Dj Slushy Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 (edited) This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it Sorry, based on how abstract this is, I really had no idea what to name it. Okay, chit chat aside, lets begin. Your goal is to get this, only with any background color you want and obviously not slusher on the side Pretty much, you'll be getting those shapes I put in the corner. Here we go. First of all lets make sure we have all the plugins needed hmm? Pyrochild's Outline Object Multi-Color Gradient Sine Waves 1. Start up Paint.NET with a 800x600 canvas and add a new layer :AddNewLayer: 2. Choose the tool and drag out a rectangle however you like. 3. Fill this rectangle with many a color. Render > Multi Color Gradient. You can use default settings if you want for the sake of the tutorial, but if you want to shake things up a little bit, you can try your own colors. NOTE: If your rectangle is tall instead, make the angle of the gradient 90 degrees. Your rectangle should look like this. 4. Next use the :MotionBlur: (Motion Blur) Tool and set your settings to a blur of 50 and move your angle to -90.00 NOTE: If your rectangle is tall instead, make the angle of the Motion Blur either 00.00 or 180.00 5. Next step, make the shape curv-E. Distort > Sine Waves. Settings: Amplitude: 75 Horizontal Period: 0 Vertical Period: 1 Angle: 90 degrees. You can change the angle and amplitude however you feel, or stay with those settings above. The choice is all yours! Although, I would stay away for the Horizontal and Vertical Period, things can go wrong with those options. Leave em' be. Your image should now look like this. If you chose your own wave-E-ness thats fine. If you followed the Sine Wave settings above it SHOULD look like this. If it doesn't, go through the tutorial again and see what you may have done wrong. Its ok, I can wait. I'm only text after all . Jokes aside, lets resume this tutorial. 6. Duplicate your shape layer. :DuplicateLayer: 7. With your top layer selected, go up the Layers tab and click Horizontal Flip. Also flip it vertically. This will make your colors opposite. Move the top layer however you like (make sure both shapes are touching). 8. Now use Outline Object on both shapes (no need to merge layers yet) Use the following settings 9. On the top layer ONLY, go to the layer properties and change its opacity slightly. I used 214-234 Your image should look like this. 10. Finally, merge the two layers to make one shape. Select it and move it into the corner or the side. (You can move/resize/stretch your shape however you see fit) I think moving my shape into the corner looks pretty nice. Add your background and you should turn out with this. NOTE: If you want to add a glow-like effect. Duplicate your shape layer, and motion blur it at the direction you want at a fairly high radius. Congratz! You just made a colorful and abstract shape to add to your image! If you did my tutorial step by step, I STRONGLY suggest you try it again, with different Sine Wave options, colors, and placements! Be unique! Please post your results! I really want to see how yours turned out and if this tutorial was any help at all! Edited March 19, 2019 by Woodsy PDF added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippotipus Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Quite a cool effect but it is something that people could get just by playing with effects Quote By hippotipus at 2010-01-29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remii9512 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 True. But then again, how else do we find things? Quote Trolololol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtargo20 Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Nice tutorial. Has a lot of possibilities. Here's mine.... Quote Is it me --or do buffalo wings taste like chicken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0(-.-)0 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I quite like this. Good job. Quote - Any thoughts? - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfax Posted October 10, 2010 Share Posted October 10, 2010 It looks quite nice. Nice work. Quote Pictures say a lot of things. Mostly just that the creator is awesome... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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