Galaxy & Dana

This image was cropped and color corrected using Photoshop 7, extracted from the background using Corel Knockout 2, and then painted using Painter 8's "Thick Wet Oils" (primary among other brushes used).

The backgound 'wall' was created using Painter's Look Selector 'stucco', painting on the canvas of a new image and then using the Paper Selector palette 'capture paper' command to create a new paper texture. I then chose the new 'stucco' paper texture and painted the background 'wall'. The same process was used to create the 'floor' using the Look Selector's 'stone wall'.

The image was returned to Photoshop and the edges were manipulated using Extensis Photoframe 2. Galaxy's dog tag has stars and Dana's dog tag has a banana because the first time I met her she brought me a banana--not quite sure why...'-}}

The image is 11x8 inches on 14x11 inch paper, printed on an Epson 1160 on Hawk Mountain Art Papers "Osprey Textured" (one of their fine art coated ink jet papers, mouldmade, pebbled texture, archival, 100% cotton, 250gsm/15 mil).