Opal Tutorial

[Riddley]

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it

This is my first tutorial, so please bear with me.

For this tutorial you will need Color Aberation and Shape 3D.

1. Create a new canvas 800 by 600.

2. Render clouds with a scale of 530 and a roughness of .58. (Effects>Render>Clouds...)
3 Now use Color Aberation with these settings; (Effects>Color>Color Aberation...)

4.Resize the canvas to 700 by 525 (Ctrl+Shift+R)(Image>Canvas Size...).

It should look similar to this (But about 3 times bigger);

5.Apply Shape3D to the image like this; (Effects>Render>Shape3D...)
(Don't forget to turn off lighting)(And probably turn on Anti-Alias at about 3.)

And that's the end of my first tutorial!

[Riddley]

Sorry, I forgot to put it in the actual tutorial.

[david.atwell]

You can edit posts. It's easy. :-)

[Riddley]

@david.atwell Sorry, I didn't notice the Edit button down the bottom.

P.S.Thanks Welshblue, I will use Anti-Aliasing next time.

[mountnman]

love the effect.. like welsh, i never used the colour aberation before.. imagine this opal combined with barbieqs jewle tut

Edited September 18, 2011 by mountnman

[minners71]

First time using colour aberation for me too.

[Riddley]

First time for me aswell, I was just messing around with PDN.

[mountnman]

[Ilke]

Here be mine, used in conjunction with BarbieQ's Jewel tutorial. Tweaked with the opal's contrast to get "deeper" colours. Lighting's simple, inspired by minners71's creation.

Edited September 18, 2011 by Ilke

[minners71]

Nice one IIke I like it.

[Riddley]

Nice one MountNMan.

[pythonweb]

Here's my attempt. The opal tutorial is awesome. This is my first attempt at framing an object. I guessed at what minners71 did to get a silver frame around the opal. I went with a dadaist [if i may be so bold hehe] impression but I think the frame misses just a tad in the depth perception. minners71, any chance of getting a tut on making frames?

[Rickhum]

I based my piece on this tut but I didn't like the results so I kinda went my own way with it.

This looks more like an opal to me, specifically a black opal.

 

Edited August 11, 2016 by Rickhum

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Added PDF link