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| Reptile Garden by Ken R. Sheide |
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| Reptile Garden by Ken R. Sheide |
2D ARTWORK: On this page is a sampling of non-3D artwork I've made with a computer. First you'll find some full size backgrounds that I've created for use as wallpaper. If you like them, feel free to grab and use them! Next are some smaller, tileable images I made for use as either wallpaper or web page backgrounds. I took a few of these images, denoted by asterisks, from other peoples' web pages and modified them by making them tile or by fixing visual inconsistencies. I've seen a lot of terrible backgrounds out on the web, but many would be great with just a little tweaking. Click the thumbnails to see the tiles used on a test web page and FULL SIZE! As is the case on all my pages the thumbnail images link to the full size versions so make sure you're looking at the full size images before saving. To save any of the images while browsing with a PC just right-click the image and choose save from the pop-up menu. With a MAC just click and hold the mouse button to get an option to save. Something I do, and you might want to do as well, is reduce all wallpaper images to 256 color bitmaps. That way they don't take up a large amount of hard drive space, don't take long to load, and don't use up that much memory. As long as you decrease the color bit depth with a decent algorithm (I get excellent results with those present in Paint Shop Pro) the image will still look great. |
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B2Layout.jpg 75K 800x600 image. An image I made for an Air Combat Command (ACC) contest. The original photos are from the ACC multimedia gallery. |
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Backgnd1.jpg 95K 800x600 image. This type of image is easy to make and only takes some creativity and experimenting within Paint Shop Pro. I didn't use to save these images, but I've begun doing so to put them here for other peoples' use (they make great backgrounds). |
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Backgnd2.jpg 87K 800x600 image. Another simple background I made after about five minutes of playing around in Paint Shop Pro. I made this one with two images of color gradients that were pasted together using layers. One image had its color depth decreased to 1-bit then again increased to create the line pattern. |
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Backgnd3.jpg 98K 800x600 image. Yet another simple background image made with Paint Shop Pro. This one started out as a photo of a sea anemone! I cut and pasted pieces of the anemone, then selected portions and changed their hue. Finally, I gaussian blurred and hot wax coated the image to smooth out rough edges. |
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Backgnd4.jpg 97K 800x600 image. Another simple background image made with Paint Shop Pro. I began this one with a bunch of spheres made with KPT3. Then I grabbed and smeared colorful portions of the spheres. Finally, I used hot wax coating to give the image a beveled look. |
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Backgnd5.jpg 90K 800x600 image. This simple background, made with Paint Shop Pro, began life as a photo of a waterfall (which is still vaguely recognizable). I added noise to a layer, then mixed it with the original photo. Then I increased contrast, motion blurred, hot wax coated, and changed the hue of the image. |
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BusinessCard.jpg 86K 525x300 image. Here's a smaller version of the digital file I designed for my business cards. 08 Oct 99. |
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Canyonland.jpg 82K 800x600 image. I screen captured this image (generated by Psycho Deli in After Dark) using Paint Shop Pro. Then I cropped and smoothed a portion of it, changed the hue, contrast, brightness, and warped it with some filters. Finally, I did a few Hot Wax coatings to give it texture. 14 Aug 99. |
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ColoredWall.jpg 27K 800x600 image. Just a quick creation resulting from playing around in Paint Shop Pro. Oct 05. |
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DyedSepia.jpg 43K 800x600 image. I made this from a photo I took of Glenys by making it grayscale, colorizing it, and changing its hue. Then I used a pattern layer merged with the photo via soft light, the retouch tool to smooth some areas and change the hues, and a filter to further texturize the image. Simple. 15 Sep 00. |
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E3Layout.jpg 71K 800x600 image. Another image submitted to the ACC contest. I like the rotodome in the corner (I made it with Bryce 2). Original photos from the ACC image gallery. |
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ElkPaint.jpg 53K 800x600 image. A painting-like effect I made from one of my pictures of a Roosevelt Elk. 27 Mar 05. |
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EtherealFlowers.jpg 68K 800x600 image. I made this by applying a few filters and blurs to a blank canvas. It reminds me of a field of strange orange globe flowers with green leaves below the flowers. It also looks like a scene from the movie What Dreams May Come. 28 Jul 02. |
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Faces.jpg 132K 800x600 image. This month I've made a few very large digital art pieces for printing and placing on my walls to fill white space. This is the first and involved creating the colored face (me) and then pasting it randomly across the canvas. 01 May 05. |
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FreshCatch.jpg 85K 800x600 image. A simple grayscale photo of mine that I selectively colored. Yet another creation made for filling my walls. 04 May 05. |
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Gridwork.jpg 81K 800x600 image. I started this out as two layers of different-colored lines which I combined and made all green. Then I added a forest theme by keeping only the green component of some of my forest pictures and placing them into the rectangles created from the intersecting lines. 04 May 05. |
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Kanji.jpg 52K 325x560 image. I'm not sure who first made this inspirational Kanji message, but I took the black and white version and morphed it into this graphically pleasing banner. It makes a great desktop wallpaper! 16 Jan 02. |
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NebulaFire.jpg 93K 800x600 image. I started this out with two separate KPT textures and mixed them together in one image using masks and layers. Then I added some ripples, blurs, and distortion using KPT5. Finally I cropped, resized, and changed the hue to produce this. 09 Aug 99. |
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Plamp.jpg 127K 800x600 image. This started as a picture of a great piece of photography equipment; the Plamp (still vaguely visible). From there I really tweaked it then, to add color, laid down a random pattern of hexagons and combined them with the base image. 02 May 05. |
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RedSponge.jpg 87K 800x600 image. I made this so long ago that I don't remember the steps I took to create it. Here it is, regardless. 28 Jul 02. |
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RGPool.jpg 91K 800x600 image. I used Pixel 3D to make the circular Reptile Garden logo on the eight ball. Everything else was done within Paint Shop Pro with help from Kai's Power Tools and Eye Candy. 14 Aug 99. |
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TextureVents.jpg 118K 800x600 image. Yet another creating resulting from playing around in Paint Shop Pro until I got something I liked. Oct 05. |
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WarwickMoon.jpg 58K 800x600 image. Moon over the Warwick River in SE Virginia at sunset. This image is here because it is a compositve of two photographs. Without the moon it would be a 100% natural photograph. Mar 07. |
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| 3Dials.jpg 340x122 13K |
Adobe1.jpg 128x128 10K |
Alien1.jpg* 80x80 2K |
Alien2.jpg* 80x80 2K |
AngraSidewalk.jpg 200x200 16K |
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| BarbWire.jpg 224x127 6K |
Bark1.jpg 235x550 36K |
CinderBlock.jpg* 269x129 14K |
Clouds1.jpg 340x280 16K |
Clouds2.jpg 220x70 7K |
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| Evergreen.jpg 200x200 17K |
Fleur.jpg 217x283 21K |
Granite.jpg 128x128 10K |
GreenMarble.jpg 300x300 33K |
Lawn.jpg 184x122 12K |
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| Leaves.jpg 150x150 11K |
Marble.jpg 144x144 5K |
MiniMoss.jpg 150x150 7K |
OrangeSwirl.jpg 100x100 6K |
PipeEnds.jpg 400x400 33K |
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| Plate1.jpg 256x283 25K |
RedMoss.jpg 250x250 12K |
RepGarden.jpg 150x150 7K |
Rockway.jpg 250x250 19K |
Rope1.jpg 320x177 20K |
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| Rosewood.jpg 512x512 29K |
RustBump.jpg 150x150 10K |
Water1.jpg 190x190 9K |
Water2.jpg 320x250 19K |
WhiteWall.jpg 200x200 16K |
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| Wood1.jpg 250x230 18K |
Wood2.jpg 282x400 36K |
Wood3.jpg 250x250 11K |
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