Julio PDN Pics

Just posting an update letting you know that I won third place in the competition titled Pertaining to a Lumberjack. It was a fun competition and it let me use some creative juices I haven’t used in a long time. Here is the sig.  I recently stumbled upon a tutorial on the Paint.NET Forums on how to make a wooden background, so I used that on the background of the sig. I then used black text and layer blend modes to make the burnt on text as well as the writing on the ax. Overall, I learned some new things and it was fun.

I’ve been becoming a bit more active on the Paint.NET forums, and have entered into two competitions. I’ll post my results of each one when the competitions end later on so that you can see my results. If I place, I may even add some more awards to my awards page! I’m excited to show you what I have made for them and I’ll see you here soon.

Remember the Trial by Fire image? This is literally the same image, but layer blend modes are a bit different and a few effects made it so that it would look different enough from the last image. This is more what I was going for the first time around, but still not really quite there. When I looked at it trying to figure out if I could add anymore, I thought it looked like a place in Star Trek: Voyager that an alien species called Species 8472 lived, so I give you their home called Fluidic Space. Like I said before, effects are pretty much the same as with Trial by Fire, but the layer blend modes are a bit different. I used Color Burn, Screen, and Lighten to keep the yellow traces in there, but also made it a bit darker with Difference and Darken since it isn’t all yellow. Enjoy these images and I hope to see you soon.

Life gives us a lot of crap, and sometimes we may think that it isn’t really fair the amount of stuff we are going through. I know that if we make it though, it is a trial that will make us stronger in the end, hence the title of this post and image. This is an interesting image. I was creating this image as a yellow image at the beginning, and that is how it stayed for a long time, but then one layer blend mode changed it all and made it look like a fire image. I kind of liked it and kept it, so I give you the image titled Trial by Fire. Radial Blur, Glass Vignette, and Polar Inversion are the main effects used here, as well as layer blend modes such as Overlay, Lighten and Screen. The orange and red came as a result of the Overlay blend mode. Something else that I did was I flattened the image, copied the flattened image, unflattened it, and pasted it as a new layer. That gave me the entire image to manipulate and that is mainly what I used to get the results you see. I’m stil