Iro Koii

Here's a couple of more. These are from a blue oak, probably one of the smallest of the oaks, seldom growing more than a foot in diameter and usually under 40' tall. The wood from this tree is quite nice, having a very dark hard wood and interesting grain. The tree prefers swampy areas, which we have in abundance in the Houston area.

Iro Koii.

Smoke420

AHHH. NICE LEAVES BUT DO YOU MIND putting down the waulity on those images please? Some of us only have 56k modems!! (like me). To save at a safe qaulity, in ps, do save as for web, set to jpeg high. [stuned] Thanks - Alistair

Iro Koii

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 are scans like these to you as a reference if all the details are erased by compression and resizing?

Here, I'll demonstrate.

Here are pictures of leaves from a rattan vine @144 dpi.

Iro Koii

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 dpi reference, but it beats the living daylights out of nothing.

Oh, I nearly forgot to mention this. Wicker furniture is made with rattan vines. Rattan furniture is made from the rattan palm. I don't have pictures of the rattan palm, let alone scans of the leaves.

See ya,

Iro Koii.

wbiss

Alistair, as long as Iro Koii's scans fall within the guidelines of the board (150 kb max, 640 pixel width max) there's no harm done.

And as he says, he's trying to find a happy balance between quality and these guidelines. I'm a 56k user too... 'twas "no skin off my nose", Iro Koii!