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Posted on 19/07/06 12:19:17 PM |
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Dave
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Sunflowers
Michael.........no fairies please!!!   |
Posted on 20/07/06 02:14:58 AM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Sunflowers
No Fairies! Now look what you've done:  _________________ Just because I've read a book doesn't mean that I know what I'm talking about...sigh! |
Posted on 29/07/06 05:45:47 AM |
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jefferson
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Re: Sunflowers
Now how does one create such rich lightning. Is there a good plugin, 'cause the tutorials on the web seem lacking... |
Posted on 29/07/06 10:18:47 AM |
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GKB
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Re: Sunflowers
You could try Alien Skin Xenofex 2. That gives fairly acceptable lightning |
Posted on 29/07/06 11:19:21 AM |
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Dave
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Re: Sunflowers
Hi Jefferson GKB is right i used Alien Skin Xenofex 2 to create the lightning. |
Posted on 29/07/06 3:00:30 PM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Sunflowers
The background comes from a photo! OK, here's an interesting situation in which I find myself: I have already three of the Alien Skin's plug ins; however, when I was trying out the trial version of Xenofex2, I discovered four things: 1. I only wanted the lightning feature. 2. That this lightning actually had only one "optimized" prototype bolt; certainly, you could reduce the number and change the angle of branches ( which would always appear at the same places on the bolt), but at the expense of making the bolts less realistic. 3. I created this "optimized" prototypical lightning bolt on a transparent background, and saved as a psd file. Next I made a two copies of the bolt and made some interesting combinations (using the Free Transform Tool) that the original program failed to do. 4. Finally, I played around with Levels, Contrast, and the Fill Selection with colour to get the white incandescent glow of the lightning. All this from one psd file which--of course--is for my own private use. Mike  |
Posted on 29/07/06 6:57:02 PM |
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Dave
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Re: Sunflowers
Michael, Thats some going mate, well done.... been a thicky i will just use the filter!! |
Posted on 30/07/06 00:23:11 AM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Sunflowers
Dave it's straight forward really... Anyway, I can pre-anticipate Steve say that the bolt of lightning should be thicher/bigger/wider, so here is a bigger lightning bolt: 
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Posted on 30/07/06 02:47:25 AM |
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jefferson
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Re: Sunflowers
Okay y'all have a good laugh now... I've owned Eye Candy 4000, Splat and Xenofex. Just never got around to installing the Xenofex stuff. Geeeez. BTW Michael, I think that lightning bolt is a bit too thick and overwhelming. And now Alienskin split the candy off into 3 separate products forcing me to consider if I should upgrade the 4000 to ver 5. |