Preserved Topic: Working on my sig...Advices please

I am working on a personal sig...

What I have made so far is :



I still have to set the transparency and resize a bit the image, but it is not important.

Now I need an advice. I would have liked to do something else on it since it is a bit poor in this state. I would like to make some sort of "lake" under the letters and make the letter reflect into the water. Well I know I can add the water with bryce and maybe reflect the letter into the lake. However I find it a bit hard and there is surely another way. That's why I ask you my friends, is there another and easier way to perform that ?

Thanks.

Silence is another speech. -Me

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- If you think this is not a good idea, or if the final result would not be good, please tell me so

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Well, an easy way to do it would be to copy the image you've got now, flip it vertically, then move it below the name you have now. lower the opacity, run a filter like filter>distort>ocean ripple on it. I think that'd be an easy solution.

Thanks Mahjqa I am trying it now.

Silence is another speech. -Me

Well... I tried under Photoshop but the result wasn't really convincing. I also tried under Bryce, but the sun lightned all my pic so the pic was almost invisble and the reflect also : the only visible thing was the water !

I worked a bit on the pic with my "old" PSP and I did that :



Now I am trying to make the water effect with a java applet... You know the popular applet creating waves ripples under an image ? Maybe it will work...

Anyway : do you think this will be a good sig ? Any advices to make it better ?

Silence is another speech. -Me

Another version :



Silence is another speech. -Me

Copy it.

Flip Vertically.

Run a distortion (wave filter would work)

Transform >> Perspective.


And it's just that friggin' simple...running Bryce or teying to create a whole lake, or moving applet instead of just an animated gif (gee, maybe Mahjqa could help you there) would be overkill to an extreme degree. It's a gif, it'll only have 256 colours no matter what the mix, so making it too complex is just....well too complex.

Dig?

Hehe understood . I will do it tomorrow.

Silence is another speech. -Me

Okay. I start off with some fiddling for a technique to use, and end up with a sig. Damn me.

I'm too tired right now to write an explanation, but I did almost the same thing as I described in this thread: (it's one of the last posts) http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Archives/Archive-000004/HTML/20030217-3-003134.html

The main trick is the displace filter. Read this excellent tutorial by Steve to find out how to use it.

(test2) Moon Shadow, if you want to use this as a sig you can.

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so making it too complex is just....well too complex

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Remember those words, anyone who reads them. They apply to absolutely everything in life, and it's a point I can never stress enough. And just so damn well put =)

Now, Mahjqa - that is simply fantastic =) The effect itself isn't a drastic concept, but it's so well done, and the overall balance and simple elegance of the image is absolutely superb.

=)

Beautiful work Mahjqa.

Nothing much to add to the above comments above, Moon Shadow. Simplify.

***CLUNG***

***Pick up the bottom of the mouth and put it back in its right place***

Wow that's GREAT Mahjqa ! Excellent work !

I am REALLY tempted to use it as my sig... But I think a sig should be personal and I want to do mine by myself. Thanks anyway your offer was very nice.

I read the tutorial and the topic... I understood how it works. I created a displacement image and a few displaced images. Then I created a gif file, but it didn't looked really realistic (water-like). After reviewing your example, I noticed that my displacement image was slighltly different from yours. Now I am recreating the displacement image...

Silence is another speech. -Me

So I made this :



I know that I still have to reduce the size but I will do it after (it weights 70 ko)
I will see the result on this board now

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He it's not so bad ! Now working to improve smoothness and realism...

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Silence is another speech. -Me

[This message has been edited by Moon Shadow (edited 02-22-2003).]

I added a morphing effect during 0,1 seconds between each image. I should be acceptable now :



Silence is another speech. -Me

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[This message has been edited by Moon Shadow (edited 02-22-2003).]

Nice work everybody.

Moon shadow: you might want to flip your name vertically instead of rotating it.

Uh... That's right, thanks

I lost many hair lately in order to make it work
And I still haven't found... Working on it, working on it...

Silence is another speech. -Me

Uhm, if *you* aren't going to use it, I'm snatching it for myself... hope you don't mind...

Oh, and another tip, you get less pixely results if you make it 2x the size it needs to be, and size it down afterwards. Kinda smoothes things up.

Mahjqa the product is yours so I do not see why I would mind if you use it...

I worked on it several hours, I ripped several hair of my head, and after several tries I must say that I have to surrender. I give up. Too damn difficult for me. I will search for another idea it's not a problem...

Anyway, thanks for your help my friends. I learned much but it wasn't enough



Silence is another speech. -Me