myoriah

Great job everyone! What beautiful work it inspires me to play around more.

I'm not sure how to go about it but I think the soldier on the first one needs to be popped out a little bit. He is hard to see at least for me and I think if popped out he would appear more lonely. The second one I think needs something. Sorry but it appears too blah and ordinary. Doesn't invoke any emotion or nothing. Perhaps add some blurred wisps or more of an impression of fog without totally losing the soldier. Maybe just a touch of color somewhere. Thanks for sharing. I hope someone who knows more how to do things with this program than I do will have some good ideas of how you can improve them. I think you have a good start and see lots of potential with your images.

fleeting glimpse you missed the black cat with the telporting unit on the back quarters. That is the first thing I noticed. My impression at first glance was that it was spirits perhaps of the departed watching over us. I also saw what appeared to be an alien watching us. Perhaps studying us. Interesting piece and choice of colors. Second look at your work and instead of spirits watching over us I'm thinking about a native american type poem that I wrote about spirit rising. It is about how at the time of earthly death the spirit rises to another plane,another place. So I thought perhaps the spirits were rising not singular but in a group somewhere.

This is the first picture I came up with to use on the front of a card. Although I liked it it seemed to be a little blah so after playing around with different things I came up with this one. I like it a lot better. I thought I had lost this vintage image but it resurfaced so using the vintage image and a stock image of shamrocks I put together this. I plan to use some curling ribbon on the card to echo the ribbon in the vintage image. Another vintage image with the same shamrock image. I found a shamrock necklace strung on string and I'm going to use part of the necklace on this card.

This is my first attempt at putting together a photo collage with this program.

I save my graphics in png format for use in Word and Publisher. I have gotten great quality in my printouts. I use the autodetect setting when I save them and so far have not been disappointed. If you have any doubts best to save first as pdn and then save in the different formats. Good luck!

Here is an automatic drawing I did with two different textures being used as background. I did the drawing with my eyes closed. Good thing it was done on my computer or I would have had paint,pencil or crayon all over the wall.

Here is a thumbnail of my entry. This is 100% Paint.Net.

This is something different. I got the idea to divide the dog and to use different images for symbols from Roy De Forest's Ink on paper "K-9 Corps". The music notes near Jr's tail is because he loves to use his tail as drumsticks on any available surface. One of these days I'm going to rent him out as a drummer.

Thanks I already have played around with the pastel but had not thought of trying the frosted glass after using the pastel. I decided in my old age to experiment and try new things. In addition I decided to learn more about art and different techniques that artist have used.

I did search but could not come up with anything for crayons or chalk. Although in another program I can convert an image to conte crayon and chalk it does both of them. In other words I have no control over where the chalk is placed and can not just make an image with the look of being drawn with conte crayon. In addition it would be nice to sometimes draw with chalk. We have pencil and paintbrush but no chalk as far as I can tell. I would like to try to duplicate the effect Edgar Degas did in his "Ballet Dancer Standing".

I had fun playing with different graphics to make the heart out of. I used a photo of a sunset at the beach and this is what the result was. I especially like the way this one turned out using a flower picture I had played around with earlier in Paint.Net. Thank you for sharing.

The contest for a lock screen image encouraged me to try my hand at creating my own lock screen images. This is what I first came up with. The user picture fits perfectly in the middle when the computer is locked. This one I thought was really elegant and would even be good for regular wallpaper. I don't know if gif files would work but thought this would be neat with a butterfly flitting around.

I thought I posted this but it is not showing up in my posts and I don't see it here. This was my first attempt at making an abstract image using Paint.NET. I took the image I got playing around with the kaleidoscope plug-in and used the metallic plug-in on it.

The first time I open Custom Brushes it wants me to update the plug-in. (I am using the newest plug-in) and then I get the message there is an error and do I want to continue the program. Of course I always say yes and can then go in and use the Custom Brushes as I would normally.