Simulating a water color painting. The scene is from a stream called “Silverforsen” close to my home. Silverforsen might be called Silver Creek in English. Not sure this image reflect the name though.
On 12.20.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
Simulating a water color painting. The scene is from a stream called “Silverforsen” close to my home. Silverforsen might be called Silver Creek in English. Not sure this image reflect the name though.
On 12.20.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
Just tested a thick bristle clone brush in Painter on this over-saturated photo of a bridge close to my home. I think the brush strokes destroy the feeling of an over-saturated reality. The image is transformed from a quite bad photo manipulation to something else, still crude and amateurish, but something else than a simulation.
Just tested a thick bristle clone brush in Painter on this over-saturated photo of a bridge close to my home. I think the brush strokes destroy the feeling of an over-saturated reality. The image is transformed from a quite bad photo manipulation to something else, still crude and amateurish, but something else than a simulation.
On 12.18.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
I’ve had the devil’s backache for more than a week so it has been difficult to concentrate on writing. But I have had some time to think, sketch. My thesis has finally got a form I can see myself in. You’ll be hearing a lot about that…
The photo above actually starts the project in [...]
I’ve had the devil’s backache for more than a week so it has been difficult to concentrate on writing. But I have had some time to think, sketch. My thesis has finally got a form I can see myself in. You’ll be hearing a lot about that…
The photo above actually starts the project in a way. I am going to ground my thesis in a learning project labeled “Learning a Craft”. The craft is “Digital Painting”. This technique demanded a lot of power of my computer, so I had to upgrade it. Making the computer more powerful, created a lot of heat, which in turn made the CPU fan go wild. So more “thinking power” means a need for more air. The process of switching CPU fan was not as quick and easy as usually. To install this model I had to dismantle most things inside, and remove the motherboard to mount a plate on the backside. Not a technical obstacle since I have planned and assembled my own computers for 20 years or so. But it was a physical burst of effort due to my backache.
The picture: the old fan to the left, the new to the right (the difference is kind of tangible). The fan is mounted on top of the silver plate (the CPU) in the lower right corner. The new fan is mostly a large heatsink, absorbing the heat, which is further reduced by the big fan mounted on the side of the heatsink. The new cpu cooler also made my system more quiet. Now I can direct the attention the noise stole in an a more pragmatic direction.