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    Scanned Leaves 03

    These are opposite sides of a leaf from the persimmon tree. The fruit is a curious thing and I've never seen them sold at a grocer. The native variety has a nice flavor, but you can't eat it until after it has been hit by a frost. Why? Because it will turn your mouth wrong side out--as though it...
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    Scanned Leaves 03

    You're welcome, Wendy. Here's a leaf from a different kind of "wait-a-minute" vine. This one is odd because the shiny side is down! I don't know what it is with wait-a-minute vines, but they're definitely different. It's funny, but Welles had to do tons of work before he could start...
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    Real Wood Scans

    Many thanks, Welles. I'm going after them now. Iro.
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    Scanned Leaves 03

    Variations in leaf size are not that unusual, even on a single tree, but the red oak carries this to something of an extrema as you can see from this battered old veteran of this summer's battles with weather, insects and fungii.
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    Scanned Leaves 03

    Okay, Wendy! Here's a leaf from the "Red Oak." The heartwood is indeed red and can be polished to a beautiful finish. However, be ready to do lots and lots of sanding. All of the oaks produce very hard, tough wood. Red oak is the easiest to split, making it popular in a great many...
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    Scanned Leaves 03

    Thanks, Sanby, and you're welcome. Here is another leaf from a sweet gum tree. It is the same species, just a different tree. Why there is such a large variation in size and shape is something of a mystery to me. BTW: when these leaves turn color they turn dark crimson. That may be why...
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    Vector Tutorial

    Great stuff, heathrowe! Many thanks. I need all the help I can get with the vector tools. Iro.
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    Scanned Leaves 03

    While I'm online I'm going to upload two more. These are from another morning glory, a cultivar called "Moonflower".
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    Scanned Leaves 03

    If you think its best, Wendy, go ahead. I was breaking them up into separte threads because someone complained about load times. With all of them in one thread, it does take longer for all the pictures to load, but that doesn't make any difference to me personally.
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    Scanned Leaves 03

    These two are opposite sides of a leaf from a sweet gum tree. It is also sometimes called the "Red Gum", but that runs the risk, on the internet at least, of confusing it with an Australian tree. This tree is a fast growing native that almost always has a perfectly round trunk. It can grow to be...
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    Scanned Leaves 02

    This one should be kind of fun. No, it is NOT part of a vidcap from a cheezy scifi flick. This is a real leaf from a real vine. We call it a "wait-a-minute" vine. Why? Because the vine has thorns and when you get tangled up in it, you shout at your companions saying, "Wait a minute! Wait a...
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    Scanned Leaves 02

    Where would we be without roses? We spend a lot of time struggling to get the petals right, but what about the leaves and stems? Well, it is not a problem with a simple solution. All of the vary markedly from one variety of rose to the next. Worse, trying to scan stems is an exercise in...
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    realistic drawing?

    To answer A Squarecan's question, it is all a matter of learning to deal with the medium you've chosen. The old masters used oil paints. Many of the new masters use opaque watercolor or acrylics. Some of the new master still use oils! So what you are really asking is "How do I become a master?"...
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    Scanned Leaves 02

    You're welcome, Bubble! Attached to this message is the image of a willow leaf. There is only one because willow leaves vary very little from one side to the next.
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    realistic drawing?

    I think the number of times that the Renaissance masters used a camera obscura to project an image on canvas in order to paint it is probably so small as to be insignificant. Setting up a camera obscura and getting the work done with the lighting available back then would have been a much more...
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    Scanned Leaves 02

    Here's the flip side of the same leaf.
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    Scanned Leaves 02

    Good to hear this stuff is usefeul to someone, Wendy. Here is the best grape leaf I could come up with. Only a very few varieties of grapes grow here and none of them particularly spectacular. I'm sure anyone living in California could give us a much better example. The leaves of most varieties...
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    Scanned Leaves 02

    This is a leaf from an orange tree growing in my yard. During my grandfather's childhood, citrus trees were common along the Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas (neart the Mexican border) right way round to the tip of the Florida Peninsula. By the time I was born, the only place you would see...
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    Scaned Leaves

    Now here are two tiny zones from the same leaf at 1200 dpi. See what you're missing at 144 dpi? The idea here is to give everyone some idea of how to construct realistic leaf textures. How can that be done with a 72 dpi reference pic? Personally, I have my doubts about the utility of a 144...
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    Scaned Leaves

    Alistaire, I am doing my best to balance image quality against the abilities of the forum's server to store and deliver images. That means that if you want the images, patience is required. I am uploading these with a 56k modem. Instant gratification is not part of the equation. Of what use...
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