Julio PDN Pics

Hopefully it's warming up everywhere now that Spring has taken it's toll on us, except for the southern hemisphere...sorry guys. Anyway, I thought it would be wonderful to make an image depicting the life force that seems to come every spring after winter's seemingly long cold days have left us for a while. Life that seemed to have left comes back, the grass turns green, flowers come up, and warmer days are ahead. Hence the title of this image and the colors of what I think life on this earth are, blue and green. An image that looks a lot like this has already been shown here, if you remember my 8 Elements series. I think that this almost looks like the Elemental Power of Air that I created, but it's a bit different in the sense that it has that ice-like outside, with the "life force" blue in the middle, pushing it away. I used a lot of Dents, Radial Blur, Polar Inversion, and my new favorite, Radial Extruder for this image. Blend modes for this were a bi...

Hey everyone and happy Throw Back Thursday! This is my 100th post on this blog, which is a huge milestone for me. I almost want to go out and celebrate this milestone and eat some ice cream or something, but we’ll see what happens. Anyway, I have decided that I would make this a special post and show you a bit of my accomplishments throughout the years. I have a compilation of a few of my favorite images (except the first one) I've made over the years to show how much I’ve grown and improved down below. Divided (Aug. '09) Cool Fire (Dec. '09) Underwater Fire (Mar. '10) Fire Jolt (Sept. '10) Jewel (Oct. '10) Ice Inversion (Nov. '10) Mystic Light (Feb. '11) Left Behind (Mar. '11) The Rush (Apr. '11) Mountain Horizon (Apr. '11) Blue Energy Stream (May '13) Portal Back Home (Jul. '14) Colors of Fall (Nov. '15) Elemental Power of Fire (Jan. '16...

This one is interesting. It was not what I was going for at all, but I got to a certain point where it looked like a gemstone, and I couldn't turn back from there. When I got done, I didn't know what to call it, so I looked on Google for stones that have blue and yellow in them. Labradorite is what came up, so I stuck with that. It has a nice glow to it, hence I decided to have this be the core of said labradorite. This one I combined a few elements of my old style, with some of the smooth style that I've gained. I think it turned out really nicely. Zoom Blur Deluxe is featured in this image, as well as Polar Inversion, and other favorites that I will let you figure out. Enjoy this precious gemstone's core, and I'll see you in a later installment, here on my blog.

Remember Divided from two posts ago? Here is the manipulation of that image that you have been waiting for. I call it Horizon Lights, since it looks like some of the light in the horizon at sunrise/sunset. Lots of Radial Blur Deluxe, Dents, Splinter, and a lot of layer blend modes in effect. I even flattened the image, copied it, and manipulated it even more to give you the result below. The layer blend modes were hard to get right since I would look at one blend mode, and love it! Then I would look at another one, and love it too!! It was a tough choice to have it looking how it is, but I'm happy with it. I hope you all enjoyed this installment of My PDN Pictures and I hope to see you here again very soon.

Hoppy Easter everyone! I hope everyone enjoys their Easter Sunday and that the Easter Bunny visited them. I made an Easter image with help from Google and this Easter color palette, and came up with this image called Easter's Treat. Nothing really new here as far as effects used. Splinter, Dents, and Radial Blur. I had to add a bit of the Easter green since it looked like a blue and purple image, so I added a splash of that in the top middle area. I then blended it with blurs and Dents so that it wasn't an eye sore. Not much else to say today except for have a good Easter, and remember, it's not about the chocolate or bunnies, it's about Christ and what He did for all of us.

The title is something that I haven't really done here, which is a title that isn't the title of the image at all. Don't worry, I'll go on to my old ways here in the next post, unless you guys like the interesting titles. We shall see what happens. So I was thinking of what to do for a new image, and I thought, why not resurrect my very first image that I made on Paint.NET, which I called Divided. Now, this image is the worst image I have on here, at least one of my worst, since it was when I first started and didn't know what I was doing. I have since gotten better as you can see, and am wanting to show what I can do. Anyhow, I wanted to do something with this image so that I can compare them side by side, and show myself how far I've come in 9 years or so. To give you perspective, here is my first image called Divided. Not the best, lots of dark areas, and not many effects. I was a senior in High School since it was created back in September of 2009. So...

Spring is nearly here, which means warmer weather is on its way. I'm excited about that since I would really like to start riding my bike again and doing other outdoor activities. I looked on Google for spring color palettes to get some ideas on what colors to use, and I found this one that I'll be using (thanks Google). So without much else to say, here is Spring Flowers. I took some green and made a bit of the background using Radial Blur, and then I tried making a green flower-like design, but in the end I didn't keep it. I then used the pink from the color palette and made the outlines of it. I then made the flower design with pink. I then added a lighter green to brighten the image up. I hope everyone is excited about the warm weather coming, and especially spring. It is one of the most beautiful times of year with all sorts of flowers and colors. As always, take care and I'll see you here soon.