Wellies' photos and graphics

Oh, what great fun! - they look much like those chalky kind of candies that kids love to munch on.

There's a lot to be said about being a "professional layabout" (Just not having to fall out of bed at 4am to take a shower with a toothbrush in one hand and shampoo in the other - and the eyes closed - just to get to work on time - aah, yes, 'layabout' is someone to aim for - huge smile!).

 

A Xara Xtreme graphic. It starts off with rectangles and a circles added together. Then a bevelled 'gold' effect is applied using a plugin that does that kind of thing. The 'M' is added on top of that and given the same gold treatment. The background and shadows came last. A simple graphic (for a drawing program it really is) but a nice effect:

 

Well I have been playing with Blender, and tutorials, and the more I play the More impressive your work looks, I spent two maybe three hours playing with reflections yesterday and didn't get them any where near as good as that or how they looked in the tutorial, so simple or not I think it's Impressive

 

I sometimes visit the Xara forum to look at the creations there. I don't go there too often because it lets me know just how comparatively basic my graphics are ..especially when I look at images like this one. It just shows what the program is capable of in the right hands. Click on the images for full sized views:

[ame=http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=41130]Helicopter D-HBZV - TalkGraphics.com[/ame]


(TalkGraphics doesn't mind me linking to a particular post/image in the forum. I asked about it).

 

Yes, the helicopters are good - but (and I'm being honest here), I truly like yours, Wellie! And I agree completely with our Match - you may consider your creations 'simple' but nope, they are very impressive!!

 

Ok. I too followed the tutorial and good grief!! The tutorial was great but my results surely weren't. Yup, you don't give yourself enough credit for your great creations, Wellie - please keep them coming.

 

Three copies of the photo were made. Small, middling and large. A shadow was then added to them. A multi-stepped 'blend' was made between the large photo and the small one (can't remember how many steps ...but lots ). The middle-sized photo is placed in the middle of that. The are letters filled with the photo's flowers as well:

 

Five copies of the budgie photo placed one top of the other. Four of them were given varying degrees of page curl. The result is placed on a background to finish it off (Xara Xtreme).

 

Very good Wellie amazing what computer software and a little ingenuity can do

 

Love flowers and this is wonderfully unique, Wellie ... and what an unusual effect with the budgie one! (What a sweet little bird, too - is he/she yours?)

 

It was my budgie but we gave him away. He never really would tame down (the little rebel! ). I let him go to a good home where he had the company of other budgies.

 

Don't worry, Wellie - making an occasional double post just makes you human - huge smile!

 

Aah, so nice the pretty fellow went to live with other little feathered friends!

(We had a wee pure white birdie that loved to have the water run from the faucet so he could swoop through it and was ever so affectionate - perhaps because we were given him as a gift when he was too young to fly yet.

But one day he swooped right out the open patio door - and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' was gone! ... yup, we fibbed and told the girls he had likely gone off to find a girlfriend and have a family of his own. ).

 

That was a good bird Mara. The girlfriend explanation was a good one . We had a pure white Cocatiel (purposely misspelt to avoid the forum 'bad language' asterisks) that was a bit like that. He flew away too.

We always had budgies when we were children. I don't think any of them reached old age. They all flew away ..bar one. This budgie got taken from his cage and eaten by a cat when the patio door was left open. We only found his beak and a scattering of claws

Our Dad said the ones that escaped had gone to Portsmouth so they could get a boat to Australia. . I once wrote about budgies and their training. Below is a link to it:

Read humor, puns and funny articles here

 

Losing my marbles . Drawn line by line (no photographic content) using Xara Xtreme.

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I can't wait to show this one to my grandson tomorrow, Wellie! He has a passion for graphics and zips between your posts and Robs 3Ds to see the newest addition each time he's here!

You're not "loosing your marbles" in this one - the marbles are good and the box is absolutely great! (Aah, yes, still pea-green with envy of your ability).

 

Oh, gracious - that site is too, too funny and sadly, pretty darn 'right on' when befriending these tiny little feathered creatures! Loved it - and thanks for sharing that link, Wellie.

 

Another Xara Xtreme graphic. Some photographic content (on the lid) but other than that, just all drawn filled, shaded etc.

 

I love this hat box!! It surely must have been hard to create yet it's looks so very professional - well done, Wellie!

 

I could say how much trouble I'd had creating this image ...I'd only be lying though. The truth is that it had no planning whatsoever! Perhaps just call it an Xtreme doodle. I just played with the program until something pretty turned up. Well, I enjoyed the playing around and that can be as satisfying and producing a proper drawing or work of art: