Sunday, March 16, 2008

Pixelated Painting

So I got me this program called Coral Painter X. The X makes it super special. Or it just makes it the tenth release. You know, whatever. I bought it for drawing cartoons, but as I played with it I found out a cool painting feature (actually, the program has a whole buncha stuff for painting with the pixels). So I've been screwing around with the painting features. The first thing I came up with ended up being our Christmas card this year. I photoshopped (actually, Paint Shop Pro-ed) a picture together of our Christmas tree and three doggies.

First, I started with the the master shot of the tree and chair.





Then I took separate pictures of the doggies and added them in.





After that I ran Painter's 'auto-paint' feature, which does a rough painting of a picture.





And lastly, I went in and cleaned up the auto-paint, doing my own painting until I got a picture I liked. And then we printed them out on card stock and off they went in the mail.





2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's funny...I don't remember receiving this. Must have been those damn oompaloompas at the postal service.

Gary Piserchio said...

I suspect the Grinch. I'll put out an APB.