I've been playing with a graphics program called 'RealDraw Pro' tonight. I did this with it. It's got a tool in it called 'Push Down' that can give the effect of interlocking rings. This can be done in other drawing programs but the specially dedicated tool makes it easy in RealDraw:

very nice effect! love the background as well.

A Xara Xtreme graphic:

did you know that if you stare at that one the "right way", it is stereographic? lol

I hadn't noticed that, only that my eyes go funny when examining the graphic closely. I have to blink and do a second take on it.

I should maybe say how it's done:

* One ring was drawn in Xara Xtreme and a bevel added.

* Three copies of the ring were made (4 total).

* Three rings were placed equidistant and made to look as if they interlock.

* The rings are joined into a group and then duplicated.

* The duplicate set of rings is made much smaller and placed exactly in the middle of the larger set of rings.

* An 11 step blend is made from the larger set of rings to the smaller set.

* The colour and size of the remaining bevelled ring is changed and put to the back of the others.

* Lastly, the frame is drawn and put to the back of everything.

Has Terry considered that for a new logo? Nice!

think of the royalties LOL

A Great Horned Owl...

This one's a total fluke, Precious, snapped using some odd setting whilst I was fiddling with the camera. I like it anyway

My goodness, that's the best image art of all.. one that's a "happy accident" LOL. Very cool colours too!

In MSpaint, a boring photo, so inverted colours.

Japanese Maple........

You may remember the photo I took of the entrance to the Northampton Arm on the Grand Union Canal. It's here.

I've been fiddling with it today to make it look old, added a texture, applied a 'aged' edge, and as well as removing the colour I added a faint tint.

And now it looks like this:



I'm not sure why I did it other than to see if I could, but as I didn't have a new pic to upload today I recycled one!

Trying to get a different look for Christmas




Cannot decide quite whether it works

Using a program called paint.net I applied an ink sketch setting to this picture.

Oh nice!

Very nice!

These are all lovely. I couldn't do anything like this no matter how hard I tried, you are all brilliantly clever

Butterfly on a leaf. I used the Pop Art Adobe plug-in for IrfanView. It gives photos bright, pop art-like colors.

Clematis flower using paint.net's waterbrush plug-in.

Drawn with 'RealDraw Pro' for something to do on a wet afternoon. First graphic I've done for ages:

Nice!

Very interesting how the shadows and highlights on the links change according to their position on the disk.

Edit: Image turned out a little over size, so reduced.