Spring

The Mummers' Dance
By Loreena McKennitt

YouTube Comments: "The video is a re-enactment of a vanishing custom held each St Stephens day in rural parts of Ireland where local musicians visited each family in the area and spent an hour or two playing music before moving to the next family.That's how country folk in Ireland entertained themselves in those bye gone days before the advent of television etc etc."



wiki
songfacts
Nature with Lyrics (Same song, different YouTube video.)

"When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair..."




Image Creation Notes:
Gradients with Buffet Script Font as Selection, Add Drop Shadow
Filter Factory Q Gravity Blossom

Weaver's Moon

Created in Paint Shop Pro.


Displayed is a cropped small blog size image showing the glitter detail.
Click on displayed image to see a 1366x768 desktop wallpaper version of same technique.



Notes:
Radial gradient.
Weaver's Moon Kang Plugin.
Glowing Edges

Digital Butterflies

A happy accident.

Step 1 - Radial Rainbow Gradient
Step 2 - VM Toolbox Radial Mosaic
Step 3 - Warp Brush Twirl
Step 4 - Simple 4 Way Average
Step 5 - Layer Blends and Tone Map



More Examples:

Fractal-Like

I like these fractal-like images:




Made with free Ulead ArtTexture plugin in Paint Shop Pro.
I don't think the starting image matters on those.

Ulead FantasyWarp
is also free and fun to play with.


More subtle patterns can be made. I started with a colorful striped rainbow gradient. Hungry for color today. It has been overcast and rainy a lot lately.

Happy May Day

Oh happy day.



These are sculptured tube flowers on a cloud pattern fill. Made in Paint Shop Pro. I was just pleasantly surprised by the patterning I got using Sculpture. A happy accident. The trick was choosing a "busy" Pattern and then sliding the Size number up until a pretty pattern emerged.

Digital Spring Flowers

A happy accident.
A fluke.



Image creation notes:
#bdd890 green
Harry's filters, Artistic Atmospherizer
Filter Factory Gallery A Pool Shadow
VM Extravaganza Biohazard
Tweak: Clone, Burn brushes

Moonlit Shadows

This was tall morning shadows on the lawn photo.

Paint Shop Pro Post-Processing note:
Black and White Points Moonlit preset to make it blue.
Screen 80, Brightness 20 Contrast 30
Pool Shadow

Sunbursts

Playing with Sunbursts in Paint Shop Pro and adding some different effects to them.
These are some of my favorites I created.

Spring Doodles

Just playing in Paint Shop Pro.





What got me going on that was the google doodle for spring on the 20th.

Sara Bareilles

I don't think I've ever posted anything about Sara Bareilles music before.

YouTube:
Let The Rain (Fav)
lyrics


Breathe Again (Most Familiar)
The Light
Gonna Get Over You (I like how she dances around.)

grooveshark

Interesting Patterns

(Orange surprise is a flower tube script on a vector letter.)



Paint Shop Pro Tut:
Lacy Brocade Flower
via

The script only works with the Preset Shape category of shapes.
Vector text has to be converted to path (Objects, Convert to Path) for the script to work on text.

VectorPaint Script
VectorTube Script

More Scripts
The scripts here were for PSP8. The VectorPaint and VectorTube scripts worked in my PSPPX3.

Santa Monica Dream

Santa Monica Dream
Angus & Julia Stone

Image Creation Notes: Gradient, Lightsplash, Smudge, Color Shift, SwapShop

To Build A Home

To Build a Home
by The Cinematic Orchestra

Image Creation Notes: Gradient, Lightsplash, Smudge, Color Repeat, Colorize, Speed on text

Beautiful

I like the lyrics to these India Arie songs.
b. 3 Oct 1975 in Denver, Colorado
Not my usual genre (R&B) so she is unfamiliar to me.



A Beautiful Day
Lyrics
...Early in the morning
It's the dawn of a new day
New hopes new dreams new ways
I open up my eyes and
I open up my mind and
I wonder how life will surprise me today...



Beautiful
Make me want to take a road trip.
Lyrics
The time is right
I'm gonna pack my bags
And take that journey down the road
Cause over the mountain I see the bright sun shinning
And I want to live inside the glow
Yeah...

myspace
grooveshark

Image1 creation notes: Gradient from scratch, VM Natural Lightsplash, Glow on Heart Preset Shape
Image2 creation notes: Gradient, Feedback, Layer Blends

Everlong And Nature Sounds

Some interesting versions of this song:
piano cover
slow it down
acoustic

Via
reddit

There's also:
naturesoundsfor.me in that above reddit link.
Here's a screenshot of the one I made and exported to OGG:


music reddits

Everlong image creation notes: Gradients, VM Shoutin' w VM Origami, Layer Blends

New Story

Image creation notes: Gradient and radial blur.

Follow Through


Image creation notes: Gradient and radial blur, text drop shadow.

Deep Thoughts

rainymood
solopianoradio

Via reddit

Image creation notes: Gradients and warp brush clouds preset.

Burn Notice

I haven't kept up with the show Burn Notice.
But I saw Season 4 DVD in the store and bought it on impulse because the Jesse character (Coby Bell) sounded like an interesting addition.
I liked it.

Image creation notes: Text and background are gradients I created from scratch. The bumpy water was made with Displacement Maps. I manually cut the bottom of the letter t and then added a drop shadow to the text.
Inspiration was this Burn Notice logo.

Dealt Cards

Image creation notes: PSP pattern fill, MuRa's Meister Copies Cards Preset.