Spectacular! love the plants at the bottom.

To the webmaster of Interfacelift: now THAT's more like it!!!

A very calm view.. I'm enjoying it.

decent ... yet I`m not blown away , just seems to be a little bland.

It's not a photo, not a picture. Don't like it. However, it is very calm and relaxing, very nice for a wallpaper...

I really like your VUE wallpapers. I think I've got them all ;-) It's great to see how your skill improves over each wallpaper. Keep the good work coming (so I can add them to my wallpaper rotation :P)!

The foreground makes it look like a painting, which isn't a bad thing at all.

Honestly I like more real nature photos, but indeed you're a genius with Vue..once I tried to use it but I had to give up because it was too difficult for me! Keep the good work!

Im not sure why it has to be a photo or a picture to be beautiful ... this is amazing work however it was created :) Very peaceful and soothing with great colors. You are a talented man Mr. Mohler!

...and Richard said, "Let there be light," and there was light! Great talent Mr. Mohler.

Oh wow - that's beautiful and warm. I don't usually sign in here but really wanted to praise this work. I'll be using this as my desktop wallpaper and will be putting it on my PlayStation 3 too.

Thanks much everyone..

Nice work sir. You are getting better with every submission IMO. Thanks for another great wallpaper.

@ Bojan: this is a wallpaper site not a photography site.

Well said, thanks..

I also forgot to mention that it takes talent to develop this kind of creativity with such advanced programs. It takes time and patience to become good at this. You're a very creative person Mohler. Your work shows a lot of creativity and professionalism.

I don't think people realise how easy it is to make images like this in Vue (the program Mohler has used). It essentially has every type of object you'd need for a natural landscape, pre-made (or easily generatable by setting parameters). You just generate a scene, point the 3D camera and click "render".

It's not a bad picture, but I can't really respect images like this when I know how simple they are to create, with minimal exertion by the creator.

@XHTZK, I would love to see some of your work.

Sorry People , but I have to agree with XHTZK ...
And No .. I do not have anything to post to prove ..

First off, to all those who didn't agree with my first comment, bite me!
You all know it's true.

Second, Vue might be an easy program to work with but guess what else is, Photoshop, 8+years. What do Photoshop and Vue have in common? Easy to use and makes it easy to create visually appealing graphics. What's the difference in this picture and some of the things that the Webmaster has been putting up lately?? This picture took some time and more than 5 minutes thought into it. No offense to Santiago but his photograph did NOT deserve to be put up as wallpaper, it's not artistic, anyone with a macro lens could have taken that, as for his flowers, those were nice, just some of the things posted up recently like (fractal shore), c'mon, that probably took 20 minutes, THIS on the other hand.....I can only imagine the length of time it took.

I hate to sound super negative but I'm just being honest! This is the kind of thing that should be making it's way up to Interfacelift, Artwork that took time, passion and energy to create, not a five minute photo shoot or someone screwing around in photoshop.

That's all I have to say.

I like the soft texture in this piece.

I don't understand how anyone can say something is easy, yet not have anything they've done themselves to prove it. If it's truly that easy, spend a few minutes to back up your claim.

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1789/bright_ideas.html


took me three hours, can't say it was difficult, just time consuming.

@chogan, sorry I wasn't having a go at you - my comment was directed at ElectrikLizard and XHTZK.

Creation time and difficulty should have no bearing on the merits of art. Some of the most complex things in the world are meaningless while some of the most brilliant things are incredibly simple. That said -- Mohler's work is often a treat to look at. That's what counts!

@Chris Gin, I think you've misinterpreted the point of my post, and furthermore attempted a line of attack completely irrelevant (with assumptions) to the aforementioned point. You said "I don't understand how anyone can say something is easy, yet not have anything they've done themselves to prove it" - how would you know that I haven't done anything? Because I haven't put anything up on here? Furthermore, why do I need to prove anything to you - isn't this a place for opinions (hence "comments")? I wouldn't upload anything done with Vue simply because I personally (read: opinion) would not feel proud of it. It's essentially a software package creating a scene for me. I work in architectural visualisation (where I make pretty much everything from scratch); I don't create wallpapers (not to say I couldn't, simply that I don't). Most people here seem to think the comments section has to be a love-in, where nobody is motivated to get better, simply because everyone says their work is fantastic. Everyone knows that the quality control for this site has gone downhill of late; at least I'm giving feedback to help return the site to its former glory, rather than the majority of sycophantic comments here that contribute to the downward spiral with messages of praise for sub-par submissions.

@XHTZK, wow, you really think my 2 comments were an attack? Okay... let's leave it there.

Nice, just nice, I always liked your backgrounds that you created with Vue, this one is my background right now.

XHTZK, I am also an architect, and work with many of the same tools I'm sure you do: 3DsMax, Maya, Rhino, etc. I have many of the same responses you do to Mohler's work. However, the number of "favorites" a piece, and further an artist, on this site receives is a good indicator of how much people *actually* like it, rather than listening to comments. Two factors can be measured: speed with which it garners favorites, and the final favorites count it reaches. "Splash" is a good deal ahead of the rest for overall favorites, but Macindows' "Spectrum of the Sky" is the only one of the top 10 to be released in 2008, showing blazing progress to the top of the charts.

Positive comments don't usually matter, but favorites can really provide consistent, accurate feedback on how good a piece is.

With no disrespect to Richard, I've got to say that it's a bit frustrating to see how many of his images get posted. I don't know if everything he submits gets published, but it sure seems like it. While I like some of the images, I'm not a fan of digitally created landscapes. Many people submit images to Interfacelift that will never see the light of day and I don't think it's fair to publish 21 images from one person and never publish most others. It's apparent that whoever the moderators on Interfacelift are, they are huge fans of Richard Mohler. I think they need to widen their view a bit and see that not everything Richard creates is golden.

this thing look like a screenshot from a 6 year old computer game.

Thanks everyone, good or bad.. Thanks Chris..

sorry to change subjects here but I just wanted to have a small poll. Does anyone else realize that if you give someone enough negative feedback points for not agreeing with their opinion, that the person can be restricted from commenting!? So if 1 person says "Oh wow, I love this piece, I think it's gorgeous", and 20 other people don't like the piece and "disagree" with that person's comment/opinion, that person is then restricted on what they can comment on based on webmaster and moderator approval.

Just out of curiosity, how many people see a small problem with that!??? If you don't agree with that, please for the love of all that is sacred and holy do NOT give me a negative point, there is a reason my sn says 2.0 on it.

What Chris Gin said: "XHTZK I would love to see some of your work." I would like to see you do one!

@Mac Man, please read my previous comment.

@Chogan: Maybe if you would give CC instead of insulting peoples work you would not get banned. How easy you think something is to create should have no bearing on good or bad. Whats easy for you may be very hard for me and vice versa. Example: I play golf better than most(scratch) and alot of stuff I can do with a ball many people will probaly never be able to do but do I insult them for not being as good as me? No, they are out there giving it there all and that is what really matters. I encourage them to practice and ask them if they have any questions that I might be able to help them with. Anyways. If you don't like someones work, commend them on there effort and tell them what you would have done diff. Don't state it as fact because it is only your opinion. That is what the comment section is for, its not for blasting someone because there are not as good as you.

I'm not insulting people's art work, I am giving them CC. I wrote "fail" on Santiago's photograph of the computer screen because I felt that it was a "failed" attempt of a wallpaper. If you notice, several other posters felt the same way. And I did not insult this artwork either. In fact, I gave it praise, against another person who said it was "simple". I'm not sure you read your comment in full.

As someone previously said, the foreground looks like a painting, which is nice. The sky however doesn't. It's not that it looks bad, but more that it would be nice if the style was consistent throughout. I'd like to see the sky in this one more "painterly"

@AdamP I agree, the sky looks the most photo realistic, but I think the tips of the wheat fields looking more painterly gives the wheat the soft effect that it deserves. After looking at it longer, the only thing that I think could have used a little more touching up is the tree.

XHTZK I did read your comment already!!

Very beautiful...!!