request tut for a frozen lake

[lucas]

I was wonderinf if there is a way to make a tut to create a frozen lake. What I mean is a frozen lake to ice skate on

Thanks to all for the help

[TopHATslash]

In the title of this forum it says...Publishing Only...Maybe post this in overflow?

[lucas]

okay sorry I posted wrong will do thanks a lot for ur help

[david.atwell]

It's been moved (although I'm not sure who did it).

@tHs- Tutorial requests go in this forum. Overflow is for non-Paint.NET related things.

This is where it belongs.

[BoltBait]

It's been moved (although I'm not sure who did it).

You can find out this information by looking in the Moderator Control Panel.

*looks it up*

It was moved by... oh, look... it was me!

[TopHATslash]

It's been moved (although I'm not sure who did it).

@tHs- Tutorial requests go in this forum. Overflow is for non-Paint.NET related things.

This is where it belongs.

My bad

[lucas]

I did post it here first but then some one told me to post it in the overflow so I did that one as well sorry to all can any one help me wiht this thanks

[david.atwell]

I did post it here first but then some one told me to post it in the overflow so I did that one as well sorry to all can any one help me wiht this thanks

Actually, you posted it in the Tutorial forum. BoltBait moved it to GD&Q. :-)

Anyway, what are you wanting to make? I don't think I understand. Could you post an image of what you want?

[lucas]

well I would like to make a simple Lake like the picture below but dont know how to add a light blue clear water type and then make it look as if it froze over so I can have a frozen lake. Like the kind people Ice skate on

PS Thank u BoltBait

Okay would like it to look like the water in this pic but have it frozen

[Curmudgeon]

I made this in about 10 minutes...not sure if it's something like what you're wanting

[MadJik]

Use the water reflection plugin with blur amount...

10 min work too (cut out really needs more time for a better result)

[lucas]

I made this in about 10 minutes...not sure if it's something like what you're wanting

yes that looks good how did u do it

[Curmudgeon]

Only problem with making the tut is that it takes me 5 times longer to compose it than actually making it in Paint.NET

If you don't have them already, you'll need:

Align Object found here: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4900

and BoltBait's Transparency Plugin found here: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3285 (optional)

I started off with a 600x600 new canvas

Hide the background layer

Then add a new layer :AddNewLayer:

On the new layer, do a rough outline of how you want the skating pond to look, as if you were looking at it from above.

I used the paintbrush with a brush width of 5

Use the Align Object plugin to center it on the canvas.

Then use the set with 69% tolerance to select the inside of the pond outline.

Make sure the inside of your outline is still selected...

Create 3 new layers, in each of them perform a with primary color of white, and secondary color of white, but set to full transparency.

Perform the in the middle of one layer, towards the left side on one layer, and towards the right side of the other layer.

Then create another new layer.

(Still with the inner outline selected)

and perform a from the center of the screen outwards with the primary and secondary colors set to HEX# BBEEFF, but primary as full transparency.

Drag it outwards from the center to lightly tint the outside of your pond a light blue color.

Set the top layer (your blue tinted layer) blending mode to multiply. Then merge all 4 gradient layers downwards.

At this point, you can delete the layer with your paintbrush outline as you no longer need it.

Now, you should have the white background layer (still hidden) and the ice layer.

Select the ice layer, and choose Layers>Rotate/Zoom

My settings are below, you can adjust them to your liking...we're just tilting the pond backwards to give it the flat appearance.

Your pond should look something like this then

Now, on the ice layer, use set to about 30% tolerance on the outside of the ice.

At this point, you may want to unhide the background white layer...

Set primary and secondary color set to HEX# CDCDCD (set secondary to full transparency)

Perform a starting in the center of the ice and dragging outwards, just enough to cast a light shadow on the outside of the pond like so

Then invert the selection so the ice portion is selected and choose the background layer.

Now run the Transparency plugin with settings something like this:

Deselect everything, and flatten the image, and you're done.

Should look something like this:

[lucas]

I did for get to say thank u very much for the help on the frozen pond/lake