a serendepity experience with Adobe PhotoShop: in reading an article on something else, I saw a reference to "unsharpen mask" indicating it is a tool used to SHARPEN an image ... well I would never have guessed. And being purely self-taught and struggling to do that, I had to try it out myself. VOILA. ... it does work. How neat. All those pictures I ruined trying to use "sharpen" to "sharpen" when I needed to use "UNsharpen mask" to sharpen.... duh.
This is where I am displaying my animations as I learn by creating. It is going to be painfully slow to open and if you have the patience to wait it out, I thank you!
Some of the animations are from my original silly art; some from my photographs and some from photos sent to me by other folks. All in fun. Sheri Cook, my friend and a fantastic artist, did the portrait of Jiggs below, but your's truly just had to make my all-time favorite horse and best friend WINK.

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Lasan's 1999 filly, animated from a photo that I took when she was a few weeks old. |
From a photo I took of Erna Ginkel's beautiful 1999 filly from her mare Ginger and the great stallion Van Tyke |
A very early from scratch attempt |
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| One of my first "from scratch" animations. A reining horse naturally...in case you can't tell, LOL! | ||
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| Bubs took on a life of her own when she visited the Barn Porch and became an honorary Senior Citizen. | My friend Jean took this photo of a crop duster and a self service sign on a trip out to Arizona. I took the liberty of getting the pilot to do some stunts for us. |
This one is a "from scratch" too ... a pencil drawing I did of my mare Lasan and her daughter Lynx, then jazzed up in PhotoShop and Animated in Microsoft Animator |
If you gain some insight into creating art and animations or if you just enjoy these for a minute or two, then I have succeeded. Thanks for stopping in and looking.