Digital Light & Color

Thank you -- I had forgotten about this.
Also -- use of a large radius soft 50% transparent brush with the smudge transformation is sometimes very helpful in disrupting or concealing the ordered structure created by the texture transformation.

I think its because it works so well and does everything I want, I rarely need to come by here. Mainly I come now to make sure the forum still exists :) but I'll come more often to check for V8...

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Thank you, Jonathan and Kiril. As I mourned the passing of 1-2-3, so shall I mourn expiration of PWP. But, not for too long (I hope) – future surprises are anticipated.

I often scan through the R,G,B, luminance, and brightness channels to see what I prefer for a particular image. If 2 or more have appealing features, I use stack images to combine them.

Could be that the differences are very small -- did you try increasing the brightness of the difference image

Seems like a little LCE might be a good step in the right direction

Dieter,
I'm using Office 2000 and a 10 year old PWP version running under Win98. It doesn't surprise me that some of the details might be different, but the overall functionality should be there.

Maybe Kiril will have a suggestion.

:) Dieter, I seem to recall that you were interested in curved text at one time. You can use this Word based approach to create "Word Art" objects including curved text.

Bob, how do you get the equation from Word to PWP ? Simply copying as text don't work for me. I would use Microsoft Paint as described above, but do you have a direct way ? Dieter, In Word, "Insert Object" choosing the Microsoft Equation Editor as the source for creating the equation. You...

For complex equations, the simplest approach is to use the equation editor in Word. The object that is created can then be pasted into PWP where it can easily be converted to a mask for use with the paint tool.