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How to: Wrapped Glow'y Line [From my Joker sig]


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This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it

 

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Find your stock!
Find the stock you want to use. In our case I will be using the stock from Expire's Energy Sig; and from Sabrown100's Current Sig[as of 7.3.08]
NOTE: I attached the file of the stock. Also, I had to resize it for size purposes.
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The Line!
Now we will start on the line 'n' everything of it's manor.

-Draw a quick 'doodle sketch' as I like to call it. For this, I used the brush tool [3px width]. Use whatever width you feel is good.-
Try to just imagine the line in your head. Imagine it swirlin' around your focal object.
Be sure to use a good blending, but good color.
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-Okay, now that you have the idea of where you're heading, it's time to line tool't!-
Add a new layer.
DON'T USE WHITE
Use the color you want for the glow
Use your Line Tool to trace it. Fix anything that doesn't look good.
[Be sure to use the right click'r to get a good curve for the curvin parts.]

-Should look something along the lines of this-
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-Now to give it a curved feel-
Grab your gradient tool and set it to radial
Now set it to transparency :AlphaChannel:
Hold right click and draw little gradients at the ends to give it a curved look
This is just to give it a 'shaded' feel

After tweak'n it a lot, you should come out with something like this
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The Glow!
This section shows how to make the white and glow'n part

Start off by duplicating your line layer
Follow these steps on the duplicated layer:
-Adjustments>Black 'n' White
-Adjustments>Brightness 'n' Contrast [100;100]
-Gaussian Blur [1px]

Now on the bottom layer aka color'd layer:
-Gaussian Blur [2px]

Finally, on the top layer aka white layer:
-Effects>Photo>Glow [6;6;10]

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There ya go! Now you know how to make a 'Wrapped Glow'y Line'!
Post your results!

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After fooling around with gradients, blending layers, and contrast..
I got this:

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Oh my gosh, I always wanted to know how to do that on PDN. Thanks for the share and excellent tutorial. :D

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Nice job on the tutorial, but I do it a different method. :shock:

Just a little different way of doing it:

Draw a white line with a 2-3 px Line/Curve tool using bezier curves over your render on a new layer.

Erase the parts that should go behind the render. This makes it look more natural, that the lines would actually connect around behind.

Taper out the ends to a point using either the eraser tool if it is curvy enough, or a transparency gradient if it is rather flat.

Gaussian blur by 1 px.

Use Outline Object at a 2-5 px radius and a softness of 253-255.

Run glow at default settings.

Either way, they both turn out similar.

Call me expired. Please.

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Don't go counting your chickens before the pack of rabid ravaging foxes attacks. -Sozo
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@Tendou: As much as I love the gratitude.. you're kinda break'n rule 3.

3) DO NOT SHOUT. We can hear you just fine. Using all capitals is often interpeted as rude, so please don't.

@Yipppiyo: No problem. I love writing tutorials, so it's my pleasure.

@Expire..: Yeah. Thanks for the input. Either way is nice. I just wanted to share how I do it, I've recieved several PM's so I just thought it would be easier to just write it. :)

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Good luck. Post your result in both threads. :wink: If you need any ideas, inspiration (Spelling?!), or help.. just PM me. :)

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No prob. It's a pleasure. :)

I didn't know people wanted this that badly. I thought it was going to die to the 10+ pages.

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That's because anything that is shiny is so cool! XD. The reason I was so desperate for it was because I always needed an effect to surround the render and this was the perfect one but I didn't know how to do so until now.

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Awesome tut. I was looking over Photoshop tutorials and saw a tutorial on the "glowing line." I never had a chance to do it on my own, so you sped up this process. Thank you sooo much! :)

No problem. I have always loved 'em anyway, so.. yeah. Lol. Glad you like it.

Holy shiznet thats good!

Hehe. Thanks.

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