fuli42 opened this issue on Jun 12, 2002 ยท 14 posts
fuli42 posted Wed, 12 June 2002 at 11:01 PM
Can anyone help me how to achieve the following effect?
The effect is something similar to when the sun passes through the clouds and you can see the beams.
In my case, we have a black background, a hole on it, e.g. the word "hello", and beneath it there is a very strong burst of light, so you have beams coming out of the hole (or the word).
On the attached image, i've achieved the opposite. I was playing with the rotation, wind, then the perspective filters/transfomration.
The clear, perhaps glowing white letters should be behind, or underneath the beams, and not on top.
I've recently migrated from PaintShop to PS, and I really want to do it in PS, to justify my investment. I know it might be completed, any ideas, suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you
Fuli
retrocity posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 8:21 AM
Hi Fuli, Congratulations on the migration ;) Let's see what we can do about justifing your investment... retrocity
fuli42 posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 9:35 AM
Hello! I must say wow! Thank you lundqvist! This is in fact very very close to the effect I was trying to achieve! Thank you!
Heronheart posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 9:35 AM
fuli42 posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 9:50 AM
Yes, definetly it looks much closer to what i had in mind! Though I would like to have the beams bursting out in all directions, I think something to be done with the perspective effect. The above link looks very promising. Could you just, list the effects you have used to create this? Thank you for taking the time helping me!
fuli42 posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 10:02 AM
Heronheart posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 10:22 AM
fuli42 posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 10:45 AM
Wow! This is it!!! Perfect! Congratulations! I'll try to redo it myself now...
fuli42 posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 11:46 AM
I'm sorry, i've tried to follow your guides but still no chance. You've motion blurred the text selection in quick mask mode,then cleared in selection mode? I assume you did it before applying the radial blur. How about the outer glow style? Please could you give me some more hints? Thank you Fuli
Heronheart posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 12:51 PM
Sorry, I must not have been clear. My Algebra teacher always complained that I left out steps when doing proofs at the board. No quick mask mode. Duplicate your text, rasterize it, "rough up" the edges a little bit using the airbrush in diffuse mode, color black. Do the same thing with white in areas where you want extra light. Then hit it with Radial Blur a couple times. Be sure to move the center of the blur to the center of your text. Now erase the parts of the blur that are obscuring the parts of your text that you want to see. You can do that with the eraser, but I prefer to add a "Layer Mask" and use a soft airbrush, color black to do it. You'll probably want to add a "Levels Adjustment Layer" on top of everything and slide the white arrow on the right towards the center in order to brighten up the image when you're done. I'll try and post a step by step later today. Part of the problem is that I rarely do anything the same way twice. Right now I have to go "pretend to work". Keep trying. I just upgraded to PS 7 and am only now getting around to trying some features that were added in 5.5 - Ken -
retrocity posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 6:48 PM
Ken, Great job with the effect, and thanks for the mini-tut! I can see quite a few possibilities with some variations... :) retrocity
fuli42 posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 7:57 PM
Thank you Ken! I am very close now... I've been experimetnig with applying the effect for each letter, separately. It takes a lot more time, but with the actions... but still takes a lot more time. I am doing the opposite now. I am working, but pretending not to work (I am on holiday for 3 months in Marseille!) Cheers! Balin
Heronheart posted Fri, 14 June 2002 at 8:28 AM
Glad to hear it's working for you. Remember, Photoshop is the ultimate game, it doesn't count as work if you're enfoying it. Let me know if you need me to do the step by step with pictures. - Ken -
drag0n98 posted Mon, 17 June 2002 at 8:23 AM