ventor1 Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 After searching the forum and stumbling upon a few bad attempts at creating a disco ball, I thought I would put forward the following creation - which I am sure can be further improved. You will need the following: Shape 3D AA's Assistant My sparkle effect - set up as a custom mini brush 1. Create a new image (600 x 600) with black as the background layer. 2. In a new layer set grey (808080) as the background color, and create a white grid (effects/render/gridlines) at 23 for both vertical & horizontal spacing. 3. Using the magic wand, randomly select grid squares and fill with color 0062Ab. 4. Repeat the above step with the following colors: 007474, 00000, 00F3E9, 0064AB and FFFFFF. You should end up with something which resembles the following (note the outer grey border around the squares is the PDN background, and not the desired effect): 5. Run Shaped 3D at Half Sphere Map (Repeat) setting, and turn off Lighting and Specular Hilight. Play with the angles, although I ended up opting for: Axis 1 @ 18.4, Axis 2 @ 1.7 and Axis 3 @ 13.0 6. Create a new layer above the ball, and as per the below image create an ellipse with the ellipse select tool and fill with a black - white radial gradient: 7.Set the layer blending mode to additive, deselect and apply gaussian blur with the setting at 60. 8. Go back to the ball layer and using the magic wand select the area outside the ball. Now go back to the above layer and delete the selection. 9. Deselect and apply a gaussian blur with the setting at 1 to the ball. 10. Apply AA's Assistant (I am addicted to this plugin) with the sharpness set at 3 to the ball. You should have the following: 11. Merge down the top layer and using custom mini brushes, apply sparkles generously to the white squares. 12. Apply glow with radius @ 6, Brightness @ -57 and contrast @ -24. 13. Create a new layer below the ball layer and using the ellipse select tool create an ellipse bigger than the ball and fill with white. You should have this: 14. Deselect and apply a gaussian blur of 60 and set the layer opacity to 60. You should have ended up with this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 11. Merge down the top layer and using custom mini brushes, apply sparkles generously to the white squares. Why not use Sparkle, Glitter & Stars or Sparkles Effect . There's also Star Glow 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...
chrisco97 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Great tutorial! I love the look of the result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ventor1 Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 Why not use Sparkle, Glitter & Stars or Sparkles Effect . There's also Star Glow Didn't know they existed... Downloading now!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Plugin Index Appended to the first post is a downloadable *.PDF which covers the range of effects available. 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...
Axle Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 oooh, i didn't know they had a PDF telling you that. but i found a app that instally 180 apps if i'm not mistaken in one go, epic little thing. i also have another that installs a heap of new file extensions to save as. also same website My Deviant Art | My Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 You allowed a strange app to install 180 *.dll files on your PC? You are too trusting! You might want to check the Plugin Load Errors as the website you got the package off distributes old versions of many plugins. The only place you should get plugins is this forum. 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...
Captain Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Ventor1; that is an awesome piece of work! That disco ball looks stunning! Excellent work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ventor1 Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 Ventor1; that is an awesome piece of work! That disco ball looks stunning! Excellent work. Thanks Captain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbieq25 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 How come I missed this? Great outcome! Knowledge is no burden to carry. April Jones, 2012 Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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