Flow in Motion

This is actually an image taken from the jazz series i've been working with recently using gallery show to process a collection of jazz art posters. Not that you would ever know that if i didn't bring it up, unlike a lot of the other images in that series.
Like everything in that series, the final presented image builds up during a multi-stage process over several consecutive gallery show cycles. My custom water wash presets that i used for start cycle processing should be especially apparent in this particular image if you look closely.

ScareCrow

Why are scarecrows scary? This one has an interesting story associated with it.

This one was created using Studio Artist's gallery show feature working in a pretty fascinating new way. I added a new feature where you can take the output of the previous gallery show cycle and then auto-load that as the new source image to be used for the next gallery show cycle.

So this particular image actually started with a news photo picture of Larry Ellison standing on a stage that i manually placed in the canvas as a starting image. Then i started up gallery show with this new processed canvas to source recirculation feature turned on. So at the end of each gallery show cycle, the resulting painted image was then loaded as a new source to be used for painting the next gallery show cycle. I was also using a mutate factory paint gallery show technique. With mutating auto-masking based on the ever changing recirculating source imagery. And my custom water wash paint preset favorites folder i like to use for the start cycle processing.

I think the end result of this procedural image generation process is fascinating. And again barely scratches the surface of what you could achieve by working with it. Now as to why that scare crow is scary...

Let's Dance

Put on your red shoes and dance the jazz blues. More gallery show experiments using generative processing and random compositing working with a folder of random old jazz poster imagery. Not getting to the level of imagery i was able to get to with using the old soviet propaganda poster imagery, but it's still early on in this particular experiment.

I lost a ton of really cool stuff last night because i forgot to run on the gallery show write enable flag for the open movie stream. So i'm going to add something to gallery show preferences that will just automatically make the image stream saving work if you have it turned on. You need to do 2 manual steps right now to turn it on, so it's a little too easy to mess that up, as i discovered last night.

Jazz Man

Paris does love their jazz. Working gallery show processing a folder of old jazz poster art. Using the random vectorizer technique with the new random composite feature turned on. And intelligent mutated source masking.

Blue

My mood for the evening i guess. More generative art experiments using some of the new gallery show features.

Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief

Reflection of recent events in the middle east. Especially digesting recent events after watching 'The Promise' on Hulu last week, which was kind of an eye opener for my wife and i.

The actual image was produced as a part of my recent series of pieces produced using generative processing with Studio Artist's gallery show features. Including random mutations of factory presets, random auto-masking of randomly selected source imagery, and random compositing options added to the gallery show cycles. When you use gallery show this way, the images you generate build up over the course of several different consecutive gallery show processing cycles.

Decisions

More gallery show experiments. I'm working with a new feature that allows you to turn on randomization for the composite options associated with whatever gallery show technique you are working with. They always defaulted to Replace before.

This really opens up a whole new range of potential visual effects you can create using gallery show.