PainShop Pro Graphics - Jessi "painting"

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Jessi "painting"

Lori Davis

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

OK, the Poser folks have inspired me to play in Poser a bit. It's been a
long, long time since I've done anything in Poser, so this is just
getting my feet wet.

Started off with Jessi Casual and sent her to Poser's Face Room to give
her a new look. Then gave her some hair, played with the lights and
camera, and exported the rendered figure as a PNG. Opened that in PSP
and did quite a bit of post work, including editing the hair a little
and adding a background. To bring out the details and soften the
shadows, a contrast mask was also added. Then I decided to turn the
image into a "painting", mostly using EPS.

Lori

Lori Davis

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

Lori Davis wrote:
> OK, the Poser folks have inspired me to play in Poser a bit. It's been a
> long, long time since I've done anything in Poser, so this is just
> getting my feet wet.
>
> Started off with Jessi Casual and sent her to Poser's Face Room to give
> her a new look. Then gave her some hair, played with the lights and
> camera, and exported the rendered figure as a PNG. Opened that in PSP
> and did quite a bit of post work, including editing the hair a little
> and adding a background. To bring out the details and soften the
> shadows, a contrast mask was also added. Then I decided to turn the
> image into a "painting", mostly using EPS.
>

Here's the original render straight out of Poser. -Lori

Joske

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

Lori Davis wrote:

> OK, the Poser folks have inspired me to play in Poser a bit. It's
> been a long, long time since I've done anything in Poser, so this
> is just getting my feet wet.

> Started off with Jessi Casual and sent her to Poser's Face Room
> to give her a new look. Then gave her some hair, played with the
> lights and camera, and exported the rendered figure as a PNG.
> Opened that in PSP and did quite a bit of post work, including
> editing the hair a little and adding a background. To bring out
> the details and soften the shadows, a contrast mask was also
> added. Then I decided to turn the image into a "painting", mostly
> using EPS.

Is it okay for me to say that to me she looks somewhat boyish? It's
not criticism, for the painting is well done. It's probably mainly
the shadows (beginning of a moustache?) and the angles in her face
could make her a very young man. Could be a monitor thing as well.

Yes, I think it must be Jessie day, or the cliche 'great minds think
alike :-)

Joske

Lori Davis

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

Joske wrote:
> Lori Davis wrote:
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> Is it okay for me to say that to me she looks somewhat boyish? It's
> not criticism, for the painting is well done. It's probably mainly
> the shadows (beginning of a moustache?) and the angles in her face
> could make her a very young man. Could be a monitor thing as well.

Yes, I see what you mean about a certain maleness, Joske. Not sure if
that's due to the lighting or if the face morph includes a slight
"beard". I'll go back to Poser and take a look.

> Yes, I think it must be Jessie day, or the cliche 'great minds think
> alike :-)

Hehe, a Jessi kind of day indeed. :)

Lori

Joske

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

Lori Davis wrote:
> Joske wrote:
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> Yes, I see what you mean about a certain maleness, Joske. Not
> sure if that's due to the lighting or if the face morph includes
> a slight "beard". I'll go back to Poser and take a look.

It might also partly be a monitor matter. My LCD is pretty bright.

> think > alike :-)

> Hehe, a Jessi kind of day indeed. :)

I'm confused about the spelling now. Did I spell the model's name
all this time? When I do a Google image search, all I get is
scantily clad ladies :-)

Joske

Barbara J Bradley

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

"Lori Davis" <loriweb@REMOVEpair.com> wrote in message
news:44ccdc76_3@cnews...
> OK, the Poser folks have inspired me to play in Poser a bit. It's
> been a
> long, long time since I've done anything in Poser, so this is just
> getting my feet wet.
>
> Started off with Jessi Casual and sent her to Poser's Face Room to
> give
> her a new look. Then gave her some hair, played with the lights and
> camera, and exported the rendered figure as a PNG. Opened that in
> PSP
> and did quite a bit of post work, including editing the hair a
> little
> and adding a background. To bring out the details and soften the
> shadows, a contrast mask was also added. Then I decided to turn the
> image into a "painting", mostly using EPS.
>
> Lori

Nice one, Lori, but her eyes seem to be looking in different
directions. The mouth looks really nice.
Barb

Lori Davis

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

Barbara J Bradley wrote:
> Nice one, Lori, but her eyes seem to be looking in different
> directions. The mouth looks really nice.

Thanks, Barb. I'm not sure about the eyes. That's an eye pose from
Poser, so either they got it wrong or what you see is due to a
combination of the entire pose and the lighting. As I said, this is just
a warm-up - I hope to spend some time playing to get a better handle on
things. :)

Lori

Lori Davis

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

Joske wrote:
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> I'm confused about the spelling now. Did I spell the model's name
> all this time? When I do a Google image search, all I get is
> scantily clad ladies :-)
>

"Jessi" is the correct spelling. And I'm sure that if you do a Google
search you will in fact get a lot of scantily clad babes. One of the
reasons I want to play around with Poser is to come up with some more
normally clothed, everyday sorts of characters. :)

Here's one more I did today. I hope there's no hint of beard this time,
although I did have to lighten things up under her nose a bit. I've
included the original render, too.

Lori

Joske

2006-08-02, 12:09 pm

Lori Davis wrote:
> Joske wrote:

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> "Jessi" is the correct spelling. And I'm sure that if you do a
> Google search you will in fact get a lot of scantily clad babes.
> One of the reasons I want to play around with Poser is to come up
> with some more normally clothed, everyday sorts of characters. :)

But I got 'live' babes with my search term :-) I don't mind naked
Poser figures. Spelling noted, thanks.

> Here's one more I did today. I hope there's no hint of beard this
> time, although I did have to lighten things up under her nose a
> bit. I've included the original render, too.

I'm guessing the jpg is your work and the png is as Jessi existed
before you worked on her?

This Jessi is again a definite boy to me, Lori :-) I think it's
mostly in the mouth and the forehead, and the head shape being
pronouncedly wider above (wedge shape?). The jpg is the softer. The
Jessi's in your later post come closest to realism, in my view - I
like them.

Joske