Julio PDN Pics

  Life has a way of throwing things in our path that can be hard, and while 2020 may have been extremely hard on all of us, it has been harder still for me. I know many of us loose loved ones, and have lost many to COVID-19, other disease, accidents, or just of old age. Now I have lost my grandpa, who is one of the greatest examples to me of humility and greatness in my life. I have many fond memories spending time with him while he was on his laptop visiting, and of the jokes he made while spending time with everyone. He passed due to Multiple Myeloma, a type of blood cancer that spread rapidly, so in memory of him and for the length of time he fought this cancer, I made this in the color of the cancer, burgundy. I started with the burgundy color in the center, and moved it outward using Gaussian Blur, Dents, and Radial Blur. I then added some burgundy to the left and did some more Gaussian Blur and Dents, then duplicated it and flipped it to the right. Then on the right I added w...

It's starting to become fall weather yet again, and with that comes cooler temperatures. Since summer is my favorite time of year, that makes this time of year a bit sad for me. I love the heat, of course that's what happens when you are from the desert. So since I haven't made an image about summer yet, here's one (sort of) that captures the type of heat that I like. I also decided to make it a bit more subtle since the heat is dying down a bit. So here is Dying Furnace. The main body of the image was made using the Fire rendering, which I haven't used in years, so that's a bit of a trip down memory lane. I then distorted it like crazy, to give you what you see above. The main effects used were Radial Blur, Polar Inversion, Gaussian Blur, Radial Extruder, Tile Reflection, Kaleidoscope and Dents. Then the layer blend modes I used were Overlay, Additive, and Lighten. Overlay I mostly use to make things transparent to merge layers down and make it a bit darke...