Artists Down Under - Australia and New Zealand - October 2025

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Welcome everyone, I am pleased to present another edition of Artists Down Under to you.

I don’t know how you all feel, but this year seems to be flying, it is October already and yes there are Christmas decorations for sale in the shops. It only feels like a few months since Santa’s last visit. The bonus is that the weather is starting to warm up slightly, which makes me very happy.

The cold weather has not stopped our artists though from producing some amazing art & I always feel so proud in presenting it to you, like a proud mumma bear.

I love it that our artists get so enthused in their art that they create a series of images, so I am honoured to showcase four artists’ series this month, Rosa Perry with her Regal Series, Christina Brunton with her Horses series, Julie Powell with her Still Life series & George Koncz with an amazing series of images from China.

We also have our regular features for you all to browse through.

I hope you enjoy this months edition. Stay safe & look after each other.

Pam Henderson

DENISE HUNTER LOGAN ( AUSTRALIA )

LOVE WHAT YOU FEEL

CUPCAKE GENIE

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The Artists Down Under Public Facebook page has been set up to allow the artists in the group to showcase their work and to enable them to share promotional information about themselves, e.g. exhibitions, awards etc...

You can find the Artists Down Under Public Facebook page at this address; https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtistsDownUnder/

So, if you are an artist in the group, don’t forget to regularly share your work and information here, and to let your friends and family know about the page if they are interested in viewing the latest art and news from the group.

If you are a reader of the magazine who does not have access to the page, please click the link above and request to join. When you request to join you will be asked to answer three simple questions that will allow us to determine if you are an eligible artist who may wish to join the group and therefore be able to post on the page, or a member of the public who can view, comment and like the work on the page. It’s a great place to see some great art from this vibrant group every day!

Three ADU members receive a special gift

Our very good Awake friends Teddi Rutschman of Foxey Squirrel and Diane Stafford from WhiteLaneStudio continue to give gifts as a reward for members of the Artists Down Under group who contribute to the ADU Facebook page by regularly posting their artworks and supporting other members with their comments.

Teddi, from Virginia, USA, is well known for her fantastic sets of digital designer backgrounds, masks and all kinds of wonderful elements ready for designers to add to or build a wondrous creation.

Teddi Rutshman can be found at http://www.oscraps.com/shop/Foxeysquirrel

One artist will receive a Foxey Squirrel Kit

Diane Stafford from Chester, UK, designs Photoshop textures and overlays for photo artists and photographers to use in their digital artworks. Diane has created another special kit just for Artists Down Under for the month of OCTOBER.

Two artists will receive a Diane kit each.

Diane Stafford can be found at https://whitelanestudio.co.uk/biolinks

The OCTOBER lucky winners are

Foxey Squirrel Kit

- Al BaMass

Diane Stafford (WhiteLaneStudio) Texture & Overlay Kit

- Colin Killick

- Denise Cauchi

LIVING THE PHOTO ARTISTIC LIFE

https://issuu.com/thephotoartisticlife/docs/living_the_photo_artistic_life_-_issue_no._127?fr=sZDgxOTg0NDE1MDQ

Congratulations to the following artists for having their images chosen to appear in the International magazine “Living The Photo Artistic Life”.

Ilona Abou-Zolof

- Golden Grace

Penny de Jong

- Time Will Pass

Helen McLeod

- The Gallery

- To The Conclave

Jenny Davidson

- The Saxophone Player

Rosa Perry

- Magick

Sue Masterson

- The Illusion Of A Sleeping Elf

Maureen Maxwell

- Autumn Happiness

- City At Night

Denise Hunter Logan

- Just Another Manic Monday

- Tapestry Of Colour

Meaghan Pryor

- Conversations

LIVING THE PHOTO ARTISTIC LIFE

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-3/kevin-sims/

www.kevinsims.co.nz

http://www.artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-4/penny-de-jong/

MARINA HOBBS ( AUSTRALIA )

RIDING FOR THE JOY OF IT

https://www.juliepowellphoto.com/

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-2/julie-powell/

CHERRIES

TULIP STUDY

RANUNCULUS I

RANUNCULUS II

LIMES UNDER PRESSURE

TEACUP

DENISE CAUCHI ( AUSTRALIA )

ILONA ABOU-ZOLOF ( AUSTRALIA )

ART STYLES

SPRING AWAKENING

AL BAMASS ( AUSTRALIA )

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SOME PHOTOSHOP INSPIRATION INFO PANEL

By Andrew Haysom

The Photoshop Info Panel displays a lot of useful information as you use Photoshop. This includes colour information of the point in your image under the mouse pointer / tool cursor, the XY position of the mouse pointer / tool cursor, physical dimensions of selection marquees and crop borders and lots of other useful information.

The information displayed will vary depending on the tool you’re using, some different configurations are shown in Figure 1.

To view the Info panel, choose Window / Info or press F8. If you’re like me, you’ll keep it handy, docked in your side navigator.

Perhaps the most common usage for the Info panel is reading colour information for points in your image. In addition to the two standard colour readouts that appear at the top of the Info panel which show colour information for the area under the mouse pointer / tool cursor, you can use the Color Sampler tool to add up to ten colour sample points to your image, the colour information for these will also appear in the Info panel (see Figure 2).

SOME PHOTOSHOP INSPIRATION (CONT .....)

Colour information can be incredibly useful for things like colour matching certain parts of your image. You can customise what type of colour information you see by clicking any of the dropper icons next to the colour sample information on the panel (eg RGB, CMYK, HSB, HSL etc) –see Figure 3. For example, if you want to use a Hue Saturation adjustment layer to match colours in your image, changing to HSL will make using that adjustment layer much easier.

[Fig 3 – Info panel context menus]

[Fig 4 – Info Panel Options]

As shown in Figure 3, you can also change the units of measure shown in the other Info panel fields (Pixels, Inches, Centimetres, Percent etc).

Whenever an adjustment layer that changes the colour of your image is active, you will see two colour values for each colour readout and colour sample point, the “before” value and the “after” value. That is, the colour values before the adjustment layer took effect, and the colour values after the adjustment layer took effect.

It is important to note that the colour values you’ll see in the Info panel are sensitive to the active layer, so if you have multiple adjustment layers in your document, as you click each one you’ll see the colour values change, they’ll show the actual change that each adjustment layer made, relative to the layer below.

Clicking the option menu at the top right gives you access to the Panel Options menu (see Figure 4).

Here you can select several different options to display information about your image at the bottom of the Info panel.

The Info panel can be particularly useful and is well worth a look if you’re not using it.

Andrew Haysom

http://www.artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-3/maureen-maxwell/

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artists-4/sharon-rankmore/

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artists-3/lynsey-stirland-mitchell/

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UPON THESE BROWS, THE TEMPEST BROODS

OUR CROWNS BEAR HEAVY DREAMS

https://andrewhaysom.myportfolio.com/ https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artists-1/andrew-haysom/

JENNY DAVIDSON ( AUSTRALIA )

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COLLABORATIVE GROUP OF PHOTO ARTISTS

CHINESE WHISPERS #94

STAGE 1 STAGE 2

This month was a bit of a challenge with some interesting pieces to play around with. After the imagination kicked in, I thought I would take us to the land of Steampunk.

I hope you all enjoy it.

Pam Henderson

http://www.artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-4/pam-henderson/

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-2/dennis-rickard/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/88165766@N05/

https://www.artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-3/karen-waalwyk/

http://www.artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-2/george-koncz/ http://georgekonczphotography.com/

STREET SCENE, SUZHOE CHINA 1

STREET SCENE, SUZHOE CHINA 2

https://colincampbell.myportfolio.com

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artists-1/colin-campbell/

https://trish-hoskin.myportfolio.com/

http://www.artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-4/trish-hoskin/

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-3/kim-ricci/

‘COFFEE and PIXELS’

by Maureen Maxwell

THIS MONTHS CHALLENGE THEME IS Freedom

https://www.artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-3/mick-rooney/

ON THE FARM

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artists-1/bev-terawskyj/

https://www.artistsdownunder.com.au/artists-1/christina-brunton/ https://chrisbrunton.com/

https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-4/sue-masterson/

https://photos.kogekar.com/ https://artistsdownunder.com.au/artist-2/hemant-kogekar/

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A COLLABORATIVE GROUP OF PHOTO ARTISTS

QUOTE CHALLENGE by the Art Buddies

A bit of background first:

In our Art Buddies group, we’re a vibrant mix of ADU members from across Australia, each contributing individual talents and viewpoints. Our team includes Christina Brunton, Denise Cauchi, Ilona Abou-Zolof, Marie Helyar, Ngaire Danvers, Marina Hobbs, and Robyn McLauchlan. We gather regularly on Zoom, taking turns to set our creative challenges.

Quote:

For this challenge, we will go to the year 1970 and choose a hit that was released for the first time in that year. Take a verse out of that song and use it as the foundation for an image.

Our Art Creations:

We hope our creations motivate you to share your own interpretation on the Artists Down Under Facebook page. Your artistic expression matters to us, and we are excited to see what you create!

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