cjmcguinness

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Frojo, I stumbled upon the tile effect while messing around. If you select the 'Fill' tool and change the fill type to 'Trellis'... ...and fill your canvas. Then use Effects > Blurs > Zoom Blur Deluxe... ...you end up with this... Try messing about with different fill types and apply the Zoom Blur Deluxe, you get some interesting results. If you don't already have it, you can get theZoom Blur Deluxe plugin here.

Started off trying to create something for my desktop..ended up with this. I think it looks better portrait.

Here's a blended 4-colour one. Once you have your first set of tiles done leave them mono. Start a new imge with a canvas that is twice the size of your original then copy and paste your original in 4 times, tiling to fill the canvas. Create a new layer and divide it into a 4x4 grid, colured as follows: EFFECTS > Blurs > Motion Blur at 90 degrees EFFECTS > Blurs > Motion Blur at 180 degrees This will blend all the colours together. Move your colour layer below the tiles, then set the blending mode on the tile layer to Multiply. Then IMAGE > Canvas Size, by Percentage to 50%, ensuring the Anchor is set to middle. You now have a coloured, blended set of tiles that will also tile seamlessly.

Follow the instructions in the How to install Pluginsthread.

I took a bit more care with this one, cutting out some of the inner pieces of the Japanese writing. I also repeated the Glow effect on the middle later to make it more pronounced.

Sophotrates, Is this the kind of effect you are looking for? Magic Wand the background black (tolerance 25%) to isolate the centre image and delete the background. Magic Wand the blank area and CRTL+I to invert. Create a new layer and fill the selection white, move it below the original image. Use the Feather effect on both layers. Create a new layer, fill it black and move it to the bottom. Use the Glow effect on the middle layer (the white one) with settings of 10, 100, 10. That should do the trick. -CJ

I think Music is a great idea. It's abstract enough that you can approach it from many angles: Sheet Music, Musical Instruments, Music Playing/Listening Devices (iPods, headphones, CD's, etc...), Bands, Gigs..... Music definitely gets my vote

Something I've been working on today. Can't figure out anything meaningful to do with it. I was going for a kind of cyberspace meets matrix type of effect. What do you guy's think?

You're welcome. Glad I could be of assistance.

Andrei, If your original image is 800x600 and you try to resize to 200x135 the image is going to look distorted as you are messing with the aspect ratio of the picture. If you want your picture 200 wide it's going to have to be 150 tall to keep the width to height ratios the same. To get it 135 high you are going to have to crop 15 pixels from either the top, bottom or a combination of both. I would suggest the following: I started with this 400x300 picture of a car. 1. Take your original picture and use resize it IMAGE > RESIZE Ensure 'Maintain Aspect Ratio' is ticked and enter 200 as the width. The height will automatically change to 150. Create a new image by pressing CTRL+N You will get a dialog where you can enter the pixel dimensions you require. Make the width 200 and the height 135. You are now working with two images, the one on the left is the original and the one on the right, highlighted blue, is your new 200x135 blank canvas. Click back on your image of the car in the top right corner to go back to the original image. Press CTRL+A to select the whole picture. Then, click back to your blank canvas and press CTRL+V to paste. You will see the following paste dialog. You should select 'Keep Canvas Size' You will now see the original image inside the bounds of your chosen canvas size, with dashed lines showing where it exceeds. Now, simply use your up & down arrow keys to position the selection where you want it, so you get the best fit. Press CTRL+D to deselect. You can now save your picture.

Nancy, Are you trying to remove trace of shadows cast ON an object or behind/below an object? Would you be able to post one or two example pictures with explanations of what elements you are trying to remove. -CJ

Might as well get the ball rolling (in true Blue Peter style, here's one I prepared earlier). The face is mine - I don't usually look this sinister (honestly). I used this picture of Dublin and this image of a Gun

Sorry, couldn't wait... Love Sin City and just had to have a go. Consider this inspiration for others and I'll have a go at a different one when the thread officially starts. -CJ

Love the Sin City theme... EDIT: Moved post to new SOTW#2 thread.

Nice, thanks for the credit.

They're all characters in the Webdings font. If you don't have it installed you can download it from Simply The Best Fonts -CJ

I have a suggestion for a new feature related to the rotating of text while typing. I have searched the forum extensively to see if this has previously been requested and could not find any similar posts, but I'll apologise in advance if this has been requested before. While using the Text tool you can click on the crosshair nub to drag and reposition your text. I think it would be a great idea if you could also right-click on this nub and free-rotate the text at the same time. I understand that you can type your text on a new layer, select it and use the Move Selected Pixels tool to rotate. I just think it would be cool if you could freely rotate the text as you are typing it. This would save a little time and effort when placing angled test onto pictures and just make the Text tool a little cooler. I'd be interested to know if anyone else thinks this would be useful.

Also, Caliph, Were you basing the circle size from the dimensions displayed in the info bar at the bottom of the screen?

Caliph, Have you tried adjusting the zoom level? If you set this to 'Window' whatever your canvas size it'll comfortably fit into your screen at a size you can work with.

This tut is great for more than just software/dvd boxes. I used the same techniques to fold a flat image of the take-away menu from my local pizza joint.

Pascal, Try searching the 'Plugins' section of the forum. This contains links to many effect plugins that are not part of the PDN core program, plus instructions on how to download and install them. There's also a direct link to the Waves plugin in my tutorial for Curved Tile Texture

Wow! Fast work - It's a lot better now

tunedude, Can I suggest one small change to the UI. Your [Ok] and [Cancel] buttons are the opposite way round from all other UI dialogs within PDN. The Interlace UI has the [Cancel] button on the left and the [Ok] button on the right. As you can see from the attached picture all UI interfaces in PDN have them the other way around. It would be great if you could correct this in your next update of the plugin for the sake of consistency.

Caliph, here is Europe's original instructions with some step-by-step screenshots to help you. 1. New Image (I’ve took 500x500) 2. Clouds 3. Repeat Clouds (Modus Difference) Your image should now look like this: 4. Pencil Sketch (Size 20, Range 20) Your image should now look like this: 5. Zoom Blur (100) Your image should now look like this: 6. Twist (Twisting amount 20, Quality 5) Your image should now look like this: 7. Duplicate Layer 8. Twist (Twisting amount -40, Quality 5) 9. Set Layer Mod to Lighten 10. Flatten Image Your image should now look like this: 11. Open Curves and colour the image 12. Save 13. Finished Hope this helps.