Preserved Topic: Basic Metal Effect

Okay, I said in some thread I'd post a picture of what I use to get a metal effect. It's really simple. REALLY simple.

Before:

Curves:

After:

See how easy that was? And it works for anything with a simple 3D bevel effect. Just don't use the layer effects for your bevel.. that doesn't work. :P

Post it on the gurusnetwork. It would be good to add it.

howd you know i wanted to know how to do a basic piece of metal so i can make metal pannels... there are some really bad tutorials out there. this is nice and easy!


We see what we want to see, according to what we believe to be the truth.

I'm not sure what the gurusnetwork is, but I don't have a web page with this tutorial on it.

Glad to oblige, Eyezaer... it also works with brushed metal, like this!



I suggest giving it the brushed look BEFORE doing the curves...



[This message has been edited by Human Shield (edited 19-09-2000).]

Good call HS! A great example of how curves are a must to know!

I'll post a few more examples of the kinds of effects you can get from curves when I get some stuff done at home. If anybody tries this, I'd certainly be interested to see the results. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

The mad Scientists here have another site called gurusnetwork. Take a look at it.

Nevex:
Actually Steve did an Amazing tutorial on Curves for the GN http://gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/curves1.html
but this is a great, simple use for them.

I used almost the same method for a gradient underlay in the end of the metal textures tutorial as well. http://gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/met_texture.html

Human Shield:
I think Nevex is right, you should check out the Guru's Network http://www.gurusnetwork.com

I think you'd like it, and possibly be another great resource for additions before, and after the public launch. This is a really nice, simple, tutorial you built here. I like <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">


YAY...hype the GN. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Okay, that's all the slacking I can do..~weeps and reshackles himself to the beige box~

Peter



ICQ:# 10237808

[This message has been edited by DarkGarden (edited 19-09-2000).]

btw HS, its not for the Mad Scientists, its for everyone. So get involved!

Along the lines of metal effects... I was messing around just now, and I came up with this. What do you guys think of the "metal?" It's my first attempt at any kind of metal, so go easy on me, ok? <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/tongue.gif">



(Don't worry, this is not a sig! I just like to see my name!)


[This message has been edited by Ikonomi (edited 20-09-2000).]

Try doing the curves thing that HS did up top...it just seems to plain to be metal

Yeah, I was just looking at the contrast on it. (Looks totally different with this background color.) Actually, that was done using curves.

How about this?



I'm not going for anything hypershiny; the surface would refract too much light to produce a gleam like on HS's piece up at the top.

[This message has been edited by Ikonomi (edited 20-09-2000).]

Here's one of my old sigs I did with the trick.



and here you'll see that even though it's shiny, the metal look works with rust...




AND... you can change the color using hue/saturation or variations to make the metal look like gold or copper or whatever...



SIG HAPPY!

[ADDITION:] BTW - Ikonomi... I like the second one, I can see a bit of the sheen in the middle of it. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">



[This message has been edited by Human Shield (edited 20-09-2000).]

well... if any body is still interested in metal tutorials, for more of a beat up style, go to... http://www.tutorials.descent4.net/photoshop/metal1/
the pictures take to long to load but it is a different way to do it...



[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 22-09-2000).]

Dude! I have been searching high and low for that tutorial! I came across it a long time ago and took some (incomplete) notes on it. Alas, I did not bookmark it or even remember how I got there.

Thanks a *ton* eyezaer.

"One is glad to be of service"

Warjournal

DarkGarden posted something you may have overlooked above....good tut on weathered metal....try DG's very own Bro...it's one hell of a tut... <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/met_texture.html

I've read DG extraordinary tutorial, but it's a bit too involved for my tastes. I'm not that much into metal, so quick and sleazy suits me just fine. I've archived DG's tutorial so, when I go through a metal phase, I've got plenty of ammo.

Humand Shield -> Very nice and helpful hint! Thx alot...

Tyron, How do you do that orange fire looking sig in photoshop? Can you point me to a place I could learn that?

Curves. I've had some success using curves to achieve the effect. I still have to refine it, but that's how I duplicated it. Start with a B&W (one flat layer) and then go to Curves. Set the white RGB to yellow (or whatever) and the black end to the background. Then play with the middle a little bit to tweak.
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Cool, I will give that a try.