Image Umbrella: Realistic Images

[St.Jim]

I really like that ice cube of yours! do you use Shape3D or something or completely "by hand"?

It was done using shape 3D and i used median and alpha masks to create it. I have had a tutorial request but i need to find a way to reproduce it easily (because the way i made it was very complicated :S)

Olav, im liking the glass beakers, how did you make the glass?

[olav.k.m]

The animation one was made using Shape3D cylinder with a ball bottom. For the other one I made the shape of the beaker in black and then just a lot of messing around... some reflections were just white lines and then gaussian blur

[Sharp]

Olav, I really like the shading on the glass in the first pic.

Heres a Fireworks/explosion piece.

[yellowman]

Have you guys experienced a 3D-image?With a Cross-Eye technique ?If yes then enjoy the image bellow ,if never heard about that then read the way on how to do that:

The image is(3D flowers):

left image---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- right image

To see it in 3D:

1- Open the image on your screen and try to make the size about 12 by 6 inches

2- Look at the image from a distance of 16 to 18 inches(from the face to the screen) in a Cross-Eye way( let your left eye see the right half of the image and your right eye see the left half of the image) follow the image below for more help:

-After few tries I am sure you can succeed.

-All the drawings made by PDN.

-Sorry no tutorial for these images because its too hard to explain.

-For those who want to use the Stereoscope device , print the original drawing (for clear sharp copy ) cut and switch the images left and right.

[EscapistAngel]

@ Yellowman: did you create that picture by yourself? Though I couldn't get the 3D-look I like the flowers..

@ St.Jim: Unbelievable I've always wanted to create an icecube and now I've got the direction to look into..

And Oma, that mouse is just cute

And AmadeusX: Uskomattoman hienoja CDitä (Unbelievably great CDs!!)

I had this funny idea to create something 100% PdN.. I saw this picture of a Sonata Arctica design..(The backside of the shirt)

And I just wanted to see if I could create it in PdN and it is 100% PdN (Click to view 1680*1050)

That..thingy thing in the front is supposed to be either a heckish pile of glass shards..

OR a glass flower.. It's neither and it just doesn't look right :?

EDITx3: Can one even spell so many words wrongly in a post as short as this? ( I still am a perfectionist :lol:)

[yellowman]

EscapistAngel.....Thanks ,of course the 3D flowers are 100% PDN and created by me ,the original size is 2000x1000 pix.

By the way the sonata thing you posted is awesome I love the lighting and shadow ,they done perfectly .

[Goonfella]

Superb, colourful flowers Yellowman . Shame I can`t go cross eyed to get the 3D effect. Never been able to do that trick with my eyes.

EscapistAngel , love the Sonata Arctica. Almost looks as if it`s going get up and run around!

Anyway here`s my contribution to the Gallery-

I think I`m giving my age away by the choice of song! Definitely the best ever.

[Boude]

@goonfella:I like it, and

I think I`m giving my age away by the choice of song! Definitely the best ever.

no you're not I like it too and I'm only 14.

[EscapistAngel]

@goonfella:I like it, and

I think I`m giving my age away by the choice of song! Definitely the best ever.

no you're not I like it too and I'm only 14.

I'm 15 and I listen to anything from ABBA to classical to heavy metal

And, to get to the topic, I just had this sudden urge to create a tennis ball it took ~half an hour

(Linkie pointing towards a 1000*1000 version)

And Goonfella, that CD-player thingy's great! I like dark colours but I think it's beautiful

[Goonfella]

@goonfella:I like it, and

I think I`m giving my age away by the choice of song! Definitely the best ever.

no you're not I like it too and I'm only 14.

That`s a relief! Mind you , Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody is timeless. It`ll still be popular years from now.

[EscapistAngel]

I've been productive today

(full size 480*480 (I thought he was 800*800, weird..)He is 800*800, Imageshack messed something up :? , click it )

This is a mascot crocodile named Snappy He's currently on a vacation,

he likes any place that's warm and sunny and has a beach.

He's even got a reedmat and a slice of watermelon.

And he's 100 % PdN.

[yellowman]

Goonfella.. The CD Player is really nice a like the digital screen in it , You made it such a way that makes me feel it is been photographed from a real one.

EscapistAngel... I like what you posting you are really talented, about Snappy he is so cute, I never thought that some crocodiles could be cute but this one yes, and the best thing he is vegetarian.

About the tennis ball, colors and shadows are very good, but from the view I can tell that the ball is very close to the floor therefore the white lines are small or thin, I think they should be wider to correct the proportions of the perspective.

[Goonfella]

Thanks Yellowman . It would have looked even better if I had downloaded the correct font as used in the tut .

[Drax]

Kewl

[jerkfight]

New Image

Not bad?

V2.

[oma]

yum fizzy pop!

looking good might try redoing the tab part on the top that seems not correct. don't pop cans have some sort of round pull ring as well or did you break it off

think I better buy a loto ticket "'caching caching""

I got carried away making glitter and ended up with a whole lot of shiny loonies. (that's Canadian $1.00 coins for you non Canadians out there"

[HELEN]

@Jerkfight: That's really nice. I like the random shape fill plugin myself. It's awesome

@Oma: I like the coins. It looks realistic enough! Nice job!

[oma]

too bad I hadn't put any engravings on them. but it was a sad attempt at a "different glitter". it serves me right for trying to work on a mini tut for someone while I was listening to an annoying radio in the background playing the barenaked ladies singing "If I had a million dollars" There's not many things I dislike in the world but that song near drives me over the edge.

[jerkfight]

I love that image Oma. Simply amazing

[oma]

thank you It is growing on me. I'm liking it better the more I look at it. now if I could just turn it into some real $ I'd be over the moon.

ciao

OMA

[yellowman]

I wanna push my hand in my PC screen and grab some of those coins oma they are very realistic , I feel that there is a thin layer of water covered the coins ,isn't it ?Or may be they dropped it in a stream of a very clean water, great work.And I like your new sig its simple and nice.

[oma]

thanks that layer you think looks like water .......in a PM to you. sorry everyone can't tell all my secrets in one go.....

[olav.k.m]

am liking those coins oma

I saw this photoshop tutorial a couple of weeks back (link), but then forgot all about it. Then yesterday I remembered having seen a tut for making a woofer and made this:

It's not made following the tutorial at all as i wasn't connected to the internet at the time. That's just were i got the idea.

It eventually became my new signature:

The one in the photoshop tutorial is cooler though, so maybe i'll try to make one following the tut...

[K_I_N_G]

Very cool.

[oma]

sword tut is done. this is basic decorate and do your thing guys.

its been brought down to as close to begginer level as I can get it. my own Excalber image I did many more steps and some very differently.

ciao hope you all enjoy.

OMA