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Old 12-14-2006, 12:35 PM
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Poinsettia

Took these earlier hope you will enjoy them ( steve they are not flowers )

(admit to being a bit disapointed in them )

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Old 12-14-2006, 02:19 PM
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Re: Poinsettia

Very Pretty

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Old 12-14-2006, 03:04 PM
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Re: Poinsettia

Here's my go at it.
Thought it needed a small crop - just too much material?????

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Old 12-14-2006, 04:02 PM
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Re: Poinsettia

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Took these earlier hope you will enjoy them ( steve they are not flowers )

(admit to being a bit disapointed in them )

Palms
OK...my wife has them all over the house.

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Old 12-14-2006, 04:18 PM
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Re: Poinsettia

Just messing around..came up with this.

Maybe I shouldn't mess around so much.

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Old 12-14-2006, 04:29 PM
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Re: Poinsettia

Now I know for sure that's not a flower. I was wondering sometimes.

Photoshop, standard filters.

Large size here
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Old 12-14-2006, 05:05 PM
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Poinsettia in watercolor

Pixel Trash set to Luminosity and Paint Engine with @Wetter2 preset mainly. Attached is a low quality crop. Here's the full high quality version.
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Old 12-15-2006, 01:27 AM
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Re: Poinsettia

Wow again guys you never cease to amaze me
Thank you cupcake
Peter i know as it is my photo i might be biased but claiming this one as your best one up to now
Steve carry on messing this one is super love the pink tones in it
Great painting pavel ( glad to clear up for you about flower/plant )
Ikroll dont say the stipple phase is over ? although i do like this one

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Old 12-15-2006, 02:06 AM
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Palms1 biased!!!! 0 never been known to happen.
Thanks, I'm still working out how I do this, I seem to do it slightly different every time. But the main thing is smoothing from the start.

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Old 12-15-2006, 08:19 AM
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Re: Poinsettia

Palms, thank you for the lovely poinsettias!
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Old 12-15-2006, 10:23 AM
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Re: Poinsettia

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Palms, thank you for the lovely poinsettias!
Hey! That's quite nice 'mam.

And you have a great one too.

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Old 12-15-2006, 12:32 PM
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Re: Poinsettia

And a happy xmas to you Swampy great card
and a attempt of me using swampys texture mapping

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Old 12-15-2006, 01:03 PM
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Re: Poinsettia

That another nice one Palms.

Here's one from me to everyone.

Maybe we should have our own competition - the prize:-

"Peace and Good Will to ALL" (if only for a little while)


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Old 12-15-2006, 02:12 PM
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Re: Poinsettia

Excellent, Palms!

Peter, Steve, Good stuff!
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Old 12-15-2006, 03:30 PM
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OK Palms; a coloring book stipple. lol

Just an edge detect enhancement with Potrace vector simplication. Reduced the colors to 4 and saved as PNG.
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