MadJik Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download the PDF Possum Roadkill said: .... My favorite new abstract ! Lovely, simply lovely. I'm in awe. Please teach me how you did this. dug said: I like everything you do, nice style. You always leave me thinking,my! how did he do that? ... Here is an answer... as most of the work is made of experience I just stop when I'm happy with a result. And most of the time I can't remember the path that lead to it. __________________________ Do some abstract with PDN V2 (V1 was made in 2008 and has been lost with the transfert of the forum...) My definition: Some abstract is something that looks like nothing, but it is still nice to look or so intrigating... So this is only a guide to process and you must fill free to use other effects or settings to create your own abstract art. My example: V2 V1 to remind you... Needed plugins: Color flip Kaleidoscope Perlin texture Polar transformation Seamless texture maker Shape3D secret #1 and #2 (see below) Tiles reflection XY I won't tell you to hide/show the layers but I hope you'll be able to do it by yourself. As well the pictures are only details to fit in the 800x600 dimensions (or 600x800). My tutorial: 01. 🆕 create a new large image (4000x3000). 02. :Plugins: With this settings run a perlin texture to obtain a wavy colorful rainbow. Don't forget to set the orientation to Switched. 03. :DuplicateLayer: Duplicate the layer. 04. :Plugins: On the top layer run a Tiles reflection XY with this settings. 05. :Plugins: Then run the Seamless texture maker with the default settings. 06. :Plugins: This is (what I call) the secret #2 of Shape3D. It creates a distortion of the image. So use the following settings to obatin the same effect. 07. :DuplicateLayer: Duplicate the bottom layer. Then :MoveLayerUp: move the new layer on the top of the list. 08. :Plugins: Again with shape3d, this is (what I call) the secret #1 of Shape3D. It creates a spheric distortion of the image. So use the following settings to obatin the same result. 09. :DuplicateLayer: Duplicate the top layer and :FlipHorizontal: flip it Horizontaly. 10. Press F4 :LayerProperties:, and play with the blend mode to find interesting results... I've chosen the Lighten mode: 11. On the second layer from the top, press F4 :LayerProperties:, and play again with the blend mode to find interesting results... I've chosen the Negation mode: ------------------- :SaveAs: As you've finished the first half of this tut, it's a good idea to save your work now (if it isn't done yet). ------------------- 12. :MergeLayerDown: Merge down the 3 top layers : to keep the cascading blend mode, start with the second from the top, then the top layer. Optionaly you could adjust the color with autolevel. 13. :DuplicateLayer: Duplicate the top layer and repeat the last effect Ctrl+F it was shape3D. 14. :Plugins: You could flip the colors using the color flip plugin as we started with some random kind of color it could be interesting to change that. 15. :Plugins: Use the kaleidoscope to create some beautiful image. Test the piece selector with different values. 16. :DuplicateLayer: Duplicate the top layer and :Plugins: do a Polar transformation with the default values. 17. Still on the first layer from the top, :Plugins: run the Shape3D with previuos settings except Texture map to Full Cylinder map and texture rotation to 90°. 18. On the second layer from the top, :Plugins: run the Shape3D with previuos settings except texture rotation back to 0°. 19. On the top layer, press F4 :LayerProperties:, choose a blend mode (Darken). 20. On the second layer from the top, press F4 :LayerProperties:, choose a blend mode (Lighten). 21. On the third layer from the top, press F4 :LayerProperties:, choose a blend mode (Glow). 22. :SaveAs: Save as... to keep a full version with layers and :Flatten: flatten the image : [Ctrl] + [shift] + F 23. :Resize: Optionaly you could resize to a usable size like 1600x1200 with best quality resampling. 24. And also optional, do a autolevel adjustment End of tutorial Enjoy and let me see your abstracts... Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbieq25 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Thanks so much for sharing Madjik. Book marked for later. Quote Knowledge is no burden to carry. April Jones, 2012 Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance McKnight Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 (edited) Hey, MadJik, I rarely visit the forums these days, but when I read through your tutorial, I accidentally made this while struggling to make something. I created my own texture, and used a bit of your tutorial to create the abstract pattern. Edited April 10, 2011 by Lance McKnight Quote Officially retired from this forum. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadJik Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 Hey, MadJik, I rarely visit the forums these days, but when I read through your tutorial, I accidentally made this while struggling to make something. I created my own texture, and used a bit of your tutorial to create the abstract pattern. Good! That's what I want: my tuts should give you the desire to try something new for you and not only repeat exactly what I've done... Thanks for feedback. Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dug Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 (edited) http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n633/dug10/Absflower.png This is my attempt.I think I got carried away a wee bit,but I just loved the colours.Great tutorial it has really opened my eyes and my mind.Secrets 1 and 2 saved in XML.Thank you very much for sharing. Edited April 10, 2011 by dug Quote MY GALLERYD.A.TheRawAtom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadJik Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 The order to merge the layers down each over is important... To obtain a WYSIWYG you have to start from the lowest layer... or flatten the image. Yes it's colorfull. Thanks for the feedback. Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dug Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 What does WYSIWYG mean? Quote MY GALLERYD.A.TheRawAtom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadJik Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 what you see is what you get... Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dug Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Ha,Ha,Ha, sorry, I am a bit slow sometimes. I totally understand the cascade merging of layers.I went wrong at the polar transformation step and got my layers mixed up.One and a half hours later I saw what I was doing wrong.Now I am kicking myself.Still,all great fun. Quote MY GALLERYD.A.TheRawAtom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LformerGFX Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Bookmarked and made several works. If you can't see them, here are the links: http://imgur.com/WHgWKyC http://imgur.com/IzJaxhI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Added PDF link. 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...
Seerose Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 @MadJik! I saw that way too late. Sorry. Thank you for sharing your result! Where are you for so long? Hopefully soon we will see you again in the forum. 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...
MadJik Posted May 8, 2019 Author Share Posted May 8, 2019 16 hours ago, Seerose said: Where are you for so long? Hopefully soon we will see you again in the forum I always have a look from time to time on the forum. 3 1 Quote My DeviantArt | My Pictorium | My Plugins | Donate via Paypal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 @MadJik! Sorry! I'm sure I wasn't paying attention. 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...
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