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Posted on 28/11/04 09:35:12 AM |
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CubanPete
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Sprayed on Butterfly
1st off I must say thanks for a great book. Just the thing needed by a hobbiest like myself, I have found a lot of the other photoshop books get too caught up in the fine details which is great if you are a pro,however a bit overkill for someone like myself. This is a rework of another piece of mine, just the butterfly in that one, I'm trying to get to get it to look like it has been spray-painted on. Comments welcome.  |
Posted on 28/11/04 12:09:57 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply  |
Re: Sprayed on Butterfly
Looks good to me, except that the butterfly wings itself has lost shape with the drips making the entire butterfly look as if it's made of paint - which is a nice effect in of itself. However, if you're wanting to make it look like the wings are painted I would suggest making a duplicate of the butterfly and apply the drip effect to that layer. On the original layer (ctrl - pc) (command -mac) select the layer thumbnail in the Layer Palette and fill the shape with 50% gray. Then select a suitable blending mode for the paint layer hopefully then it will look like the paint is dripping off a blank butterfly shape. If you understand what I'm saying. Becky _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 28/11/04 1:56:02 PM |
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CubanPete
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Re: Sprayed on Butterfly
Thanks for the comments, the effect that I was looking for was one where the butterfly does look like it has been sprayed on. Hell I want the can of spraypaint that can do that lol. Here is the original image of the butterfly that I was working from.  |
Posted on 28/11/04 4:03:18 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply |
Re: Sprayed on Butterfly
I had a try but the idea about the 50% Gray filled layer didn't comes off as I expected so opted to add some Filter/Artistic/Plastic Wrap to a duplicate layer set to Blending Mode Lighten, then duplicate that layer and set it to Darken to try to give it a wet paint look. Becky _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |