What was the original image? I think it would be neat for you to post one of each - like a before and after.
I like to mess around with photoshop and more so, illustrator. I LOVE illustrator. ANYWAYS, i love to look at images that were created and learn about them.
Howdy, and thanks--mind if I ask how you came across it? :)
There wasn't an original image, though I could show you the layers I did.
Do you know the "lightning" trick in photoshop? Drop a linear gradient (white to black, generally), do a difference clouds, invert, level adjust (middle bar all the way to the right).
Started with that idea, but went with a spherical gradient instead, which gave a nice little lightning-esque ring. That's basically where it all started... hard to say where it went from there, though.
I remember a radial blur, layer duplication, a blur, sumi-e, ... and then stuff got complicated (not function-wise, but trying to flip through options and very small changes that made drastic changes to the overall image). Eventually dropped a fibers in the background, and zig-zagged them...
One adjustment layer on top to try to fine-tune the hue...
Anyway, hope that feeds your curiosity some, and thanks for asking. :)
I worked hard on those colors--and the texture--I appreciate the comments on both. :)
Kinda cool that I managed to get texture in there that looks like brush strokes. That might be the sumi-e? I didn't do anything more ... on purpose ... than dropping a few spheres the effects of which are fairly subtle. :) The rest was all functions. :)
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I like to mess around with photoshop and more so, illustrator. I LOVE illustrator. ANYWAYS, i love to look at images that were created and learn about them.
LOOKS AWESOME BTW
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There wasn't an original image, though I could show you the layers I did.
Do you know the "lightning" trick in photoshop? Drop a linear gradient (white to black, generally), do a difference clouds, invert, level adjust (middle bar all the way to the right).
Started with that idea, but went with a spherical gradient instead, which gave a nice little lightning-esque ring. That's basically where it all started... hard to say where it went from there, though.
I remember a radial blur, layer duplication, a blur, sumi-e, ... and then stuff got complicated (not function-wise, but trying to flip through options and very small changes that made drastic changes to the overall image). Eventually dropped a fibers in the background, and zig-zagged them...
One adjustment layer on top to try to fine-tune the hue...
Anyway, hope that feeds your curiosity some, and thanks for asking. :)
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Kinda cool that I managed to get texture in there that looks like brush strokes. That might be the sumi-e? I didn't do anything more ... on purpose ... than dropping a few spheres the effects of which are fairly subtle. :) The rest was all functions. :)
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Explained bits of what I did in a comment above, if you're curious. :)
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