Julio PDN Pics

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I can say that even though winter is around the corner, and fall has nearly come and gone, it is one of those days that just feels warm. I love Thanksgiving, since it is a time to feel thankful for all that life has brought to our lives and it is a time for family and friends to gather and enjoy each other's company. For this reason, I made this image a warm and inviting one. I was trying to think of how to make another Thanksgiving image since it is hard to make an abstract image of a holiday. I went back to the image from last year and it helped me with the color pallet so that I had something to start with. I then went for the smooth background that has become my style since last year and I have developed it into what it is now. When I finished, I realized I had the center of the piece on the same side as last year's so I  flipped it to make it different. Not much else to say now except to remind everyone to be thankful for the things you ha...

I was thinking of what I could do for another image since I was running out of fresh ideas, and I thought, why not manipulate an image that I already created to create something new. This image is a manipulation of The Rush . It's a good image by itself, and the colors are nice and all, but I wanted to make it better. I believe I succeeded with the new image from an old one that I call Aurora. Mainly used Radial Blur to really get it smooth and then got Polar Inversion to get it to have that look of it coming at you from afar. I then did another polar inversion to get the different textures into the rest of the canvas and added some subtle dents. I then played with layer blend modes and when I got a color scheme that I liked, I thought it was good to go. Enjoy this art my friends. It is nearly the end of the year, and I have been working hard to bring you at least two images every month, and I can honestly say it has been awesome! It was hard since I hardly have time, but I...

This I made a while ago (like about a year ago), and I decided to post it on here just for kicks. I did another photo manipulation here, with Orange Energy as the base, and I wanted to share this with you close to Halloween. Also it has some fall colors in there, so I feel it is ideal for this time of year. Here's the old image called Orange Energy. This one I was experimenting with Kaleidoscope and a few other effects that I don't remember. Here is Candy Corn Dreams. Radial Blur Deluxe, Polar Inversion, and Splinter blur. I then added two little orange dents and filled in some dark areas. Hopefully you enjoy these images and enjoy your Halloween in a couple days. Get lots of candy, and then eat some Candy Corn.

This image is a bit different from what I usually do. I created the background first, which has autumn colors, but it took a slightly different turn than I had anticipated near the beginning. I made a few wisps coming out of the image, which then made it look like a fire image. Not what I was going for, but decided to play with that idea. It wasn't going too well after a bit so I decided to try with the autumn theme that I had originally planned for. I proceeded to make the kaleidoscope design in the middle of the main leaf, and thought about making the leaf outline itself. I did a quick Google search of leaves, and copied it the best that I could from the image I pulled up. I made half the leaf, made some changes, and then duplicated it and flipped the duplicate vertically. I then decided to create leaves in the background to give it a more fall sort of look. I duplicated the leaf, added veins, and then used the Shift/Rotate tool to create a lot of leaves in the background. Dupl...

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.

This is one image that I wanted to do one thing, but then it came out much different from what I was going for. This tends to happen a lot honestly, but I kind of enjoy it when this happens since it creates something very unique that I didn't think about. I was in the process of seeing if I could create an image depicting my desert home, but I was a few effects in and it seemed that the feat for making an image like that was gone so I went with the flow. I now present to you the image called Dragon's Breath. Lot's of classic effects that I have used, and a few layer blend modes that I thought made the fire come out with brightness. I also used the Gravity Effect that I haven't really used very often, but made that rough look come out so it made it look like fire a bit, but no renderings for fire were used like my past fire images. As always, enjoy and stay tuned for another image coming to you soon.

School has started for most, and I'm trying to think of a good looking image to create for that. I looked up a Back to School color pallet, and found one that was a vintage color pallet, so I thought, I'll make a vintage image. As I started to mess around with it, it started to look not so vintage anymore, and more like an evening sky. My wife is great at coming up with names for my works, so I took her suggestion and call this one Evening Embers. Much of the same effects, but I did use Splintter as well as Crystalize in there. Although this is a simple image, I like the simplicity since the evening sun is a simple thing, but a very lovely thing as well. Hope you have a good day everyone, and I'll see you here in the next installment.