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My gallery has moved to here

If you want help, you can post in "help me make something".

If you want to make your own gallery, here is fine.
Maybe you should change this thread title to something like....barbieq25's gallery or something.

Thanks, Ash. Is changed.
At the moment I am having too much fun just learning by working through the tutes & exploring options but I will add anything that I think is worth the upload...

Edit: Yeah, now I have to work out how to do this...ummm...Gallery with only a sig? Nope, so here goes...

These two were created using the tutes...again not sure about the lighting but they please me at least.

I like the sig, very effective IMO

and great job on the 2 abstracts, I especially like the 2nd one ... is that Ash's eye tut in there ?

Thank you & yes it is.
As I said, been working thru the tutes to gain some insight & then experiment like there's no tomorrow.
Love your work too...just my cup of coffee...

What I attempted to do with my signature is to get a 3D effect like plastic tiles pushed through metal pipes.

i really like your sig its a nice effect and something a bit different, i also like the far out space-scape...

Here are some more I have been working on.





The second one will be my avatar - at least for now. Would rather I knew how to bend the image so that it follows the curve at the back of the orb. Thanks heaps to all the lovely people who write tutes!

Comments welcome.

barbieq25 wrote:Thank you & yes it is.
As I said, been working thru the tutes to gain some insight & then experiment like there's no tomorrow.
Love your work too...just my cup of coffee...

Thanks about my work
The experiment bit is a good idea. Along with the tuts this is how I learnt a lot ... the hardest part is remembering how I achieved something. There's still some things I haven't got a clue how I did them

RE: Your sig ... on another thread I found myself sat here just clicking on the individual squares

Edit ... nice domes, the mustang (?)one works really well

Double edit ... do you mean bending the text to follow the lines ?

Thanks for the positive feedback...

Bending the text so that it follows the curve at the back of the orb...so that it looks like the text is forming the back wall of it. Hope that makes more sense.

Clicking the squares? Oh dear, methinks sometimes we spend a little too long on the pc...I have printed off quite a lot of the most relevant tutes & organised them into a folder with dividers & made a quite nice cover...some of the images were done in Paintshop Pro - had that program for years & never got the hang of it Oh yeah, back to the point - the sig doesn't look too bad printed either. Merci tres bein, Monsieur Mondrian!

I had to google Piet Mondrian
Your sig is a nice take on his works.

For the text, Sargon'/ Yellowman has written a great tut on 3D text on the official board ... not sure if it's here, as well ? Or you could use the Tube Oblique plug-in

Welcome to the forum. I simply love the abstracts, especially #2. it will be nice to see someone else doing some abstracts.

ciao OMA

I thought I commented in your gallery, but I guess I didn't. Anyway, I meant to say how cool the abstracts were. And your sig is nice, too. I hope you're enjoying this forum.

Welcome to the board, I like the two abstracts, and your sig and the avatar are nice too, waiting to see more from you, some more complicated drawings

Thanks Helen & Oma. Abstract is my thing. Poor Welshy had to look up Mondrian. I did some work in high performance vinyl & then was introduced to his art. Some of our works were so similar it was scary & yet I had never seen his work.

Sargon, I too, am looking forward to the day that I can get my head around more complex compositions. Trouble is that my forgettery is better than my memory. Woe is me.

Great bunch here. I know I am keeping good company!

After going through some more tutes & taking on board the comments & suggestions made I have redone the gecko & combined it with some other tutes (thanks to all of you who write them!)

First attempt...yup have now worked out where I went wrong.


Second attempt



I tried the 3D cube with a different picture on each side & this is what I got...must have missed something...not an altogether displeasing result...but I imagined that I would see cars from all sides?