Poison Kiss Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Hi everyone, For my school assessment I'm going to be making this 'front novel cover' and I have the design of how I would like it to look. Here is a picture of the basics. Now for the sky. I would like to have a sunset-ty sort of cloud effect, and the grass to have a blacky/green cloud effect. BUT I'm not sure how to do this, or if it is even possible. So please please help me, I'm fairly new to PDN. Also, the road, sun and mountain bit. If you have any ideas of how I can make them look more realistic. Let me know too Thanks in Advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oma Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 do it in layers. use this as you background layer. wand the sky area add a transparent layer :AddNewLayer: set the colors you wish for the cloud area on the color wheel effects>clouds go back down to the background layer wand the mountain area apply the effect you wish here. personally if you are not too familiar with the program an easy one would be to just under effects> noise set the color down to 0 for the green grass on the bottom layer your original picture wand on portion of the green grass hold your control key down and wand the other portion. add a new layer. do you effect you've chosen for the grass on that new layer. (hint check out the tut section for ASH's tut on grass/fur) The black road just leave it as it is. that's a real simplified version of doing a picture. Truly suggest you check and try a number of the tuts out. Even if they don't relate to this picture they will help you become familiar with what all this program can do and maybe provide inspiration. ciao OMA PS just also thought of the tut ASH did I beleive its called sunset that should be great for your sky. a bit more than just effects>clouds. Quote My Deviant Art Gallery Oma's Paint.Net gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Kiss Posted November 11, 2008 Author Share Posted November 11, 2008 Thanks a lot but when I wand the sky, it wands the whole thing including the sun. How can I stop this or fix this? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EJlol Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 Set the tolerance a bit lower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Kiss Posted November 11, 2008 Author Share Posted November 11, 2008 Set the tolerance a bit lower. how do i do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oma Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 clik the paintbucket now look along the top see it says tool and picture of your paintbucket look over to the right there is a spot that says tolerance 50% just run your cursor from the right to the left and see it goes down to 0% since your picture is solid colors just set it at 0% this is an interactive tool done by wither that you really should watch. answers basics like this along with many other newbie questions. Really I think you should watch it, its wonderfully done for new paint.net users. viewtopic.php?f=34&t=26971 ciao Quote My Deviant Art Gallery Oma's Paint.Net gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Kiss Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 THANKS A LOT GUYS. This is what I have so far. Now. Is there anything I can do with the sun? maybe like have the sun light across the rest of it, like a sunset sort of thing. Note: (I cant use the sunset tut for this) Edit: the Novel is "Guitar Highway Rose" and I was thinking of adding a picture in but I can't cut out the background of it and I'm not sure how I could add it in without making it look stupid and out of place. Is there anything else I could add in to make it look like.. realistic and like a good novel cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiZer Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 put some yellow colour around the sun and take guassian blur :GaussianBlur: Quote Simplicity ftw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Place your sun on a separate layer and apply zoom blur to get the "rays" effect :wink: 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...
Sharp Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 And motion blur on the grass would make it look.... grassier. Quote [Glass Ball Tutorial] [My Gallery] [starscape Tutorial] [My Sig Tutorial] [My dA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Kiss Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 Thanks a lot guys. Assignment is due this morning. Topic Closed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Topic Closed If you are stuck trying to find the close button, there isn't one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Kiss Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 Topic Closed If you are stuck trying to find the close button, there isn't one. I wasn't even looking for one :shock: it was for the mods incase they want to lock it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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