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[Nathan_Misch]

Aguba,

Great tutorial! The result looks amazing. In my own separate image attempts, I had done some steps very similarly; the alpha masking sections are far superior to what I tried,though.Thanks for sharing your amazing skills with the community!

Gonna go give it a whirl now.

[Mike Ryan]

Excellent tutorial. I've worked [url=http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html]alot[/url] on 3D before (check out my Gallery if you want to see) and we share a few differences in style. For instance, where you duplicate the layer [url=http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html]alot[/url] of times, I duplicate it two or three times then make it a solid using Pyrochild's Outline Object color using a color that is actually lighter than the object (or darker). I found this fixes some depth issues.

For any newcomers: The currently published version of Alpha Mask Import does not work as described in this tutorial. For that, I suggest instead using my Isolate White / Black plugin.

[PancakePaint]

I knew that you would make a tutorial soon... It's much more complex than I thought though.

I just chose a random letter... It's a bit blurry.

[Lance McKnight]

aguba, I didn't follow your tutorial, but I wanted to share my work with you. I hope you won't feel bad.

[aguba]

I'd say you did a fair job there Lance

@Nathan: Thanks, I had always used alpha masking for things like this. It gives a very clean cut.
@Mike: What changed in the Alpha Mask Import plugin?
@waffle: Awesome result

[Mike Ryan]

In the new version if all of the settings were blank then it would run a black and white copy of the layer as mask. It doesn't do that anymore, instead not running any mask.

[aguba]

Oh wow, that's a shame. You're plugin does provide a suitable work-around however

[Sarkut]

You're plugin does provide a suitable work-around however

aguba,

You might want to clarify that statement.

It sounds like you are telling people that they can do your
tutorial successfully using Mike's plugin as an alternative to
the Alpha Mask Import plugin.

[Mike Ryan]

You're plugin does provide a suitable work-around however

aguba,
You might want to clarify that statement.
It sounds like you are telling people that they can do yoututorial successfully using Mike's plugin as an alternative to the Alpha Mask Import plugin.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean?

[Sarkut]

The tutorial includes loading a mask using Browse, for example.

I didn't see a browse function on the UI of Isolate White / Black.

If it will do everything the tutorial requires that's great.

Can it use the values from one layer as a mask for another layer?

[aguba]

Sorry, my bad. I meant that it creates a workaround for that specific part of the tutorial, where you don't have to load any alpha masks. The Alpha Mask Import plugin is still required.

[pyrochild]

Aguba, I've written a new plugin called Trail that should make step 3 of this tutorial much faster.

[Ben Arie]

Hello, this is my result (attached). It's a bit lighter than yours. I didn't figure out how to apply the gradient to the white lines,
so I instead used gaussian blur and applied a glow. At the end, instead of turning light to 0 I turned it up a bit. I didn't use Vignette.


Edit: This is my first try at this so it's not very original but I need to learn for now. I will be more original in my creations.

Edited by Ben Arie, 10 April 2010 - 02:33 PM.

[Helena]

Wow, you're right when you say that this tutorial requires a lot of time and patience... it took me hours, but I've learnt a lot of useful things, thank you for share your techniques. These are my attempts:

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Edited by Helena, 20 April 2010 - 10:42 PM.

[BulsAye]

I had trouble in a certain section of the tutorial, but besides that thiss was a really good tutorial. I'm new to PdN, but i'm learning pretty fast. Please tell me what you think. ( Any critiques ) would be nice. .

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[talionYzero]

[IMG]http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx105/talionYzero/3d2.jpg[/IMG]

Here's my go Not the best, but I tried; maybe someday I'll try it again with more luck.

Good tutorial though.

[Pixey]

Wow! What an amazing tutorial - for which many thanks. I will not admit to how long I took to do this ..... but it was many,many hours. I learned a lot but, like Ben Arie before me, I could not select and put a gradient to the white lines either. Bother!

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[Sarkut]

Pixey,

To put a gradient to the white lines,
you want to use a transparent radial gradient.

[Ben Arie]

oooooooooooooooooohhhh..... right.

[Pixey]

Pixey,

To put a gradient to the white lines,
you want to use a transparent radial gradient.

Wow! Thanks for that tip and I managed to do it this time.

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