Would like to propose a badge for folks who fiddle with pollen. A place to discuss resources, methods, wants would be fun.

Or have I missed a link... I'll look again.
Brian

I'm willing to make such a badge. Any ideas on what it might look like? I'm having trouble envisioning what kind of button would be right for pollen. Maybe some stamens?

stamens with a magnifying glass?

I'm not sure but I think he might mean forum not badge. The second part of the request says

Chickensonmars said: A place to discuss resources, methods, wants would be fun.

Or have I missed a link... I'll look again.
Brian

That sounds like a forum to me.

You may be right. Or maybe he wants both.

Which is it, OP? And by the way, welcome to ATP. I'm already enjoying your images you've been posting.

Oooh, I vote for both ... Pollen Forum and Badge! I don't have the patience to propagate plants by hand pollination but I know many folks do!

Brian: I forgot to say

Hetty: I think stamens with a magnifier would be the perfect badge!

Brian

Brian

Sooo, this has given me an opportunity to play with making badges again.

I had a photo of a very small flower of Aucuba japonica which has some nice stamens, I managed to cut out the background but for the life of me I can't find a colour pallette. I ended up with a white background, resized it may or may not be suitable.

Loading both before resizing and after.

Nice photo Janet! I have a couple of photo's showing Easter Lily stamens with lots of pollen (one with ants crawling around) but I don't know how to resize photo's.

It's difficult finding something which shows well once resized to 32 pixels Lin, I had thought of Lilies.

Here's a tulip centre which shows quite well, I have only resized it.

Great, personal bias had me thinking Hippeastrum or lilium and the magnifying glass seems on course, but I defer to your designers as to what would work.
I am suggesting also or better asking if folks think there might be enough interest for a section on pollen.
She may work in genera A&B, I may be interested in only genera Y&Z but I am still likely to glean some essential info or better technique.
Brian

Janet, what program did you use for your pic?

Lilium cernuum..

Original with background removed.. if this is suitable, someone might be able to add a coloured background if white isn't preferred.



Resized ..

Jay, I used Paint.NET with the lasso, then cut the areas out, and used the eraser to clean up the edges. (5 pixels eraser at 200%)

Oh, I resized in the normal Microsoft Paint which comes with Windows 7

Ok I just downloaded paint.net and when I opened it the color pallet opened automatically.


But if it is not open click on the window tab at the top then colors.



Select the color you want then use the bucket fill to fill in the areas where you erased.

Duh, I looked so many times under the windows tab but it, I feel sure, wasn't there before! Well, it is now, so obvious!

Thanks Jay!

What do you think of the programme compared to GIMP?

Out of all the colours it was only a shade of green which seems suitable with the pollen colour, some of the stems got obliterated but that doesn't show when resized.

I tried one of the imtermediate colours between blue and green from the circle,

I just played with it for a minute to figure out the lasso and where the color pallet was, but I think I like gimp better. But I may be that I am just used to using gimp. One thing I noticed right off is I can get closer with the lasso in gimp. Assuming I am using the lasso in Paint correctly.
Paint on the left - Gimp on right

Starting out closed leaves a lot less to remove.