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    Limon's PDN Pics - Update 17-04-04 (Page 5)

    in The Pictorium

    Posted · Edited by Limon

    Thank you Lynxster! It took some time making the plumage work the way I wanted it to do. Lots of layers deleted on that crow ;)

     

    Another blingy creation, all PDN. I used the Curly Lines plugin to make most of the golden shapes, and Lynxster's gemstone shapes are there too. 

    Golden%20Butterfly%202_zps50rvtifx.png

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    Limon's PDN Pics - Update 17-04-04 (Page 5)

    in The Pictorium

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    Thank you so much Helen, Pixey, Maximilan, Red and Seerose for the positive feedback! I'm happy you liked it  :D

     

    I went back and noticed the cage ........... lovely outcome as well.  Me thinks you like birds ;) .

    Thanks Pixey, and yes, I do like birds ;) Not just because of their beautiful plumages, but also their intellect: They are one of the few non mammals who can solve multi-stage problems, along with squids (*Nerd alert*  :lol:)

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    My flickr site

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    Welcome to the forum, SunnySkies!

     

    Some really interesting pics you've got, and the points of views in the photographs are very nice. I especially like the swirly version of the umbrella picture, it made me think of Van Gogh's "De Sterrennacht"  :D

     

    Nice work, and thank you for sharing!

    Make a Gold Encased Bottle.

    in Creations

    Posted · Edited by Limon

    Great tutorial Pixey, and a lovely bottle too! Thank you for sharing it :)

     

    Eau%20de%20Limon_zps8cghu7vk.png

    EDIT: And thank you for digging up Sarkut's Gradient Mapping file. I have been looking for it for ages, but haven't been able to find it since I didn't know what it was called  :roll:

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    Limon's PDN Pics - Update 17-04-04 (Page 5)

    in The Pictorium

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    Thank you Nils for dropping by and for the comment, I'm happy to hear you like what I have done so far. I really enjoy your photomanips :)

     

    And thank you Lynxster, Seerose, Red ochre and Helen, always a pleasure hearing from you guys ;) The evil cat was inspired by my own pet cat, I've seen the way she looks at our parakeet way too many times  :lol:

    Glass Pane - Newer Edition.

    in Creations

    Posted · Edited by Limon

    A well written tutorial and easy to follow, Pixey. Well done!  :pizza:  :mtdew:

     

    Lots of possibilities too, here's a magnifying glass :)

    Magnifying%20Glass_zpsp33minoz.png

     

    EDIT: Gee, my manners  :roll:! A big THANK YOU for making this tutorial, Pixey! 

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    Creating a Horn Texture?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    I like the effect you got.... but I'm not sure what a "simple bucked fill and noise" is or how to do it / find it.

     

    I know where to find motion blur, at least -- nice to know I was on the right track with that!

     

    I have Pyrochild's grid warp -- guess I will have to tinker with it and try to figure out what the dickens I am doing with it.

     

    When you say you made a gradient-looking shading, where you meaning linear? Or was it a solid the shape of the horn which you ran a clear gradient over to make shading?

     

    And yeah -- I have MJW's plugin, but I really have no idea what does what on it.

    Thank you Marilynx!

     

    Hehe butterfingers, I meant bucket fill :lol: (press F on the keyboard). Fill the clipboard with the color you want and open the effects menu --> Noise: Add Noise. Set the saturation of the noise to 0. Then use motion blur with a high number on the distance to obtain a wood/fibre-looking texture.

     

    The gradient looking shading, yes. I did that one manually because I wanted to make it look like the horn was twisted. I selected the shape of the horn and filled it with a light grey color, using the brush with a dark grey color I made a thick lining around the edges and used Red Ochre's Overblur to make a smooth transition between light and dark (therefore the vague term "gradient-looking" :P )

    How to Make Pearls?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    MJW, really nice result, the reflection is great! I really need to play around with Texture Shader, when I figure out how to use it... :lol:

     

    Made an attempt at a new black pearl just a couple of days after my first one, and ended up with a very nice result... and permanently merging all of my "note layers" into a complete mess  :roll:  Finally backtracked all of the steps today!

    Precious%20Beach2_zpsoesxh6zq.png

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    Creating a Horn Texture?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    I used a simple bucked fill and noise on default (except for the saturation which I set to 0) before running a motion blur. After that I used Pyrochild's grid warp plugin to stretch the texture I made alongside the horn. Then I made a gradient-looking shading, duplicated and ran MJW's texture shader to add some lighting (downloaded the plugin today so I'm not going to say I know what I did there before it happened :P ) I put the texture shaded layer above and set it to Lighten, the duplicated shadow layer on top and set to Overlay.

    Horn_zpsroxhwmjq.png

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    Making a metal wire cage

    in Creations

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    Thank you everyone for the positive feedback, I'm happy to know that you find the tutorial well written :D (unclarity was my biggest worry when posting it)

     

    Skullbonz, I can think of two seams occuring in this tutorial. The first one is when using Bevel Object, just strech those parts of the grid with a selection. The other one is some excess pixels from trail plugin, there some good old eraser should do the trick!

     

    And Seerose, that is a great result! I love the ripple effect, and the cage makes me think of Earth's magnetic field protecting us from solar particles. Thank you for sharing your result! :)

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    Making a metal wire cage

    in Creations

    Posted · Edited by Woodsy
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    This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it

    As requested, here's a tutorial for my metal wire cage. This is my first tutorial so if there are any mess-ups, tell me and I'll try to fix it. 

    When you are done you should end up with something looking like this: 

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    Plugins required

    Shape 3D

    KrisVDM's Object Align

    Boltbait's Bevel Object

    Red Ochre's Table Plugin

    Red Ochre's Clipwarp New

    Red Ochre's Earths and greys

    Ed Harvey's Color tint

    Pyrochild's Trail

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    • Start with a 1600x1200 canvas.

    • Erase the background.

    • Run Red Ochre's Table Plugin with the settings below. 2

    • Run Object Align – Center Both to place the grid in the middle of the canvas.

    • Run Boltbait's Bevel Object with Depth: 12, and both Higlight Color and Shadow Color to black. Strength: 0,5

    • Select a picture with an even distribution of light and dark tones. Copy it to place it in the clipboard.

      An example :arrow-down:

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    • Run Red Ochre's Clipwarp New with the settings below.

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    • Run Black and White. 

    • On an new layer, draw a horizontal line with the line tool set to thickness 1. Run Object Align – Center Both.

    • Select the area below the line with the magic wand tool and go back to the layer with the grid. Cut out the selection.

    • Paste the lower part of the grid onto a new layer. Delete the layer with the line. (I named the two layers to Grid Above and Grid Below to keep track of them)

    • Duplicate both of the layers and run Brightness/Contrast with Brightness: 0 Contrast: -100 on both layers. (These were respectively named Grid Above – Grey, and Grid Below – Grey)

    • Select the layer with the top part of the grid and run Shape3D with lighting unchecked and these settings. Repeat on the bottom part.

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    • Select the grey top layer and run Shape3D with the same settings for Object Rotation, but with the lighting checked (settings shown below). Repeat on the bottom part.

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    • Set both the grey layers to blend mode Reflect.

      For silver/chrome skip step 17-19

    • Go to the grid layers and run Red Ochre's Earths and greys plugin with the settings below.

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    • Run Ed Harvey's Color tint. Hue: 35, Tint Amount: 255

    • Run Hue/Saturation with Hue: 0, Saturation: 70, Lightness: 5

    • Merge the grey layers onto each layer, make sure top and bottom is not merged together just yet!

    • Duplicate the merged layers and run Pyrochild's Trail plugin with the settings below on both layers.

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    • To get a gem, a kitten or any other object you may want inside the cage, paste the object on a layer between the top and bottom layers. For the image up top, I chose a gem shape from Lynxster4's Faceted Gemstone Pack, and colored it using the method from Red Ochre's tutorial on how to color gem shapes.

    • Flatten the image and you are done! (Save a .PDN copy if you want to make changes or re-use parts!)

    I'm looking forward to see your results, just make sure to resize your image within the 800x600 limit before posting  ;)

     

    EDIT: Thank you Eli for suggesting Red's table plugin easier

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