stickdiesel

Hey guys, I am currently playing around with a header design for my portfolio. Just wondering if anyone out there can help me get a glass tile effect as opposed to the one demonstrated. Would like to see how it looks. I tried applying some of the elements used in the glass pill tut (not in the example attached), but it doesnt seem to work in this scenario. Because they are tiles I think the effect would need to apply to all the tiles as a whole as opposed to one tile duplictaed etc.

Any hints, thoughts very welcome
thanks

Very original design Stickdiesel [righton]

Rantin Al

Hi stickdiesel, how about encapsulating the whole thing and make it as if it is just one tile. Or encapsulate just one half, either the plain squares - or the keyed tiles.
I don't think it would work trying to do it to the individual squares.

Al

stickdiesel

Not a bad thought Rantin, I might try and get a glass sheet effect as oppossed to tiles. And have the "digital art" etc seen through it. Be worth playing with, a bit of a shift in concept but I think that attitude sometimes produces best results hehe.

Thanks for the compliment Gauss, I hope it was hehe.

wbiss

B7 [righton] I very much like your design stickdiesel! [righton]

Stroker

I can show you how to do something along the lines of the attachment. You know, use it as a base to break up the monotony.

stickdiesel

thats a cool effect stroker, i dont know why but cd cover or poster for a trance/breaks dj comes to mind. Would very much suit a rave style design How did you do it? Dont know if I would use for my site, but would like to play around with the effect and see what can come up with.
I agree about the monotony of my design so far, though I am trying to go for a neat/clean and sharp design, so dont want to anything to outragous. Though the site will continually evolve over the course of my studies and morph alot i think lol.

Thx for the ideas and comments guys

wbiss

[stuned] [righton] really cool effect Stroker!

I had a "hunch" that you would be popping by!

stickdiesel, I really like the design and the 'clean' look that you have going... [righton] too much 'glitz' can be overkill. I'm not saying that a glass (shiny/reflective) [righton] effect wouldn't be cool, too, though.. [excited]

worth experimenting with!

stickdiesel

Ya Im of the same opinion wbiss , too much glitz ruins a good concept, have to be very careful, but dont want to be boring at same time, it's a fine line hehe. Nothing wrong with white space etc hehe. Digital art and digital design are two very different things

Stroker

First, I made a D-Map. (Are you surprised? Seems like I'm always doing this.)

For the quick example above, I just painted a bunch sloppy black strokes on a white background. Tossed in some gray strokes just for fun.

Then I used Displace and the D-Map. Important that Tile is used! The percentages I used were 30% and 30%.

After that, it's just a matter of doing whatever to make it even cooler. Of course, try different percentages. Or try it on a photo. Try it on Clouds/Difference Clouds. Mess with blending modes. Toss in Curves. Change opacity. Add a Gradient Map Ad-Layer. You know the drill.

One of the things I did was add a Layer Mask in a grid pattern that matches the D-Map. That is, a 25x25 doc with a 1px border, Edit > Define Pattern, and Edit > Fill on the layer mask. Then I add a layer with very light gray beneath.

Stick, I don't expect you to get crazy with it. If you do add this effect to your banner, you'll probably want to tone it down. But you knew that.

I'm attaching a PSD file. This is what I used for a D-Map. Feel free to pull part, mess with, and ask questions about.

play.fiddle.learn