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Mom3
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Registered: July 2002
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themanda
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Registered: December 2002
Location: Texas
Posts: 135
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very well done!
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Amanda
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niagra
Junior Member
Registered: October 2002
Posts: 1
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oooooooo these are gorgeous! Do you do glassblowing too? heheee. Very, very beautiful work.
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T Paul
Moderator
Registered: August 2001
Location: USA
Posts: 2,921
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Wow, simply beautiful results Phyllis! I love all the different designs you created...all from the same pipe? I bet if your created a tutorial on this it would be in high demand. Will you add your original image to this thread, as I'd love to see what you started with. Outstanding job!
~T
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phili1
Senior Member
Registered: March 2002
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 237
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Awsome Phyliis. I like them
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mama alligator
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Registered: August 2002
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 30
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These are beautiful, Phyllis.
Thank you for the details on making the tops and rings. They look fabulous.
Some of the ornaments themselves remind me of pysanky - Ukrainian easter eggs. Talk about your eye candy. Thanks for posting this.
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pstewart
Registered User
Registered: July 2002
Location: Chicago suburb
Posts: 790
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Thanks for all the nice words. Glad you like them. 
The picture I started with may not be a pipe, though it looks like one of those corrugated sewer pipes. Looking at it again, it may be something else...it's the first pic on this page:
http://www.FreeFoto.com/pictures/tex...rves/index.asp
The kaleidoscope images were made with KPT3 twirl filter, sometimes putting one image in the middle of another to decorate the center area, sometimes warping first with flaming pear ornament filter then twirling a second time, sometimes overlaying one image on another to combine lines, but about half of them were simple one-step results.
The spheres were also made with KPT, but version 2.1, which I don't think is still available. Any spherizing filter would do, though.
I made the "pipe" b/w first. Then the coloring was done with color balance, not colorize in hue/saturation, since color balance puts slightly different colors in for you if you like in the three dark-to-light options, making the resultant colors more interesting than the flat one-color you get with colorize.
One more thing...the "texture" I used to make the metal top came from the golden ornament in upper right. I just took a rectangle from its mid section and squashed it with transform. How's that for recycling...hehe.
If you don't have a kaleidoscopic image filter, there's already a tutorial in the forum on how to make them from scratch. I plan to contribute masks/templates to that, by the way, since I have a program that can generate them easily in any number. Must get to that soon...remind me if I forget.
Mamagator, being of that heritage, I used to make Ukranian Easter eggs with my aunt, using bees wax and a kiska...lots of work, but really awesome when done.
Phyllis
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marina
Junior Member
Registered: November 2002
Posts: 1
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Very beautiful. I would love to have these hanging on my tree. It's amazing what you did with an old pipe!
I think a tutorial would be great. This technique would make wonderful Easter eggs. I might even get the hang of it by then!
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clare
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Registered: August 2002
Location: England
Posts: 322
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You are the kaleidoscope queen - these just prove it!
So beautiful
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phili1
Senior Member
Registered: March 2002
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 237
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Phyliss you can start a new business, your christmas balls are better then what you can buy in the store
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jessie
Junior Member
Registered: October 2002
Location: orlando fl
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Wonderful! This too would make a great holiday card! Merry Christmas!!
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Mike Needham
Senior Member
Registered: April 2002
Posts: 489
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Only caught these by chance into a rare foray into these parts of the challenge area.
I have to say they really are great! There is also nice attention to detail shown. Love the red striped one and the green one. Really impressed that you managed to get so many variations from the one image.
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Wanda Schwind
Junior Member
Registered: January 2002
Location: Ohio
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Just wonderful, Phyllis, I want them for my tree!! Merry Christmas
Wanda
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denijo
Junior Member
Registered: September 2002
Location: Colorful Colorado
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RetouchPRO
