Julio PDN Pics

September has almost gone, and it looks like summer is fading fast. It's so sad to see summer fade away for me, but things have to take their toll, but I wish that Summer would just last a bit longer. I'm not a huge fan of fall or winter. I love spring because summer is coming, but we have to say goodbye for a season (or three). To depict this, I created Fading Summer. The green is in the center, but surrounded with some yellow to show that summer is fading away and fall is coming in. I didn't use too many layer blend modes, but I did make it so that some of the layers were a bit more transparent than others. I know this is a bit of a shorter post, but I hope to have more for you soon.

I love summer! It's a great time of year and I love going out and taking hikes, riding my bike, or just take a walk. Of course, summer has to come to a close, but it'll be back next year. Summer always reminds me of my hometown and I created an abstract image that I think looks like the patterns that show up in Sandstone. I actually took the full size image of a Sig I created a while ago of a dragon from the game Starcraft. With that image, I distorted it until you see the new image called Sandstone Patterns. I used my classic effects such as Radial Blur, Polar Inversion, Glass Vignette, and Radial Extruder to get the effects that I wanted. I then used a few blend modes such as Multiply, Glow, and Color Dodge. I then merged the entire image and did a few more distortions, but I didn't like it as much since it covered up some of the different patterns I initially saw, so I took it out. I hope you all enjoy and I'll be back with another image soon.