PLAYING WITH SPECIAL EFFECTS
      This is where I played around in PhotoImpact with the horizontal ruler for the Bracketeers page.   It follows closely the steps from the first version of brackets on a bar to the final gold one that I used.   Believe it or not, all versions stemmed from the first gif shown.   If you will look at the code for this page, you'll notice that I played with jpg files after the initial gif files.   For your information, the first, third, fifth and eleventh examples are in gif format.   All others are in jpg format. You can see the difference in various spots between the gif and the jpg formats.   This is most notable in the last two examples.

      I played with all kinds of color and special effects.   In the first seven examples I played with brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, blur/sharpen, and the like.   In the eighth example, I used the emboss special effect and chose golden brown as the color.   At this point, the brackets appear as "bumps" in the bar.   From here on, I played with the magic light function and the brightness/contrast function.   Presto!   By example ten, I had shiny gold!

      You just play PLAY!!   And then keep what you like.


clear dot used for spacing

01.   This beginning gif is a simple bar of medium blue brackets. There is a light yellow background that is transparent.
02.   The brackets look light blue on a white background. This is in jpg format.
03.   The brackets look golden brown in this gif format. The yellow background is again transparent.
04.   The brackets look golden brown on a white background in this jpg formatted bar.
05.   The brackets look light yellow on a golden brown background. This is in gif format.
06.   The brackets now look darker yellow on a lighter golden brown background. This is in jpg format.
07.   The brackets look light golden brown on a golden brown background in this jpg bar.
08.   The brackets now look like 'bumps' (due to the emboss process) on this dark golden brown bar in jpg format.
09.   This is a paled out light yellow gold bar in jpg format.
10.   We now have a shiny gold bar with bumps on it. This is in jpg format.
11.   This is exactly the same bar as above but in gif format.

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