Week Two - October 2002
The link to this week's lesson: Vectors - Creating Hollow Objects.

Assignment:
Provide the 2 objects created from the tutorial.
Create one more image of your choice. Don’t be afraid to try other preset-shape objects, Vector text or curves like Doro mentions.

My Homework
I really loved this tutorial!
I have fooled around a little bit with vectors, but this technique was all new to me!
6 Point Hollow Star - the first image we made in class. I dressed it up by flood filling the background using a foreground/background radial gradient set to 11 repeats. The background color being the same purple as the ellipse and the foreground color a lighter shade of the same purple.
12 Point Hollow Star - second image from class. This time I filled the star shape with a foreground/background sunrise gradient and set the stroke properties to null. The background color for this gradient is a lighter purple color and an even lighter purple foreground color. Once converted to a raster, I duplicated the star layer and applied geometric effect twirl at -209 degrees and set the opacity down to 45. This layer was then moved below my original star layer.
I flood filled the background with the same darker purple that we used in the tutorial and sprayed it once with the lighter purple color (brush round, size 255, density 40) and then applied the geometric effect ripple to it.


This design started out as the plain black gear preset shape. Once hollowed out and filled with a sunburst gradient, I converted each layer to raster and intertwined the gears. To make the speckled background, I duplicated the gear layer and then used the mosaic glass texture effect.

The hexagon preset was used as the base for this image. Hollowed out, duplicated, resized, rotated and hollowed out again, and again! *G* Filled with a gradient and then converted to raster, the image was then treated to Sandy Blair's Simple filter Blintz. This layer was then duplicated 3 more times with chrome effects applied to top and middle layers. Then the upper two layers were each moved several pixels over and up to give the image a 3D look. Luminance layer blend on the upper-chromed layer, and darken layer blend on the lower helped to increase the effect and give the coloring more dimension.
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