Julio PDN Pics

Happy Kwanzaa! Here is the last of the December Holidays. I knew the colors of Kwanzaa, but had to look them up to make sure they were right. I then started with a red background and had the red in the middle, while I had black and green added on both sides. I'm not sure if the order of the colors matters, but if it does, I apologize for that, and I'll do better next time around. Here is the image called Spirit of Kwanzaa. I mostly used Polar Inversion, and Radial Blur. I then used the layer blend modes Additive, Lighten, and Difference to give it the look that it does. I had fun with this little project of December Holidays and I hope that next year I'm able to do it again. If you have suggestions for other images or projects make sure to comment below or email me those ideas.

Merry Christmas! I hope that you are all having a great time and that you got to spend time with those that mean the most to you. I created this image a while ago, but decided to wait to post it until now. I had a vision in my head about what I wanted to do for a Christmas image, and I wanted to do a close up of a Christmas Tree. I found a tutorial on the Paint.NET forums and gave it a whirl. It wasn't difficult, just a bit time consuming like the tutorial said, but I got it looking how I wanted it to. I then added the orbs and lights to the tree which made it seem a bit more real. I then decided to try to add some texture to the wall and I did that using a rendering called Clouds, and then I made the wall a little transparent to allow the texture to come through. Aside from that, not many effects were used, nor layer blend modes. I hope the holidays are good to you all!

Happy Hanukkah! Here is the first of the December Holidays that I mentioned. I looked up the colors of Hanukkah and they were blue and white, so I got started with those. I wanted to do a bit more like I usually do, but I had a certain combination of layer blend modes that I really liked so I couldn't do much more than what I have here. Here is Hanukkah Celebration. I did a few effects that you can see right off the bat. Radial Extruder, Radial Blur, and Polar Inversion were all used here. I also used Darken and Overlay as the main layer blend modes. I think it looks pretty good, not what I was going for, but I think it still looks pretty good. Enjoy and I'll see you here again soon.

I had a thought of doing a December Holiday series and posting an image for three holidays that I know of in December. Those holidays include Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. Reason I am wanting to do that is to include all of the holidays instead of just doing Christmas like I have been doing. I hope you enjoy that and I'll see you here with the first image on the 22nd.