Started as a test of Rebelle software watercolor effects (I'm impressed), ended using Corel Painter, Dynamic AutoPainter, FilterForge, a Processing image bomber, and Photoshop. Tap or click thumbnail image for larger resolution image, free for personal use.
This is my original photography and I dedicate it to the Public Domain. 6675 x 5784 Pixels (photomerge) original linked from thumbnail image at OP.
Painted with random intent in ZenBrush, it turned out like rock or folk art. Virtual oil and palette knife backdrop in Corel Painter, blended into Filter Forge messy paint and batik. Composited and adjusted in Photoshop. NFT at https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/98563
Done in the very-tacky-named program #procreate, I think. I am never going to say the name of that program without pointing out that it's tacky. Like, extremely tacky. Like how on earth could anyone have thought that name was going to help anything.
I have an ambition to number all my art works, but my backlog of unpublished work is so extensive and that ambition so far out of sight, that you're getting titles from the file names, O Viewer. Unless or until I come back and rename this including a number. Because the only other thing I would do is give abstract works nonsense names that mock postmodernism. The Eye of the Fish is a Balm to the Virulent Saliva of My Soul. Unquenchable Daggers Frame the Fierceness of My Enemy. Voluptuous Horrors Infiltrate My Sexless Madness. Quantitatively Eased Redistributionism Elevates the Indecisive Consciousness of Capitalism. AD NAUSEUM.
Insert illustration by yours truly, of planet Hebe from the story in subject. The story release announcement post is at this link. The high resolution image (tap or click the below image) is free for personal use.
"Narmth" is an invented adjective. The hex color scheme used for the color variants here is at: https://github.com/earthbound19/_ebdev/blob/master/scripts/imgAndVideo/palettes/recreated_palette_00001_narmth.hexplt
This first is vector art (an svg), which you may save and reuse. You may reuse these works freely under Creative Commons Attribution 4. I'd appreciate credit in reuse.
The animated variant is concieved as unobtrusive decorative video art. Or maybe it would be distracting. I don't know, because I don't know who displays art as such. Do you?
The swirling strokes in this were achieved with the liquid ink pine preset in Corel Painter 2016. Tap or click image for ~2K resolution, free for personal use. Here's a link to prints and merchandise available at pixels.com, and another link to prints available at ImageKind at up to ~ 35" x 56".
The following variant and resource images which I made along the way, I release into the Public Domain:
Variant via the Filter Forge "side to side" filter by Skybase:
An alpha resource via the Filter Forge Terrain Hightfield Generator by LigH; I used this (and variants of it) as a transparency channel in filter layers to make uneven interesting application of filters:
Created by mapping art to the Z axis of a 3D noise map (terrain heightmap), viewed top down, then working up the result in Dynamic AutoPainter Klimt preset, then hue shifting in Lab colorspace in photoshop, and maybe other tricks (my notes say FilterForge?). Former title: 00061 abstraction, and maybe other things. I gave up on numbering works–keeping it straight in my many source files is a technical feat beyond me.
You, Janus Thaddeus, appear to be the only human gifted with the ability to merge into an alternate time-stream.
Here is the book cover art (front half, with titles) for my short Science Fiction story ebook, "TREACHERY."
It is available at smashwords, syndicated several places from there, and at Amazon.]
A version of this with the back cover also and without titles is published in a previous post; here is the link.
PUBLISH/JACKET INFORMATION:
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Title: TREACHERY
Author: Richard Alexander Hall
Publishers: Smashwords, Inc. / Amazon
Smashwords-assigned ISBN: 9781310539671
VERY SHORT DESCRIPTION
Janus Thaddeus, Squadron leader in humanity's final battle of survival, is offered a chance by his enemies to save his race, by way of his unique gift.
SHORT CONTENTS DESCRIPTION
An original science fiction short story with a new and unique take on time travel.
VERY SHORT BARELY SPOILER-EY SUMMARIES
TREACHERY: Janus learns from his enemies how he may save humanity with his unique gift. Features a unique take on time travel.
SHORT SORTA MORE SPOILER-EY SUMMARIES
In TREACHERY, Janus Thaddeus, Squadron leader in humanity's final battle of survival, falls planetside when his fleet is wiped out by orbiting atomic blasts. He is rescued by the intelligent Salamander aliens who wiped out his fleet. Salamander Commander Xenon advises him: "…you appear to be the only human gifted with the ability to merge into an alternate timestream." Salamander Assistant Commander Idan claims that Janus' human family remains alive, despite everything Janus' eyes told him. Janus is offered by these, his enemies, a chance to save his race, by way of his unique gift.
The image linked from this thumbnail is free for personal use.
I'm very pleased with this. It incorporates maps created with the LunarCell, SolarCell, and Glitterati photoshop plugins (the latter in a "starbrite" mode to save the alpha channel of stars, kindly custom coded by the plugin author at my request!–and I think he hasn't yet released a public version with that mode), and other adapted work I've done with a ringed planet, and a 3D render of the planet derived from said textures/maps.
The cyan "shadows" on the rings were an accident–I lit the planet with red (the nebula) from one side and white from the other, and through the translucent green rings, it seems that white light canceled out red and left the rest cyan. No, that may not happen with real physics (or "real life"), so it may not be realistic. This is, um, stylized? And it's, um, a story involving antrhopomorphic extraterrestrial frogs? Yep. K thx. And yes, men, you're going to have a pink and purple book. Get over it.
I'd like to make the borealis more obvious/prominent/realistic, and strictly the planet doesn't have the moons mentioned in the story. Maybe I'll get around to updating it thus.
