Moth

...and an even bigger, more banged up version. ;\

theKeeper

Hey that's cool. Kind of a stained glass look to it. [righton]

What's the bg made of Moth? Looks like chain links and grids...?

scorpion

cool background moth how'd u do it?

wbiss

B7 That looks really great Moth! [righton]

These are really nice Moth [righton]

These are really nice Moth [righton]

These are really nice Moth [righton]

These are really nice Moth [righton]

These are really nice Moth [righton]

These are really nice Moth [righton]

ljiljana

Moth That is great! [righton]
Mark Your tutorial is excellent! [righton] :} Here is my PSG:

Applause for you ljiljana for making this great image and applause for Mark for writing a tutorial that people can understand :}

Applause for you ljiljana for making this great image and applause for Mark for writing a tutorial that people can understand :}

Applause for you ljiljana for making this great image and applause for Mark for writing a tutorial that people can understand :}

Applause for you ljiljana for making this great image and applause for Mark for writing a tutorial that people can understand :}

Applause for you ljiljana for making this great image and applause for Mark for writing a tutorial that people can understand :}

Applause for you ljiljana for making this great image and applause for Mark for writing a tutorial that people can understand :}

wbiss

Fabulous Lily! :} :} :}

Moth

Applause for ljiljana! :} :} :} That is great.

Thank you for kind words everyone.

Thanks for the easy to follow tutorial, Mark!


The background is made with a combination of lighting effects, glass, and displace.

Create a 25 x 25 px document.
Fill with white.
Select all and stroke inside the selection with black at 2 px width.
Define Pattern.
Save and close.

Create a 50 x 50 px document.
Fill with the pattern you just created. Should look like a cross in a box.
Save and name displace.psd
close.

Now we get busy...

Create a 800 x 600 document
Render clouds.
Filter/distort/glass using displace.psd as texture. Distortion 12/Smoothness 2.
Copy layer into an alpha channel.

Render/Lighting effects. (I own a Mac and don't know how to make a screen shot.) Using the alpha channel as yout texture channel place a light yellow #FFFFCC spot light in the upper left corner. Intensity 17, Focus 100, Gloss and Material both 100, texture channel height 51. No other changes.
Place a medium brown #663300 spotlight in lower right corner. Intensity 9, Focus 44, Gloss and Material both 100, texture channel height 51, No other changes.
Run the filter.

Filter/Distort/Displace Horizontal 30%, Vertical 30%, Displacement map -tile, Undefined areas- wrap around.
Click Ok
Repeat filter 4 times.
Filter Distort/Glass -same settings as above.
Image/Adjustments/Curves- click Auto.

...and there you have it.

scorpion

thanks moth heres my attempt ...its not perfect ..i couldn't get the cross on the psd to work ...how do u make it a cross?