Foto-Friday, Painting With Pixels II, my favorites

These are my favorites of my new works, a lot of fun to create.

All of these I started off making a new file, with the background black. Then I started adding layers, and using the paint brushes with my photoshop program. I just played with them at first, figured out what brushes did what effects, learned how the layers work together, and played a little bit with the filters in some of them, but for the three here, I did all those with the brushes and layers. It was like painting with a mouse :-) These are inspired by the hubble telescope pictures, I've always found those so facinating, so when I found an effect that looked similar to a galaxy, I ran with it and just started making my own fictional worlds an galaxies and stars. I had these three here hanging at tonights art show, and I had one guy actually ask me if I took the photos with a telescope. I was honored that they looked convincing enough to be real to him.