Portraits IV
Oh look, it's another Frank Episale portrait page! In the first portrait we have Frank the blue-haired glam rocker, cheerily framed by blue sky and cumulus clouds. The first step in making this picture was to drastically increase the contrast of the original photograph (photography credit: Frank's sister, Angela Episale) until I generated a two-tone black and white picture with no grey shades. After that I played around with the Lacquer plugin to generate everything except the cloud frame, which I added simply using the "Clouds" feature of Adobe PhotoDeluxe. Click
the picture to see a larger version.
This is an extremely expensive monument to Frank's fame, painstakingly etched in solid gold and obsidian. And some kind of white material—you can decide what the white material is, because nothing appropriate comes to mind for me at the moment. Anyway, this monument is all prepared to be built the moment that someone volunteers to pay for its construction. Oh yes, and the design came about in very much the same way as the design of blue-haired glam rocker Frank at the top of the page—I started from the same two-tone picture, but just typed different numerical settings into the Lacquer plugin and colored the frame black instead of cloudy sky-colored.
Here we have the shadowy disturbing figure of Frank in the midst of an emotional thunderstorm. I began this picture by running the "Difference Clouds" feature of Adobe PhotoDeluxe to generate some color (the pale bluish shades—it had originally been a black and white photograph), then halving the saturation, doubling the contrast, and repeating the halving/doubling process several times—a favorite technique of mine. When the picture got sufficiently spooky and disturbing, I simply selected the background area, colored it in bright red, and selected "Fade/Multiply" in Adobe PhotoDeluxe. Again, as with all the pictures on this page, you can click the picture for a larger version.
And lastly, here's a gold-framed portrait of robotic angel Frank from the future—don't you remember him from Star Wars? Actually, you can't really see the metallic texture of his skin in this smaller version, but if you click the picture for the larger version you can see it. Not that it really matters—the metallic skin texture was only an accident and I'm equally happy whether or not you can tell it's metallic. You can certainly see the halo around his head in this version though, and what in the (universe) a robot would be doing with a halo, I haven't the slightest idea. Blame it on the luck of the random Lacquer generator! I actually created this picture exclusively with the Lacquer plugin, the central portion of the picture first and the frame separately. Mixing the several similar shades of metal required some thought to maintain color balance and prevent color clashes, but I'm happy with the final product.
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