Learn Tierazon Fractals With Me: 1-171128 Tierazon Fractal Tutorial

The tutorials each introduce you to different functions inside Tierazon. They are best used in order of submission on my blog. Good luck and have fun!

Open Tierazon

Mandelbrot size is 160 x 120. It is very small. The bigger the size, the more room it takes up on your hard drive.

You may want to work at 320 x 240 to help the picture render faster when applying effects, and to make sure your color control box always works. Remember: any time you work larger, you have to REDUCE the size to get the color control box to work.

I’ve searched for tutorials in Tierazon, and I’ve found older ones here and there. Most users will say that their color control box quit working. That’s not true. They just get used to working in larger sizes and FORGET to reduce it to 320 x 240 or less to use it.

You can work larger, 877 x 849, which is the size for a Facebook posting, and it will help you see the design much easier. You can change it to a smaller size before saving, but that is a lot of going back and forth.

Eventually, YOU will have to determine what size you want to work at and what size you want to save at.

Or, you can save them all at 877 x 849, and then go back later and re-save them at a smaller size by over-writing the files, and just enlarge when you have one you wish to print.

In searching for tutorials online, most images are quite small and hard to appreciate the detail that is in them. (Also: there are a lot of programs out there.)

Also remember: Your work will be a little different than mine as where you choose to zoom in will be different than mine to some degree. Where you choose to zoom may affect the colors also. That’s what’s so great about this program. You are creating original art right from the very beginning!

Start: changing the size:

Right click on your image and choose XY size. I’m choosing 320 x 240 for now.

Original Mandelbrot: picture 1 / 1-171128-1M (the M is for Mandelbrot). It is saved as bit map.

I have a folder inside the program for saved images. I already have one for 2017, so I click inside it. I make a folder for 11 Nov 17 (for the # of the month, then Nov for November, and then 17 for the year.) I click on that. Now I set up a folder for 1-171128 (which stands for: 1 is the 1^st set of fractals for today, 17 for the year, 11 for the month, and 28 for the day. Now I will add a -1 to each fractal saved.)

Each image saved has two parts. One is a bit map, and the other is .zar. Keep both files so you can reopen it when you need to continue working on that particular image. (The program does this automatically, so don’t freak out when you see two files and start deleting files. You will need them.)

In the very first post of this blog, I asked you to go through some pages on http://fractalarts.com/ASF/Tutor1.html to learn about formulas.

The standard formula on your beginning Mandelbrot is z*z+c and M-Set is chosen automatically. You can see this and also change this by right clicking on your image and choosing Unique Editor Dialog.

Let’s just change one thing. Click N-Set, and ok, and then notice the change. Picture 1-171128-1

Let’s go back into the Unique Editor Dialog again and change the formula. Let’s use: asin(z*z*z*z*z*z*z+c)/-log(c*c*c)

Picture 1-171128-2 / Switching to a 877 x 849 XY Size. (Highlight the formula and paste it in Tierazon.)

Filters-1, 39.

Picture 1-171128-3.

Filters-3, 27. *This seems to be a favorite setting in older tutorials I’ve found. I have to admit it; it’s my favorite, too. Just look how much the fractal changed from picture 2.

Picture 1-171128-4.

Also note, I’ve used Filters-3, so I now may use FD Options. You can run through the list, one after another, and see which one you like the most.

I am using:

FD options 16, Picture 1-171128-5.

I’m really curious about the speckled red and gold area off to the right middle. I am going to zoom in on it.

Put your mouse on the area you want to zoom in on, and start drawing a box, pressing the left mouse button. If you don’t like what it is covering, just click on the fractal and the box will go away. Now draw it again. You can grab the box (I grab in the center), and move it to place it where I want it. You can also draw your box OFF the fractal into the program and it will move to that spot, even though you can’t see it. Yes. An interesting way to move around the canvas.

Now. I am going to just click on the canvas because I want to explore a couple of areas just ON this ONE fractal.

The tool bar off to the size; go to what looks like 2 boxes or envelopes overlapping. It the 10^th button down. Click it.

Now this fractal will remain. I go back to the speckled area I wanted to look at. Draw my little box. Click the little magnifying glass on the side toolbar, and it will render a new fractal called Jungle2. I will save it as:

Picture 1-171128-5-1 (the 5 again meaning it came from the 5^th picture, and it is not 1. Anything I make with this one will be a, b, c, d, etc.). I like this fractal only because I like to scrapbook family pictures and do cards, and I see this has potential as a back ground.

Now, I minimize this one and go back to JUST 5. If I continued working on 5-1, the dup box is on and it would make another Jungle fractal. I want to use the dup JUST on 5.

I will draw a box off to the left just below center as I like the colors here. Hit magnifying glass to zoom in.

Picture 1-171128-5-2. (The second picture off of #5.) I really like this one and continue zooming in.

Minimize this one. Pic 1-171128-5 is there, so I’m going to turn the dup box off (on the size bar), and close picture 5.

I bring up 5-1 again and close it out.

Next, I bring 5-2 back up. Intriguing.

Let’s explore changing color. On the top, go to color and it says it’s brg. Let’s change it to bgr.

Picture 1-171128-5-2a.

Now I’m trying color rgb, and wow. Since I love reds, this is it for me.

Picture 1-171128-5-2b.

Note: when I save, I could use the menu at the top under file. But I prefer to right click on the fractal and choose Save As. It’s faster, and I don’t accidentally hit any of the side bar buttons.

I’m staying with 5-2b, and going to zoom in.

I like all that red off to left center and below, so I’m zooming in there.

Draw your box and hit the magnifying icon on the side tool bar.

Picture 1-171128-5-2c.

This is good, so I’m using this one in my art work.

Many artists use a digital art program to work more on their fractals. I love using PSP, (Paint Shop Pro), and I still have an earlier version (V 9).

I tend to like my fractals when the main action (or focus) is off to one side or the other or the top or bottom. It provides a lot of interest. (Meaning, it's not symmetrical.)

One last thing. Because I use a digital art program, I turn my bit maps into psp files while working on them. When I get the final version done (in layers), I merge them down, and save either as a jpg or png. I always sharpen the final fractal.

Below, I will show how I used this particular fractal.

NOTE: I did one more zoom; picture 1-171128-5-2d.