Preserved Topic: Question for ruski

hello. I am new to this forum [I came here from a link posted on fxzone] and well I saw your sig and I wondered how it was done. I was thinking it was 2 spheres moving above a text layer. Am i somewhat correct? Some info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Hello dood! welcome to asylum make sure you read FAQ! alot of good info....

now as for my sig....I had posted tutor before in another thread, so here is a link: clicky

hope it helps! if you have more questions just ask....

Yay for tutorials.

Also, welcome to the Asylum Somebody should be around with your straight jacket shortly.

And do not, under any circumstances, give the naked hairy man your black pills. Ever.

:FAQ:

Edit: You're fast, Ruski.



[This message has been edited by Raptor (edited 03-14-2003).]

hey ruski.. I have a question..

Do i have the gradated spheres colide in the animation.. and then select each layer.. and apply the bevel and such settings.. on each.. , and when they join.. on that whole big shape.... that is formed...

also what particular levels did you use for the gloss effect?


Maybe you could post a picture of what you are talking about? Thanks..

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Where's mahjqa when you need him...

Welcome to the Asylum, ParasiteX. As soon as you get your sig done, I'll expect to see you down in the basement for shock therapy.

Hmm... more familiar faces aboud. welcome px.

Yes, Mahjqa's sigs are required homework for the Asylum.


It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

Suho; I'm right here. I just told Ruski to handle the replies about the sig himself. I'll give this a shot, though;

ParasiteX; I've made an explanatory *.PSD about the technique, you can find it at http://www.mahjqa.com/stuff/liquidstuff.psd .

what you start off with are two circular gradients, both on a separate layer, with a black background, like this:


What the 'levels' adjustment layer does, is that it separates the colors. anything that is darker than 50% gray will become completely black, and anything that is lighter will become completely white, like this:


Now, if you move the two layers over eachother like this:

you'll see that it gets a little brighter in the middle because the two layers overlap.
If you turn the 'levels' layer on again, it'll look like this:


I can't show you a picture of the levels settings, but the left slider and the right slider are almost at the middle.

Most likely what you'll want to do right now is to make separate shapes for the animation. If you want a layer with the shape of the white circles, do as follows;

Go to the 'channels' palette, it's another tab above the 'layers' palette. You'll see 4 channels, RGB, Red, Green and blue. The last three will all looks the same, since there is no color in the image. If you hold CONTROL (or COMMAND if you use a mac) and click on a channel (red or blue or green, doesn't matter), you will get a selection. The white parts of your picture will be 100% selected, the dark parts will not be selected. (any colors in between will be selected depending on how bright they are. 50% gray will be 50% selected, and so on)

Now, click back on the 'layers' tab again, make a new layer, and fill the selection with a color you like.

Now, turn that layer invisible, move the spheres a bit further apart for the next frame, and repeat.

I hope that makes it all a little bit clearer.



[This message has been edited by mahjqa (edited 03-27-2003).]

Very nice explanation Mahjqa. I'll probably give this a try when I get some spare time.

Ruski: Nice mini tut in the other topic.

<edit>I can't get "liquidstuff.psd" to work. It says i'm downloading a *.txt file.</edit>



[This message has been edited by Nolp (edited 03-27-2003).]

Ohh fuck I overslept..

well hell...too late mahjqa did the job..

man...

And added to the FAQ - top work everyone

:FAQ: Liquid Balls

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Hmm... I wasn't meaning to imply that Ruski couldn't handle it... I just figured it would be nice to hear from the master himself. At any rate, nice effort all around, guys.