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[Moninca]

Just putting up some of the stuff I'm made using various tutorial here. Having them side by side makes it easier to see where I need to improve. Don't laugh too hard.

New Stuff - 9/2/11 - More Bubble Avi's, this time multicolor! Color Flip has to be one of the best plugins available. Also, my first attempts at Photo Manips for the SAC.

7/19/11 - Playing around with Plugins for a contest:

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My first PDN Painting. I don't really have a name for it, lol:

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Random/Contest Sigs

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Random PDN (Flutterbys & Colored Pencils) - 6/27/11

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Helen's Glass Galaxy Ball tut makes great Avi's. Several friends from another forum let me use them as guinea pigs for practicing. ^_^ In order from first to latest:

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Ella's Filled Glass tut combined with Strass's Aura tut made my signatures:

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flip's Swirly tut gave me these doodles:

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Fooling around with Mayor_McSteeze's Glossy Water tut ended up with this. Still not sure how it happened, but I like it.

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More sigs, this time with adel's Metal Text tut (yeah, I spelled my name wrong. Smart, ain't I? ) :

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Edited by Moninca, 02 September 2011 - 09:02 PM.

[HELEN]

Why would any of us laugh? These are such beauties! Amazing work on the glossy orbs--all different and very creative. The sigs are also nice and I can see that you follow the tuts very well. And the last three images are lovely. How long have you used PDN? I think you mentioned it before, but I don't remember. Great gallery!

[Moninca]

Aww, thanks Helen. ^_^ Your glass orbs are fun to make, and I'm grateful to my friends for letting me practice on them.

I've used PDN a year or two ago, on a different computer, with limited success. But all of these current images I made within the last 2 weeks or so. I have a bunch of others as well, but since they were for graphics contests on other forums, I'm going to wait until they're judged before adding them here. That way I can add my watermark, in case they're used.

Edited by Moninca, 15 June 2011 - 06:04 PM.

[Darthpyro]

I love these. The first one is just so... different I guess, and the same with the second. I've got to go try that tutorial.

[barbieq25]

Moninca, your images are just great & I am pleased to see you gallery up & running. I agree with Darthpyro - these two above are fabulous! I love your ideas. Looking forward to seeing a lot more from you.

[welshblue]

What a lot of balls.

Really nice how you've got different variations going on. My favourites are the last 2

[Moninca]

What a lot of balls.

Really nice how you've got different variations going on. My favourites are the last 2

lol I know. Apparently a craze started. I've got a queue going on. I am actually working on other things in PDN. I've got a few other types of images that I'll be putting up later today or tomorrow, since contests have all finished. No glass involved this time. lol

[pyrochild]

Nice glass

[Moninca]

Was messing around with some Paintbrushes from Brusheezy, along with the Metallize effects. Interesting results:




And experimenting with Dents and Fragment Blur. No clue how it got to this, though....



btw, how do you do the whole Hide/Show thing?

Edited by Moninca, 28 June 2011 - 05:44 AM.

[HELEN]

Oooh...the butterflies with the effect look lovely! And the fragment blur with dents is definitely interesting. Pretty cool result! And in order for you to hide something you need to type :

[ hide ] (without the spaces between the brackets)

Put whatever in between

[ /hide ]

[chrisco97]

Wow...awesome work here. Your glass is awesome! I especially love what you have done with Helen's tut.

[Moninca]

Been working on a ton of glass for people, and one of my friends gave me a challenge to do a heart. I'm proud of how it turned out.

[HELEN]

It's flawless. Wow. Excellent work with this one, as well! What a beauty!

[welshblue]

Coloured Pencils ... what a great title. It does look like the wood shavings on pencils. That's a nice effect

The heart. R U Welsh ? If not, great choice of text for the engraving

Looks great - but maybe lower the opacity of the pink swirl a bit ? Or maybe try setting the Blend Mode to Screen to get it to curve with the heart

... but that only applies if you want it to curve

Edited by welshblue, 30 June 2011 - 07:20 PM.

[Moninca]

Thanks all for the encouragement. Welsh isn't me, but I'm glad you like it welshblue. ^_^

I never use Screen blending, but only because I don't know what it actually does. It just seemed to do the same thing as Darken (or Lighten? I forget which...) What exactly does it do??

[barbieq25]

Love what you did with the butterflies & the heart. You have such great ideas. The glass ones are all so very good.

[Moninca]

Since both contests are finished, I can post these now. They didn't win, but I'm still very proud of them. ^_^ Also, some new glass orbs.

My first PDN Painting. I don't really have a name for it, lol:

"Sun Glasses" I'm thinking of tweaking this one later, to use as a sig:

The Glass is taking over, lol. The last one is unfinished (obviously). I used the Metallize effect several times, and am trying out other things on it:

[Moninca]

And, I can't figure out what's up with the hide/show glitch on Flutter Bys and Colored Pencils. I did the same thing as the others, yet it doesn't want to work. *scratches head*

[barbieq25]

They are great images & you should be proud of them. There is a lot of work in those.

[welshblue]

They are great images & you should be proud of them. There is a lot of work in those.

I totally agree.

And some. Out of the 6 orbs - MsHorse would be my favourite in a larger size.
The painting is great. The tree and cobweb in the foreground is very effective
Sunglasses is a great concept. Could be a great sig or larger project ?