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from digital memories to works of art in just seconds...
great tools for happy artists
Gertrudis &
GMX PhotoPainter

turn your photos into Art


Discover the Standalone edition or the plugin for Project Dogwaffle


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::The Problem:. ::Your Solution:.
You have a digital photograph, or a scanned image, or a drawing that looks plain and simple, which was scanned or otherwise captured into a file, and you are now ready for editing.

You need to turn it into a work of art that appears like it was sketched by hand, drawn or painted. You want to see bristles.

But you have no patience whatsoever and your little sister says you're a geek and have zero talent for drawing.

Unfortunately you  know she's partly wrong... you actually have less than zero talent! When you as much as touch a pencil and paper, it catches on fire!


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Gertrudis Pro Standalone
only $67
Gertrudis for Dogwaffle
Gertrudis for Dogwaffle
only $34




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:::::What is Gertrudis Pro?:.
::: Gertrudis Pro
Gertrudis Pro is a program for the PC which lets you transform images into handmade drawings. The brushstrokes of the drawings can simulate watercolor, oil painting, crayon, and a variety of other styles. You can also define your own styles. As internally Gertrudis knows the path, color, width and style of each brushstroke, the drawing can be rendered at the desired resolution. So once the drawing is done, you generate the result to the resolution that you want, achieving fine details in each brushstrokes.
::: How to use it
When you load an image into Gertrudis Pro it will show two panels: the left one will show the original image and the other will show the resulting, modified image. When you first start,  the right panel will show a blank white image. As the drawing tools are applied, the resulting drawing will be appearing in the right panel.

You can 'brush' your strokes over the original to the left or directly on the black to the right side.
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Parrot - original photo
parrot-oil_paint.jpg
Parrot - oil painting look
colormodes.jpg 




< Different effects with different settings: you can adjust  parameters for color, bristle thickness, gain, length, brush bitmaps...


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:::::More Details, Specs & Information:.

:::::New Features from Gertrudis Pro 3: 

What's New In Gertrudis Pro 3.0?

  • Wacom Tablet Support
  • Custom Background
  • 3D Brushes
  • Full screen paint
  • Better color accuracy and enhanced stroke rendering algorithm.



:: Differences between the Standalone and the Dogwaffle-Plugin version:.

.:Plugin Version:
  • the plugin version only sends and receives images through the Dogwaffle connection. No file saving or importing; no saving to PostScript. But you can send the resulting artwork to either the main or the swap buffer.
  • the plugin version is significantly lower cost.
.:Standalone Version:
  • The standalone version can load images from many file formats and save to JPEG, BMP and TIFF and  also to PostScript format.
  • The standalone edition can re-render and save at different sizes.This is very important for desktop publishing because there you need high resolution bitmaps. After creating your image on the screen at screen resolution, you can have it re-rendered to a higher resolution. This gives much more detail in the larger image than if you had simply resized/resampled the prior bitmap.
  • The standalone version has options to Load/Save Project in Gertrudis native format.
  • The standalone version has an option to "Apply All" (Apply the current tool around the whole image selecting random seeds), this tool saves time especially if you have a particulkar set of parameters which you want to apply to many images, perhaps from an animation sequence.

:::::New Features from Gertrudis Pro 2.2: 
  • new shortcut key: F11 = Full Screen Preview
  • Navigator Window, a new feature which lets you view the entire image. Also it is possible to choose the work area by dragging the red rectangle in the Navigator Window. This option is useful for large images.
  • entering numeric values: All parameters can be set using the keyboard. This change is made because some users have said that it was difficult to choose precise values.
  • Clipboard Support:
    • Ctrl+C ..... copies the current result to Clipboard.
    • Ctrl+Alt+N ... creates a new project based on the image in the clipboard.







::::: File Formats of the Standalone Version:.

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Technically, the photograph balances light and shadow with a confident hand. Highlights carve, shadows soften, and the overall tonality keeps the red rich without allowing it to dominate the image’s emotional register. The mise-en-scène respects negative space; the invisible margins around Sonia are as telling as the parts we see.

Ultimately, “Sonia And Red With Layered …” is less a portrait than a conversation—between subject and style, between color and restraint, between image and observer. It’s the kind of work that stays with you, not because it shouts the loudest, but because it leaves open rooms in which your thoughts can linger. Lady-Sonia 18 04 27 Sonia And Red With Layered ...

Red here is not merely color; it’s punctuation. It interrupts the frame, demands attention, and then negotiates with the subtler elements around it. Sonia doesn’t simply wear the hue—she inhabits it. The way she turns toward or away from the light, the slight fall of a sleeve, the suggestion of movement beneath stillness: these choices make her a protagonist and a proposition at once. The image refuses a single reading, inviting us instead to trace shifting narratives—confidence, melancholy, defiance, longing—often within the same breath. Technically, the photograph balances light and shadow with

There’s also a subtle feminism running through the work. Sonia’s gaze—if present—doesn’t ask permission. Whether she meets the viewer or retreats into herself, the visual grammar grants her subjecthood. The red that could have been a trap becomes armor; the layers that could have hidden her become a language for how women move through public and private selves. It’s a quiet insistence that identity is never flat. Ultimately, “Sonia And Red With Layered …” is

There’s an electric courage in the image of Sonia wrapped in red, a layered study of mood and persona that stubbornly resists tidy interpretation. At first glance, the photograph reads like a love letter to contrast: the softness of skin and fabric against the uncompromising hunger of that red; quiet vulnerability set beside a deliberate, almost architectural styling. But it’s in the layers—literal and metaphorical—where the work earns its voice.

The layered composition is clever in its restraint. Multiple textures and planes converge without collapsing into chaos. Each layer has a job: to reveal, to obscure, to reflect, to complicate. This restraint makes the piece intimate rather than showy; its drama is earned, not flaunted. The styling suggests histories—perhaps borrowed wardrobes, perhaps ancestral echoes—without spelling them out. That ambiguity is the point: we are left to populate the margins with our own stories.

If there’s any risk, it is of viewers forcing a single story onto a deliberately plural image. But perhaps that’s the work’s greatest victory: it resists neat narratives and rewards repeated looking. In a world eager for instant categorizations, Sonia in red asks us to slow down and tolerate complexity.











:::::Resources - to probe further, to learn more

  • Lady-Sonia 18 04 27 Sonia And Red With Layered ...The Gertrudis Blog:

  • Tutorials - it's easy, you won't need many, but still....







from photo portrait to
artistic face painting
face.jpg

 



Dragon Heads!
Gertrudis Pro &

Project Dogwaffle
in Perfect Harmony!

Gertrudis and Dogwaffle in Harmony



winter scene
through a window

windowscene.jpg

upper-right (red box)
detail of the above window

windowscene_detail.jpg

See more detail:
view dynamic zoom




Mountains
mountain scenes



 combining Gertrudis with
Project Dogwaffle for
added special fx and realism
like embossing, wet paint,
paper texture, stains & more...
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:::::Pricing & Where to Buy:
   

Gertrudis Pro
Standalone Edition

Standalone version 3.3,
 can be used with any imaging software that saves to supported popular image formats.

only $67 !
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> order here <
online store at Share-it!
Download a Trial right there


Gertrudis
for Project Dogwaffle
Plugin version 1.5,
for Project Dogwaffle v2 or PD Pro
and even  for the freeware v1.2

only $34 !
Gertrudis for Dogwaffle
> order here <
online store at Share-it!
Download a Trial right there






















Other products from
Gertrudis Graphics:


GMX PhotoPainter
$94.95

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online store at Share-it!
Download a Trial right there



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:::::Downloading the Demo & Trial Versions:
Note: the latest version is Gertrudis Pro 3 (as of September 2006) - get the demo version from GertrudisGraphics.com

Trial version of Gertrudis Pro 2.1 - Standalone Edition


>>> Download this Installer:


GertTrialSetup2_1.exe
(size:  4,952,995 bytes)

Trial version of Gertrudis Pro 2.1 - Dogwaffle Plugin Edition
for use with Project Dogwaffle 1.2, 2.x or PD Pro 3.x

>>> Download this Installer:


GertDogTrialSetup2_1.exe
(size: 4,951,483 bytes)



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PD Particles
Digital painting
 has never been
so much fun!
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:::::Users & Galleries

Visit the Users Gallery at GertrudisGraphics.com

There you will see some more examples of what's possible and what's been done with Gertrudis. In some cases they are straight from Gertrudis standalone edition. In other cases there are combinations of Gertrudis with Project Dogwaffle, or other popular imaging and painting programs. Discover the endless possibilities.

at gertrudisgraphics.com > view it     


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fire dragon by
Martin Duerr, Cybersign.de




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:::::Reviews

DesignerToday.com

"Gertrudis Pro is an awesome piece of software that allows you to turn your photos and images into unique looking art. This process happens quickly and easily and is as simple as choosing an effect and using a brush to repaint the image or photo. "

> read it all     

















Some material presented here is copyright (c) 2005 Enrique Nieloud  of Gertrudis Graphics,
or Martin Duerr of Cybersign.de, or Dan Ritchie of Squirreldome.com or their respective owners.
No unauthorized use or duplicatation is permitted. All rights reserved.