Ha, I know I have some stuff around here saying how great Picnik is. But, seriously, take a look at what I did with just a simple red and white target. The graphic rendering (is that right? IDK) capabilites of Picnik is amazing.
That is one stupid looking, piece of crap target, but it got me through my first two games. It's useless now, I need some better stuff darn it!
I just took the target, added in some snow, pimple reducer, and some film grain. Then I took it and dimmed the color, added a shadow, and viola, it's realistic. Gives the impression of sulfur stains, sun bleaching, and being dirty.
That's not a picture of wood, either; no, that's my second target picture with sepia filter, some gooification, and some extra film grain.
I further used this wood picture to create the outside of this pool table..I also used a green color and film grain to create the felt of the table. (Takes long to load)
It's amazing what you can do with even one color as in this ghetto wall I made:
This, though it's OK, I don't believe it's as good as it could have been. It would have probably looked better had I not started with monochrome gray. But I added some snow, gooification, some film grain (just the same stuff again) and got a pseudo-concreate wall. The graffiti text Picnik has is perty dern good, too.
Then there's the abstract capabilites.
No, I didn't hand-draw a bacteria slide.
This...this is my target believe it or not, after gooification then a few neon sign and pencil drawing filters, it's totally unrecognizable.
Other abstracts:
Check these out. What'd I tell ya? Sweet, right? The first one is sorta like a sun exploding, then comes the sunflower, then the ocean. I don't know what I like most! ^_^ Probably the sun explosion. That's sooooooo cool.
