Julio PDN Pics

Fitting title for the first post in 2025, after about half the year has gone. Here in the northern hemisphere it is also getting sunnier and warmer, so once again, fitting for this. You can imagine if you've been a loyal reader/watcher of this blog that the title of the post is also the title of the image I'm going to post, so without further to say, I give you Hello Sunshine. Started this one a bit different and used Frosted Glass and Dents instead of my classic Gaussian Blur with both the orange and the darker blue colors. I then added a splash of light blue and yellow to give it a bit more of a sunshine look. I honestly didn't know what to expect with this image since I wanted a brighter image, but not overbearing. I also didn't know what to call it, then when looking at the finished product the song  Hello Sunshine by Mercy River  (which I listened to this album a lot while I was in Spain) came to my head, hence the image name. I hope you enjoyed this installment an...

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.

It's been about a month since school started, and I'm sure that lot's of people are wanting to stay home and relax after a nice summer vacation. That of course, is not the case for many since school is an important thing since it will help you out later in life. I made this image a while ago, right after Dragon's Breath actually, and wanted to share it with you since I think this is a lovely image depicting my home town. I used Dents and Gravity for the texture of the red and blue mountains, as well as Gaussian blur and gradients for the 3D and shading of the mountains. I then used a lot of layer blend modes to get the texture and colors that I was looking for. I then added the sunset in the sky and darkened the image to show that sunset sort of feel. I hope you enjoy this image, not like most things I do since I make abstracts, but this still life was a cool experience that I may do again. Take care and I'll see you here soon.