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Published: 2015-12-09 22:21:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 299; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 0
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J'zena looked up at the sky. Two full moons. Every time there was two full moons, her family had a mini celebration, with decorations, music, lots of sweets, and handmade gifts. She missed that. She missed them. She didn't have much to decorate, but she snapped her fingers, and a little ball of light went to the top of a nearby pine tree under her direction. Her papa had taught her Magelight soooo long ago.... It almost seemed like another lifetime. But the bright light made her smile. She snuggled under a fur and started singing softly to herself in Ta'agra. It may not be the full celebration, but for a moment.... She could almost hear papa's deep base, mama's rich alto, and brother's wonderful tenor singing along with her....I have no idea what there are for holidays in Skyrim. But I always imagined that two full moons was special to Khajiit. So this is as probably as close to a Christmas star as there's going to get! First time using gimp... I think it turned out pretty great!!
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This is very interesting and beatiful! Is this based on photos that you have added together along with painting with GIMP? I think that I recognize the "lense effect" or whatever it might be in English (my gimp is in my native language 
Another nice light effect is "supernova", if you ever need a bright star or even a sun in your picture, it might help. The curves are an exellent way for manipulating the contrast and colour. Something I love is "shading and brightening" whatever it is in English, it is just so nice to get shadows and lighten the bright parts with it ^^ Then a way to rescue a bit unsharp photos is "unsharp mask", found in the selection somewhere near the blurring effects (maybe in a place called "enhance"?). And if you want to know how to make raining or snowing effect, just ask
Ps. I just love the style of this picture, it is very unique and indeed interesting!
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Thank you so much! I did look at a photo of a snowy landscape, but I drew, colored and shaded this, using gimp for effects. Took me a LOT longer than I'd like to admit. And thank you so much for the tips!!! I joined Deviantart mainly to force myself to continue doing art and improving my own ability. And yep, that is the Lens Flare effect. I was pretty pleased with this first effort.... There's a lot to learn in Gimp.
I'm so glad you like this! comments like yours can really brighten an artist's day!
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The result of your hard work is really worth it, since this is so beautiful! ^^ This work gave me some ideas how to utilize the lense effect with those "extra circles", too: usually I just try to get rid of them but now I realized that they can also be really cool
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