Possum Roadkill

This is awesome ! Great tut. I did this for the first gem tut, so I think I can move up to this V2 tut. I tried several kinds of gem stones and I wanted to add an opal. So I looked up some photos and figured out how to make one. Thanks Ash, this is really great. OK ! I got through it and it has a completely different look to it. I think each has it's own unique uses. This is a great effect and a great tut that everyone should learn. Very cool Ash, very cool. Thanks !

This is a wonderful plugin ! I have been playing around with it for a couple of hours now with some textures I have and have even created some to use with this plugin. This works very well, but I wonder if there is a way that it could remember the last folder it loaded a texture from? I have placed all of my textures in one folder so they are easy to get to, but I have a whole bunch of subfolders in my paint.net folder. Other than that, this is just great ! Thanks so much. This is a sample of what I used it for. This is a limestone effect that I came up with a while back and I used your plugin to add a brick texture to make it look like limestone blocks. I then drew in the mortar on a gray layer, duplicated it, fragmented the dup layer, blurred the orig layer, merged them and added a grainy texture to them so the mortar would look more realistic.

I enjoy your work so much. I always look forward to seeing what you do in the tutorials because you have a way to take them to a new level. You have an amazing sense of color and texture as well as your deep understanding of the physical nature of objects. I greatly appreciate your suggestions and help in the tuts. You are a great and patient teacher. I have learned so much from your comments and even more from just studying your work. Thanks again.

Man your stuff just keep getting better and better. I am just amazed at how real your work looks. I love the space scapes, they look like paintings on book covers I read when I was younger (and that was a long time ago). Very very nice. I wish I had a better vocabulary so I could use bigger words to describe how good I think your work it.

Gosh Helen, your work is so beautiful. I really like the bugs and the frogs. I love frogs and they look like glass. So very nice.

I knew I would finally use this. I used it on my album cover in the Alfredo section. NOW I UNDERSTAND IT ! Oh sorry I didn't mean to yell.

I like the looks of this. I'll let you know how it works out.

Really like the to angle filter. Very useful for me. Thanks!

Sorry, I messed up the link from Photobucket ! It's posted now.

Thank you Oma ! I had a request from the owner of our local forum to create some sigs for the Admins and Mods and I put it off for a couple of days while I waited for some inspiration. I found it. Thank you !

I think you did a great job. The blue looks so intense and I like the font. What font is that?

This is wonderful. Thanks ! I really need this.

I can't believe that I downloaded this plug-in and forgot to install it a couple of weeks ago. I was browsing through the plug-ins forum and thought I had read this before but could not find them effects in PdN. Oh WOW ! I have something new to learn today ! Yea ! These look great, thanks!

Just use the move selection tool, there is no 'back' button. Visibility is in the layers box. You can turn a layer's visibility off and on. Thanks ! I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. I have been having trouble understanding how to do the hi lights and this helped me a great deal. Thanks again !

Oma this is a wonderful tut ! I had so much fun doing it and I learned a lot from it. I am in awe of your creativity and grasp of the functions of PdN. There are so many parts of this tut that teach not only some of the basic functions but the versatility of this program. There are so many parts of this tut that can be used in other ways for other projects. Thank you so much for teaching us this wonderful lesson. This is my leaf top and bottom with a background. This is a compilation of the top and bottom of my leaf with my big bird Fernando. He is an Amboina King Parrot and one of my best buddies. I have been thinking about how I could put this photo of him into a project and this was the perfect solution. I just wish I had photographed his magnificent tail ! Thanks again ! Now if I can just get this to work with the seamless tile maker this will be my new wallpaper.

Thanks for a great tut ! That was a whole bunch of fun! This is my first try on this tut. Then I decided to put something in the ball. So then I played around with the shadow after reading the discussion on the focal point of the light affecting the shadow. I guess if there is a solid object inside the ball that would change the physical properties of the shadow. So I doubt that I am even close as far as being physically realistic, but I think this tut does a good job of teaching the basics of hi-lights, shading, and shadows. And it was fun and easy to follow.

And the Alpha mask gives a cleaner cutout as well. I really like how you did the reflection, very nice. I use this cutout effect a lot with similar textures with contrasting colors or with photos of things that have a repetitive pattern like a comb of honey (the real thing) or a field of flowers. This is an image I did for one of my You Tube videos. The text is cut out of the graffiti on one train car and put on another. I then used the relief effect on the text to give it more texture. Thumbnail

Hey pdnnoob ! This is a great effect ! I used it to make all the chrome parts in this image. I used the color tint plugin to tint the text hi-lites blue. I've been playing around with this using other colors than black or white as the original piece and the results are very unusual. Thanks again !

I did get it to work but I found it unusual that it saved it as a new image and not in the image I was creating. The other thing is the reflection was not close to the object being reflected in the saved image. So what I did was to cut out the reflection and pasted it to a new layer and moved it to where I wanted the reflection to appear. I too found the controls a little stiff, but I am happy with the final results even with the extra steps. I think it does need some work, but it will be a very nice plugin once it's been refined a little. I will use it even if it's not changed. The reflection it produced is very smooth and just what I needed. Thanks !

Simon thank you so much for posting this tut. I had found the original tut that you mentioned and was so disappointed when I realized that all of the instructions were contained in the deleted images. I read through page after page picking up what I could and had an idea of what to do, but this makes it all so clear. Thanks again!

I'm not a genius...I just go around bother the real geniuses by implying that they aren't truly as genius as they think Anyways...thanks for the complements, although it really should be barkbark00 that you should be thanking. All I did was shorten his tutorial. Nice pic by the way. How did you get the wobbly reflection on the chrome? I got the wobbly effect on the reflection through a complex series of maneuvers that involves pulleys,leavers, a trip to Indianapolis, and a ninja.....OK, I lied, it's just the font. It's Exocet Light and i got it from this site http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fo ... ee%20Fonts but you can find it several places. I think it's the narrow serifs that causes the effect. It was purely by chance. It's the font I use for a my club logo, The Dead Possum Society. The Oand P that are merged are the same font and I just blended them together. OP stands for OPossum. Another font that does something similar is Papyrus. You can find it on the same site. I know, this is way too much information.

Sorry guys I've been tied up for a few days with annoying issues, long story involving train cars and politicians and an evil rich guy. Anyway, I'll try to make this as simple as I can and maybe someone can make this into a tut. I hope you don't mind but I'm going to send this to Yellowman in a PM and copy it to David Atwell so that they can look it over so I can stay out of trouble by posting a tut within a tut. It's been a long week. Thanks.

lol...don't flatter yourself like that It could use some modifications ...maybe like changing the angle (hint hint) Of course, that may be too hard for mister genius, but it's just a suggestion Not bad. You should have used the feather plugin (also known as the most useful plugin of all time...whoever made it is a genius ) instead of...whichever blur you used. Could it be that you both are genius? I'm lucky to spell plug-in correctly much less write one ! Again pdnnoob, a GREAT tut ! I have used this so much I look at every font with chrome on my mind. This is clipped out of another image I posted in the how to make stone tut in another section. I guess this shows that you can use this effect even on thin fonts as well. http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp41/PossumRoadkill/Logos/DPS_Logo_clip.png

For your first question, I think Yellowman's answer is the best advice. Until I read his comments in one of his tut's about using a large canvas I had the same problem. In this case bigger is better. Almost everything I do now in Paint.net I start with a larger canvas than I want the final image and downsize it to the desired size when done. You just can't argue with the quality of his work and the results that he gets from this method. For your second question, and sorry I have been off the board for a few days, thus the delayed response, use the IMG link (the bottom link below the image) and paste it into your post. I hope this image will show you what I mean. I just click on the link, copy it and paste it into my post. Pretty simple and no additional code is needed. I'm sure that others can add to that to show how to add the image as a thumbnail or as an external link.

This is from the forum rules at this link. viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3446 15) Signature size requirements: The combined size of all images in your signature must not be wider than 500px, nor taller than 150px. There is no specific limit as to the number of lines of text permitted in signatures, as we understand that text can render differently in different browsers, but if you have text in addition to an image of the maximum 150px height, please keep it down to two lines. Ideally, text and images in your signature should be around a 200px combined maximum height. Is this the info you are looking for? I use photobucket to store my images and link them from there. I keep my sigs and avatars in different folders so I don't get them confused with something else I've done. I think you can link them from other websites, photobucket is just what I'm used to using. Hope that helps ! Good job on the image ! I wouldn't have known it was your second try.