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- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15it is down, like magic!
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13LIGHTING not LIGHTNING
dersh.
you obviously didnt even open the submission. - psiDevil98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The only effect I see happening here is the Digg Effect. ZING!
- ihaveplans, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17http://www.abduzeedo.com.nyud.net:8080/magic_effect
- darksheer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Alien Skin or KPT?
What is this, 1996? Hey back there in Photoshop 4.0, I know upgrading for every version gets expensive but I think 6 versions is worth it. - InsideLine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8yeah, I didn't think he'd get anywhere but the end result was superb.
- Prod1gy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8i think abduzeedo might have a few "extra" accounts...
- Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Damn, and here I thought: "I'll go to digg and throw stones at this silly photoshop tutorial thing", yet it appears to be quite neat. You ruined my evening. *curls in the corner*
- Syntaxis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is actually pretty cool, not cheesy like I expected at all :-) Great digg!
- kerrybreyette, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Comment abuse. Coral got it.
http://www.abduzeedo.com.nyud.net:8090/magic_effect
(beaten by ihaveplans, edited for 8090. (also working)) - hype23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3damn those links are NWS!
god damn... - Lucifer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yay, a mirrored 503 error!
Edit: Hrm, he edited his link to duggmirror after I posted this. Oops. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does not work. Please check before posting.
- estacado, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Magic lighting effect in photoshop
Submitted by abduzeedo on Wed, 03/28/2007 - 12:48.
* photoshop
Since my last article on how to create smoke generated lots of traffic, I decided to write another one on some of the photoshop effects. Although I use Photoshop on a daily basis, I am by no means a photoshop expert.
Well what I want to show here is how to create a nice light and magic effect.
1 - Create a radial gradient, in this case from a purple to a really dark purple
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=img1_1.jpg
2 - Here I added a really cool Icon of a magic hat from the Crystal Clear Collection by Everaldo (http://www.everaldo.com/crystal.html)
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img2.jpg
3 - Add some text, I used the source code of a site to get the text and apply the Distort >Wave filter
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img4.jpg
Create two stripes of text
4 - Rotate and place the text
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img5.jpg
5 - Add some light using glow : Use different values for each line of text, the secret here is the blending option COLOR DODGE..
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img7glow.jpg
Change the values of Spread, Size and Range
6 - Group the 2 lines of texts and with one apply a mask to make the stripes disappear at their ends.
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img8.jpg
7 - With the other group of text apply a gausian blur, after that delete some parts to show the non-blury text.
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img9.jpg
This will add a movement feel to the text, like they are really being magicaly created.
8 - Create a new layer below the text and with a regular big brush like 100px add a spot of light in white.
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img11.jpg
The layer must be below the text, otherwise the glow will not affect the white spot
9 - Make some smoke again, I used the eraser, I could've used the liquify as well
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img12.jpg
10 - Create a cloud: to do that make use a marquee with feather set to a value bigger than 20 and apply the render>clouds holding the command key(mac), ctrl key(win).
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img14smoke.jpg
The same as the previous post, and the most important thing apply the COLOR DODGE blending options on it
11 - Sparks: For the sparks create a brush, play with the shape dynamics, scatering, and other dynamics. After that, apply a Outer Glow and Inner Glow to create the magic effect.
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=mg_img16.jpg
End - The result is really simple but at the same time it looks beautiful.
http://fapomatic.com/show.php?loc=0712&f=magiceffect_thumb.jpg
The whole process took me about 35 minutes, one thing I think is really cool is to apply the color dodge blending option to folder, and put blured elements inside of it. Using it you can create some really amazing light effects. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2try http://www.abduzeedo.com.nyud.net:8090/magic_effect
- reynan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Borat Says: Wow wow wee woooo!! Very nice.
- topicnation, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Wonderful! Host is down. http://cakeguru.blogspot.com
- jb978, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1whatsup with the mirrors? can't access the tutorial! will check back later.
- mizraabianz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1man any other links??
- aldomatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i was looking for this type of effect not to long ago for a design. love it!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5WOW, that's really an nice effect, got to try this! Great tutorial!
- udoxwear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3loved it, for sure it looks like magic, real cool and clean ***** man...keep it up budy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the best thing about digg is that after it crashed one cool site, there are always more.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2by the way, while we wait for this site to come back on, i found another with some cool photoshop tricks (26 of them to be exact): http://www.digg.com/design/Top_26_Photoshop_Tricks_You_Can_t_Live_Without
- internetgame, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Very cool. This guy is a professional artist. Very fun to see his work.
- JohnKappa, on 10/25/2008, -0/+1Easy to follow. Nice.
Now all I need is for David Copperfield to approach me to design him a site.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/438392677_af637c1195_o.jpg - InstantABS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Great effect, abduzeedo, I'll try it for sure ;)
- MadNuke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Duggmirror didn't catch it; check before you post to save people the trouble.
- DrKoob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Could someone please mirror this.
- j4200, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1nice
- huyashamasha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dugg. Tried - it works.
- poxoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Quite doubtful. Hard to beleive.
- mikehartor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unbelievable! I dont get it.
- kristinpa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Perfect effect! Thank you for it!
- Cogita, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Wonderful! I'd better go and sleep instead of reading THIS
- TobbisBlog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1503 :(
- gugudelic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3great!!!! man.....
- grexeo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's the magic digg effect!
- rikkdbomb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1We need a mirror.. down already
- guilhermezeenho, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2dude, awesome......
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Really cool and quick..... indeed a superb result
- SwellGuy007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Meh
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3i think that u pantunes need to practice more PS man! the steps are so easy to understand!
great work abduzeedo! - pantunes, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6Geez, that's really neat.
First tutorial i see about it, and dude, it's perfect.
i just think you could tell the exact settings of each effect,
then we could get a better understanding of it.
Congrats! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2who I am kiddin who am I foolin when they be like "what's up fatlip" and I say coolin.
/Sorry, had to get that off my chest. Bury away. - konsumkid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0already down ;( any more mirrors online?
- M15anthrope, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1LNK
DED
SOZ - dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Anyone else think the text looks like ass? I mean to be honest the whole swirl thing from the hat enema is pretty rough.
- fuckingusername, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Just use Alien Skin, or KPT plugin
here my pic made a little tornado to. snaped this shot out my window.
http://files.myopera.com/web4me/albums/158222/stormbig.jpeg
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