Image Umbrella: Desktop Art

tribal-freak · August 29, 2009

@Sharp: I like the concrete-like style of that picture, looks nice. a little touch up you could maybe try out is add some graffiti-like text?

Sharp · August 29, 2009

@Sharp: I like the concrete-like style of that picture, looks nice. a little touch up you could maybe try out is add some graffiti-like text?

Yeah, I have some grunge-y text on it on my actual background :wink:

tribal-freak · August 29, 2009

Hah, nice. I remember making a random concrete texture edit once as a background, I use it on MSN lol:

original texture:

http://www.bu.edu/sjmag/scimag2008/imag ... ources.jpg

modified:

http://i32.tinypic.com/f1bfxk.jpg

its a link due to how large the picture is, sorry XD;

note: I didn't feel like uploading this to photobucket so i just used tiny pic lol

daugystik · August 29, 2009

to the person above, i like the design/texture, but I don't like it as a desktop background because it's too dark for my liking... also I am a "noob" so my opinion doesn't matter I've been using paint.net casually for about a year now, and I want to start to get into it more because it's an awesome program... anyways, I snatched a couple renders online because I suck at cutting renders (I have to work on that) and I created this desktop... I took the left 4 dead logos, the rest I made myself

pic of my desktop (by the way paint.net just got added onto my desktop[/suckingup])

if anybody wants to use it....???? lol it'll make my day if someone does :mrgreen: also photobucket shrunk it a ton

EDIT: sorry, I read the rules, but not the advanced critique one... my bad

Kemaru · August 29, 2009

If those were all individual renders then great composition, but as a wallpaper I'd say it's a little too busy. The background is a little empty, too. But as I said, the composition is really good.

Here's a small handheld background. Feel free to use as your background, but don't modify it and post it somewhere else. (Modifying for PERSONAL use is allowed, though, if you ask me first)

nemo · August 29, 2009

Thats really nice :shock:

daugystik · August 29, 2009

that's perfect for an iPod touch, I might use that, it's better then the defaults

007 Nab · August 29, 2009

I like it too - is it all PDN or did yo use brushes?

Kemaru · August 29, 2009

Thank you for all the comments guys :lol:

I like it too - is it all PDN or did yo use brushes?

It's all pdn.

007 Nab · August 29, 2009

You used Rotate/Zoom for that line effect, right? Anyway great job on it - especially since it's PDN.

Kemaru · August 29, 2009

You used Rotate/Zoom for that line effect, right? Anyway great job on it - especially since it's PDN.

Actually it's a lot simpler than that. I drew a curve on a new image, duplicated it, used Panelling, then repeated this like 5-6 times.

007 Nab · August 30, 2009

Ahh, smart.

tribal-freak · September 4, 2009

I made this off basically using layer blend modes and a few effects along the integration of my logo

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php? ... tn&thumb=5

Kemaru · September 5, 2009

Interesting, I like the green and the fractals look cool on the edges.

Jungle Party!

Because we all are party animals inside. :wink:

KillerK · September 5, 2009

i think that colour style is better then the purple one imo, if you tilted it 90 degrees and tinkerd with the size itd be one sweet wallpaper.

couple of hours of tweaking ma computer n i gone from normal xp to this! :

Stock picchur - http://www.travelblog.org/Wallpaper/pix ... 0x1200.jpg

Xanthous · September 5, 2009

I made this while messing around with zoom/rotate.

KillerK · September 5, 2009

Things to keep in mind:
- Try not to post your image right after another user's. Allow some time for people to reply (or give an opinion yourself!)

anywya cool idea just the left and right edges where the <No cursing.> lines are is a lil blurry

RHoward · September 7, 2009