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in a winter mood. wish it would snow in the south:-(

I love your trees, left a post...darling of a picture...Sharen

Wow I just read the "snow texture made by scanning sugar" bit after I posted my remark. That is the most awesome idea I've heard of yet! How did you do that? Just place sugar on the scanner or what??

lol now the sugar idea is one i would never have thought of :) Fantastic IDEA. who says you need High teck to great results :) Gota Love it :) Laters Vel

Thanks for the compliments. I had been trying forever to create a snow texture. I think it is so beautiful but I hardly ever see it where I live. I use to use cotton scans. Then I would try to put sparkles in it with psp sparkle tubes but it just wouldnt work. One day I was making a cup of coffee and I spilled some on the counter. When I was picking it up I told my dad it sparkled and looked kinda like snow dust. So I said, Hey...I'm going to go try and scan it! The beautiful sparkles that the sun creates when it glistens on it is just something I cannot seem to achieve. But I was very happy with the textures the sugar made. Because it was scanned it became transparent or something. Letting me convert to seamless patterns and I just rotated each section.

then if you put it in a mound it gives you a snow hill.

Thanks for the creative idea. I'm working on a project that will require snow too...

The things people scan LOL Great idea though.. (My pooor scanner ain't going to like this)

if you put a bunch of sugar on the side and put a fine layer in the middle, you can put a shoe and gently press on it to make a foot print in the sugar snow. it comes out really good. i'd upload it but it is 2000x2000. i use a wet dry vac to clean it up.

Hey Cinnamon if you tweak the Hilight section of the mat editor a bit, set it higher say 75% plus, you can get twinkles on things, which pick up on your lights.I works to make irridescent fabric, so should work on snow

Here is what I mean. Rubios new dress. texture set to none. colour to very very light blue, highlight colour to very very light turquoise blue, bump map and trans map only used. no reflection. Silmilar with cat suit underneath, only there I did use a tex map. Irridescence in poser 4

wow, that's pretty! thanks for the tip! i have to try it!