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I've been using photo editing software to create original images. (Original Post) Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2020 OP
I love it! What software are you using? CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2020 #1
I'd also like to know as well. Eyeball_Kid Jul 2020 #2
It's called Photoscape X Pro Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2020 #3
Thanks I've been looking KatyMan Jul 2020 #7
Wow! This is amazing! lunatica Jul 2020 #4
Thank you for those very kind words. Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2020 #5
I've had very long dry spells too lunatica Jul 2020 #6

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,919 posts)
3. It's called Photoscape X Pro
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 07:21 AM
Jul 2020

and it's not a technically powerful as Photoshop, but much easier to understand and use.

KatyMan

(4,278 posts)
7. Thanks I've been looking
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 12:08 PM
Jul 2020

For a photoshop replacement. Had an old version of CS, but my machine crashed and I don't have the license key anymore so can't install it. Will try this.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. Wow! This is amazing!
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 10:51 AM
Jul 2020

I’m old enough to remember when people started getting their first personal computers and Photoshop came along. I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours working on Photoshop and I loved it. It was a brand new medium for artists to use. Just another tool for an artist to create super exciting art, and I see you’ve done just that.

I love this! Everything about it wonderful. The first thing that you see is the riot of amazing colors and the strong shapes and lines of the flowers and petals set mostly on the bottom two thirds of the canvas. The strength of the flower shapes and the colors you used, including the surprising use of very strong black shapes are in perfect balance within the cluster of shapes but also with the very subtle gradation of the background colors.

Your piece is full of artistic surprises. It’s as if you broke all the creepy and rusty rules and applied your own set. It definitely grabs your attention, but then you also have some very subtle elements in your tan and yellow background petal shapes and in the way you outline the strong shapes in a freehand style, and in the blending of colors, as if you had used an airbrush to apply some of them.

The petals in yellow and tan create a visually intricate cluster of subtle lines and shapes which unfold as the viewer’s eye travels through the shapes. And your strong solid black shapes make for an eye popping effect that I find daring and grand and appealing and inventive and it makes the painting extra strong and dynamic! It also makes your painting a work of art in which you make up your own rules. It’s a wonderful piece. Your spot of soft blue is also a good touch, being the only cool color you used. It’s like candy for the eyes.



Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,919 posts)
5. Thank you for those very kind words.
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 12:21 PM
Jul 2020

I am an artist when I'm not at work, but haven't been until the last few years or so. Before that it was just a 'someday' thing.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
6. I've had very long dry spells too
Wed Jul 15, 2020, 12:30 PM
Jul 2020

Very long ones, for years at a time, but I learned that in some mysterious way I actually grew artistically anyway. Artists evidently keep maturing even when they don’t actually do art. I think it’s in our way of looking at the world. It’s one of those mysteries of life.

I’m glad your ‘someday’ has arrived! We get the benefit!

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