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tutorial: tricks and tips for making light textures II
yeah, the first actual entry in my shiny new community *g*
and it will be a quick one, too. fun with filters...
these sort of light textures we will make. no stock images. everything is handmade ;)
general notes
step 01: getting started
- make a new canvas, I usually start with 500x500px for these sort of things
- fill it with black
- you have this now (only larger, of course)
step 02: lens flare
- this is the main trick *g*
- use the lens flare filter (filters - render - lens flair)
- I used these settings (Brightness 120% - 50-300mm Zoom)
- the result of this step can look like this, for example
step 03: liquify
- time to get more motion into it
- use the liquify filter (filter - liquify)
- normally I just leave the default settings for brush size and pressure, but you can fiddle around with that
- you don't have to be overly artistic on that. just smear some arms out of the center, don't worry if it looks weird
- the number of arms depends on your taste...
- so you have an octopussy thing now, or maybe only a mishaped Mercedes Benz star. (hey, I'm from Stuttgart everything with three arms is a Daimler logo *g*)
step 04: more layers
- copy the background layer twice.
- on the first copy use a Filter - Distort - Twirl of 50 and set it on Overlay mode,
- on the second copy of -50 and set it on Soft Light mode
step 05: another neat trick
- ok then, at this point it doesn't look exactly bad but not really good neither...
- so we're doing the following: reset your colors to black and white (D) and switch them so that black is the background color (X)
- Use Filter - Sketch - Photocopy on your second layer (the first copy)
- you can play around with the setting, but you want something rather dark...
- and now it looks suddenly much prettier *g*
step 06: coloring
- time for some coloring...
- you can color each layer on its own, to get some spiffy results, but what I've done here is:
- I only changed the second (now black and white) layer with a selective color correction.
- go to Image - Adjustments - Selective Color, chose neutrals and drag the sliders to your liking
and we got this result
and after some cropping this
finished, yippie :)
variations
- use another lense flare (see result: example 2)
- make less arms when liquifying (see result: example 3)
- play around with all the other options *g*
and it will be a quick one, too. fun with filters...
these sort of light textures we will make. no stock images. everything is handmade ;)
general notes
- I used Photoshop 7.0
- the pics I'm gonna post are smaller than the actual thing I'm working with
step 01: getting started
- make a new canvas, I usually start with 500x500px for these sort of things
- fill it with black
- you have this now (only larger, of course)
step 02: lens flare
- this is the main trick *g*
- use the lens flare filter (filters - render - lens flair)
- I used these settings (Brightness 120% - 50-300mm Zoom)
- the result of this step can look like this, for example
step 03: liquify
- time to get more motion into it
- use the liquify filter (filter - liquify)
- normally I just leave the default settings for brush size and pressure, but you can fiddle around with that
- you don't have to be overly artistic on that. just smear some arms out of the center, don't worry if it looks weird
- the number of arms depends on your taste...
- so you have an octopussy thing now, or maybe only a mishaped Mercedes Benz star. (hey, I'm from Stuttgart everything with three arms is a Daimler logo *g*)
step 04: more layers
- copy the background layer twice.
- on the first copy use a Filter - Distort - Twirl of 50 and set it on Overlay mode,
- on the second copy of -50 and set it on Soft Light mode
step 05: another neat trick
- ok then, at this point it doesn't look exactly bad but not really good neither...
- so we're doing the following: reset your colors to black and white (D) and switch them so that black is the background color (X)
- Use Filter - Sketch - Photocopy on your second layer (the first copy)
- you can play around with the setting, but you want something rather dark...
- and now it looks suddenly much prettier *g*
step 06: coloring
- time for some coloring...
- you can color each layer on its own, to get some spiffy results, but what I've done here is:
- I only changed the second (now black and white) layer with a selective color correction.
- go to Image - Adjustments - Selective Color, chose neutrals and drag the sliders to your liking
and we got this result
and after some cropping this
finished, yippie :)
variations
- use another lense flare (see result: example 2)
- make less arms when liquifying (see result: example 3)
- play around with all the other options *g*