I was reading through this thread and all the issues of using vintage images and how that doesn’t feel right when you’re trying to create your own images, but using brushes in iColorama doesn’t give me the same squeamish feeling. I thought about a set of brushes I have that have vintage ladies in dresses, and how I used them in “Party Stragglers” earlier this year.
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It occurred to me that while I can’t ever feel comfortable with apping an image from Pixabay, Unsplash or Sktchy and posting it on a group, I can feel less guilty about using clip art brushes if I modify them before I use them. So in my first attempt at modifying a brush image before use, I took one of the brush dabs and ran it through Imaengine’s Triangles 2 setting.
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I loved the result! The original is in the upper left. The result is not recognizable as the original, and for me at least, that extra layer of remove from the original quells my guilt at using someone else’s image. It might not for you, but we all have our lines, and I think this is closer to yours than those people on FB groups that app others’ images several times daily.