Topic awaiting preservation: Lava lamp C&C

Hi... Been playing in PS for relaxation, had no inspiration so i just did the lava lamp that sits infront of me now that I re-arranged the room.
Anyway
C&C will be appreciated, just to see what i might have done wrong, i don't promise i'll re-do it but any adivice i will use wisely on the next 4 hour break LOL

Clicky 1
Clicky 2

The reason the first appears to be washed out after you look at the second is the actual time of day...Started when it was mid-day, finnished late in the afternoon.


Curiously yours, crip

Cool.

AFAIR the bubbles in a lava lamp are rather opaque and cast a shadow while the rest of the translucent part cast some light. The shadow of your lamp seems incorrect to me. There should be some differences of opacity in it to show the liquid and the bubles.

But since I've only seen a lava lamp in the room of my nephew and niece I'm not an expert

argreed that the shadow looks a little off but i suck at lighting effects and how shadows are cast.

the only thing that I can comment on otherwise is the blobs. i think they need to have more depth to them. right now they look a little flat. make 'em look more like blobs.

other than that, it looks pretty cool

Later,

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Hey, Mahjqa! Where's your lava lamp? I think Izz made one too...

Yes, please, bring mahjqa in... I can start knitting then :P


Curiously yours, crip

its very nice, but it lacks some perspective.

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Nice start, crip. I agree on the globs needing depth. Some shadowing with the paint brush should do it.
On the cast shadow, try this :
1) ( I'm assuming the lamp is on several layers) Merge them into one layer, without the reflections.
2) Desaturate it.
3) Free Transform it into "shadow shape"
4) Set to Multiply, adjust opacity to taste.
And remember, the shadow will be "attached" at the base, and lean away. Possibly even running across the table a bit, and bending to climb the wall.

Thanks for the suggestions.
I agree that my lack of ability is about depicting what I see, but after seeing so many of DL-44's answers to questions like 'How do i create something?' i understood that yes, looking and observing is the key (No, i'm not ironic, even though i've replied a bit annoyed at his posts concerning observation, he does have a point).
So, the shadow and lamp really looked like that (no, i'm not argueing that i'm perfect, i'm not, by far). I agree that the goo is not well depicted, it was 4 hours since i had started, was a bit tired and I wanted to see it 'finnished', so i just put together a layer style that looked nice enough and added the lava with the brush, in a few steps. yes, they lack depth, my chalenge was not about the lava, but about glass and it's reflexions and refractions, which i never had the courage to take on
I was expecting questions about the tone of red on the lower glass higlight, as it might seem a bit out of context.
The think is the room was lit by the window and the desk lamp i have near the pc. Which sits lower than the lava lamp, which is on another piece of furniture, to my left. The desk lamp has a red plastic casing, which created that red hue that was lacking from the rest of the environment. Strange, i agree, might be the color of the walls that covers any redish hue.
The shadow was the shadow created by this night lamp, and it had 2 main zones, as you can see, a darker and a lighter one, created , i think, by the lava's own light.
I'm writting so much, a picture of it might have helped a lot, but my digital camera is broke. (Don't buy cheap digital cameras. There are reasons they are cheap).
What i'm trying to say is that the shadow was not distorted in shape, just a bit bloated as you can see. (It did not lean away, as one might expect, beeing lit from a bit bellow.)
And the piece of furniture it sits on is dark in color, so any parts of the shadows that might have been there were invisible to the eye from where i was. Yes, i, know, depicting the furniture would have helped in showing the whole set up.
But the whole idea was doing the glass, an object that when you think of it is transparent but still visible, i had no idea and always wondered how to do that in PS (turns out is was stupid-easy )
Ok... So next step will be adding depth to lava
Thanks for the comments, i will put the m to use


Curiously yours, crip

(Edited by crip on 02-20-2005 12:22)

I've always wondered... is there real lava in a lava lamp?!? If there is how'd they get it in there without having it either freeze or melt the lamp!

Oh nice work there on the lamp crip and exceptionally good work on those sigs. Like the rest same comment a little more work on shading outta make it look real smooth. And the bubbles are kind of paperish...

templar654:

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is there real lava in a lava lamp?!? If there is how'd they get it in there without having it either freeze or melt the lamp!

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are you serious

This is how a lava lamp work.

Yes, well, i'm rarely in the mood for a sig, i had one i liked, made it second day after i joined this place (well, my family isn't very proud of that, they could have done well without an inmate in their family, but, oh well ) it was made of 2 swords, one broken, crossed over a coat of arms, i was quite pleased with it, but i think i lost it. It was my first time LOL
I actually appologize for these sigs, i have no idea what i did screw up when i made them, cos aside from the Ozone sig they all have bad shadows, I just didn't had time to fix them and yet i kept them. Again, I appologize, really if anyone thinks I'm moking this whole sig thing I kept them thinking that would make me fix them...


Curiously yours, crip

How a Lava Lamp works and I was getting all excited over nothing... still it would be nice to have some real lava handy; don't like some one throw your lava lamp at 'em... hey, this could be a nice battlecry:

"HARK!!! I shall invade your mind and unleash a cosmic tidal wave from my Lava Lamp!!"