Re: A surreal cave, I think - dream or nightmare? ;-)

Vege Mite wrote:
>
> Very nice Gail, I like the 'Flood' effect at the bottom of the image.
> I'm still having a problem with XenoDream; finding out how to get it
> to render after using the 'Randomize' buttons. I've just GOT to read
> the help files, but I hate reading on my computer and much prefer
> working from printed instructions. I'll get round to printing the
> instructions one day. XenoDream certainly doesn't have what I would
> call an intuitive interface. :-)

I agree, the interface isn't intuitive, but it does get easier with 
practice. I probably misled folks, unintentionally, when I mentioned the 
Randomize buttons. I tend to oversimplify things at times, and the fact is, 
the only place I use them to any extent is on the Color tab. What I probably 
should have said is that you don't need to understand the math to create 
fractals in Xenodream, as long as you learn what effect the controls have on 
the way the fractals appear and change.

There are some XenoDream tutorials here:
http://66.39.71.195/Fractals/XenoDream/

and here:
http://fractalarts.com/ASF/XDtut1.html





Gail
-- 
Nightingail's Gallery
http://nightingail.com/ 

"Nightingail" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> XenoDream fractal, then did a bunch of post work in PSP including:
> -color adjustments
> -lighting effects with DFT Light plugin
> - Flaming Pear's flood (hey gotta use it once in awhile!) applied on a 
> layer at low opacity
> - Image Arithmetic on "average" to combine the rust photo I
posted in the 
> photo group with the fractal. Then copied that "average" image to
the 
> fractal, put it on Multiply blend mode, fiddled with opacity.
> - hmm, what else? probably a few histogramish tweaks to get it the way I 
> liked it.
>
> Girls just gotta have fun :-)
>
> Gail
>
> -- 
> Nightingail's Gallery
> http://nightingail.com/
>
>

Very nice Gail, I like the 'Flood' effect at the bottom of the image. I'm 
still having a problem with XenoDream; finding out how to get it to render 
after using the 'Randomize' buttons. I've just GOT to read the help files, 
but I hate reading on my computer and much prefer working from printed 
instructions. I'll get round to printing the instructions one day. XenoDream 
certainly doesn't have what I would call an intuitive interface. :-)

-- 
Adriaan Barel (aka Vege Mite)

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." -- Oscar Wilde

"Nightingail" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Vege Mite wrote:
>>
>> Very nice Gail, I like the 'Flood' effect at the bottom of the image.
>> I'm still having a problem with XenoDream; finding out how to get it
>> to render after using the 'Randomize' buttons. I've just GOT to read
>> the help files, but I hate reading on my computer and much prefer
>> working from printed instructions. I'll get round to printing the
>> instructions one day. XenoDream certainly doesn't have what I would
>> call an intuitive interface. :-)
>
> I agree, the interface isn't intuitive, but it does get easier with 
> practice. I probably misled folks, unintentionally, when I mentioned the 
> Randomize buttons. I tend to oversimplify things at times, and the fact 
> is, the only place I use them to any extent is on the Color tab. What I 
> probably should have said is that you don't need to understand the math to

> create fractals in Xenodream, as long as you learn what effect the 
> controls have on the way the fractals appear and change.
>
> There are some XenoDream tutorials here:
> http://66.39.71.195/Fractals/XenoDream/
>
> and here:
> http://fractalarts.com/ASF/XDtut1.html
>
>
>
>
>
> Gail
> -- 
> Nightingail's Gallery
> http://nightingail.com/
>
>

Thanks very much Gail. I've book marked those web sites.  :-)

-- 
Adriaan Barel (aka Vege Mite)

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." -- Oscar Wilde