Preserved Topic: Make it (Week 43) ~Repeat Performance~ Grasp

Ok, here it is

Hello..is this thing on ?

Use it , abuse it, treat it like you own it. Have fun.

very handy! tee hee lets get busy! ~Vp~

ok, this was fun!

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like it Reitveld ~Vp~

Well have not do this for a while so I'm starting to do it again as it's fun and I always learn something new .



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reitveld: very nice

vogonpoet: Thats mad, yet great love it!


Chris C

To all who have posted so far, very cool

- the big wannbe, me -

Vogon, that is so cool. It looks like the fingers are licks of flames!

Dark.... is that?... wait... that's the page form several weeks back!!! Neat way of bringing two repeats together!

it's dark here...

very nice work ppl :-)

Softhead

very.... interesting..... heh.... mmmm.... a hand.... this could get VERY interesting....

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great image to work with DB, think there will be some fantastic RP's this week. great work so far everyone, super
~Vp~

Yes!

Universal Championships

Nice work, all.

~ looks at Vps images for this week and thinks*And he wants to know if I`ve been drinking..*~

always drinking DB! how well do ya know me? lol sort that mask out would ya? heh ~V ' anebriated ' p ~

Awww,man. You know I`m not wearing a mask....

Vp: When ya got flames comin outta yer fingah tips...that's a bad bad case of gas! <lol>

Superior work everybody.

~ Agrees with NoJive ~

Vogonpoet rules!!
Way to go Docilebob!

(what's a Jive?)

A 'jive' has everything I do not. I have 'No' Jive.

Finally decided to mess around with the pen tool. Nifty, I'd say.

Anyway, nothing major, but it was fun making it.

Everyone ha done a terrific job so far !! always love seeing all your efforts, shame i dont have time i used to to enter these things....

Silence.. ilove that ball he is holding, any chance you could possibly give a brief explanation as to how yo got that great shine with the transparency of the ball ?

Thanks !

ya I second axleclarkeuk. How about it silence... any chance you'll let us know the secret handshake?

Sure thing, axle. Although, I can't really take all the credit. I used several techniques I learned from gurus and especially Steve and DarkGarden's tuts.

The first thing I needed was a clean mask of the thumb to go in the foreground. For this, I used the pen tool and really got a chance to play with it for the first time. It's a great tool.

Then I made a circular selection of the hand where I wanted the ball to go, cut and paste. Now, I could have made a displacement map and distorted it properly, but since all I needed was a spherical distortion and it didn't have to be perfect (cuz this IS for fun, ), I used spherize set at 100%.

To that I added highlights and shadows. ctrl-click the circular layer to load the selection. Then move the selection (not the image) down and to the left a bit. alt-click the circular layer to leave you with a crescent shape.

Create a new layer, and fill the crescent with black. Run gaussian blur, settings to taste. Copy the layer and set it to color burn.

Now, do the same thing to the opposite side of the ball except fill the selection with white and set the duplicated layer to color dodge.

Voila, you have a decent glass ball.

Also, I don't know if anyone noticed, but I tried to simulate the shadow of the ball. I created a custom gradient to fade to transparency and used the radial gradient tool on the circular selection. Then I transformed it till it looked about right and set the opacity appropriately.

Hope this helped.

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hey, reitveld, you posted while I was typing.

I forgot a step. On the circular layer, make a selection, contract about 8 pixels, do a magic wand on the area surrounding the circle, and then invert the selection to get a selection of the outer part of the circle. Then run twirl on the selection to give the edge more definition.

Here's the psd.





[This message has been edited by silence (edited 04-03-2002).]

Heres mine:

Here for 29KB: http://www.unf.edu/~dwwilson/stuff/week43finThumb.gif

Docilebob whats the story behind the original image?



[This message has been edited by Osprey (edited 04-03-2002).]

Heh I only have to edit my posts around 25 times to get them right

~

Osprey: Not much of a story.. It`s a statue from a royalty free CD ~ shrugs~
Only an image number. No info.

Great stuff this week everyone. Gotta love this game.

Edit tip `o the week : You can also add to a post while editing, so you don`t have to go to all the trouble of a new post...

congrats to everyone, you guys/gals do some great work ~Vp~