wallpapers

It's been a while since my last wallpaper but here's a new one! Went back to one of my favorites: Sansa from Game of Thrones.

The last wallpaper of 2024! Cersei from Game of Thrones.

Made this one in Krita which feels very comfortable to me, much more so than GIMP. BUT, Photoshop format (abr) brushes do not work in Krita, while they do work in GIMP! That's sad because I really like Krita! I don't use brushes a lot, usually when I'm making textures. All the free brushes are all in Photoshop format on resource sites that I've seen, so it's going to be a head scratcher. Krita doesn't seem to have a lot of brushes made by users unlike Photoshop, but I haven't looked into GIMP resources yet. Going to keep looking for Photoshop alternatives, there's at least a couple of more want to try out!

If you make icons or wallpapers or other graphics, what program are you using??? Looking for recs to try out! ✨

Adobe is hiking their prices up, including my Photoshop plan which was 12,39 euros per month and which will be 18,75 euros per month starting January 29, 2025. An increase of more than 6 euros! The new price is too high for me, and I haven't been using Photoshop that much these past 2 years to justify it even if it wasn't too much for me. So I canceled my plan, and have installed GIMP. I'm going to check out some other alternatives as well, including a two pay-once image editors in the 50-70 euros range. I used GIMP a bit like a decade ago, it was okay but I never got comfortable with it, but I'll try again. I just don't like having to re-learn everything I know how to do in Photoshop!

I tested GIMP out today just to see whether my typical wallpaper work flow is very different or not from Photoshop. Here's a wallpaper I made of Catelyn Stark - I could've sworn I had made one of her already, but apparently not! So here's one!

I have to figure how to do text in GIMP - I muddled through the basics of layers and masks and color profile and some other stuff, and probably need just more practice to get comfortable with them. I just didn't have energy to figure the text (used for my sig) today. Also found one plugin that adds a function I was missing very much from Photoshop (Duplicate to other image) ✨

Made this House of the Dragon wallpaper earlier this week. It's my first one on my new laptop! So nice to have the newest version of Photoshop again. I'm really happy with this one - I wasn't even trying to do anything, just wanted to play around and check that Photoshop was working perfectly in my new laptop. Funny how sometimes you get great results when just fooling around in Photoshop and not even looking to do something worth saving actually! Wanted to post this before I leave tomorrow.

I've made 2 new wallpapers after a long while! ✨The Lord of the Rings and House of the Dragon.

The other day I realized it'll be 20 years next month from the airing of the Battlestar Galactica mini-series. I had to make a few wallpapers to commemorate the event!

Another La'an wallpaper 🥰 I seem to want as bright and colorful colors right now as possible!

Finally, a second new wallpaper for this year! This one is of La'an from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds :mrgreen: 

Well, it's been four months since I last made a wallpaper :cry:  Still don't really feel like playing around in Photoshop, but I spent a while today and this is the result. Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth from the 1998 movie of the same name.

Young Alicent this time :-)