Image Umbrella: Realistic Images

[jerkfight 17]

I hate to ask you this but how would I fix the shadows, or does anyone have and references to shadow techniques?

I like your image but to me the further elbow looks like ... out of shape im not sure how to explain it. Maybe its just me, but i feel like its missing some thing

[RedBeard 27]

Aislin,

Your work is phenomenal!

[skullbonz 359]

One from my gallery that I like that I think fits here,,, all made with pdn.

[RedBeard 27]

Skullbonz,

That's really quite good. The only thing I can see that throws it off would be the reflections of the beer bottle and napkin holder. They should be going straight down and fading out toward the bottom. As it is, it looks like the reflections are flying off the table while the objects themselves remain stationary.

Other than that, the lighting is great and the wood texture on the wall is superb. Nicely done.

[yellowman 255]

Really nice, and have to agree with RedBeard on everything he mentioned,

Did you do that wood texture in PDN, wow, it's awesome

[barbieq25 946]

I agree with RedBeard & Yellowman. Love the table top. Well done!

[skullbonz 359]

Thank you all for your comments. I struggled with which direction to put the reflections because of the location of the light,lol,although I do have to agree,it would have looked better as RedBeard said.

Edited November 20, 2012 by skullbonz

[ruup20 1]

Here's a planet I made, it took me a while to do:

[sashwilko 443]

Nice texture, well made. Welcome here too

[barbieq25 946]

Very nice texture on the planet & great rings! Welcome to the forum

[Ingiger 0]

Hi everyone, a noob to PDN here. Just felt like showing off a realistic moon I came up with

Edited March 19, 2013 by Ingiger

[barbieq25 946]

That is very realistic. Welcome to the forum!

[ShinichiOkazaki 2]

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wow these posted space scapes are truly amazing...

specially the textures...

those really stands out...

...

=^_^=

[pdnnoob 262]

Found a photoshop tutorial on chrome spheres and decided to improve it by doing it in paint.net

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx228/pdnnoob/Chromesphere.png">http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx228/pdnnoob/Chromesphere.png

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for other shapes, but it still looks cool...

[DrewDale 789]

Nice job pdnnoob, would like a tute on how you did it in pdn, love the effect. 

[barbieq25 946]

Ditto to what DrewDale said Nice one!

[Drydareelin 235]

First time posting on this topic, let's see how it goes

 

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/100/5/d/neutrality_by_drydareelin-d6150wn.png">http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/100/5/d/neutrality_by_drydareelin-d6150wn.png

 

The most recent piece for my gallery, titled "Neutrality" 

[barbieq25 946]

Dryda, that is really very nicely done! I love the pink reflection on the planet too. Your work is always so beautiful 

[pdnnoob 262]

Really nice spacescape! I'd give the foreground planet some (visible) curvature to give it some movement. As it is, it doesn't draw the eye any which way, so it looks out of place and distracting.

Also, (and you probably know this already) there is a visible seam-looking-thing on the glow from the stars that has the same issue.

 

Otherwise, I'd definitely put this spacescape up by Goonfella's space art!

[Drydareelin 235]

@Barbieq25: Thank you very much ^^ The colours on this are really unique for me; everything else is either dramatic-white or blue

 

@pdnnoob: Thank you The foreground (or close-up) planet does have some curvature. Basically I just put an extremely large elliptical selection, then pressed delete. I probably should have made it smaller in that sense. if the mean the spikes from the stars, I know that are entirely unrealistic in proper space pictures but they are in every space photograph -(captured by the light refracting off the telescope frame)- and I actually think they improve the images, although maybe not for my art Thank you!

 

 

Edit: Some randomly large gap was between "pressed" and "delete"...

Edited April 20, 2013 by Drydareelin

[pdnnoob 262]

I think you misunderstood about the seam

If you look at the left side of the image, you can see where the glow looks cut-off:

Or maybe I'm just too picky...

Edited April 20, 2013 by pdnnoob

[Drydareelin 235]

I...never noticed that o.o

 

Okay, I've corrected it. Nicely spotted! It's still not perfect and that's really going to annoy me but thanks

 

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/110/b/7/neutrality_by_drydareelin-d6150wn.png">http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/110/b/7/neutrality_by_drydareelin-d6150wn.png

[welshblue 3,255]

I had to share this.  Yellowman's tweak of my Don't Play With Fire image

 

 

... he's cooking with gas ... 

[barbieq25 946]

Oooh yeah! He is so good with the highlights/reflections & shadows isn't he? 

 

This is what happens when two heavy weights in PDN get together to play...

 

Beautiful work, guys! Well done!

[welshblue 3,255]

This is what happens when two heavy weights in PDN get together to play...

 

 

Hey I've lost over half a stone 

 

I've got to admit he's done a great job ... and that's without the PDN file