Processing Images for an Impressionistic Effect
Tools: Macromedia Director
Introduction
In the seventeenth century, Claude Monet created paintings that attempted to catch the impression of sunlight on objects. He achieved that effect by applying unmixed primary colors and small strokes on the canvas to simulate actual reflected light. Impressionist paintings provide the inspiration for the research project that Jacqueline has done when she was completing the interactive multimedia program at Sheridan College. Through this project, Jacqueline integrates her programming skills and her artistic talent to create digital art work.
Challenge
With the sprayed strokes filter in Adobe Photoshop, you can generate a brush strokes effect. However, the application only allows you to change the stroke length, spray radius, and some degree of stroke direction. If you want to increase the width of the stroke, to change the density of the strokes, or to specify the exact orientation of the stroke, you would be out of luck.
Solution
In order to address the deficiency of the filters offered by Adobe Photoshop, this research project focuses on creating an imaging tool that allows its users to load an image to the application, then transform the image by adjusting various parameters, such as, stroke orientation, stroke orientation variation, spacing, length of the stroke, and width of the stroke.
Original image before alterations.
Original image with the impressionistic effect applied.
Original image with the bubble effect applied.