Joe “The Artist” Paints & Sketches

PhotoShop[i] “Elements 2.0 was a free product and I still have the same version and use it in conjunction with IrfanView (have no idea where I got that – but it too was free.)  Portraits are fun, because people and the photos they take are equally interesting.  Being a scientist as well as an artist, the cosmos and galaxies are equally interesting.  So, in preparation for my next watercolor painting, I was searching the NASA[ii] files, because the galaxies make some of the most beautiful backgrounds for me in watercolor.

Fig 1 – galaxy

Among my blogging friends from “across the pond” is one lovely lady, “The Welsh Pixie” whose original picture is in Fig. 2.

Fig 2 – Welsh Pixie

Eliminating all of the horrible background, (erasing with black, etc.,) I then created a gray-scale photo, and then a “negative of that” and a few more touches. 

Fig. 3. Negative

Now one of the benefits of galaxies is that there is no “up” or “down”.  This then makes the photomerge easier, and hence I did 2 of them to produce the remaining pictures in this article.

Fig. 4 - Photomerge 1

Fig. 5. Photomerge 2

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