Image Umbrella: Realistic Images

[Falken]

Nice looking clouds jerkfight , although some bits on the edges look like they have been smudged too much.

100% paint.net, Still a WIP

[pyrochild]

Using the Jitter setting in Smudge will give you much fluffier clouds.

[Frontcannon]

Great picture, Falken. Really.

[chrisco97]

Nice job falken, I just do not like how it is plain going towards the bottom.

[jerkfight]

Using the Jitter setting in Smudge will give you much fluffier clouds.

jitter setting, i think i need to update my plugins

@Falkon that is amazing work, keep it up!

Edited June 20, 2010 by jerkfight

[himself22]

jitter setting, i think i need to update my plugins

I just did that a couple of weeks ago. A few things looked totally different, like smudge and Upload to...

And now I have about 30 less plugins (all that I never used.).

Falken: Stunning! I love the rings on the planet and the whole glow of the sun. Actually, there's nothing I really have to say that's bad about it except that there's a huge amount of unused space. Can I make that my desktop background?

Edited June 20, 2010 by himself22

[Falken]

Thanks for the criticism and comments guys, really appreciated .

On the empty space - I'll get round to putting something in there in the finalized image, maybe some clouds or a nebula, it still has a long way to go to becoming completed.

@Himself: Sure, go ahead

[Kemaru]

Hmm, I wonder why my post on top of this page has an image in it. Hmm, well I most certainly didn't post it to get critique, so I'm delighted to notice no one has commented on it. /bitter

*sigh* Honestly, guys, it's not that hard to spare a few words.

Jerkfight: Nice clouds, I suggest you go with what pyro said though.

Falken: That's awesome, great negative space there. Might be too much for some people.

Edited June 21, 2010 by Kemaru

[Falken]

Whoops, sorry about that Kemaru, I didn't realize no one commented on your work.

I love how the light on the ball actually looks realistic, it starts off red then loses it's colour gradually, I also love how the yellow in the background brings the ball out of the picture and gives it some depth. Did you create that lighting manually, or did you use shape 3-D to create it?

[Kemaru]

Oh no, it's not your fault. Sometimes we just miss things.

I did the lighting in Shape3D, then added subtle edits to it. Thank you for the comment.

[csm725]

@Kem - It's a little low-qual on the sphere, but great lighting (very different and nice) and good color scheme.

[Falken]

Finally, Finished

After around 8 hours of working on this piece I'm itching to get onto something else

Layer count: over 35

100% paint.net

[olav.k.m]

Pretty much perfect, excellent work Falken!

[chrisco97]

Wow falken, nice. I do not like the border though.

[Mayor_McSteeze]

Falken, great work. One of your better pieces yet.

Here's my first attempt at making a glass orb without the use of tutorials.

Please feel free to critique because i would like to know what could be done better.

[chrisco97]

Okay, the shadow is way off perspective. I would suggest moving it to the right, somewhat behind of the orb.

I also dislike the glow on the right. It also has a bit of jaggies.

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But otherwise, I must say I like it!

[Mayor_McSteeze]

I don't make good discoveries quite often, but this seems to be one of them.

A realistic wall texture is what it looks like to me, but tell me what you think!

Edited June 29, 2010 by Mayor_McSteeze

[csm725]

Looks like a muted-out version of chrisco's paper texture.

[Mayor_McSteeze]

But made very differently.

[pdnnoob]

I apologize for all spelling errors. It is way past my bedtime

@Falken That is one sweet nebula and...pretty much everything else in the pic. Except the stars. There aren't enough to give it a "space-ee" feel. It looks to me like headlights on an oddly lit foggy day. If you add more small stars (noise with lower coverage and max intensity), it will give the nebula less of a murky/stuffy feeling and more of an in-the-open feel. Also, on the bright stars with the cool shine, the shine all needs to be oriented in the same direction (or the flare or whatever you call that). Sparkles like that are produced by your camera lens, so it shouldn't be even the slightest bit random.

@Mayor_McSteeze Your orb looks nice and shiny, but a little too blurry. Shrink it down to increase quality. Also, make the lighting on the inside (the swirly green part) match the lighting everywhere else. Either put the dark spot with the shiny dots or opposite the dots...not in between. That will give it more of a glowy feel and less of a "2D image set in glass" feel. Like chrisco said, get rid of the weird blurry blue spot on the bottom right. It looks...weird o.0 With the shadow, I think you should replace it with a drop-shadow directly behind the orb and blurred because, I don't know about you, but it really looks more like a half-sphere sitting on a white table than a side view of a full sphere.

Your wall texture looks great! I don't know what else to say about a wall texture. Not a texture expert here

[chrisco97]

I love the texture MMS! I can really use it.

[olav.k.m]

Sure, I can see the Hexagonal grid in the speaker, but in the wood?

Both look really good anyways. I remember when I learned to make wood textures in PDN using noise and motion blur i thought it looked really realistic It's cool, not to mention inspiring, to see how much farther you can take it !

[chrisco97]

I love both, very realistic.

Edited July 21, 2010 by chrisco97

[csm725]

I actually saw the use of hexa in both, clever job Welshy.

[olav.k.m]

Nice discovery welshblue, however accidental. I'll have to try that later.