Maximilian

100% PdN, departing from a lady's picture so as to create a hollow outline

It works in 4.0.21 I'd rephrase this by saying it does what one needs, and more

I salute all participants. All entries look craftily done, each in their own way

Spectacular!! I feel the second looks peculiarly mysterious 😊

I also had planned to do a werewolf-themed entry, but finally didn't have the time to put on it. I hope I'll get to it sometime in future

All entries have been very well achieved and pleasant to contemplate Greetings to fellow winners, and many thanks to everyone involved, much especially to those who voted for my pieces

Really pleasant to look at!! All of it!!

Pansies are so striking! Very nicely done!!

The scene was created entirely in PdN. The ship is a clipart on which I modified colors and played with blend modes:

I took a couple cliparts of a Boeing 747 and a Boeing 787 and played with colors. The scenery itself was done completely in PdN:

Very welcome! Always glad to be of service!

Fond greetings to everyone involved in this contest and fond thanks to voters who have supported my art

I beat an Admin... What a day!

Hi, Ghostolini, and very welcome to the forum ✋ The following tutorial may help you answer your first question: And this other tutorial may give you an answer to your second question: I wish you good luck trying them out, and feel free to ask if you have further questions

I'm sorry @welshblue won't be able to submit a modified entry upon having flattened the project file. It was a worthy piece to view, with or without paper cup. If my opinion counts for anything, I'm not a big fan of flattening. I prefer to preserve all layers, and take notes of what I did to produce them for future reference, if possible, and hardly ever flatten anything at all unless strictly unavoidable. Just an idea

All PdN. One of my pieces on Drogon from Game of Thrones.

An all PdN interpretation of the myth of the Phoenix, inspired by a previous piece I did in watercolor pencils (pity it looks so small in horizontal sig size 🙄)

Amazingly super cute! Great job!!

Looks like both a lamp and an ornament, very suitable for a cozy nook!

I had a great time creating my entries, and enjoyed viewing the other entries as well Many thanks to voters, participants, and to our lovable host! 💖 I'm really happy!

I'm very glad you like my result, @HyReZ! Many thanks for your encouraging comments!

Very thought-provoking I think!

I first ran Surface Blur with a Radius of 1 and a Threshold of 5 to reduce some of the graininess on her face. Then I applied Local Contrast Enhancement as shown in the pic below: The result is this: Then I ran G'MIC (Boost-Fade filter with settings as shown below): Which resulted in this: (There's still a good amount of graininess on her face, so these are intended merely as possible starting points for further improvement) Alternatively, I also tried applying the Boost-Fade filter alone, with no previous effect, but I think the outcome turned out rather colorless, although her face seems to look a bit less grainy than with the previous method: So, in order to enhance colors, I applied the Laplacian Pyramid Filter with an Outlier reduction of 50 and an Extra contrast of 0.55 (all other settings at defaults), rendering the following result: I tried other methods as well, but didn't like the outcomes very much. I hope my take on the matter may help somehow (I feel I prefer the second method but that's up to each eye's taste).

Best of lucks and a much speedy recovery! 💖

A super cute rendition!