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@welshblue: it's smudge and your submarine/island is amazing. besides the floating island :shock: and the other things people pointed out, i can't see any flaws, it's talent i'll never have

yup! Its a duckling! And I like the spacescape, you used gravity for the space rock in the foreground, right? A few things, just my opinions: the space clouds seem too blue, maybe lighten them a bit? Also, the planets seem too detailed, for them to be in the background. Maybe blurthem a bit? But overall, amazing

yes, If you're changing little things like wheels, people who aren't obsessed with cars won't know what you did. I agree (again) with Flip, post some originals, just so we can tell what was your work, and what was already there.

haha ya, its seems like I only get time to really create when I'm out of school, sick....I have the flu this time not H1N1, though, thank god. Thanks for the comment!

@AFG: I love it, It's talent I'll never have...I think the sky should be a bit blue-er but that's just my opinion. @yy10: It's not failed at all! It just seems like you put a lot of work into the dino, and then jut made a background in five minutes. work more on the background. Anyone have comments about my newest piece? I havent done a great background, but I want to be completely happy with the chick first.

Thanks! Just posted a few new things including:

ya, I was wondering the same thing

:shock: Forum rules say not to post anything that isn't a tutorial in the tutorial section. Just so you know....

its ok, you want to use feather more and get rid of unwanted pixels, especially in the IE piece...also, these are very simple, you might want to do more to them, but keep up the good work

Thank you, it means a lot

Added Bumblebee!!!

I like your spacescapes The only comment I have is to maybe use less stars in them because they are a little much....but very good!

@janettsue: Thanks, and I totally agree As for my username, I am one of thousands of Twilight fans, and my favorite gemstone is an emerald, so that's where it came from...I'm actually italian and french canadian 8) ***added some more pics

I think you should change the very back layer to a different color, too much blue for my taste. But, it's very good for someone just starting out. Keep up the good work!

@Oma: Thanks It's so nice to see people take intrest in each other's work here @Ash: I kinda feel like I'm talking to royalty I owe any talent I've developed for PdN to the people who write amazing tutorials for people like me to follow Thanks very much. @KillerK: Thank you, I'm glad to get positive feedback on those, especially since I wasn't sure if they were that great...

Thanks for the advice, and I just added a couple more!

After trying (and failing) many times, here's my outcome: Then, I tried some of the methods in this tut to make my own, more personalized spacescape

If I'm not mistaken, pics posted in the Pictorium must be 100% PdN, which means that everythng was created with PdN tools, plugins, ect. Resizing other pictures made elsewhere doesn't count Edit: ^^Taken from Pictorium Guidelines

Hey, I'm Emerald, or Stephieyy, whichever....I'm new to posting in the forums, but I've been lurking for a while. Tell me what you think! NEW! My beautiful cousins I took the picture of the flower, but not of them. Heeeerrrreee Chickey, Chickey! 100% pdn changed my flowers rainbow! New abstract. I call it 'curtains' What a gem! 100% pdn ABSTRACTS Hidden Content: So, when I first downloaded pdn, I did what most new users do: grabbed a bunch of plugins, and went crazy with polar inversion After I calmed down a little, I did a lot of abstracts, here are a few of my favorites: This is called 'Rainbow Marbles' This for some reason reminds me of birds, so this is called 'Bird wings' This sort of reminded of that nickelodeon show 'Jimmy Neutron' that I watched when I was like 6....so it's called 'Neutron Marble' This reminded me of a greenhouse window, so it's called 'psycadellic window' This is called 'Stained Glass' This sort of reminded me of different layers of colored tracing paper, so it's called 'Tracing Paper' New abstract. I call it 'curtains' MADE USING TUTS Hidden Content: So, after I got the abstracts out of my system, I looked around the forums at some tutorials. I made changes on most of my results. I don't have the exact names of each of the tuts, but all of these images below were made from other's tuts, with some changes. Here are some of the results: So, I saw a tut that taught how to make ribbons, by MadJik, and I created this. I call it 'Gas Puddle' I learned how to do this from topHATslash's tut. I added the text and the heart using the same method. I made this using ash's tut, but I made a lot of changes. I made this with Oma's tut...I didnt make any changes (that I remember) but I did use it to make a later project. I made this using jsonchiu's tut for the planet and rings (changes made) The background is my own design, and the text at the bottom right was made using tylerdx1993's tut, again, with changes This was made using ash's gem tut, using ideas from both versions, and a couple ideas of my own. This was made following Frozen_byte's tut. After using their tut, I used some of their ideas, and added some of mine, to make this : REALISTIC Hidden Content: This was started with oma's tut for a pear, and I decided to expand my pear into a whole basket of fruit. The basket partially came from methods in one of ash's tuts (I'm pretty sure), but the apple, orange, and grapes are all mine. 100% pdn Since I'm such a big Harry Potter fan, I had to try to create a Golden Snitch. 100% my own, and pdn. I used the picture below for reference: Here, I decided to experiment with metallic texture, so I made Sweeney Todd's Razor. 100% mine and pdn, using the below picture for reference, though I changed the design on the case of the razor: I'm a huge Twilight fan, as you can tell by my username, so I decided to create Rosalie's necklace. 100% mine and pdn, using the below pic for a grid (you know the method, make a blank grid and a grid on the picture and then try to make each square look the same?) I was bored, so I made a Rubik's Cube...yay! I tried my hand at making a sunset....100% mine! I decided to try to make my guitar on PdN....after, I decided to make a background-type-thing out of it: I also decided to try to make a candle...credit to -expiration- for their tut on making flames. I used their ideas from the tut, altered them a bit, and made the flame and smoke in the pic with it--candle, dish, and match are 100% mine. HEEEEERRRREEESSS BUMBLEBEE!! Sorry for the caps, I now have an obsession with Transformers...not my best work but it took 5 hours... Heeeerrrreee Chickey, Chickey! 100% pdn What a gem! 100% pdn PHOTO MANIP Hidden Content: I decided to try to edit some eyes....the originals are on the bottom, pics taken from photobucket My beautiful cousins. I took the picture of the flower, but not of them. I took both pics, and used pdn to merge them. changed my flowers rainbow! And, that's the end! (for now) Any comments/suggestions/constructive criticism is greatly appreciated. I'm pretty sure I followed all of the rules, but if not, please let me know. Thanks for looking! EDIT: added Rubik's Cube 7:33pm 5/26/09 EDIT: added both spacescapes and the sunset 5:56pm 5/28/09 EDIT: added two guitar pics 1:42pm 5/29/09 EDIT: added eyes and candle 5:42pm 5/30/09 EDIT: added Bumblebee 10:47pm 7/5/09 EDIT: added a BUNCH of new things 10/3/09