GIMP, Schmimp... A Planet in PDN

[PeaceHeather]

Well, I never said it was a habitable planet...
This was more of an experiment to see if I could back up my assertion that Paint.NET can do spiffy mappity goodness just like the more popular GIMP and PS. I've been having a plugin download festival for the past two days, and I expect to be able to "translate" just about any PS/Gimp tutorial and make it work, in a few more days.

Glad you like the globe!

[nolgroth]

I've heard a lot of good things about Paint.Net. I certainly like your planet so either the program is as easy as you say OR you have the talent to get the most out of it.

And I'm glad my children are older now. Different challenges but at least we can talk.

[Korash]

Well, PH, you have actually restored my faith in Paint.net. I was told about Gimp and paint.net at the same time and both were well recommended (was looking for something to take my hand drawn landmasses into so I could add terrain features). I actually downloaded PdN first but the tuts I found were hardly instructive in how to go about doing mapping stuff. Then I found the CG and the wealth of "targeted" tutorials for Gimp and downloaded that and got a lot further with it.

I love that globe, BTW, and thanks for showing me that someone that I know wasn't just whistlin' dixie.

The only crit I have for the globe is that the Space that is visible through the atmosphere seems way too dark. I would think that it would be paler due to seeing it through the atmosphere. Similar to the outer layer, if not even paler

Good job again, have some rep