Julio PDN Pics

I have done another competition on the Paint.NET forums, and my wanting to enter was honestly solely on the fact that it was themed on a desert landscape. I love the desert, and have been working on different ways to make stone textures, and I think through trial and error, I have been able to make stone textures fairly well. Not the best, but fairly well. There are others on the Paint.NET forums that are way better than I am, but I try with the effects that I know. Here are the images. The first one is the sig, and the second one is the full image. I drew inspiration from Monument Valley, and it definitely helped stretch me a bit more than I would have had I not done this competition. I haven't really considered doing scenery things when I started, but with dragons, desert pictures, and now this, it's definitely a stretch and I like it. Main effects used were Crystalize, Frosted Glass, Diffuse, Clouds, Fragment, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, and Gradient Blocks. Then t...

I had to share this with you since I made a wonderful breakthrough. In the past, I have made images with mountains where they are in shadow like in  Mountain Horizon , or when I got braver and made an image with the mountains in front with the light on them like  Desert Home . I then discovered how to make a stony looking texture, and incorporated that into the remake of Desert Home. I used some new effects such as Motion Blur and Diffuse. I also used Gradients, Gaussian Blur, and the Darken blend mode. I wrote it all down in a Notepad document to keep it safe, but may transfer it to a Word Document sometime soon. I did that so that I can remember how I did it in case I want to create more images with mountains again. I hope you enjoyed this remake of Desert Home, and I'll see you here in the next post.