So, I did this stuff with Photoshop 7. Yeah, I actually am still using the old version 7. It's one of my numerous hobbies.
m(__)m *bows down to mighty PS7*
You are free to use these a desktop wallpaper if you want, that's what they are made for. (~_^)d
This is the first wallpaper I ever made. I started using "Blizzard System" as a kind of watermark on the image since my pseudonym is Blizzard.
I was experimenting a lot with this one. I tried to concentrate in making various shapes and some kind of dynamic rather than using just effects.
This wallpaper was created using external renders for the the shapes and then applying various blending effects on the layers. In fact the wallpaper consists out of several basic images which, then, make it one whole.
Since that day I've had some interesting phrases come into my mind, I thought I should just throw them on a wallpaper. I used a computer rendered picture of water as basic background which I overlayered with some patterns. It turned out pretty interesting, especially the part smooth graphics VS. pixelated text.
This is pretty much difficult to comment on. I used an effect of TV scanlines that kinds gives you a feeling as if the eyes would be watching you from a TV. Creepy. I used custom shapes and basically a good blending to create this, nothing else.
In fact I actually have absolutely no idea what this is suppposed to mean myself. Try to read the "coded" stuff on the right part of the image. Read from up to down and from right to left.
This is the pseudo-realistic way I sometimes think in. I don't recommend that you try to understand it, I don't understand it either. Well, but there's one thing I know; it's all ordered chaos.
This is a pretty weird creation... I was playing around with some effect and actually was trying a more "floating energy" effect, but I realized that it would look cooler if the saturation was high.
I often experiment in a way where I invert the colors of specific layers or even the entire image just to see how it looks like. In this case it turned out pretty good.
The Department of Practical Physics at my college (short ZPF in my language). The rest of the image talks for itself. This is the first wallpaper where I started using "Blizz-Art" instead of "Blizzard System". It sounds much better and I pity that I didn't have this idea earlier. In fact, it wasn't even my idea to call it Blizz-Art, somebody just mentioned it.
This is actually ZPF Part 2. Same joke, but this time the it's on the word "infinitesimal" and partial derivations (dx, dy, dz, dt). Yeah, yeah, nobody loves ZPF. The idea to actually make another wallpaper was by a friend of mine. Again a strike against the Department of Practical Physics at my college.
This image is an extremity of itself. I was working with 9 rendered pictures on 9 layers with different interacting blending effects. It looks like a supernova or an exploding sun to me, but I didn't want to call it that way as it was somehow cliché.
Here is something completely different, at least from the view of creation. This is the first wallpaper I made just like that. Usually I take a long time to decide the right colors and so on, but here it went over very quickly. I never made a wallpaper so quickly. I used different custom shapes for the eye and the pupil and special prerendered pictures with blending layers for the rest. Originally I wanted to call it "B-Lizzard", but the font didn't have the character - and I was to lazy to make one, so I simply called it "Lizzard".
Here is a wallpaper for my college (FER - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing). I've only used the original logo (the big one in the background) and the original text (the blue one). The rest is by me. It was originally for a contest at the college's unofficial student forum, but people lost interest and there was never a voting in the end.
During the day I did the banner for the ChaosX5 skin, I had loads of inspiration. It included a piece of the influence from the LHC. They can create black holes? Pah! I am the first to create a "White Hole"!