Image Umbrella: Realistic Images

[A Fleeting Glimpse]

@ Possium Roadkill : like the landscape for sure, strange how you created a bamboo work and then produced a landscape with a very oriental feel to it... wonderful, love it

@ Onemorelevel : Great work making full use of PDN

Here's a Scottish Landscape

[nemo]

Wow AFG thats awesome , i think the water is a little static though but other than that its really nice. Going to give Welsh some competition are you?

[A Fleeting Glimpse]

@ Nemo : the water at this particular loch very rarely has any movement and looks more like a sheet of glass than water, as for giving Welsh competition you will know from the other forum we feed of each others idea's

[nemo]

no wind, in that case its perfect then . And that i do, keeping each other on tippy toes at the same time i think :wink:

edit: i forgot to add i think the forground is the best for the picture

[yy10]

That's awesome, AFG! Extremely realistic. would've thought it was real if you hadn't told me

[theonlychad]

@Onemorelevel that is great man like it

@AFG the foreground on that is amazingly realistic. The mountains could use some contrasting colors though but it still amazing. Maybe you could make some grey show through?

[A Fleeting Glimpse]

@ yy10 : Thanks

@ theonlychad : sadly they should have more colour but due to pollution in the air reacting with the moss the have an unnatural green hue, but maybe i should make it like nature intended im old enough to remember how they really looked

[oma]

@ Nemo : , as for giving Welsh competition you will know from the other forum we feed of each others idea's

Is true. You can't beat bouncing ideas off of each other. I've learnt a lot that way ... as for competition; we should all be helping each other instead of wanting to be better than ... :wink: Nice job AFG

And nice compilation of your stuff onemorelevel. A few things not right, but I'm sure you know what they are :wink:

truer words have not been spoken. I myself have learned more by trying to help others solve a problem than going it alone. ie: thatch roof made me think outside the box :wink:

[Axle]

@A Fleeting Glimps: ...that's good but the water just needs a bit of improving

[nemo]

as for competition; we should all be helping each other instead of wanting to be better than ... :wink: :

i agree with that i just meant keeping on your toes for thinking of new ideas because lord knows we all run out of them at some point.

Anywho..here is a update, i have decided to call it "the unborn", if you look youl notice it looks like a sonagram of a baby fetus (kind of.. )

[theonlychad]

I still like that a lot nemo it looks awesome

[satishbhawra37]

Utilize constructive criticism. Being mean is not welcome or tolerated.

- Try for criticism that's more helpful than "looks good" - say why.

[Frontcannon]

Lol is this edited or a serious post?

[theonlychad]

Utilize constructive criticism. Being mean is not welcome or tolerated.

- Try for criticism that's more helpful than "looks good" - say why.

Nemo and i pm each other so much that i normally keep my criticism to the personal messages Plus i don't think he needs to add anything to it that is why i said it looks awesome and didn't criticize it. No need to lecture me

[Possum Roadkill]

@ A Fleeting Glimpse, Beautiful landscape. I saw your others in your gallery, stunning. Very nice.

Hey possum? Are you using alpha displacement for that? Mind telling me how you get the texture to go over it?

im not 100% but perhaps look at YM's when the penguins left tutorial/picture, im prety sure thats how Possum did it *scratches head*

Sorry for the late response ! Yes that is alpha displacement. After seeing Yellowman's tutorial it gave me a lot of ideas on new textures and it lended itself to the mountainous texture that I was looking for. I have been wanting to do something different, something realistic but with the feel of a painted image. Yellowman's texture was the inspiration for the mountain landscape and this image. This is a mix of space, fantasy, and landscape. It was inspired by the works of Roger Dean. He is the artist who did many of the Yes albums.

The Exodus

[Onemorelevel]

How do you apply the texture to it though?

[theonlychad]

that is great possum i like the texture of the landscapes very nice

Here is a realistic i did recently its a paintbrush....

[Possum Roadkill]

How do you apply the texture to it though?

I'm not sure I understand your question. The effect Yellowman came up with is the texture. A lot of what comes out of it is what you start with. Is that what you mean? In this case the clouds are the basis of what creates the base image. There are several things you can do to get the final texture that is created by the alpha displacement. It also depends on how many times you repeat the alpha displacement tool. Check out his tut and you will start to understand. Get the basic idea first, and then on your next image try some other effects to the base clouds before you do the alpha displacement.

[Croat]

Heres one of my works. It's a planet!

No tutorial!

[Frontcannon]

Definitely needs improvement.

The background.. well I think we can all see what has to be improved here.

The planet needs more anti-aliasing (feather it), the glow is decent.

[Croat]

Yeah, I know, but this new version is kinda screwing with me. But whatever..

About the glow, I think i shoudn't even put it in the work. About the background, I've wanted to do that "Galaxy thing", tutorial by Sharp (i forgot the name ), but I cannot do it! :evil:

[yellowman]

@Possum Roadkill, that is wonderful, the texture is amazing and colors are so nice.

@theonlychad, good try on the brush, and here is a paintroller:

@Croat, looks cool and stable, not like mine unstable:

Paint roller, the roll part done with Alpha Displacement technique:

Explanet, death:

[Kemaru]

Incredible! Smooth edges, too. Its shadow could be a little blurrier I guess, at least around the borders.

[flip]

That's a cool planet, but technically it's not a planet because it's not a sphere.

...just joshing.

[Possum Roadkill]

@ theonlychad, Great job on the paintbrush. Very realistic. Nice job on the wood texture.

@ Croat, Nice planet texture. I like the atmospheric glow around it. I would leave it in. You do need to work on the star field however. There are a couple of really great tuts on doing a spacescape and you should also look at Goonfella's work.

@ Yellowman, That is amazing. So realistic. I agree with Welshblue, it does look like a foam roller. It looks new too ! I have a bathroom that needs painting, can I borrow that for a while?

Something funny about the planet. Is the a thing on the planet or is that a crack in the planet? If it's a crack in the planet, it looks like the shading is wrong. If it's something flowing out of the planet and across the surface then it's ok.

It's almost October and for me that means pumpkins and Halloween! Just feeling a little goofy !

This is intended to be more of a cartoon-ish style as in the other alien images I have done.