Your work celebrates your teacher's inspiration, and in your efforts lies her memorial. If this teacher touched your life so your work touches others. I am sure your teacher smiles every time you create!

I have both photoshop 5.5 and Painter 6 and also have photopaint9...also pp8...all of them part of my slow brain absorbtion rate....each has features that make them useful, all do the basic stuff. Until painter6, the layering aspect of photoshop made it easier to develop complex images, the floater approach not quite as easy to get the hang of. I started with 0 zero experience with these and first got corel photopaint 5. I think that the lighting in Painter 6 is far better and easier to use than that in either photoshop or photopaint, even pp8. Smudge and smear in photoshop and photopaint easier than painter6. The main advantage to painter 6 lies in the ease of use for nozzles and image pens, I find the gradient choices larger, and most mostly are the brushes. Wonderful real-like brushes. PP8 has the neatest lens flare effect; photoshop is very expensive and needs a lot more investment in plug ins; photopaint is less expensive and it has a lot of stuff if you have old versions by the way of extra stuff on the cd. I basically learned first with pp8 (easiest to use) then with the abilty to understand the concepts moved to photopaint then on to photoshop which to me is very powerful and quite stable. Painter6 is a bit cranky but I think they have most of the problems which seem to be related to the wacom or other tablet drivers. painter 6 is my favorite general graphic program, but when I have a more specific bit of work to do I go to Photoshop then to photopaint (except for the nozzle or image brush stuff).... long winded I guess.....hope it helps....

You are too modest! Very nice! A wonderful name too....

Thank you for the kind words. I used a number of layers, basically overlaying them with varying transparancy. Seems to add to the lighting effects.

Thanks I will go get the eyelash trans maps, I think I downloaded one before....off to try them out!

I got it from Traveler's page, I even figured out how to get it to work! I agree that the eyelashes need work, have not quite figured that out yet.....

Very Nice! I really like the whole effect of the colors and the images....

As I was scrolling down on the image again, I think it is the bright gold color on the closest "weed"...I really liked the use of color but I just found it hard to keep my eye on the main figures....maybe it is just me though. I scrolled down to a point where the big weed is just out of view and my focus stayed on the figures which I like way the colors interact with the background......if that helps...

cool....who's cape is that?

I really like what you have going on in this picture....If I was to comment, my mind wants to clip or focus on either the figures or the background...there is a conflict of attention going on. I almost think that this "conflict" energy could utilized effectively in a "clipped" or carefully focused view.....not sure I am effectively saying what my mind is thinking....Lorraine

I guess I should consider a leather arm thingy; well I went back and forth between a large cat animal or owl as the "effect"...the tiger image seemed to fit...thank you for the kind words...

that is a great image.....

Just the throne; I just combined the squares, cylinders and spheres put the big pentacle on top and there it was...the rest of the props I got on the free stuff/fun stuff pages...as best as I can remember.

I would be honored if you used this. I also thank everyone for their kind comments.

gimmee gimmee...(pleaaase!)...