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Does anybody know how to do blood splatters in postwork? I have PSP 7 Here's a link to the pic it will be for. The blood I have on it just doesn't look right to me. (Nudidty and Violence in the image) Any help would be greatly appriciated. I posted this question in the psp forum also but nobody has answered yet.

Not in postwork, but I did recently find a Blood Spatter pack (I think in a freebie section somewhere). Haven't used it yet, but someone put a lot of time and effort into it. There are realistic blood colors and even alpha mats of all sorts of shapes of blood spatters and smears. Unfortunately, there is no Read Me with it, not even a copywrite.... Maybe someone else here will know more about it.

hey I made the Blood Pack here in the free stuff. It is no longer there however. I will repost it later today. It is from the Max Payne Texture Pack available at the fileplanet. The textures where all premade. Not much time on my part, just adding to poser is all.

Very interesting and moving pic! First, if you were feeling like that when you did it or ever- then you have my Condolences hug :) Right, blood then. I have a couple of ideas. Firstly the blood over her crotch; it looks like it is floating, is it still in mid air, or has it landed? The woman looks pretty dead to me, so the blood should have landed, in which case I feel it would be better to paint on the texture map. You can get shapes by dripping paint or soup or something, try bursting a balloon with a bit of paint in it!! Fun too ;) If the blood is in mid air, then that would imply the woman is moving or has just finished moving, either way you might want to consider an ever so slight motion blur. The blood around the hand looks a lot better, especially that coming from the neck of the voodoo doll, though have you tried making it look like it is dripping? Thick arterial blood is the most emotive/scary. I like the effect of dripping blood, almost like spider web in morning dew well sort of! The blood lettering. And I suspect you werent meaning this, but while I am here! The perspective looks slightly wrong Im afraid, if it was me, I would prefer it if it was twisted to the right and laid further back into the pic. Basically I think the you lose should be parallel with the bottom of the gravestone, and the N in now you have found should be parallel to the nearest side with all of the other letters adjusted to match. Maybe make the letters a bit darker and a make them less uniform, maybe some splatter in between the lines. I am suspecting that this is a blood dripping font? Well, I hope I have been of some help. I would like to know how you get on, good luck! :) Steve :)

heyas; i think you did a pretty good job. some of the blood spots across her thighs look too rounded and not 'in perspective' enough to be on her skin. when i paint blood in 'shop, i paint it on a new layer, then composite that layer in an overlay mode or hard light, to get that sorta wet-transparent look. sometimes i use multiple copies of the blood layer in different modes. experiment with layering overlay, multiply, and soft/hard light. (i'm sure psp7 has all those modes, or equivalent.) btw, thanks for the blood spatters, odie. i did get a chance to use them once, very nice. :) (er, i should find that pic....)

realistic blood can be achieved by applying painting techniques inside photoshop. what you did is too quick and simple. try building up the blood, paint on new layers at low opacity (25%). use a combination of dark red, purple and maybe brown. its like cooking, you can always add ingredients but not take away. also, the plastic wrap filter is good at making things look wet. give it some time, you'll know when you like what you see.

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o.k. I've tried to take all of your suggestions into account. So far I've got this. It looks a lot better to me. What do you think? And thank all of you very much for your imput. :)

That's a lot better, I'm afraid -for me- the text on the gravestone isn't quite there yet; and I'm afraid that I think my comments about movement of the woman are still relevent. I'm wondering if it would be wise to reconsider either the motion of the blood ie make it so it has already landed on her, or maybe reconsider the pose? It could just be that I am missing something! ;) What else... there appears to be some of the old style blood on her crotch that looks a bit out of place now, are you using layers? I think that is enough for now! Looking forward to version 3 :)

There isn't suppose to be any movement. I'm trying to get it to look like it has landed on her. I didn't really mess with the gravestone much yet. Mainly trying to get the blood down on her first. Any suggestions on getting it to land? Yes I'm using layers. Still tweaking the colors on the blood trying to get it right. My blood is more of an orange color so I'm trying to get it somewhere in between that and a dark redish brown. I'm also trying to decide which poem I like better for this pic. I've got three to decide from. like the text on this one better though than the first. For the splatters I actually splattered some paint on a piece of paper and scanned it and turned it into a psp tube, or various tubes I should say. So that seemed to help some. Going to try and get it to look like the blood is dripping out of the voodoo doll's torn neck. Thank you all. :)

I get it now :) sorry! Have you tried painting the splatters on the model's texture?

heyas; when you paint the drops on, you have to paint them so they follow the model's contours. now if you're painting (or scanning) flat blobs, they won't be in perspective. that's one reason they appear to be hanging vertically in the air, instead of lying on the figures. also, the flow of the splatter is very straight. look along the edges of the splatter and you can see they are straight and unbroken. what should happen is, they start (at the left) curving slightly over the woman's thigh, then they jump up and curve over the snake's body. then they come down again and curve over the other thigh and hip. you can see right now, they just cut straight across all these different 'altitudes,' which is making the splatter appear flat, and not resting on the surfaces.

Should it be more like this?

yep! :) now see that long drip? make it arc more, over her hip bone.

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O.k. how does this look?