Question

[SweetCharity]

For those of you graphics-minded people...

At the top of this site (http://loriendil.com/), there's a picture, done on a computer. I know this is going to sound utterly stupid, but...how do you do something like that? I mean, do you take a picture and manipulate it, or do you start from scratch? What is scratch, in a graphics program?

[QuietLunatic]

You can start with a picture and manipulate it just to see what you can do. Starting from scratch, in my mind, means opening a new file with a completely blank background and then playing with whatever your program offers by way of drawing tools, painting, effects, tubes, whatever. For me, it's mostly about having fun.