Olorin's Graphics Gallery

[Olórin the Wise]

Well, at the insistence of several people, I have finally decided to take the plunge and start my own graphics thread. I'm not sure if I'll take requests or not, I'll figure that out later.

I've been making graphics for about 2 years. Up until about 3 months ago, I used a combination of PhotoFiltre and Photobie, which didn't work all that well, because PhotoFiltre (which I used for most stuff) didn't support layers and, while Photobie did, it had a terribly confusing user interface. Then, about 3 months ago, I switched to a program called Paint.NET, which is a free graphics program that has almost as much capability as Photoshop. It also has a huge library of independantly-coded plugins, which expand its power a lot.

So, anyway, on with the pictures!

We'll start with the stuff I made with my old programs:

Aragorn banner:

Legolas banner:

Boromir banner:

Gandalf banner:

 

[dayhawk68]

nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Olórin the Wise]

Continuing (I wish the forum would let you post more than 4 images in a post):

Peter banner:

Susan banner:

Susan avvy:

Edmund banner:

 

[dayhawk68]

lol I know right

so this Paint.net what exactly is it?

 

[Lady of Narnia]

These are so cool!

 

[Olórin the Wise]

Edmund avvy:

Banner that I made for 9/11:

Now we get into the stuff I've made with the newer program.

a Duffer Banner (literally!):

A photo manipulation I made for a competition:

 

[Olórin the Wise]

Another photo manip I made for the same competition:

Now some other stuff I made just for the heck of it:

 

[Olórin the Wise]

lol I know right

so this Paint.net what exactly is it?

It's a graphic image editing program, similar to the GIMP but with a simpler user interface (which it can do because it's based on the Microsoft .NET framework. this allows it to use floating windows). It supports layers/blending modes, and comes with a number of built-in tools and effects. It's missing a few popular tools, i.e. a smudge tool, a blur tool, a magnetic lasso selection tool, a polygonal selection tool, etc. Anybody who knows how to code a plugin can make new effects, but not new tools.

Here's the website.

 

[GondorGirl]

Very nice Olorin, I like the Edmund banner and I really like that picture of a window. those are all very nice.

 

[Nightcrawler_Fan]

AMAZING stuff. :} Love it. Wish I could get my stuff to look as nice as yours.

 

[fernshirehobbit]

very nice, Lauren

 

[Shadow_Kitty]

Yeah! now I won't have to protest!

a Duffer Banner (literally!):

I get the can lid and the cheese whiz but what are the elephant and egg for?

 

[Olórin the Wise]

The elephant is Stan the Cookie. The Egg is Ben the Egg.

 

[Shadow_Kitty]

*Smacks head*
of course the elephant is the cookie Kitty! why didn't you think of that!

 

[Olórin the Wise]

Hmm, I dunno... maybe cuz it's a Duffer thing?

 

[Eärendil the Mariner]

Nice stuff!

 

[Mrs Gil-Galad Took]

These are great!!! They are all very great! Well done!

 

[ChildOfAslan7]

It's a graphic image editing program, similar to the GIMP but with a simpler user interface (which it can do because it's based on the Microsoft .NET framework. this allows it to use floating windows). It supports layers/blending modes, and comes with a number of built-in tools and effects. It's missing a few popular tools, i.e. a smudge tool, a blur tool, a magnetic lasso selection tool, a polygonal selection tool, etc. Anybody who knows how to code a plugin can make new effects, but not new tools.

Here's the website.

Yeah! It was developed by Cougs! w/ Microsoft's help of course...

 

[QueenSusanofNarnia]

These are lovely, Olorin!

 

[Frodosgurl]

Great work Olorin!!!!