"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures."
- Henry Ward Beecher

For all those who are creative in art-
Be it painting in acrylics,oils,guache,crayons, pencils,pen,ink or charcoal.
Or any other medium

We would love to see your art!



Disclaimer:It is upto each of you to protect your original works from being copied,please do take the neccessary steps to stop piracy of your work.

Clough

Now, I am wondering too about the posting of images on this thread. I intend to do so as I have mentioned previously. But, I would appreciate it if someone would guide me in the way to post images, with text that I might write about them, above them, in-between them and also below them in the same post, please. Is this even possible? Thank you!

chek101

Say, Didi,
You know I have boxes of "stuff" all over the place. I collect anything, broken bits of toys (for use on my PM machine) fabric, unusual papers and odd bits of plastic and metal shapes ... whatever! I also have a few bags of stuffing or batting lying around somewhere. The reason I got the batting is because once I saw this picture in a book; it was a picture of Bette Midler. To my surprise, I was pleasantly taken aback to find that it was not a picture of Bette Midler, but a picture of a life size doll that looked just like her! Wow! I thought, now how kewel is that? In the picture the lifesize doll of Bette Midler was sitting in a chair with her legs crossed, a cigarette in her hand and her head tipped flirtatiously, back. She looked so real! Then when I read how and what the doll was made of, well, that really blew me away.
It was mostly made of nylon stuffed with batting and sewn up by needle and thread. The nylon, was pinched here and there and stitched in place till the right shape was attained. I tell you, the way they stuffed the legs ... well ... that was done so well that they perfected a pair of really hot and realistic looking legs! So that's another project I have in mind to undertake ... producing lifesize dolls of relatives or famous people. And I think it would be so much fun dressing them up in really sharp, stylish clothes.

My response to you about printing the photo on cloth made me think about that Bette Midler doll. I'm an artist and I can carve or do sculpture so fashioning realistic faces from cloth wouldn't be much of a problem for me. BUT, I'm also a little short on patience so if there's anyway I can cut down on the process, I'm up for that. A face printed on cloth ... could turn the trick ... don't you think? And don't you think this is such a cool idea? Patty

jrebel7

I don't know about placing text in between each image but would also like to know. When I included the images, I should have put the description in the body of the e-mail in which I sent the images instead of in postings after. The descriptions were an after thought. I'm learning.

chek101

Let's see if this works for you!

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chek101

I was just playing with it to see how it can be done here and the only way I came up with was to do it all in Psp., that's paint shop pro. I have a very old version and refuse to move on to the newer more updated versions that are probably out there (whatever it is now, ver.11?), because I know this program inside and out and don't want to be bothered with learning the newer versions, right now. I'm sure I could refine it more, but I accomplished what I wanted and that was to see if it could be done. Now that I know it can, I'm sure you can make it even better.
I don't see the point right now in detailing exactly how I did it, because I don't know if you even have or use Psp. But seems to me, all graphic programs do pretty much the same thing as far as something like this less complicated procedure, goes.
So know that it can be done. Patty

Clough

Thanks for answering my questions, Patty!

So, are the beaded images that you posted with text included, just one, big image, that includes the text?

I don't don't have Paint Shop Pro. But, I do have some simple programs for editing images. I know that I can also add text if I want, on the images, but not above or below them.

>>>Edit<<< I can see now that you have posted two images with text basically above or below the pictures in the images.

chek101

Here's a brief (hopefully) run down of what I did so you can get an idea where to start using your graphic program.

In PCP, I went to file, clicked "New." This "new" I clicked on was actually asking me for a new "image" setting. But that made no difference to me because I know this will allow me to do what I want to do as far as achieving the paper size I want. When the next window opened, it was labeled "Image Dimensions." Again, I could care less about that word "Image" that keeps coming up. So now this new window requires that I fill in the blanks for "height," resolution and dpi settings. I keyed in 8 and 1/2 " by 11" for the width and height and then keyed in 72 for the resolution. Then I clicked ok. Now, a nice white screen pops all set and ready to go. Here, in this white area is where I am going to paste my small photos. I say small because the size area I have to work with is roughly only an 8 and 1/2 by 11inch area ... so logically, how many photos can you paste on a regular sheet of paper that size? After making allowances for text, maybe 3, tops if you go with anything in the neighborhood of 3 by 4". Of course if you use even smaller photos you can fit even more pics on the page if you like. If your photos aren't small enough, just open them up and resize them to a smaller size but save as photo B so you don't ruin your original.
Next find your file where you keep the photo you want to bring into that "new" image area we set up, up above, open it up, resize it if necessary as the forum won't accept it if it's too big. I resize mine by "pixels" and scroll up or down to around 750 pixels (or under), as that is the size that the "Manage Attachments" section likes working with. If you keep your photos under 750 pixels and resolution down to 72 dpi, they'll always go thru.

Once you resize your photo, save it in that new size under the same file name but add a "b" to it so as not to mess up the original photo file. Do this with all the photos you want to put on that one page. Here's how you get the photo's into the new image area (that nice white area mentioned above): open your photo, click "edit", then click "copy." Now forget about that pic for one sec. Move your cursor over to the white image area and click anywhere in there to highlight it, letting the computer know that you are about to work there. Once it is highlighted, go back to "edit" click "paste" then after you click "paste" you need to click on "as new selection." The second you click on "as new selection" you will suddenly find that you have a picture stuck to your cursor that is moving as your cursor moves. DON'T click anymore till AFTER you have that photo sitting in that part of the white image area where you WANT IT! Once you click your mouse; that's where your picture will stay! If you accidentally did click your mouse, and it wound up where you didn't want it on that page ... simply go back up top to "edit" and click on "undo paste" and it will be gone. Then click on "redo paste" but ONLY AFTER YOU GET THE PICTURE SITUATED WHERE YOU WANT IT. That's important.
Usually when you paste photos in this way -- "as a new selection" -- a kind of moving outline of dashes wrap around the photo like neons lights which annoy me to no end, so I get rid of that by going up top and opening the "selections" menu and clicking on "hide marquee" and that gets rid of that. I don't know what your setup is or what program you will use to do this, but there must be some way that it will work pretty near the same way as the way PSP works. I certainly hope so. At least you have an idea as to what has to be done.
About the text part: PSP has a text tool. I simply positioned it in that same white area as where I pasted in the photo, and typed in what I wanted to say. I hope this helps in some way. Let me know! patty

sGt HarDKorE

Aren't i good? only took mr a couple of hours.




nah just joking, im actuall pretty good at drawing on paper, and somewhat decent on the computer for making graphics for games

If i can find any or if i can get my scanner working, ill upload them

chek101

Hey, don't knock it ... that stuff sells big time in museums across America; they call it impressionism ... LOL! Nice to to meet you and I am looking forward to seeing your stuff!

Clough

Yes, you are good! The detail is incredible and there is even a theme to the drawing! What do you call it, please?