Aesweetie822

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

retired_paddza

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?

Aesweetie822

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

Aesweetie822

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

Bacardi

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:

Aesweetie822

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