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Ok there is this guy who gos by the name of programmerlord and he made this in gimp hes like a gimp freak I don't know how all I know is that it is seamless.

WOW. That's awesome. I would guess LOTS (I'm thinking in the thousands) of layers, and if you want to make this in PdN you'll want MKT's Shape3D plugin.

Also, lots of zoom blur, lots of glow, and lots of transparency. I don't have any idea how I would do this; the PdN user who would be most likely to be able to do this would be Ash, and it would probably even take him weeks.

Ok...........

actually, that looks like he made the blue background thing, made one cube that made it look alot more sophisticated that it is

hmm

There are 6...or 7 cubes...that's the hardest thing to make....
seamless is the easy part.

On a side note: If/When we get shape3d with the new funtion update.
The cubes will be a much easier job

Looks like a bootle of Powerade to me...

And Ash I believe in your powers.....

Ok 6 or 7 glassy cubes.

That is one complex image. I have no idea how one could imagine something like that, it has so many objects its like WOW.

heres the guys gallery, I found it funny how the preview of the aura blood looked till I downloaded it was actual pretty good but how dose this guy do some of these things like his golden glass and this wallpaper.
http://programmerlord.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx

I bleieve he uses A progrma similar to Apothysis then he exports to Phtoshop and adds some things there.

He says he uses gimp and also hes very anti-photoshop.

But How else could he create so nice looking?

I am not sure thats why I am asking....

Well it was done with GIMP, so maybe the question belongs in a GIMP forum...

I think it could be done with PDN as I see such amazing work by PDN users (I have not to say I mean Ash, as everybody will think on him). So I would like to have a statement by a "pro".