[1]Simple composition with some filtering and layers. I made it in 2012 after a playthrough and a lack of available PC Desktop backgrounds.
I’m a PC Tech, not an artist, so there’s not much to this. I took an existing background from the game (the dock in Arni Village) used an “oil painting” filter in a photoshop equivalent like GIMP or Paint.Net, then added a gradient at the bottom between the two most extreme colors (black-blue and cerulean or seafoam), and topped it off with the logo filtered with a bit of transparency.
I learned this style more than 5 years ago from an AV technician who put up slides on a “community access” TV channel. According to him (back when people were still watching on tube-TVs), artistic use of blur and focus can take any quality of photo and make it look amazing.
In this photo, the ‘blur’ is in the seam along the gradient (to expand the image) and in the “oil painting” filter across the normally pixelated artwork (I might have also played with the contrast; it’s been a long time). The logo is the sharpest part of the image and holds the viewer’s immediate focus.
Every image is telling a story. In this case, the blurred image is like a written paragraph describing the sharp logo.