Popular Post yellowman Posted May 8, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2014 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it How to Write on Sand. In this tutorial we are going to make a text like this: Plugins required for this Tutorial are: 1-Splinter Blur 2-Drop Shadow 1-Open new file 800 x 600 pix, or as desired, add new layer and call it text, write your text or shapes on this layer (free hand style text is more effective, but if you like to use a ready font make sure to choose a thin uniform body type (not much decoration in it): 2-Duplicate the text layer, make the top one invisible and merge the lower one to the white background and call the new resulted layer depress: 3-Run the Frosted Glass on the depress layer with these settings, try not to distort the text too much: 4-Run Splinter Blur plugin on the depress layer with these setting: 5-Emboss the depress layer, it is important here to remember the angle, so pick an easy one to remember: 6-Duplicate text layer and make the top one visible and call it emboss: 7-Add shadow to the emboss layer using Drop Shadow plugin or any available effect; make sure to triple the thickness of the text: 8-With Global flood mode select the text and shapes in the text layer using Magic Wand 9-Make sure the emboss layer is selected (highlighted in the Layers Sub-Window) and the selection is still active then hit delete on your keyboard (so now you should see the depress layer through: We are going to repeat same steps on emboss as we did on depress layer 10-Add new white layer under emboss layer and merge the emboss to the new layer (rename the resulted layer emboss again in case if you lost the name ), then run Frosted Glass effect with these setting or similar (again don’t distort for too much) 11-Run Splinter with these setting: 12-Emboss the emboss layer but make sure to use the opposite direction to the angle than the depress layer: 13-With Global flood mode Magic Wand, select again the text and shapes in text layer (keep the layer invisible): 14-Switch to emboss layer and hit delete on your keyboard: 15-Add Noise to emboss layer: 16-Give a sepia effect to emboss and depress layers (use Paint.NET original Sepia) 17-Saturate the colors of the emboss layer with Hue/Saturation adjustment: 18-Play with brightness and contrast of the depress layer to give it a moisturized sand effect, then flatten the image: The next steps are optional: 19-Tilt, rotate and zoom the image using Layer Rotate/Zoom tool: 20-Select the desired area: 21-And Crop the image: 22-Duplicate the layer and set the blending mode to multiply: 23-Use Linear Gradient with Transparency Mode to fade the top layer, make sure to start from the opposite direction of the light source: 24-Fill any leftover gaps using Clone Stamp tool or any other method, then enhance the saturation if it required: 25-To get this final result: Remeber to add you own effects and touches, these are just the basics Here is another version on the wet sand situation, I used here Dents instead of Frosted glass and added some shadow using Trail plugin: I hope you like it, feel free to ask if you have any question. 13 Quote My GalleryMy YouTube Channel "PDN Tutorials" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 WHOA. No, really. WHOA. 1 Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red ochre Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Well written and useful - thank you! 2 Quote Red ochre Plugin pack.............. Diabolical Drawings ................Real Paintings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitenurse79 Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Very well written yellowman. Thanks also from me too. Nice image Red 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HELEN Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 You're incredible, Yellowman! Wow! Quote Don't spit into the well, you might drink from it later. -----Yiddish ProverbGlossy Galaxy Ball---How to Make FoliageMy Gallery PDN Fans--My DA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc4FuzzyHuggles Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 I LOVE IT! Quote *~ Cc4FuzzyHuggles Gallery ~* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 This is remarkable! Truly. Thanks Yellowman Pinned. 1 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...
MikeRobe Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Snap son! Thanks for doing a tutorial on this. Second one you did looked photographed! Again, wow! Quote I baked another one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Once again you made my jaw drop. You have such an amazing talent for this - Bravo - and thank you for taking the time to do the tutorial 1 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ventor1 Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Wow... speechless! Thank you once again for another great tute. YM Cheers, V. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 (edited) Superb! Thanks Yellowman. A well deserved pin. Edited May 9, 2014 by Goonfella Quote Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 This is remarkable! Truly. Thanks Yellowman Pinned. Oops. I meant to do that when I said "WHOA." Thanks, EER. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 What a great idea. Thank you so much. 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...
DrewDale Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Great tute yellowman, well worth the pin. Thanks for the share Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowman Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 @Red ochre, nitenurse, Helen,Cc4FuzzyHuggles, Pixey, MikeRobe, Ventor, Goonfella, Seerose and DrewDale, Great result from all of you, I am so glad with all these beautiful images, and this give a good indication that the tutorial was clear enough and maybe easy to follow And I would like to thank EER & David for the tutorial pin. Thanks so much Quote My GalleryMy YouTube Channel "PDN Tutorials" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottoman Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Great tutorial Yellowman. Thank you. Well done on the pin too. Very good images from all here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oceana Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 A really good tutorial, easy to follow, thanks yellowman. Some very nice pictures created here. Congrats on the pin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sashwilko Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Another great tute from yellowman, congratulations on a worthy pin. Thanks for writing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBeard Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 (edited) Very nice. http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc182/1stBass/lovelettersinthesand_zpsa15b4505.png Edited June 9, 2014 by RedBeard 1 Quote My Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FotoFactory Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 This is great! Quote Here's my sig.(Click it now!) Hi, it's me. I like experimenting with PDN to make really cool effects. I also like to code in HTML and Lua. I like PC games and making youtube videos to show my friends. Nice meeting you! See you later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trax rInfo Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 That's plain awesome. this is the coolest tut ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerx Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 (edited) thanks for this great tut. it helped me create this: Edited January 17, 2015 by racerx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 thanks for this great tut. it helped me create this: @racerx! WOW! How did they do it? Very nicely done! Many thanks. 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...
racerx Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) I made the handwriting in the sand following this tutorial. Instead of making my sand from scratch, I used this image and overlayed the effect on the beach image. To do the animation, I imported both images (before/after) into Aviutl (a very good free, very advanced video editor) http://www.videohelp.com/tools/AviUtl Then I used a Technic called "animated mask revile" to give the appearance of writing live. It's a typical effect to simulate handwriting. I then exported to animated GIF. I made a bunch of tutorials for Aviutl, but it is very advanced and not suitable to novice video editors. http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/360967-AviUtl-video-tutorial?p=2288628#post2288628 http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/366724-Aviutl-Tips-Tricks-and-Support-thread It can make nice special effects like this example: Edited January 19, 2015 by racerx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilynx Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 My take on this.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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