Preserved Topic: How is something like this made?

http://www.thehorusproject.com/V1.0/flash.html

on the main page, afer you click enter, how is that background picture made?
all the lighting effects and blurs and stuff.

how about providing the direct link to the page with the image on it?. .. that flash splash is totally huge and crap.. didnt bother to wait for all 350+kb ..and the music was terrible..

well..the image is in the flash
ill try and find a better picture



[This message has been edited by Guyo (edited 07-15-2001).]

is this the image you mean?

image

I think I;ve found what I'm looking for at http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/polar_coords.html

yeah sherma, that was the image I was talking about

All I can tell you is that the artists at the Horus Project arevery sophisticated. I've seen stuff there that had to have been done with 3D StudioMax, I've seen others that I wouldn't even begin to try to reverse engineer. This one in particular ..... well, maybe you'll get somewhere with Polar Coord, but it won't be a one step process. There will be many layers, many applications of the filter on different shapes, many blending modes, and many unexpected surprises along the way (some of them might even be pleasant surprises!).

It's good to set you sights high, challange yourself by aspiring to the heights. Just don't get frustrated and quit. Believe me - the image you are looking at didn't just happen, and there really isn't any way for me or anyone here to look at it and tell you what steps to take.

You might find it helpful to do a screen capture and keep that open on your desktop while you work in Photoshop. It's useful to have the original available for reference.

Good luck. Don't forget to show us what you come up with!

i would say its mostly pen tool fills with radial blurs and of course, blending mode tweaks, lotsa airbrush in there two, some pencil for the small detailed parts...

...you just have to make it although a few techniques like polar coords might help.

Thanks guys
Thats my goal...to be able to think of something like that and make it

so what about something like this???
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/images/tutorials/photoshop/polar_coords/soundsplice.jpg

I'm still playing around with the polar coords filter, but how the hell does it come out like that?

Just did some playing with combining Polar Coords and Snowy Mask. So far just some preliminary goofing around, but I think there is some great potential. Even some preliminary Wave variations. All those cool curvey Copy/Gauss shapes and the Snowy Mask element. Tasty.

play.fiddle.learn

Heres another one....but I like the one I posted before this better


http://files.deviantart.com/wallpaper/wabstract/Burst-of-nothing.gif



[This message has been edited by Guyo (edited 07-16-2001).]

snowy mask?

My bad. Snowy Mask.

damnit
How did they get it all birght and colory and contrasty and all that other shit?
All mine keep coming out all blurry and faded

Image > Adjust > Levels may be able to help with that.

Guyo ~ I think you're trying to do something that is a touch beyond your capabilities. It's rather obvious how image (and all of them since linked) was done. A combination of blurs, layer modes (read: color dodge) and airbrushing. If you can't come up with it, don't get frustrated. Take your time. Start at several-times larger than what you're planning to use (i.e. if you want the image to be 640x480, start at 6400x4800) and size it down to get clarity. Airbrushing, layer modes, pencilling, zooming @ 1600%... they're all related.

This is not a one-step-photoshop-idea sort of thing.


s t e p h e n

damn
I kinda knew that
but didn't want to admit it
bah...i guess I gotta play around some more

Yea. *Playin around some more * is where the learning stuff happens.



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OH WOW! this is fun =)
I just need some good ideas!
argh
I've always had that problem

well it think all the images shown here are abstract compositions only,
not much airbrush, not much selections, not much filters and nothing like that.

Just a lot of layers blending modes, and erase tool.

threep looks at 1573's post, and says the magic three letters:

"W T F ?"

hahaha, what didnt you understand?

i think all are shapes compositions.

hmmm Dark looks at 3rd person's post and says to himself WTF? is everybody talking about!!!!!!!!!!!



[This message has been edited by Dark (edited 07-17-2001).]

Steve looks at 3p's post, and nods agreement.

DL looks at this whole thread and says to himself... 'nope, nope, just shut up and keep walking...'

threep slips on his cheerleader outfit, dons a long blonde wig, picks up his pom-poms, and starts chanting:
"gimme a W!
gimme a T!
gimme a F!"

I'ld like to buy a vowel.

*sigh*

I think the thing to remember is that often this come by accident... no matter how much we all try to avoid it - I would admit that some of my best work has come by accident and by playing with this setting or that filter.

I must admit that it does take some talent to know what to do and when to press Ctrl+Z... but that only comes with time...

Guyo - you're on the right track - sitting down and spending time hands-on and just experimenting is the way to go... like the msg that is displayed on the gurusnetwork page - most of us had to learn photoshop by ourselves - beyond a certain point, no-one can teach you this stuff.

Look around at the great tute sites on the web... I can recommend a few if you like... download actions and then rip them apart... If you're not sure how to do that, go back a step further and find out what the hell an action is!!

Above all else though - congrats for recognizing something beautiful and aspiring to it...

phoenix...

err right,

You say snowy mask, right? Look at the waves and guess how this was made.... use the tips in the tut of the link, but instead of using curves, make an adjustment layer (yup, curves) and move the layer set to difference.



I had never heard of the technique (snowy mask), and was just fiddling with blending modes until I came up with the animation. at first I used it in a really dull sig (below).



someone metioned the animation looked a bit like light reflecting in water. I later drew the dolphin to see how the water effect looked. Quite funny that you can come up with the same technique independently



Edit: the music in the flash movie is by Moby. Most of his songs are *much* better.
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