This is just to show we can still do it with actual paint and paper!

lovely paint everyone - SatG , how right you are ...

here's a snowscape ...

Nice painting, satguru. Yours, too, shellie. Reminds me of driving through Wyoming in winter, hoping your car doesn't break down.



Still messing around with different programs. This was done on photoshop.com, a photo hosting site with limited editing tools.

QE2 leaving Lisbon, using Photobucket fresco. I like the bridge reflection - should have used it in last week's theme!

Here's a little trick shot I took of my daughter and granddaughter last summer. My granddaughter is standing on the hill behind my daughter. I just had my daughter hold her hand out and then I lined them both up to get the shot.

Edit: See private message Dave53

Very well played sir!

I drew a pot with a flower on the lid. Every home should have one. I think it's got talcum powder in it. At least, that's what I'm going to say it is if anyone asks me. I just felt it ought to have something inside.

This is my first attempt at Word art, a mockup of the local sign on the way home from Muswell Hill. It was enough of a job learning all the features but I found it has a huge border. I don't know if it can be fixed once saved as a file but if you can remove the A4 paper round it I'd be very pleased Martin!

There you go David. The surrounding paper has been cropped away. If you plan to create more images, there are a number of free programs available that can do that kind of editing. Irfanview and Picasa are two popular ones.

If you decide to progress from using WordArt for image creation, there are a number of free programs around. Windows 'Paint' (part of Windows so already installed) can produce some fairly good ones.

Thanks Martin, I've got Picasa and what I did was use a trial program to convert .doc files to jpeg so I could upload them. Now I know I can just treat them like photos rather than use more Word commands I know where I am. I tried draw when I got it but how you are expected to write or draw using a mouse still beats me. I don't know if there's another way like a stylus but you have shown it's possible but no idea how!

The mentioned IrfanView is quite good. You wouldn't need any sort of converter if this is installed. Pressing the keyboard 'Print Screen' (PrtSc) keyboard button copies what you see on the monitor to the Windows 'Clipboard'. This image can then be pasted into Irfanview. There is a 'crop' tool for cropping away the unwanted parts of the image. The remaining (or wanted) part of it can then be saved as a jpeg ready for uploading and showing in the forum.

If you decide to install IrfanView, read the options carefully as it installs. An optional toolbar is offered. Make sure the option is un-ticked if you don't want to install the toolbar.

Thanks for that information. The doc converter has 30 free goes and then runs out but that's fine as I'm happier with a paintbrush than a mouse or screen for my usual pictures but Word is perfect for signs as it has the same fonts and frames as they did so can copy them very closely. I may add in a real one under that if allowed so people can compare them, but first I need to justify the place names to the left as I missed that bit!

Another stark winter tree where the picture looked as if taken in black and white. So.... a little slide of the arrow here, a little click of the mouse there and now a much different creation.

Word art can be fun, i like yours Satguru. Lovely Tredici, i like the graduated colours.

The original of this was a yellow miniature rose. Upped the contrast, colour tinted, added noise.

'My Wild Irish Rose' ...

Isn't playing with all those artistic options fun? Tweaked about everything in this compostion.

A street near mine. I think I used coloured chalk effect or something.

It gave your street a lovely texture Lioness. Wonderful colours Tredici.

These were originally some flowers (blue agapanthus)-
changed with a lot of different effects... i thought it ended up looking kind of "bridal"

TW - your drawings from scratch always amaze me. I think it is "lavender-scented" talc in that lovely box !

Thanks - I perhaps should say (or have said) that the flower on the lid is an embedded photograph ..but the rest is all created in the program from scratch. I've seen some impressive looking flowers actually drawn using the program but I haven't had a go at one yet. Maybe on the next wet afternoon.

Your own and other members' creations are impressive too. Many are as good as any professionally designed greetings card. They would make good cards if anyone felt like branching out into making some.

Taking pictures in the Huguenot Tunnel, north of Cape Town, I moved the camera as I took the photo and liked what happened. This is the result.

That turned out very nice, lady1. The red and green lines are so interesting.

Love your description Tredici--'a little slide of the arrow here, click of the mouse there.' Like its really that easy. Although it does seem to be for you.



Goodyear blimp with a little tile reflection distortion.

That is absolutely cool!

I don't know why I took a picture of a stack of kayaks/canoes/windsurfing gear with trailers thrown on top willy nilly. I expect I thought it would be arty, perhaps the angle appealed, perhaps I'd eaten too much ice cream. Anyway, you can see the very dull picture here: http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1543/boatwheelsorig.jpg

And then I loaded the image into Lightroom, fiddled a bit and...