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[wolfepaw]

I've been busy with Photoshop again.  I must be addicted to Celine graphics.  I've done some wallpapers and I used some brushes that some of you who Photoshop might be interested in looking at.  The link to that site is:
Stephanie Shimerdla's Photoshop Brushes and Patterns

The website is called obsidiandawn.com

She's got some really wonderful things.  I have used some foliage swirls and just a couple of her fireworks brushes.  They are huge, but of course can be scaled down, but they are very good quality and resolution and if you enjoy playing around in Photoshop, you might want to get some of them.  They are completely FREE!!

Anyway, here are some of the wallpapers.  I hope you like them.







I don't know why the text at the bottom of this doesn't show up.  It shows on the image sharing site where it's posted.  There should be credit text saying that the "Foliage Brushes and Fire Pattern by Stephanie Shimerdla at www.obsidiandawn.com".

Next,



The fireworks brushes are also from Stephanie.

And one more for now:



In this last one, I used a picture I took at sunset at my house in Natchez as the background.  We get some really great sunsets.

I hope you like them and feel free to use anything you'd like.

[wolfepaw]

Obviously, the text credit is there now for the foliage and fire wallpaper, but it doesn't mention the fire pattern, which is from Stephanie as well.
  

[frana]

Hi wolfepaw !!!!  

Your walls are really beautiful  

Pretty nice job  

[zoea2812]

Your wallpapers are beautiful.

[Ann]

they are really beautiful

[wolfepaw]

frana, on Jun 13 2008, 03:49 AM, said:

Hi wolfepaw !!!!  

Your walls are really beautiful  

Pretty nice job  

zoea2812, on Jun 13 2008, 04:14 AM, said:

Your wallpapers are beautiful.

Ann, on Jun 13 2008, 05:25 AM, said:

they are really beautiful

Thank you all very, very much.   

[SandyCeline]

Hiiiiiii

Wonderful walls wolfepaw

Great job

[Soloni]

OMG ... these are just beautiful.... Love them

[Soloni]

Forgot to ask: are these for adobe photoshop?...

[wolfepaw]

SandyCeline, on Jun 14 2008, 05:11 PM, said:

Hiiiiiii

Wonderful walls wolfepaw

Great job

Soloni, on Jun 15 2008, 12:09 PM, said:

OMG ... these are just beautiful.... Love them

Soloni, on Jun 15 2008, 12:12 PM, said:

Forgot to ask: are these for adobe photoshop?...

SandyCeline and Soloni,  Thank you very, very much.    

I'm glad you like them.

Soloni, are you talking about the brush sets from Stephanie Shimerdla?  If so, yes, they are Photoshop brushes.  But she has a lot of the brushes as jpg images as well, so you can download the images and perhaps make you own brush for them in PhotoPlus 6.  I don't what the custom brush capabilities are for PhotoPlus 6, so I'm not sure how that would work.  But it might be worth giving it a try.

Let me know, if you try it, if it works.

[Snowhite]

OH!I love the third wallpaper the most!!!!Thanx!

[zoea2812]

We have some very good artists on this site.

[wolfepaw]

Snowhite, on Jun 15 2008, 03:48 PM, said:

OH!I love the third wallpaper the most!!!!Thanx!

zoea2812, on Jun 15 2008, 03:58 PM, said:

We have some very good artists on this site.

Thank you, Snowhite and zoea2812.  I'm so glad you like them!    

[wolfepaw]

Another wall.  Whadda ya think?




This may change appearance slightly.  I uploaded an updated one but this one is the previous version, which I deleted.  Perhaps it takes a little while for Photobucket to refresh.  Well, we'll see.

[Esty]

wolfepaw, on Jun 17 2008, 09:26 PM, said:

Another wall.  Whadda ya think?




This may change appearance slightly.  I uploaded an updated one but this one is the previous version, which I deleted.  Perhaps it takes a little while for Photobucket to refresh.  Well, we'll see.

What a good idea! Very nice!  

[zoea2812]

Love it, love it, love it.   

[wolfepaw]

Here's another one that I finished recently:

[Ann]

wow , it's so pretty
I love it so much

thank you

[LaDiva]

Wow your last Wallpaper is so great! I´m amazed!

[wolfepaw]

Ann, on Jul 30 2008, 05:01 PM, said:

wow , it's so pretty
I love it so much
thank you

LaDiva, on Jul 31 2008, 10:03 PM, said:

Wow your last Wallpaper is so great! I´m amazed!

Ann and LaDiva, thank you so much for your sweet comments.    
I'm glad you like them.  I really like the last one, too.

[wolfepaw]

How about an animated version of the Faerie Queen Wall?

I tried something new, so let me know what you think.  

[Ann]

wow, I like your animated version      
how you did it?

[wolfepaw]

Ann, on Aug 2 2008, 04:59 AM, said:

wow, I like your animated version      
how you did it?

Thank you, Ann.  I'm really glad you liked it!

I decided to try an experiment to give a more natural look to her bending over.  I took two separate pictures of Celine from the Final LV show: one of her standing and one her bowing.  I created tons of layers for this to get the glitter effect for the wings, the wand and the background.  I then merged one set of layers of her, standing with wings, wand and the star.  Then I did a Liquify filter on that layer and "warped" her into that "starting to bend over" position.  Then I used that layer for two frames in the animation: the first one one between the last frame of her standing and the first frame of her bent over, and the other one after the last one of her bowing, to give the impression of a more fluid motion of bending over and standing back up.  I hope I explained this all right.  I created it in Photoshop and used Image Ready for the animation part and to create the GIF files.  It's huge as the psd file (36 MB), but the gif is not too bad (3.5MB).

[wolfepaw]

Here's another one.  I used GIMP for this one.  For those of you not familiar with GIMP, it's a totally free software and it's got some real cool features and nifty tools.  It's not as powerful as Photoshop, but for a free program, it's absolutely awesome.  So if you're looking for a free photo and graphic editing program, try GIMP.  I think you might like it.

Anyway, here's my first GIMP wall.  What do you think?



Be kind, I'm still learning my way around it and it's quite different from Photoshop.

[Soloni]

i really like it.....  you did a great job

[wolfepaw]

Here are a few more, several versions of the same theme.  The first one was made with Photoshop using a multihued gradient background.  Then a couple with filters applied to the bckgrd.  One with Gimp and one with Photoshop.  I also use a version of the second one as a wallpaper on my  phone including ringtones I made. "Calling You" is the one I use as the basic ringtone.

Here is the basic wall that I started with, just her with a multihued background using a gradient tool.



This version was made using GIMP, which is really cool.  I used a fractal filter on the background.



The one was done with a emboss filter on the same background (in Photoshop).




The last one is my cell phone wall:



Comments and suggestions, as always, are welcome.

Also, if you're interested in the mp3 for Calling You as a ringtone, let me know.  I'll send it to you.  It's only about 27 seconds long.

[Soloni]

These are so, great!!!! I love all the colours..

[SensationalCeline]

Hi!

I love all of your walls.  Their amazing!  I really love the one that is your cell wall also.  SO pretty.

[wolfepaw]

Soloni, on Aug 10 2008, 11:14 AM, said:

These are so, great!!!! I love all the colours..

SensationalCeline, on Aug 10 2008, 04:16 PM, said:

Hi!
I love all of your walls.  Their amazing!  I really love the one that is your cell wall also.  SO pretty.

Thank you both so much!  I had a a lot of fun trying to learn GIMP using this picture.  It seemed perfect to use for my cell phone wall.  It's looks cool, when I open it up, the picture pops out at me.  It looks like Celine is calling me.

[ILoveDeltaGoodrem]

I like the beautiful night one.
the one of celine fairy is soo cute