scorpion

i am looking for some help on how to make the following:

1) spiders web sort of effect
2) a circuit board or some sort of computer circuitry

any help would be great thanks

MindBender

So, what have you tried so far? How about posting some example techniques or screenshots of what you've tried. [righton]

MsOz

And what efforts have you taken such as search engines for tutorials and such? There are some good ones already out there. Have you looked for/tried those?

scorpion

have tried www.good-tutorials.com, google, and many other tut sites not found any circuit boards found some spiders web ones but not in the style i want

and best circuitry style i've made is below but it's not totally what i want

scorpion

found this in show board it's the sort of style i want.

if anyone could right a quick tut i'd be happy

nitrobutler

The spider web looks like a perfect opportunity to use the pen tool, As far as the Circuit board goes, I think the best thing, is to find a pic of one you like then try to create what you see.

Rick

Here is a pic of a curcuit board - you are welcome to use it if you like

Rick

And here a kind of Sci-Fi wall unit you might be able to use

Erik

Best circuitry has to be drawn.
To get that greenish shine: Use white lines on black background, and work with stroke. Then place a dark green below it and set the blend mode of the top to overlay.

To get a result like you seem to look for:

-use clouds in black and white
-difference clouds a few times
-mosaic filter
-posterize to some 16 hues
-find edges
-glowing edges
-set to overlay (or soft light) and place a darkgreen layer below it

I found something similar on the net long time ago, so I hope I'm not revealing someone's secret method here...

Must say that with stroked paths and the glowing edges one can go much futher.

Here's the auto-clouds result:

scorpion

thanks for the help with that i'll try to encorperate some of those into my design [righton]

just spiders web left can't for the life of me do it with pens