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A Venice Waterway

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:11:00 +0000

This is a digital painting from an image taken while on a recent trip to Venice. I painted this in Corel Painter 2015 and used several textures to finish the painting.

If you interested in this painting, you can purchase it on my FineArtAmerica page:

A Bridge In Venice

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:23:00 +0000

This is a digital painting from a recent trip to Venice. This piece was painted in both Photoshop CC and Corel Painter 2015. It has recently been posted to my FineArtAmerica page.

If you are interested in purchasing this painting you can do so at my shop here:

A Painterly Tutorial of a Venice Waterway!

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:15:00 +0000

A have posted another tutorial on how I achieved this painterly image of a waterway in Venice on Steller. Please see it here.

https://steller.co/stories/324630712990827771

If you found this tutorial helpful, please let me know. I'd appreciate it. Thanks, and enjoy!

Artistic iPhone Photography Tutorial.

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:50:00 +0000

Over several months I've been asked about my workflow and about what apps I use to create some of my iPhone artistry. So, I thought I would attempt to post a blog about it. The image above was originally taken with my iPhone while on a recent visit to Venice. Below is the unedited photo taken with my iPhone.

If you look closely, you will see one of our workshop instructors, Marilyn Sholin, and her husband, Mickey, standing across the way, taking a picture herself. As you can see, it's just an ordinary photograph taken with an iPhone.

The first thing that I did, and almost always do, is take the image into Snapseed, crop and straighten if necessary and then run HDRscape on the image.

As you can see I reduced the filter strength a bit, but running this filter really brings out the detail.
Under this same filter, I also increased the smoothing slider just a bit.

I then applied this filter by hitting the check mark button on the lower right. My next step with to use the tune filter in Snapseed.

Using the Tune filter, I typically will increase the Ambiance by a little, the saturation-a little, and the warmth. See above. I apply this filter the same as before by hitting the check mark to apply. Lastly, in Snapseed I will use the Details filter to increase the sharpening and structure. I particularly like the structure part of this filter. It just brings so much clarity to the image. See below.

My next step is to make an outline of the image. There are two filters that can be used for this. ToonPaint and PencilFX. I chose the ToonPaint app for this project. And when doing so, I save immediately after making the outline. You have the option in the app to fill it in with color, but for this tutorial I just need the outline.

In addition, I typically decrease the edges slider. I then hit the Share button and save to my camera roll.

My next step is to take the earlier image (before the outline) and bring it into iColorama. The first step is to run it through the Effects/Flow filter.

I'm usually fairly happy with the default settings in Flow, except that I reduce the Opacity a bit. I then hit the apply button in the upper right corner.

The next step is to use the Style/Simplify filter.

I will usually the default of this filter as well, except that I also lower the opacity a bit.

I'm pretty satisfied with this so far, although, sometimes I will also use the Adjust/EQ filter to brighten it up a bit. However, I didn't think it needed it this time. Apply and then save this image to your camera roll.

The next step is to take this saved image into Glaze app. You will need to experiment with the different filters in this app to see what works the best, and you can even save and mix the filters if you want. In this particular, I was pretty satisfied with the last of the second groupings. See below.

For the most part, I like this a lot. I do think that the sky is a bit harsh, so I will take this image into Repix to soften that sky.

The two filters I used to soften the sky was the Daubs filter and then the Charcoal filter. This I saved to my camera roll.

The next step is to take this image and the outline image into Superimpose App.

First load your background image, which is the most recent saved image right out of Repix. Secondly, you need to load the Foreground image which is the Outlined image. Hit Choose, then Transform and then the ScaleFit button in the upper right hand corner noted by a cross symbol. See below.

From this point you can choose your blending mode. I happen to think that the Multiply blending mode looks best, however I do reduce the transparency a bit.

I like the way this looks, so I flatten the image by using the upper left corner button, and then I save the image to my camera roll.

The final process is to use the PhotoToaster app. PhotoToaster is probably my favorite app and I generally finish all my images with this app and/or Distressed FX.

I will usually put this app through its paces, because what looks good on one image may not always look good on another. The preset that I liked for this image is the Amplify filter under the Deluxe presets. I don't particularly like the border, so I then bring up the borders filters by clicking on the v at the lower left hand corner and choose No Border.

I very much like the way this looks, so I think I'm finished with this, although I will on many occasions, add a texture and then take my images into Distressed FX to add a little texture.

So here is the finished piece again.

If you have found this tutorial helpful-let me know, as I will consider doing others.

Happy Apping!

Jane

The Red Barn in the Woods

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:54:00 +0000

This is a barn that I originally took with my iPhone 5 with the camera app Fotor HDR. After transferring to my laptop, I opened it in Photoshop CS6 to resize to 11x14 at 200 dpi. I also do levels and saturation changes at this time. Then I transferred to Corel Painter X3. I did several painted iterations, an initial paint, a muck-up paint, and an emerge paint. In addition to saving in the native Painter riff files, I also save them as jpegs so that I can work with them in Photoshop. I will typically bring all three iterations into Photoshop each with their own layer and play with blending modes, adjustment layers, color changes etc. in this particular image, I used Melissa Gallo's canvas texture and masked out any unwanted areas and then added a Photoshop canvas texturizer in the filter gallery.

Trying to catch up

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:39:00 +0000

Trying out the new Blogger App to see how it works!

This is a photo taken with my iPhone and processed using Snapseed, iColorama, pencil FX!

Midwest Moments

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:50:00 +0000

Rural America

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:25:00 +0000

Most recent rural explorations

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:13:00 +0000

Barns, barns, barns!

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:55:00 +0000

Here are more photos taken with my iPhone and edited on my ipad, for the most part. It seems there are so many barns that are in a state do disrepair. Sadly, it is a sign of the times. In their place are usually square structures made of aluminum. Pretty soon all the old beautiful barns will be gone.

Barns and Churches

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:12:00 +0000

I'm continuing with the Rural America theme, barns and churches mostly. The images were taken with either DLSR or the native iPhone camera. All the edits and paintings were done on the ipad.

Rural America

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:56:00 +0000

The following are images from my recent road trip through North Dakoa, and my recent back road travels through Minnesota. All images were taken with an iPhone or my DSLR, uploaded to my ipad, and processed using many apps.

Spring is finally here

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:58:00 +0000

We've had the longest winter I can ever remember, but today we had temps in the 70's. it's a good thing, too, because I'm running out of images/paintings to post and need to get out there and take some more pictures.

More iPhone photos

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:28:00 +0000

Continuing with more pic taken with the iPhone and edited in iPhone and iPad apps.

iPhone art

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:02:00 +0000

Thought I would focus on images taken with my iPhone and processed with my iPhone and iPad

Experimenting with more new apps

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:47:00 +0000

New work

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:15:00 +0000

Ipad mini paintings

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:59:00 +0000

More ipad mini paintings using Sketch club, Photoshop Touch, Photo Toaster apps and my own images.

Paintings on my ipad mini

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:29:00 +0000

Just a few paintings using my ipad mini and several painting apps.

Paintings of Taylor's Falls, MN

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:44:00 +0000

My favorite time of year--NOW!

Day Trip Down To Winona

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:31:00 +0000

The Hubs and I decided to take a day trip last Friday to take in some more fall color and just enjoy the day. We ran across a curious thing. It was like a little community of floating houses on the Mississippi River at Winona, called Latch Island. You can tell that there's been a drought. Many of the little houses had rain barrels, but they appeared to be empty. We aren't sure if these are just weekend cabins, or if people stay year round~if so I think it could be really cold. Anyway, I thought it was strange enough to take some images.

Taylor's Falls, Autumn 2012

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:26:00 +0000

I've had a chance to spend a little time painting from some of the images I took last week at Taylors Falls. It's so beautiful this time of year, and I hope to get down to the Lake Pepin area next weekend, if the wind doesn't blow all the leaves off the trees.

Week 4, Open Studio at Digital Art Academy

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:51:00 +0000

This is the 4th and final painting for class at Digital Art Academy. All painted in Photoshop CS6 with the Art History Brush. Original image taken this past week at Taylors Falls, MN, where we have beautiful fall colors right now!

Week 3, Open Studio at Digital Art Academy

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:51:00 +0000

Week 3 at Digital Art Academy taught me how to record my brush strokes in Corel Painter, and how to play them back. Very fun class.

Have a great day!

Week 2, Open Studio at Digital Art Academy

noreply@blogger.com (magicshell) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:58:00 +0000

The second week was a continuation of working in impressionism, again using many textures, overlays and papers. I had a lot of problems with my program, Corel Painter, in that it kept crashing, so I had to finish in Photoshop. This painting is from an image of my granddaughter at her birthday party. Here she is.

Hope you had a great weekend.