Artemis Graphics And Design

Preview of 078-Tiles-Gray

Artemis Graphics And Design — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:15:40 GMT

A preview for the zipped set of the same name in my gallery.

There is also a tutorial on how to use them.

Pattern and Bumpmap Usage Tutorial

Artemis Graphics And Design — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:58:49 GMT

A quick breakdown of how to use pattern files for painting with and as a textured layer in the Bumpmapping effect of Corel Photopaint.

078-tiles-gray

Artemis Graphics And Design — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:56:10 GMT

A lot of the patterns I make for Adobe Photoshop and the like have corresponding jpegs and it occurred to me a while back that many make for good bump maps in Corel Photopaint.

I made a gray set for download to be used as either patterns or bm's. If you download them for use please let me know how they work out. They are somewhat larger than the coloured versions which are available on my DA account at http://12monthsofwinter.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/resources/applications/patterns/&offset=48#/dxf8yt

A corresponding tutorial is on the way :)

Edit: if you use them kindly let me know how they work out.

Whose laughing now Doggie Breath?

Artemis Graphics And Design — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:10:51 GMT

Every now and then I take part in one of those contests where you're supposed to caption a pet photograph. This is my cat examining the skull of a dog I found 2 days ago ( I collect skulls the way hunters collect antler sheds- everyone has a hobby ).

Anyway, Corel Photopaint was used to blur a white version of the text, multiply the result 3 or 4 times before merging together, and topping it with normal black text. This is the simplest way I know to make text stand out on a rather busy picture.

Invisible Watermark Tutorial

Artemis Graphics And Design — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:37:44 GMT

This is such a simple thing to do it barely qualifies as a tutorial- lol.

Made with the youngsters at DA in mind but also available as html on my web site ( http://members.shaw.ca/artemislangley/11-tutorials-1.html ).

I highly advocate using watermarks (in whatever style suits a person) especially considering how fragile IPTC data is. :|

Cold

Artemis Graphics And Design — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:04:51 GMT

layer upon layer of coldness

pictures assembled in Corel Photopaint

Guarding The Cold Sleep

Artemis Graphics And Design — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:56:19 GMT

An older work done entirely with vectors. I just sent this image to someone to explain the 'look' of basic vector.

While it's a seasonal piece now it was originally created to help me deal with the passing of my mother. There was a totem pole outside the hospital where she died and I added two more in my image to represent family members,

nature brush

Artemis Graphics And Design — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:56:27 GMT

Not for download...

this is a set of brushes I made for my husband to play around with in Corel Photopaint.

He is a hunter who writes a lot of hunting related articles and uses Corel Draw for his diagrams but wants to dabble with Photopaint for a bit more realism.

Conflicted

Artemis Graphics And Design — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:32:38 GMT

Photopaint...photo manipulation using photos/objects

Rosehip Jelli

Artemis Graphics And Design — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:32:21 GMT

Photopaint....photo collage wallpaper for fancy food aficionados.

Post Cards

Artemis Graphics And Design — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:23:55 GMT

Post Cards of my local area made in Corel DRAW X4.

Exported to PDF for the printers who like that format best.

This kind of thing is very easy to do in Draw, not to mention the ornamentation of the cards themselves.

Echinacea

Artemis Graphics And Design — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:23:00 GMT

This is really a finished practice piece for what will soon be a set of herbal tea labels. Trying to go for the essence of a key ingredient with this, made in Photopaint.

Basic Corel Draw Vectoring Tutorial

Artemis Graphics And Design — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:21:37 GMT

This tutorial is done in the typical style of Deviant Art ( where big pretty pictures don't cost anything and where the rules of spelling, grammar and good design sense are not enforced! ) and was posted 4.5 years ago. As of today over 15,000 people have viewed (downloaded it) so I know it has been of interest to many and hopefully helpful as well.

I'm posting it to show how people (newbies) outside of the illustration, sign making and printing industry have certain expectations of what they should be able to achieve with Drawing software. It doesn't pretend to address what is currently the popular styles of art but it is definitely aimed at artists.

Vectored Owl Sillouette

Artemis Graphics And Design — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:30:11 GMT

Last month my husband and I were coming home from an evening drive and a Great Horned owl flew out of the darkening sky and into a distant pine tree.
I tried for a photo but was too slow.
The owl moved on and I had another attempt but it was noticeably darker and I saw in the preview that it was blurred.
The owl moved off again always heading toward the north-west and it kept getting darker. I tried a few more shots after the owl landed a third time but a hand-held camera is just no match for less than twilight skies.
All the shots were blurry but I chose the best one to vector and this is more or less an accurate silhouette although the sky has been glorified.
lol
Yay for Corel Draw!

Mill Town Panorama

Artemis Graphics And Design — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:31:54 GMT

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Edit:

I'm going to mention something about watermarking images.

Once you post your image online- or even send it to another computer- it effectively becomes prey in the always-open season for digital theft. A watermark affects the impact of an image it is true, but it also serves as a deterrent to theft. People who don't want to pay for your images, or worse, would profit off them without compensation to you, have a lot of hard work ahead of them to remove a watermark.

Because an image appears on the web many people think it's free- people who don't know the first thing about copyright. Even less people know what IPTC data is but you can bet most newspaper and magazine editors do. All of my images will contain either a watermark or a visible copyright to deter theft and all of it will have my copyright embedded within the invisible (to the average person) and editable text fields of the IPTC information available to the jpeg format.

/Edit.

*****

I consider panorama making a speciality in my photography. This is not my favourite but represents one of the largest I ever put together in Corel Photopaint- between 15 and 20 vertically oriented shots of the town I live in.

Corel has loads of tools for blending seams nicely.

I sure hope the full view of this shows up!