The_Lionhearted

Haha...had I known that I would have posted something more meaningful...perhaps my sig statement counts?

Who doesn't need more cowbell???

Wow...pretty sweet. Let me guess, polar inversion + tile reflection? Although the flames have me a little stumped ...

Very pretty...I like the use of the color blue. But I agree with Bolt...you need a small diamond gradient for shine on the bright spot... And a random cowbell orbiting!

Wow...that's pretty wicked awesome!

Ah. Hm...

Koko...what?

It's Valentine's Day people! Get those imaginations in gear! Hey guys I need to create some sort of Valentine's Day image (i.e. graphic w/ or w/out text). I've got a couple ideas and I thought to myself "Hey self, I'll ask the Paint.Net peeps if they have any ideas as well." So...as it's just around the corner...anyone have any ideas for a cool Valentine's Day graphic? Could be for anything!

Yeah, I know this picture has been done before...but this plugin is absolutely amazing!

I'm not as random as you think I salad.

duplicate layer, emboss, change layer blending to ovelay Ooo...now that's a neat trick!

Me too! Sweet pic Shaker! I'll have to try the water/fire thing soon...nicely done.

"Don't need my drugs...[PDN's] my chemical, now I'm dependent (swear not clinical)" -- Anberlin

Rick's Pics. Definately.

1. Here's what I did...create a new Paint.Net doc. 2. Click on the circle select and draw a circle by holding down shift. 3. Change your primary color to white and your secondary color to a dark brown. 4. Click on Effects>Clouds. Turn the scale down a bit...the lower the scale the smaller the cloudy area...I used 184 and 50. 5. Once clouds are on, add noise via the Effects>Add noise menu...I used 64 and 0. 6. Motion blur that the direction you want it to go...I used 141 degrees and 22 px. 7. Adjust the Brightness/Contrast under adjustments...I used -72 and 58. 8. Gaussian blur @ 2 px. 9. Add a layer of black/white clouds and set layer blending to overlay. By playing around with these settings, I'm sure you'd be able to make something close to that. Does this help at all?

Now that's cool.

I think that's a good idea.

Image>Resize

Sorry about all the questions...I'm new and eager to learn...thanks for the patience!

Ah... a plugin! This explains a lot...

I thought I had seen it before! I personally liked the old one better because of the more glassy feel of the letters...is there a tutorial on how to make text appear like your avatar Madjik? Cause that's a really neat effect..

I agree...nice effects...I'll have to try it sometime...how did you get the water to come out so nicely?

That is the original, except smaller. I had to cut it out and resize it to make it useable. Here's the original:

Thanks man...I wish I made the phoenix, but no...I had to make it bigger and cut it out of the black background. I appreciate your suggestion...I'm pretty new and haven't quite mastered the fine art of creating art!

Hey all...I'm new to the forum but have been browsing it for about a week...ever since I became addicted to Paint.Net. No joke, I've been up till 3AM the last 5 days playing around with it. Just looking at some of the amazing stuff that people come up with can be pretty intimidating :shock: , especially for someone who's knowledge of image editing was limited to Macromedia Fireworks (good program, but...) and stuff. Layers, what? I almost didn't post anything here, but I thought what the heck, I'm a college student with tons of time and the only way I'll get better is to learn from the experts. So here's my current desktop background (smaller sized) and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for what I could do to improve it? I kinda know how to do stuff, but I struggle with aesthetics. P.S. I think I accidentally broke rule #9 on the forums. Sorry Rick!