New Year - New Challenge!

Jan 1, 201712 min read

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Published: Jan 1, 2017

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Happy New Year!

Well, here we are at the start of 2017. Happy New Year everyone! I hope you have all had a great end of year and holiday period with your friends and loved oned ones.

Last month we had an open gallery for your December/Christmas/New Year fractals - thank you for submitting some lovely festive images! This journal is not intended to be a feature as such but I would like to include a small selection here. There are many more in the Fractals for December 2016 gallery these are just the ones I personally found particularly cheerful and seasonal:

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January 2017 Challenge - Painting with Rainbows

With the start of a new month we have another challenge for you. It's a fairly easy one this time - we are going all multi-coloured and asking for you to come up with some rainbow coloured fractals. The style and content of your images is up to you, the only requirement is for the colours to clearly show at least five of the colours of the rainbow:

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet

Please don't submit images with just a couple of colours or work that is so dark the individual colours cannot be distinguished.
If we can't see and name at least five of the seven colours above then your work WILL be declined.

Bright and cheeful works would be lovely - we want to see lots of rainbow colours filling up a beautiful gallery! Your images can be bold and colourful or use soft pastel shades, whatever you like. To aid you with this challenge I have prepared a gradient pack for you to use if you wish - 24 beautiful rainbow gradients you can install to your gradient folder. You don't have to use these this is just my little gift to you, to use as you wish:

Rainbow gradient pack for Ultra Fractal by Velvet--Glove

This isn't the only gradient pack available, here are two other packs by aartika-fractal-art you might like to look at:

Gradients: Rainbow Gradients for Ultra Fractal

Get the Gradients here:

(No restrictions on use).

$UF Gradient Pack: Alcohol Ink Washes by aartika-fractal-art$

Ideas for using these gradients (or rainbow colours of your own) include:

Use iteration colouring to colour successive trap shapes with a different colour.
Some colourings include iteration colouring options or, for plugin style fractals, you can use a plugin like REB Iteration in the Trap Color Mode slot
Use rainbow colours in or across the background
Use a Pixel formula with Gradient colouring (standard.ucl) on the Outside tab to apply rainbow colours across the whole image
Use rainbow colours along a ribbon shape
Use a Smooth Colouring layer to apply a pretty rainbow gradient to all your spiral forms

Some of these applications can be seen in the images below:

Examples of rainbow fractals produced with Ultra Fractal

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Finally, please take a few moments to read the information and rules that apply to this challenge:

Challenge information and rules

Rules for this month's challenge

Submissions need to clearly and prominently show at least five rainbow colours.

Images must be new and uploaded to DA on or after: January 1st 2017
The challenge ends on January 31st 2017

You may enter up to FOUR images to this challenge. If you have any problems please note the group, not the admins.

You MUST mention this challenge and add a link to this journal -OR- our group icon in your comments.

Submit your entry to the Challenge Folder: January 2017 - Painting with Rainbows

After the challenge closes we will ask the group members to vote on their favourite three entries.
A selection of winners will be featured in the group journal a week or so later.

General rules

You may use mappings, masks and texturing created by UF (but no imports).

Watermarks and signatures must be small and subtle.

Frames and borders should be simple and unobtrusive.

NO Fractal Manipulations or imported images are allowed.

Minimal post-work only allowed e.g. enhancing colours, sharpening and adding a signature or simple border.

Sharing parameters

We strongly encourage you to share your parameters publicly if you can, as part of the ethos of this group.
A tutorial on how to store your parameters in your DA Sta.sh area can be found: Here
As always, only formulas from the Public database are acceptable if you intend to share your parameters. Please check.

Questions or don't understand something? Please ask first as we do not wish to offend or upset anyone (and ourselves) by refusing an entry.

Thanks and have fun!