Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1097307

Well here is a little bit on an approach to postwork that is a bit different. I am actually trying to give it a bit less realism. My goal is to try to get close to the look of a lot of 70's album cover art taht used to be done with ink acrylic and airbrush. So here is a veiw of the finished work. Here is a link to another example of using the same approach.

Well now we will get a look at what the render looked like before postwork.

Message edited on: 11/22/2005 23:18

Now what I do is duplicate the original image and apply a photograin and a diffuse glow to it. This is what it looks like after that. I then set the transparency to around 50 percent you should play with it to see how it looks to you. I do keep the grain level low when I apply the filters.

Now I duplicate the original again and put the layer on top. I then apply a find edges filter and then I set the satruation to zero. After I do that. I select the white area and select similar and delete. I do some adjustments with sharpen and finaly add a little blur less than 1.5 to finsihs it. this is wha tthe layer looks liek without the white area deleted. I then set the transparency to less then 50. and I get the final result up on top. Thsi is doen in an old version of Photoshop if you know yoru filters you can get simiar results in other programs.

Robot ducks!!..........love the differences. Always nice to play with settings.

I asked for a tutorial on this because I loved the results. I think the effect is fabulous and extremely useful for certain applications. Dann-O, thanks for coming through with an easy to understand explanation. This is great! Nancy

doing real good on the filters