Preserved Topic: Sphearizing.

I'm trying to get an effect like www.ozones sphear but not exactly like it. I've messed around with sphearzie on Adobe and I'm not certain how to pull off that effect.

I've looked around and haven't seen any tutorials anywhere, in the middle of my sphear I want to have the letter r, but that's not irrelevant.

If you guys can help me by giving me the linkage I'll need to find a tutorial on it or just by explaining what I need to do, that'd be much appreciated.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

I think Doc used Bryce for that sphere..? Don't qoute me on that though. He could have just drawn it by hand...

But there's his Hands On tutes which has the Glass Sphere tute (Link at bottom of this page). There's also a heap of old threds on making cool glass orbs and stuff in the PS section here. the Gurur's Network (link also at bottom of page) has Steve's Displace tute which get recommended to someone about every week cause it kicks ass (Cool glass orb stuff...). Finaly, I think there's also a tute at www.phong.com for making reflective/metalic spheres.

That help?



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Hey Drac,
Thats one of the nicer sigs I've seen! Any tut on that anywhere?



wayoutwestenterprises.com

Doc's been using that sphere a for a while.

I can confirm that he used bryce and his favorite fire pic to get that the way he wanted it.
I think these are the orginals

otherwise check out his glass tute to get something like it


I think a lot of the best graphics I've seen are done in a combination of some sort of 3D prog and then PS to tweak the rendering.


:[ Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ]:

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I should have been more descriptive...

But for my sphere I want it to have like a caged effect, kind of like he has at ozone.com but like a cage, a more metal type struction with the letter R in the middle.

His hands on tutorials is just talking about how to make glass marbles but I still don't know how to get the effect where it' an actual globe like structure and you can see both sides of the sphere, front and back.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

And how did he get his photoshop stuff to look so uh awesome looking. Like the scroll bars and stuff, the interface of it I guess.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

"And how did he get his photoshop stuff to look so uh awesome looking"

hehehehehehe

Magic, my friend. It's either that or the years of experience. Not sure. Nope, not sure at all.

It`s freakin Magic. I`m sure.

Well since I can't get a serious response I'll fiddle for years on end trying to do it, Thanks for uh smart but funny replies!

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

*ding ding ding ding ding ding ding*

digitallylegit!!! you just won the grand prize by answering your own question!!!! thats pretty much exactly it! "fiddling for years" is the magic......

the secret is practice... shhsss.... oh ya.. and this is an Aylum btw

Bryce and fiddling for years.

It used to be a weekly occurance that someone would mention:

In order to become great at PhotoShop you need to first understand the tools, and what you are working with. But then most important, you need to mess around, and try new and different things. It is an OK idea to work threw tutorials, but if that is all that you ever do, there is no way you can learn and improve. You need to work with the techniques that you learn, and expand upon them. In that way you will actually learn. And if you do this for years you will start going places.

The other thing that hasn't been mentioned in a while is:

Photoshop is not like other computer program. You can not follow a standard set of rules, and have great results. Using photoshop is art. You have to treat it as such. You can not pick it up in a night, or in a week. It is a very consuming process. If you do treat it like such you will begin to improve, and to get results. But if you treat it as just another computer program you will not go anywhere with it. It will just be another program, void of real fealing, meaning, and most important eye appeal. If you have a great artistic mind, you will find it much easier to work with photoshop, yet it is still a new tool and it does take getting used to. A pen and ink designer does not have an easy time when he first picks up his paint brush, he has to learn the new tool, before he/she can apply the knowledge. It is a long learning process, but it is all worth while.

Nothing here come really quickly. However, if you are looking for some nice cool quick results, then by all means hire one of us, and we will get it done for you

See I have been fiddling around for 3 weeks now trying to at least get something similar to that effect and I haven't been able to yet, it's not like I came here and I expect you guys to just lay it all out for me but help would be great, direct me in a better way, I will work with something again, post it here hwen I'm done and show you were I'm at in my ways.

Sorry if you just thought I don't know anything about photoshop but I do just not as much as some others.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

And on a side note, warmage... I want to learn for myself not buy it off someone else. It won't help me in the long run, you can't learn if you don't try I suppose I'll just keep trying until I get exactly what I want. I have three months to figure it out so... I should be fine.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

Well I worked on it for a few minutes and learned a few more things about Adobe.
http://digitallylegit.com/art/emblem.jpg

Tell me how I might be able to improve, I attempted to work in some lightning but with the clouded/wind affect on the supposed "metal" it didn't add much to it.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

Try using the program bryce, if you dont have it, keep on going with photoshop your doing good, just load the cage selection and add a texture of a metal or something, then try adding an inner shadow, and a soft dropshadow.

Photoshop is a powerful 2d image editing program, but not really designed as a 3d program. To achieve 3d effects in photoshop, you can make head on views, but to get an object to look 3d, the preferred method seems to be having a viewpoint from an angle (generally top front and to the left/right), so as to gain perspective and depth. To do these sort of views properly for complex objects, you must have either a) an amazingly good idea of perspectives and vanishing points or b) a 3d rendering program, or maybe even c) a magic wand. Till then ure stuck with simple head on viewpoints...

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Steve's Displace Tutorial



That shows you how to get a nice 3d ball in PS.

what the hell is a "sphear"?

Yeah, I'm useful, I know.

That would be a combination of a spear and a sphere er something?!

I really hate assholes but I guess I deserve it.

I meant spherizing not sphear, excuse the hell out of me.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

If you can't get your hands on bryce there is an excellent freeware 3d prog called blender

Most excellent alternative



:[ Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ]:

Name calling isn't neccessary. I can see that you're new to the forum. Welcome. We all just like to joke with everyone.
You start calling people Assholes and you really will start to see some

Tongue in cheek.

Sorry for callin' you guys assholes, I didn't mean everyone. That's the way they were representing themselves and I'm extremely frustrated with this, I've been trying and trying at least I got progress but it's no where near what I want.

I may add some screws into it, to give it more like a caged feeling.

Thanks for the link btw.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

I am the asshole.

~smirk~

Nah I wasn't talkin' about you.

But what I meant by the photoshop thing was the browser or interface of the program itself!

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

[edit] Just fixing your bold tags... remember to use [] and not <>... [/edit]

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Ha ha, Twitch! He was talkin about me, so there!

Yeah I was talk about HumanShield....

But twitch your an arse too, if that's alright with you.
http://digitallylegit.com/art/emblem2.jpg

Here's another one I developed, it looks some what better. I'm not really focusing on the letter yet, just the sphere itself.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

Whoa whoa whoa....

I refuse to believe that I've been gone so long that a conversation about "assholes" wouldn't involve me of some sort.

Of course if I ever got involved in a topic like this I'd probably not have much of a chance to post like an asshole, as I'd be laughing too hard about illiteracy spreading, and the inability to make a fucking ball in Photoshop.

But then again, it's not like single perspective spheres (sphears? PHEER!!!!!) have ever been covered here before.


~cough~

Peter

ROFL. Missed ya DG. Good to hear from you. How`s tricks ?

digitallylegit: First, lighten up.

Second, go read this excellent tutorial on texturing metal.
Can`t tell from reading it , but the guy that wrote it is an asshole, too. albeit a really talented one.



Even if you win the rat race, you`re still a freakin rat.

<edit> Laughing so hard I forot the link</edit>



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*looks at DarkGarden with not one bit of a smile propped upon his face*

Thanks for the help.

The first step to living a happy, lifeless life is admitting you have no life.

*slaps krets because she wants to slap someone else, but they wouldn't get the JOKE*

I'm not liking this trend that is developing within the Asylum.

*leaves to hire bodyguard*

~dashes off to make sure the bodygard krets hires is the 'krets slapping kind'~

~slaps krets~

~slaps vp~ oops!.. heh, always wanted to do that....

~looks for large trout and unix manual`

Wow, the whole "slapping Krets" thing was funny for about 10 seconds.

Huh... It's not funny anymore... humm... ~slaps krets~........ heh look! Your right!..


~slaps krets again~.... well.. your still right.. arr well....


~slaps krets yet again~.. arr oops... reflex action..


ok ok.. I'm going now..

ROFLMAO.
Still funny to me

~slaps Human Shield~

They say that our behaviors as an adult reflect the behaviors of the community we were raised in.

~slaps Human Shield again~

I guess they are right.

If you keep that up, I'm not going to take the next bullet for you.

~slaps Slime~

ouch!