Sorry I have taken so long in posting my painting machine images, but I took so long on the Warhol project that I fell behind. These are two of the five images I posted that I like the best. I'm doing the action script, but sometimes it doesn't look as good on some images as it does others as you will see with my pumpkin image. I will hopefully post another 5 tomorrow and you can let me know what you think. Can't wait to work on week 5 and six because your images look amazing!
so, i'm having a bit of an issue with getting apophysis to work on my mac. i've gotten suggestions from jerry (thank you!), but unfortunately, the scripts function aren't actually working well with the program. so i'm not able to manipulate it further than the image you see here. i am, however, in the process of downloading vmware fusion, a program that you can install that allows for you to operate your mac AS WELL as have a windows interface in the same environment, where i'm going to attempt to install apophysis and get this going. :( sorry it's taking a bit of time, but everyone's images look so great... i have to get this going the right way!! thanks for understanding. ;)
Time to be working on creating some fractals in Ultrafractal... Download the fully functional program at http://ultrafractal.com You have an unlimited free trial... it is just that we will have to get our images using the print screen button on your keyboard, then go to Photoshop and choose file>new then edit>paste... now you'll have the image to post... If you render to disk, your image will have water marks on it...
Time to get going with fractal art... To get you started, there is a good tutorial here: http://www.arcanefractals.com/apotut_forms.shtml Give it a try... When you see a flame fractal you like, you save it as a jpg image by choosing FLAME>RENDER TO DISK and choose a size of 500 or 600 pixels on the long dimension... As in the tutorial, I set the quality of my render to 35 and played with blur, brightness and ran a spiralize script... I'll get started on a video too... Try doing a search in Google for Apophysis tutorial as well... Go ahead, have fun and remamber, you can't break anything!
Sorry it took me so long to upload the Warhol style images, but I finally got it all figured out. These are the two I like the best, but I posted my five on fotothing. I had a hard time with the Warhol assignment, but at least I know from the blog that I'm not the only one.I can now move on and get caught up with everything else. Bear with me and have fun....
So, some of these actually look like the photos that they started as, and others that I played with do not. I couldn't decide which I liked better...I think I like seeing what the original was a little bit. F2 always turned everything I did dark too, which I guess was from whatever actions I chose...more images on fotothing. This was fun! 
both of these images were created using "the painting machine" technique as explained very wonderfully via the video provided by jerry. thanks so much for that! it was a real help! :) the first image is of a bunch of cacti that i took a photo of in aruba on my honeymoon. the 2nd is of a gerber daisy i received as a gift last february. i will be uploading more images to my fotothing, but found these to be the most "fun" so to speak. :) my husband even found this fun & he's an "avid photoshopper." heh.
**Fotothing is back up and running and I have posted my work there.** Secondly, I am having some trouble uploading images to this blog because some of the artwork I created in photoshop were saved as psd files?? I'm not the best at figuring out these kinds of things, so if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate the help! ****Thank you for the help & suggestions, I fixed my files & posted them!***
After a few failed attempts at some pretty complicated pictures, I decided to take a couple of goofy shots of my husband... which actually worked out well! This particular picture I chose for the Warhol mainly because I loved his expression. ;)
I really enjoyed using the filter effects. I played around with the two images I posted and found I like the artistic effects and the neon effects the most. I used two digital images I still have from another class. Each one I used for two different effects to see the difference. The originals are posted on my fotothing in case enyone wants to see what they looked like.
I chose 2 people from moca because I liked them both the best. The picture above is called Sugar n' Spice from Cindy McDaniel. I like this because to me it reflects society today. Unfortunately, the kids of this generation are growing up too fast. The lipstick and nail polish are the spice and reflect the loss of innocence at an early age. The sugar is the innocence they still have. I like the name because it reflects the picture accurately. She says, "I combine mediums but mostly I work from just my photos in Photoshop." I like her technique very much. I have a couple of her pictures on my fotothing if you want to see more.The other picture all the way at the top is called Vanishing Youth by Marc Moss. I love the way he uses color in this. I also like the title because it looks like a young boy walking away from the light to the dark which can be seen as him aging. He says about his work, "I have begun to concentrate more on photography, first with painting on my own b+w photographs and now with digital photography. I work with an Olympus dslr and Photoshop 7 software. I take images from architecture, nature, and people and combine them to create unique spiritual landscapes. I hope that my work will help the viewer to connect with his/her own sense of spirituality." I see surrealness in his work and I liked that very much. I have another one of his works posted on my photothing as well.
