Relaxing a bit too much?

Title of picture -Relaxing a bit too much?

Photographer's Name -Aldwyn Zanzibar

Models Name - Aldwyn Zanzibar

Location used - My back deck

Poses Used - Built in sitting pose in my deck chair

Windlight settings used - Incongruent Truth - Sunset

Second Life Graphics Settings - HIGH with all options at max

Inworld photo tools used - None

Details of inworld tools - NA

outworld tools used - Paint.net

Processes used in outworld tools - First thing I did, was run the sharpen tool on the pic.  Then I adjusted the Brightness to 30, and the Contrast to 30.  I then ran the "soften portrait" tool, setting Softness to 10, lighting to 10, and warmth to 20.  Then I ran the "Zoom Blur" tool on it, with my face as the center of the focus.

Comments & Additional info
 I was just playing around, to see what I could do in Paint.net some more.   I am really enjoying this program.  It's not quite as thorough as Photoshop obviously, but it has enough tools to really have some fun!

Custom Gift Card

Title of picture - Secret Santa Gift Card


Photographer's Name - Aldwyn Zanzibar


Models Name - Aldwyn Zanzibar


Location used - NA


Windlight settings used - Analu. outdoor city midday


Second Life Graphics Settings - Ultra


Inworld photo tools used - A little Studio I built myself, to create a greenscreen behind me


Details of inworld tools - Used a pose lent to me by a friend and held the gifts, with the greenscreen behind me


outworld tools used - Paint.net
                                   cooltext.com
                                   Photoshop (just a tiny bit)


Processes used in outworld tools - 
I used cooltext.com to create the 3D text for the card.  Cooltext is great, because the images it creates already have a transparent background.  I found the gift card image using image search on google.  Using Paint.net, I created a different layer for each item, then imported the text, and the inworld SL picture of me into different layers.  I didn't get tooo fancy, Paint.net really does make using layers super easy.


Comments & Additional info
I only used Photoshop to help me remove the greenscreen for my inworld shot.  I need to learn to do this in Paint.net, but I already knew how to do it in PS, so I quickly did it there.  Everything else was done in Paint.net.  One thing about Paint.net, is that it cannot open multiple images at once, so I had to load up the text images for example, cut them out, then load up my project, and paste them in a layer.  This was pretty easy to do, especially for a free program.