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docilebob
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: buttcrack of the midwest
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 03-31-2002 18:37

Ok, here it is

Hello..is this thing on ?

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

vogonpoet
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Mi, USA
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 03-31-2002 18:49

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

reitveld
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Kansas City, MO USA
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 03-31-2002 22:24

ok, this was fun!



vogonpoet
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Mi, USA
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 04-01-2002 01:03



full sizo (101kb)


like it Reitveld ~Vp~

Darkshadow
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Jan 2001

posted posted 04-01-2002 13:46

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 .



Bigger image

reitveld: very nice

vogonpoet: Thats mad, yet great love it!


Chris C

fallacy
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Canada
Insane since: Jan 2002

posted posted 04-01-2002 15:52

To all who have posted so far, very cool

- the big wannbe, me -

reitveld
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Kansas City, MO USA
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 04-01-2002 17:38

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!

Softhead
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Bergen, Norway
Insane since: Aug 2001

posted posted 04-01-2002 17:47



it's dark here...

very nice work ppl :-)

Softhead

eyezaer
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: the Psychiatric Ward
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 04-01-2002 21:28

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

vogonpoet
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Mi, USA
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 04-01-2002 23:43



full size II (91kb)

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

eyezaer
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: the Psychiatric Ward
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 04-02-2002 00:43

Yes!

docilebob
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: buttcrack of the midwest
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 04-02-2002 04:56



Universal Championships

Nice work, all.

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

vogonpoet
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Mi, USA
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 04-02-2002 05:00

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

docilebob
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: buttcrack of the midwest
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 04-02-2002 05:26

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

NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 04-02-2002 06:52

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

Superior work everybody.

Liluth
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: 1011000100
Insane since: Aug 2001

posted posted 04-02-2002 09:51

~ Agrees with NoJive ~

Vogonpoet rules!!
Way to go Docilebob!

(what's a Jive?)

NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 04-02-2002 22:43

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


silence
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: soon to be "the land down under"
Insane since: Jan 2001

posted posted 04-03-2002 01:39



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

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



axleclarkeuk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Swansea, Wales, UK
Insane since: Aug 2001

posted posted 04-03-2002 02:28

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 !

reitveld
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Kansas City, MO USA
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 04-03-2002 02:37

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

silence
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: soon to be "the land down under"
Insane since: Jan 2001

posted posted 04-03-2002 02:43

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.

:edit:
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).]

Osprey
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 04-03-2002 16:02

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).]

Osprey
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 04-03-2002 16:06

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

~

docilebob
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: buttcrack of the midwest
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 04-04-2002 03:54

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...

vogonpoet
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Mi, USA
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 04-06-2002 19:03

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

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