissimo by 1001cards
sadly, the clean lines and great details are lost on this very small preview :/ / . / my second fractal work took many hours as each element has been done from a basic shape made of lines with Sinedots (you can see the preview below) and without using any preset. my first was the spaceship (see preview below). Then, I’ve manipulated them to make flowers and head of trees. / . / features Fractal Perception ( October 23rd 2009) Creative cards (Nov. 23rd 2009) / . / . / / . / the basic shape Sinedot has, to start everything with / . / card format only here… but the print format will be added on my main account /
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hibiscus - card by James Lewis Hamilton
This image started from a 1966 pencil sketch and water color. In many ways it’s the companion piece to the poinsettias (uploaded a few days ago and thoroughly described in its description, see my profile for this fascinating story ;-)), since I drew this as the Christmas card I’d send my parents the next year. / The original was framed by my parents, but over the years has faded and the image was just too dull to justify uploading to RB. So I made adjustments! / First I imported my photo into Photo-Shop (PS) and cropped the frame away. Then I experimented with the ‘filter’ settings, some for the first time. I tried quite a few options, saving about a dozen different layers. I also had fun combining some of the effects into their own layer. Some of the drawing details and highlights were lost in the process though. So selecting colors from the work I used a fine ‘brush’ tool and added back or emphasized what I thought was needed in the now ‘new’ rendering of hibiscus. / Also as you can see the background changed from a faded yellowing non-acid free bit of drawing paper into the golden back drop it is in the new PS adjusted image. So, when I dragged my adjusted image up onto my stock RB card blank and then changed its size with the ‘transform’ setting, it did not fit the proportion of the card. There were unwanted uneven white borders. So again for the first time I experimented with the ‘magic halo tool’ and copied areas of the background and pasted them over the unwanted white borders. I did not want to change the proportions of the original flower image and wanted it placed on the card right where it is. So the copy and paste routine worked out for me, though I had to fiddle to remove edges of some of these maneuvers. / AND, that’s the truth and the whole truth, shmg!
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birth by aleksandria
fractal generator disc Apophys + my pic assembled under the Gimp
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Living Water by Caroline Lembke
silk painting combined with digital composing using special effects of the programme paint.net Jesus is the water of life
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Blue Hotel by Martilena
Apophysis + Photoshop / November 12, 2009 Featured in: / Flame Apophysis / Creative Cards
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Sunflowers - Card by MelDavies
Embossed and Painted foil with a minor digital colour tweak using Arcsoft Photostudio. FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS / Creative Cards – Nov 2009
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The Juggler by CanDuCreations
Fractal design created with Incendia 1.2.2. I created seperately a background with Photoshop and merged the two layers together and added some more balls, the little stars and the little shapes on the foreground. Designer: Thea Walstra /
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Chapel at DeGrazia's Gallery in the Sun by James Lewis Hamilton
I recently reformatted this submission, inspired to do so by joining the ‘Creative Cards’ group with its new strict dictum’s on card design and presentation. These changes are fairly simple in Photo-Shop (PS), but going back and forth into and out of RedBubble (RB) to check how the image really looks on ‘the card’ takes some time. (for instance saving the whole Saguaro cactus on the left hand side took some back and forth). With practice its getting easier! Here’s how I do it on Photo-Shop Elements. / To start reformatting I have a ‘blank RedBubble card’ in ‘my pictures’ and send it to Photo-Shop (PS) (it is the required 920 px by 1320 px.) I then take the image I’ve chosen for my card design and send it to PS. While this design is up on the PS screen I make any adjustments in the image I think appropriate (cropping, color, other), but am keeping in mind the finish card and card size & layout. I also ‘resize’ the image and make sure it’s the min. 200 px resolution, and if possible proportionate to 920×1320 px. card size. / Then I put the blank card on the screen. If I know there is going to be background showing then this is the time to either fill in the background with a custom color or even transport in another background design image or pattern. / Now its time to drag my adjusted final design image up and onto the background card, while keeping in mind the eventual finish image position I want. Undoubtedly my image (has been so far) is smaller than what I want on the background card. So next I use the ‘Free Transform’ option in PS and by pulling on the corners of the image I can change its size without changing its proportions (larger or smaller). If part of the drawing or image will be ‘cut off’ in the RB card printing process [(note: they cut about 12 pixels off long edge or 1/4” and about 24 pixels off each of the short ends or 3/8” to 1/2”)] then the transformed image size wants to be held those distances away from the edges. / My last step before ‘saving’ my image to ‘my pictures’ is to recheck the total card size and resolution. Once again I go to ‘resize image’ and check that resolution is minimum 200px and card size is 920 px. by 1320 px. I then ‘save as’ a JPeg type file and am ready to load the card onto RedBubble. / I load it first without sending to any groups or even any write up. After it’s loaded I click ‘see public image’ and then I click the ‘buy’ button. I see the final design on a card and decide if it meets all my new high quality criteria for presentation of my work. ;-)) If not I go back to ‘my pictures’ and PS and make the necessary further adjustments. / For example if you now look at my ‘Chapel’ card design flat (not on a card) you’ll see a white border around the three (to be trimmed) sides. Now look at it as a ‘card’ and the borders have been trimmed, but my full signature in lower right is intact and the saguaro cactus and prickly pear have not been cut out. It also ‘fits’ the RB card. I’ve decided this is a valid RB ‘card’ design because it may communicate the concept of a simple, more grounded (earthier) faith to some one who might never see the actual chapel, but get this essence. In Tucson, Arizona the most well known local artist is Ted DeGrazia. He died in the early ‘80’s but his Gallery in the Sun, at his rustic desert foothills property still thrives and is now a tourist attraction. They allow other artists to have shows at their “Little Gallery” and it’s there with my new mother-in-law that we shared a show in 1997, with her marble sculptures and my pen & ink sketches of Boulders of the Dragoon mountains. There was lots of spare time while ‘sitting’ our show, so a series of DeGrazia Gallery sketches were made. This one is of the rustic adobe, mostly roofless, chapel Ted built years before. Drawn in my Canson sketch book
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Snow Queen by LoneAngel
In the forests of the fairy realm.. In the deep winter.. / When snow covers the ground.. The Snow Queen looks with amusement.. at the cheeky squirrel who has hitched a ride on the back of a raindeer A delightful card for all seasons, especially for Christmas / Created in psp9 using poser/daz models featured in the group / Creative Cards
Recent Work
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Spinning spirals by CanDuCreations
Spiral design created with Apophysis 7x. I used Photoshop to give this card a bit more contrast and a subtle sandstone structure. Designer: Thea Walstra /
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I am far over the moon by CanDuCreations
Card created with the fractal program Incendia 1.3. I resized this card and did some postwork (adding the moon) with Photoshop. Designer: Thea walstra /
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Vibrations of Happiness by James Lewis Hamilton
A 36” x 48” acrylic painting that stared out as an experiment in applying transference paint colors over different background colors. The finished result ended up a bit of a psychedelic riot of pastel colors and movement… thus happiness! / This work was fairly straight forward to format for a RB card. Took it into Photoshop and sized it correctly.
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Bunnies & Butterfly Kisses - Mel's creative marathon #002 by MelDavies
Digital play/experiment based on my own original hand created artwork. (See journal entry)
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Angel in Flight by LoneAngel
An enchanting angel in flight / models created in poser/daz then the image was created in psp9 featured in the group / Live, Love, Dream …
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poinsettias revisited by James Lewis Hamilton
My prior ‘hibiscus card’ was so satisfying as a Photo-Shop (PS) adjusted image that I’ve been experimenting with the poinsettia image for days now trying to create a satisfactory new version of this art and put it into RedBubble card formatting. I’m not fully satisfied, but after many hours and late nights, many versions, and lots of PS fooling around I can live with this design. Anyone who has any further suggestions though should know they will be much appreciated. / One will have to click on the ‘buy’ button to see how this image appears on a finished card. All of the PS details are now a bit muddled in my head and I believe the PS tutorial provided with the ‘hibiscus card’ covers the most salient PS steps. Oh, I will say that the pointillism type background started as a photo of mostly clouds and some blue sky. I loaded it onto PS and then in the ‘filter’ choices got to the general appearance, but it was too varied. So I cropped that image down to a fairly uniform corner and then ‘resized’ to the necessary 920 pixels (px) x 1320 px with minimum with resolution set at 200px. / When I showed my partner this design she said; “It’s a bit old fashioned.” Well, that’s not too bad, maybe there’s a place for it… I mean the original drawing/painting was done in 1965!
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Thousand little lights by CanDuCreations
This festive card looks like a big ball surrounded by many little glowing lights. / I created this fractal work with Apophysis 7x plus a script. I used Photoshop to enhance a few of the little balls/lights.There is also one with the text Wish you a Merry Christmas. Designer: Thea Walstra /
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Bush Christmas - Mel's Creative Marathon #001 by MelDavies
Digital painting in Arcsoft Photostudio. / Started creating at 4:00pm and can not stop
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Emotions by Caroline Lembke
silk painting combined with digital art using paint.net
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Crossroads by Martilena
Manipulated image in Photoshop and PaintShopPro / November 19, 2009 Featured in: / Creative Cards
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A Family of Deer by LoneAngel
Wonder what this can be .. is it food .. can we eat it .. two inquistive fawns wander what to do with the pile of nuts they have found .. some poor squirrel must have lost its horde .. Another two fawns look on with interest models created in poser/daz, then the image was finished in psp9
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