mouse? im stuck on a trackball

Lol, I was not trying to wimp out on the mouse! Should have explained that my little wireless mm 6000 is being a real turd lately and I am lucky to be able to navigate with it period. It has a bad habit of freezing totally when I am working on graphics and I have to get the hemostats to get the darn nano receiver out of the USB port and back in. It's impossible to grab with your fingers.

Added blobby flowers, some texture to the main trees, changed some lighting a bit. I don't know, my flowers might be too bright? It was such a clear day here that I actually added some mist, fog in front of the mountains, hence my question, encase I had overdone the haze.

That was very sweet of you to do! I like what you created and will try something along that vain (I mean trying your technique) in the near future. Obviously, I have too much time invested in the one I am working on to scrape it now! If we all could make it look that easy, we would not need this thread!

Hi word

I started with Photoshop because of the generous gift from my brother. I am lost in Paintshop and rarely use it but have Xi installed. I have a copy of  9 but it refuses to run on my machine. Would be happy to send it along if you are interested!

i still suggest you move the trees off the edges of the picture and not hve them so dominate....

yr focal point is the bird.

it was my pleasure to do that piccy for you, i also did it to show you the techy side of art, the two trees (in my pic) act as a frame so your eyes dont wander to far, the mountain is basically an aid for the eyes to look upwards and connect with the bird....

does that make sense?... and the rest of the scenery in my version is not too dominating and also has space, but also prospective...

hope this makes sense.....

xxxxx

frankief....lose the flowers.

Work on the old adage...."less is more".

'most' landscapes are ruined by what is put in, NOT what is left out.

About the ONLY thing that wall needs is some 'hint' of land behind the trees on the left...connecting the foreground [which still looks a little unconnected from what's behind...ie the water.Lose part of the water behind/between the trees on the left and you're on a winner.

I definitely agree with you there Jafo. I had ps8 and I much preferred it to PSP X3.The image clarity does not compare and most of the picture tubes look like blobs.

I am even willing to upload ps8  somewhere by special request. It's about 180MB I believe

Flowers got lost, little land mass added plus some other small adjustments done.

Too much land....leaves the 'beach' shore-front/whatever problematic.....doesn't read in perspective.

Pull it back left of the tree....leave a little water still beyond those trees...just not all of it.

You didn't need to remove ALL the planting....just those last recent flowers..... THEY were the 'too much'.

Part of the issue with 'realism' or credibility with fabricated landscapes is....would that new land mass so magically/closely follow that branch?

Probably not.... so don't do it.

The bird looks better to me. 

I'm really enjoying this thread. So many things to learn although I won't be doing walls anytime soon. Have all to do with getting my smx out. If there are no takers for PS9 I could use it. PS7 is good but the trial version of PS9 spoiled me. I'd really appreciate it cause I'm like you guys, use whatever is available. Especially the freebies ... I like freebies. Seriously, if you're not going to use it and are serious about putting it up Frankief I'd gladly swap one of mine for it. Here's what I got. Gimp 2.6. Blender 2.49 (2.5 is still in beta), TrueSpace (3d program although it has been discontinued from what I heard, still a good app though. Bryce 7.0 PLE (personal learning edition). Will that do?

Ha, I had it further back and something just didn't look quite right to me. I redid the ground cover because You said it looked cloned and I did not want to leave anything that looked less than perfect.

Uvah that is Paintshop Pro version 9, not Photoshop.

I see that now. Don't mind me my head is somewhere else today. Do you still want to put it up? I'll throw in a lollipop. lol

Perhaps you and I are on the wrong page as to cloning. In reply 186 there is no cloning. What I did was add a layer above my painted grass of a picture taken in my backyard of wild carrot flowers. I added a layer mask hiding all and used a soft brush to paint just the ground area back in over my grass. The similarity was completely natural as it appeared in the original photo. I consider cloning when I take the clone stamp tool and clone different areas of the image. This was not the case. So, I have added parts of that mask back into the image at this point. I can go back to version 186 and add the land mass and other changes. The land area seems to create a problem with the outer tree area making the smaller tree seem too blobby to me.

All I can say is WOW!!!   I am so glad people are using this thread and sharing their knowledge!!!  Frankie, I love how your wallpaper is, a great improvement from the original!!!     As soon as I catch up on things, I will work on my Halloween wall and post it here!!! 

Teddy, so happy to see you here! I was beginning to feel like a hijacker!  Thanks for your approval. For me it is all about learning and improving and you would be amazed what I have learned in the last  couple of weeks.

My pc was in the shop!!!   Oh you're not a hijacker Frankie!! It is interesting to watch the progress of an image, and I am glad you stuck with it!!!  Reading this thread, I have learned alot also ( one is never too old to learn) !! 

Frankief....the 'failing' is still with the land mass behind the trees on the left...lose the shore-line to its right.

All that was needed was land visible 'above' the fairly straight 'cutout' appearance of the front grass.  There is no need to try to join this land mass to the horizon/mountains....not with such a clunky 'beach'.

Painting 101 ....

Familiarity breeds contempt...or in other words...staring at a work in progress too long will blind you to its [glaring] faults.

To overcome that a painter will turn the work upside-down...or view it in a mirror.

Sounds weird but it works.

Now that is worth celebrating dude. I have a niece who was accepted to the Culinary Institute of New York. If art were food? Yum!!!