Landscape Tutorial


Surrealistic Landscape

A good way of helping your creative juices to flow, is the following:

-Install the Streaks loader. This is an old loader, provided with earlier versions of Photogenics, but no longer installed as standard. You can find it in the ExtraGIOs drawer on disk 1 of the distribution. Copy this into your data/gio directory inside the Photogenics drawer on your hard disk. Reload Photogenics, and load a Streaks image from the Loaders window.

See if you have enough colours and tonal values to work with. (Tonal values are the differences of lighter and darker in the same colour)

When you are not entirely happy, start again.

The streaks are always vertical, so:

-rotate your picture 90 degrees.

-apply Gamma (paint modes) with a value of 64. Do this many times over, fixing in between, till the lighter tones invade the darks.

-pick up your darkest colour ( press [,] )

-do filled rectangle, with "bottom-to-top" set in the Trans.Grad. window. Apply to the bottom half of your painting. Apply 2 or 3 times till you are satisfied with it.

-the tree is painted by Smearing the darkest colour across. Use brushes of different size.

-for the sky, use the filled rectangle tool a few times with a deep orange. Try the transparancy setting before you fix!

-the accents in the clouds (you have them) are made with a very fine airbrush in yellow and white.

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