This section of the web site describes methods and considerations when interplaying one "patterned" image (an image that has been processed several times in Lucis first) with a second image. I call this a create patterns interplay.

General Guidelines

First you transform one image into a pattern. To transform an image into a pattern I typically:

1) Work in Single Channel Mode.

2) Process the image with Lucis several times.

3) Start with either using the Enhance Detail slider to bring out detail (like the examples Dragonfly Flowers and Nature Patterns) or move the Smooth Detail slider to a high value (over 101) to smooth all the detail and start to create a pattern that way (like the example Armadillo Grass).

4) Then process the image with Lucis several times sequentially (sometimes using the Smooth Detail slider to remove detail and enhance the pattern).

5) Always Lucis-process the image with the Processing Scan Lines set to 50 to reduce the likelihood that radial line artifacts will occur, unless creating these radial lines is the effect you want to produce. Unless otherwise stated the number of Processing Scan Lines was set to 50 for all image examples.

Then you mix the mix the patterned image with a second image:

1) When mixing a patterned image with another image I typically make the opacity of the patterned image significantly less than 50%. This is because the patterned image has strong contrasts so it will emerge strongly when combined with another image and processed with Lucis.

2) Typically I only process this mixed image once with Lucis.

Some examples of InterplayArt images using this technique from my personal InterplayArt web site include Elephant Tattoo (I preprocessed the image of the elephant twice), Moth Meditation (I preprocessed the image of the moth about 4 times), Consolation (I preprocessed the background image with Lucis about 6 times- it originally was an image of a river with waterfalls and trees) and Climb (I processed the image of the branches twice before mixing it with the image of the lizard).

Click on any image to see detailed instructions describing how the final image was created.

	Plus		Lucis interplays to become
				Dragonfly Flowers
	Plus		Lucis interplays to become
				Armadillo Grass
	Plus		Lucis interplays to become
				Nature Patterns