Popular Post Limon Posted December 13, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) 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: 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 Start with a 1600x1200 canvas. Erase the background. Run Red Ochre's Table Plugin with the settings below. 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 Hidden Content: Run Red Ochre's Clipwarp New with the settings below. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 Edited March 15, 2019 by Woodsy Rehosted to Postimage. 10 Quote Oh, because I am allergic to things I do not want to do. *Cough* - Michael J. Caboose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewDale Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Fantastic tute Limon, this is added to my "to do list" thanks for the share Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Fabulous outcome! Beautiful Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Looks fantastic! - many thanks for the well written tutorial. Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentGoodspeed Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Wow! Wished I'd seen this earlier, before I started another project today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) This is a great tutorial Limon. Thank you! I love how you obtained the gold texture. It is very shiny. For the first six steps you may use Red ochre's Table effect as well (it may save a couple of steps). It is not easy to find as it is not included in his pack. Edited December 13, 2015 by Eli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Borg Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) Stunning. On my to do list too This combined with welshblue's chain link tutorial could be very realistic jewellery ? Edited December 13, 2015 by Si Borg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbieq25 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Yuumy! What a great outcome. Look forward to road-testing this one Thanks so much for writing it. Quote Knowledge is no burden to carry. April Jones, 2012 Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 (edited) WOW! I'm blown away, Limon! I can't wait to try this! The gemstone looks fabulous! Thank you, thank you, thank you! (P.S. You should edit your post on my faceted gem thread and add a link to this tut.) Edited December 14, 2015 by lynxster4 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullbonz Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) The half sphere map setting in Shape 3D could do this also without as many steps. Good job with this one though. How do you hide or blend the seam where the two halves meet? Edited December 15, 2015 by skullbonz Quote http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/21233-skullbonz-art-gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) Limon! Thank you so much. Edited December 15, 2015 by Seerose 1 Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limon Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 Thank you everyone for the positive feedback, I'm happy to know that you find the tutorial well written (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! Quote Oh, because I am allergic to things I do not want to do. *Cough* - Michael J. Caboose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 (edited) I finally got to do the tut! Here's my result, Limon... This has many, many possibilities, depending on the picture you choose. I used this pic, which I made years ago in Incendia, a 3D fractal program... Thank you, Limon. Edited July 29, 2017 by lynxster4 re-hosted image 1 4 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 That is a great result, very nice. Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynxster4 Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 That is a great result, very nice. Thank you, Seerose! 1 Quote My Art Gallery | My Shape Packs | ShapeMaker Mini Tut | Air Bubble Stained Glass Chrome Text with Reflections | Porcelain Text w/ Variegated Coloring | Realistic Knit PatternOpalescent Stained Glass | Frosted Snowman Cookie | Leather Texture | Plastic Text | Silk Embroidery Visit my Personal Website "Never, ever lose your sense of humor - you'll live longer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limon Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 Lynxster that is a great result, thank you for sharing! I love the onyx inside the cage, and using the fractal gave some really nice texture to the cage. Well done! 1 Quote Oh, because I am allergic to things I do not want to do. *Cough* - Michael J. Caboose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) Here's my result, with the image Thank you so much and Edited January 4, 2016 by Seerose 1 3 Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Wow @Limon - that is certainly a very impressive tutorial you have here. Shape 3D has always given me the heeby-jeebies with all those dials. You obviously, like @Welshblue before you, have a knack for it. Fantastic and here is my attempt. 1 5 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limon Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 Seerose, that is a very nice result, thank you! The Incendia pic proved to be great for this tut Looks very nice and sparkly, thank you for sharing it Pixey! I'm glad to see you back at the forum again Quote Oh, because I am allergic to things I do not want to do. *Cough* - Michael J. Caboose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlearyIrish Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Having fun going through all these tutorials. Really nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsy Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 1 hour ago, BlearyIrish said: Having fun going through all these tutorials. Really nice. I like to see that! That's how I started out. @BlearyIrish show us some of your work. Quote My PDN Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardneh Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) Great tutorial. Thanks! Edited June 17, 2021 by ardneh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladybug Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Beautiful renditions of the wire cage from Limon's tutorial. I will most definitely be trying this in the future. Gorgeous! Quote Click HERE to see my Pictorium of images I have worked on. You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. ~ Isadora Duncan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manc Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Hi @Limon I've tried this twice and get confused. When you say 'Cut', do you mean 'Delete'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardneh Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I believe it means to cut/paste into a new layer, not delete. Ctrl X Ctrl Shift V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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