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    Digital Camouflage

    in Textures

    Posted · Edited by toe_head2001
    Added plugin links

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

     

    Required Plugins:

     

    Hello all

    Here's a quick tutorial, as easy and detailed as possible, to make digital camouflage.

    Here's the effect we're going for:

    MARPAT_woodland_pattern.jpg

    Pick The Colours

    In order to use accurate-as-possible colours, I'll smudge them to obtain the average colours. There is usually three colours in a pattern: Background (darkest); Middle (bit brighter); Front (Lightest)

    sa4UW.jpg

    Get those colours in an other image, in case you need to find them again.

    KGeZm.png

    Making the Pattern's Base

    Start with the background colour, and fill your canvas. For this tutorial I went 500px squared, but I suggest you go as high as your computer can handle, for quality purposes.

    BQR6P.jpg

    Next, start up your CLOUDS plugin with your second colour selected on a new layer, with the following parametres:

    ygyj2.jpg

    Repeat again with the new colour, on a new layer. Make sure to press 'Reseed' when at the plugin's configuration.

    Qjb73.jpg

    Giving it a digitalised look

    Select the top layer, and run a JITTER effect on it. This is to give it that 'windy' look.

    BhwHg.jpg

    Next, run a PIXELATE+ plugin. You can either use my parametres or try your own settings.

    mVvpb.jpg

    Now use the Magic Wand with a tolerance of ~45%, and select an empty-looking spot while holding SHIFT.

    UVMTs.jpg

    Once you have that, press the buttons in this order:

    CTRL+I (Invert Selection)

    BACKSPACE (Fill Selection)

    CTRL+I (Invert Selection)

    DELETE (Delete Selection)

    Here's the result you should have:

    HGuZo.jpg

    Rinse & Repeat with the middle layer.

    Also, unlike what I did, I suggest using a slightly different PIXELATE+ level for the 2nd layer.

    Realistic Clothing

    Now we want to give the camouflage a realistic look. If you look again at the resource image, you can spot a number of distinctive features:

    -The patterns are not perfectly aligned. You can replicate this by selecting the middle layer, pressing CTRL+SHIFT+Z and increasing the angle a single percent.

    Uj7F8.jpg

    -The colours are not plain, this is woven. You can replicate this by adding noise to each layer.

    DZyH4.jpg

    -Woven Fabric: Run a STITCH plugin on each layer [OPTIONNAL]

    FM2y7.jpg

    -Shadows: Run a CLOUD effect with colours BLACK (alpha 250) and WHITE (alpha 0) and the

    following parametres on a new layer. Don't forget the set the layer's BLEND MODE to MULTIPLY.

    x12oF.jpg

    dwnY3.jpg

    There you go! Hopefully you had much better results than I did, I really messed this one up...

    KkPR0.jpg

    Here's a better result:

    zCr5Dl.jpg

    Looking forward to seeing some results and criticism!

    -piney

     

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    Plugins & Security ?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

    Posted

    No problem, but just for the record, I have a whole bunch of plugins and have never had any problems.

    I regularly check my outgoing / ingoing connections and absolutely nothing even remotely suspicious. And anyhow, I do believe any antivirus would detect such behaviour fairly quickly, as any unallowed access of memory can be detected easily.

    Plugins & Security ?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

    Posted · Edited by PineappleQc

    It's simple to prevent any damage, simply sandbox your paintdotnet application to a specific folder, and block it from sending communication or altering files outside that folder.

    I believe a number of antivirus and firewalls offer that feature, I know the lastest version of Comodo Free Firewall does.

    Image Umbrella: Realistic Images

    in The Pictorium

    Posted

    oh, soul, I'm sorry, I hadn't realized either. It is very nice, as pophiri said the shadows are well done, it's pretty much a perfect kirby, however I'm not quite sure just how realistic kirby is, but hey he's very nice nonetheless!

    and your welcome pophiri, I especially like the bubble ring!

    Image Umbrella: Abstract Images

    in The Pictorium

    Posted

    it's pretty cool intel, my suggestion is to change the background to something more orignal though, clouds are always used t much...

    Ok thanks. What to you think would look better? And is the color palette any good? Thanks!

    ah, sorry for not responding I hadn't checked this in a while :)

    I'd go for a dark texture, something like this: http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/packs/cry ... m?3#anchor although with a distorted grid-like feature. the colour palette is nice, but it didn't stand out as it should have on the previous background.

    and oma, that's very nice, the four "bubbles" give it a nice touch. Only critism is that it does look very stretched by places, and as with a lot of abstracts, it's a little too symmetric, even with the different colour lines.

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