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  1. Here's some marbles I made that I tried to make look like glass (the reflections e.t.c) Just a small attempt and there is probally more I could do if I had time... What do you think?

    small2.png

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    annother one i did (Differnet style)

    small.png

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  2. very nice tutorial! I'll have to make a new sig with it! :D
    awesome tut! Mine didnt turn out as good but still awesome! :D

    Thanks!

    @ GHXpert59: Great! I'd love to see the results of your sig :)

    @ BlargElite: What part did it go wrong? I'd be willing to help you sort it out :D

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

     

    This tutorial will teach you how to create an embossed glowing style text effect:

    This is what you will end up with if you follow my tut correctly:

    Spacetext-fin

    Looks good? Interested? Well lets begin:

    But... First you will need the following things:

    --Mandatory:--

    The drop shadow plugin

    First start off with a simple dark background, and add a new layer - call it text, then add your desired text in black colour.

    1-1

    Duplicate the text layer ( )(naming the duplicate text2) Then select the colour replacer tool (standard settings + large brush, 90 or so) with Primary colour White, Secondary Black. This will look like this:

    2-1

    Gaussian Blur Text2 by 7PX, this will give an embossed feel. Then duplicate Text2 to intensify the white. Name the Duplicate layer Text_colour.

    3-1

    Recolour Text_colour with your colour. Then Gaussian Blur Text_colour by 6PX. Use Circular Gradient with transparency mode ON, and drag from centre of text towards the outside.

    --Someone PM'ed me asking where it was so here it is:--

    transparencymode

    Should now look like this:

    4-1

    Merge Text_colour and Text2, and merge it down again So you have now 1 Text layer. Duplicate layer and merge down (X2) This will make the text glow.

    5-1

    Duplicate Text layer (call it blur) and motion blur at 152.10, centred, 200. And again at 25, centred, 200. Make sure that text is ontop of blur!

    6-1

    bullet.png Nearly there! Add new layer (ontop) and call it Line. Then draw a line 2-3PX underneath your text. Gaussian Blur the ends, and black drop shadow on the line layer at 7,7,1,4. Done!

    Spacetext-fin

    Oh - background, yes, I did change it several times in the tut, this was to show you certain elements of it better, you can just keep it all the way through.

    Hope you enjoyed this tut - I will happily answer any Q's!

    Answers:

    Some people have asked some questions about my tutorial, to clarify them once and for all, I'll post the answers here:

    1. PX is the amount you blur the text by (in Gaussian blur) just slide it across (or type in the box) to the amount you want.

    2. People who have had problems with the text recolouring I have made a video (I have tried to get across what I meant but it is a bit hard lol)

    Video url: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K-j5KwG_SbQ

    End results from the video:

    example-tut1

    example-tut2

     

  4. It's pretty simple to do this. All you need is:

    1. Custom Brush plugin

    Omit this if you already have it installed.

    2. A speach bubble in .png format. An example could be found on google images. A basic one could be: speach_bubble.png

    Just download this and put it in your paint.net user files folder in custom brushes folder.(C:\Users\*Your username*\Documents\Paint.NET User Files\Custom Brushes)

    3. Open up your plugin (Custom Brushes) in PDN (A restart of PDN will be required) and click on your speach bubble and away you go!

  5. Yeah, it looks kind of neon-y. I've been working on this vista style (Photographs) wallpaper combiing 2 pictures, 1 of my tree, the other of a night-time cloud streak i took a few nights ago.

    tree%20streaks_s.png

    The final image

    The original images:

    1. http://1w55pg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1ptCcEyI779DpRrm4RRRWbh_9_hA7qTqXDIR_R5RaClvWHPu4qvrugaVhFqRwHNq8nwZv6m2ioF5I/SV400176.JPG

    2. http://1w55pg.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p-GwzcrBgZ3_6Xph0oJUx3FaCGJDiSC9Kje2Q9Y68BgWHGZ1PDbTQlCcNfZRG6EUxhD1WpgmGm8c/SV400174.JPG

    I think it look's quite summery, can you tell me what you think of it?

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