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rockgem β Fractal Stock - Heart VI
Published: 2011-01-16 21:27:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 1911; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 56
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fractal stock image such as the ones i use in my fractal manipulations works. I thought some of these shapes might well be useful to share.image created using apophysis
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Free to use Use as you will to suit your purposes Note me or link on this original deviation if you use credit where credit is due please For DA use only !!All images and literature/written work in =rockgem's gallery are Β© Gemma Hart.
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used it here, thanks:Β envisageu.deviantart.com/art/Cβ¦
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thankyou kindly for choosing to use my stock in your artworkΒ
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thankyou so much for choosing to use a piece of my stock and for the link
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Thanks for providing the stock!
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the owl shape was unintentional but i'm intending to use this in an owl manip soon
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That will be interesting ...
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In practice!...or i will be very disappointed...you wouldnt want to disappoint me,would you?...
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lol! oh dear we can't have you disappointed! that would be like a sign of the apocalypse or something..
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The 5th Horseman ...thats me,well it would be if i had a Horse...or could even ride one 
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nope that was the milkman but he left before they got famous
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Wow dunno if it was intended but I see an owl's face in the heart
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unintentional yes but it is there - its another manip i have in progress where i am using this as an owl-face 
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Y-o-u~A-r-e~V-e-r-y~W-e-l-c-o-m-e~! Β°3Β°
it will ^-^
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lol not so much but it might be useful
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Really? That is a lot better than I could do. Plus it still looks amazing to the eyes of anyone who can tell good art when they see it.
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nwver say never - how do you know until you try? this was just a lucky shape that came from a random batch for me
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I did not say never. How is it that you make these designs? That is the one thing I have been meaning to ask you about.
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by using a program called Apophysis that generates shapes using math ( lot less dull than that sounds) but i usually let the program do its own thing then when i get an interesting shape render/save that and then move to photoshop to finish things up
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How easy is this program to use and can it run on Vista? I would like to try my hand at it.
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pretty easy to run to be fair and i run it on vista on my desktop and on windows 7 on my laptop. best thing to do is take a peek at dA's resources section it has a lot of tutorials and such on apophysis that will help get you started.
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Ok I shall take a look at the tutorials once I get it. Now then I googled it and found this site: [link] I went to the downloads page: [link] and I am confused as to what I am supposed to click on. Can you offer any help there?
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Ok I have it now and it is so confusing. Well I guess it will take me a while to get used to it. How long have you been using it?
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it does take a while to get to grips with - and i first used apophysis at the very end of December 2008 when ~VirginPrune suggested i try it which i did but he didnlt tell me anything how to use it so i kinda of muddled my way through and occasionally used the print screen key to take shapes i wanted into GIMP and Photoshop lol eventually thats got me here lol
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Interesting. Do you have any simple tips to get me started. I have tried looking at tutorials here but can't make since of them. This is a more complicated program than I have used before. That is saying something. I have learned photoshop, bryce, parts of 3Ds Max, and Maya, yet I have not worked with anything like this before.
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treat it as cloud watching - jsut mess about with the settings and see what happens - anything interesting or useful save - ther are dozens of random batch flames that i wish i had saved but hindsight is a grand thing i can suggest for a group that might help some more as i will be the first to raise my hand and say i'm not entirely sure how i do what i do as i leave a lot to chance, that in turn helps me cause i'm a lot less rigid in my approach to creating - i did write a tutorial on how i manipulate my fractals using photoshop ( again starting with random batches) but it was for a magazine and i've yet to translate it to something more accessible to post on dA
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Final question for now. What do I save it as and how do I import it into photoshop?
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use the render option to save it as a PNG. then just open that in photoshop alternitivley if liek me you get impatient print screen and just paste it into photoshop although that does give the black background which needs erasing
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Ok now I am starting to get the hang of saving it as a PNG. Now I just have to get used to the controls of the program itself. I just wish I knew how you get things to look the way you do. Is there a way for me to start with nothing and then add or do I have to start with a preset?
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i'm stil doing that to be fair getting used to the controls.
there IS a way to start with nothing but i will confess i'm not sure how to do that 
basically i just cloud watch as it were i play with shapes and then i get lucky when i do i take those shapes to photoshop. i'm being asked about a tutorial repeatedly so is hall have to dig out my old notes from an article i wrote and re-work them for dA
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Not an epic failure. Even I am still leaning photoshop and I have been working in it for a few years now. Hope you find your notes or just start a tutorial without the notes and just start us off with a simple heart tutorial or a basic mask or something like that. Just some simple step by step things. I know it is harder than it looks to make one of those. I have done one.
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well i found some of the notes but the magazine with the article i wanted to refer to ( for my images) a friend nabbed it yesterday while i was working to show his dad
the best person for heart flames and fractals is i belive shes got some packs of heart scrips and such. i'm really a bad person to try learn apophysis from as liek i say i leave all my starting points to chance usually i think yeah that shape looks a bit like a leaf or a flower petal or such and then take it to photoshop - same with figures - a lot of people ask me how i made my hand shape and the truth is i have no idea it happened by chance - which is a main reason i put it up as stock so people can take the image from there i believe made a quick tutorial as to how to make flower shapes from repeating a basic fractal shape. but i'm not sure weather she put it on her main account or her stock account - i know its in the :iconimanupilatefractals: group in the tutorial folder...
and on that note i begin to think i know my way round parts of dA far too well
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So what you are really saying is you never start out with an exact goal in mind for what you want to do? You just randomly play with things until you have a shape or pattern you like then you mix and match shapes in photoshop? And here I thought you had an exact way you did things.
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my goals when i start are usually very basic - something like 'i want a vague petal/leaf/wing/twirly shape, etc.' and go from there its why i say my art is more luck than talent
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Well you still come out with some amazing things that I still don't understand how you do it.
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i'll add you on msn ( i found it on your page) then hen you manage to catch me online at some point i'll just send you some of my screenshots and files so you can gauge how i progress with these things a bit better
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Ok I also just added you. I had to redownload messenger to my computer so yeah. I look forward to catching you at sometime. I am online between 6-9 in the morning and then 18hundred hours onward your time. I think I have my times right. I have a few friends in Scotland and keeping track of time zones can be hard at times.
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lol i know the feeling i'm usually pretty good with timezones - i got an old school friend of mine that moved to Idaho and friends in Illinois Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Alaska that i regularly speak with to name but a few
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wow that is a lot of time zones to keep track of.
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Wow. That's crazy. Well I am on right now as I respond and will be for at least two hours.
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by that point i think sleep won and i located my bed haha
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