dawmail333 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 One thing I have used this tutorial for is "gloss maps"It works very well to put a sheen onto things that should have them. I've used it on armor, shields, cloth, anything that needs some gloss or shine added. Could you give an example? Quote My Peanut Gallery (Pictorium) | Coloured Ribbons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupperooni Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!I can't get it to work!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Sweet tutorial!!! Here's my result: Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupperooni Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Will someone please help me?How do I make it so the text just doesn't become a messy blob? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Will someone please help me?How do I make it so the text just doesn't become a messy blob? messy blob? I'll help you out, but what do you mean by messy blob? Maybe it's the text you're using? Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupperooni Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Will someone please help me?How do I make it so the text just doesn't become a messy blob? messy blob? I'll help you out, but what do you mean by messy blob? Maybe it's the text you're using? I used Arial Black and font size 108, I also tried regular Arial but they both became blobs, the Arial Black after two and the Arial after a three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Will someone please help me?How do I make it so the text just doesn't become a messy blob? messy blob? I'll help you out, but what do you mean by messy blob? Maybe it's the text you're using? I used Arial Black and font size 108, I also tried regular Arial but they both became blobs, the Arial Black after two and the Arial after a three. What step is leading to your text being too round? Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Are you using the letters: D,O, and C because I can do it for you if you are having a hard time. Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 This is what I got: Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupperooni Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Er, it was DGC not DOC.Not sure what DOC would stand for...unless i was a doctor.It's the blurring that makes it round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 Er, it was DGC not DOC.Not sure what DOC would stand for...unless i was a doctor.It's the blurring that makes it round. I was guessing cause I didn't know what the letters were. Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 How's this: Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pupperooni Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted October 15, 2007 Share Posted October 15, 2007 THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You're welcome. :wink: Quote ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkmaniak Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 I can't get it to work If i put the curves in 255,1 It goes full black, so i set it in a close thing, where it goes black text and white bg, but after that I just can't get anything else. Quote All of the graphics in my sig added up to larger than the 150px height limit so BoltBait deleted them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawmail333 Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 The text should be separate from the background. (E.g. the text should be on a different layer) Quote My Peanut Gallery (Pictorium) | Coloured Ribbons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkmaniak Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Yay thanks i got it. EDIT: I love this tutorial! and since it's easy to do i abuse it... it's also like the only good-looking text i can do xD Here's a siggy i did for someone Quote All of the graphics in my sig added up to larger than the 150px height limit so BoltBait deleted them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volt Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Nice tut. I love how this looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QArkhan Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 One thing I have used this tutorial for is "gloss maps"It works very well to put a sheen onto things that should have them. I've used it on armor, shields, cloth, anything that needs some gloss or shine added. Could you give an example? I start with the base image I make a mask per the tutorial I perform the tutorial steps, sometimes having to fiddle with the size of the median and gaussian blurs and end up with a gloss map I put the gloss map layer above the base image layer, set the gloss map to OVERLAY and adjust the opacity to my liking, to get something like This works well for metal, plastic, cloth, anything that might have some shine, reflections or sheen to it. You can edit the gloss map if it puts highlights that are inconsistent with lighting, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolicus Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 My try at it: http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs23/300W/f/2008/006/1/4/Chrome_Text_by_Diabolicus.png Great tut! Easy, great end result, and mine came out good for a change! EDIT: I did not see the date of the last post. I'm so sorry! Quote My DA|Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tourist Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Your tutorial inspired me to create the following. Thanks. Quote Make a Paint Brush Make a Cue Stick Make a Rope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jim Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 This is the best effect for PDN that i have seen - honest! Heres my attempt - all I did extra was make a new back layer, gradient ( :LinearGradient: ) added noise ( :AddNoise: ) at 75, 0. Then motion blured ( :MotionBlur: ) at 0, 200. Then i used the same chrome effect curves as BarkBark00, and added a water reflection. Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkfight Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 St.jim yours looks good when resized Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jim Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Thanks! This is a great effect - I imagine that you could do this on other objects - like, I don't know, a background? I'll try that I think :wink: edit - using the same effect (but with a square filled completely grey) If you follow the same steps untill the end, you will get a grey box in hte middle with crome border, magic wand ( ) the grey inside, and it leaves you with a chrome effect border - which could be used to put arround a edited photo to look like a photoframe. Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1nthora Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Thanks for this great Tutorial! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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