Having fun
with Kai
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The boundaries are increasingly
blurring between the draw and the paint programs. You
can now get draw programs with natural media brushes
and paint programs with vector capabilities. But you
have to use a paint program to get the best out of the
Kai Power Tools. What follows is pure indulgence. There
has been considerable discussion on some groups about
the relative merits of the different filters. I took
some time to get excited about KPT5 but I am now an
addict. |
Silent spheres, 1999
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The result of simply playing
with FraxFlame until I got something I liked. I usually
work in Paint Shop Pro with a black coloured, 400 by
400 dpi image.
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Solar, 1999
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This was a similar treatment
but I was working in Painter. I selected the central
area, replayed FraxFlame and then inverted the selection.
I used the dropped shadow feature to get the final effect. |
Strange fruits, 1999
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FraxPlorer has some
truly magnificent pre-sets which can then be modified
to suit your own whims. What you then do with them and
how you might go about creating textiles from the results... |
Strange rocks, 1999
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I used Painter’s blobs
to provide the background with part of the image above
stored in the buffer. I then used FraxFlame to get the
front images and KPT3 planar tiling with Painter’s
dropped shadow to get the final effect... but in what
order?. It’s a wise person who can retrace her
steps. |
Tissues, 1999
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This is simply FraxFlame
and I think it is quite beautiful. I long to recreate
it in silks, but could I ever get the fluidity? |
Skeletal leaves, 1999
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FraxFlame again, and perhaps
a little easier to envisage in cloth. |
Interweave,
1999
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This is FraxPlorer with a
bit of fancy selecting and layer manipulation in Paint
Shop Pro. |
Fractals grow on you
I, 1999
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The same very typical fractal
design produced in different sized squares and with
different colour gradients. |
Green silk, 1999
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An image created using on
of the Frax4D presets. This was rotated and zoomed in
on and the lighting changed to give a most silk-like
appearance. The negative areas were then selected and
treated first with FraxPlorer and then with Blurrr.
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