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My attention was captured recently by a question about creating convincing cloth for a background. A little experimentation and I ended up with the image below.
It was really very easy. The first layer had the pattern which I just made with a pattern overlay in Styles. The top layer was made with a dark grey/white gradient set to Difference and run several times in short segments.
Once the gradient layer was to taste, I copied that layer and created a new image into which my gradient layer was pasted for a displacement map and saved. Then I ran the displace filter on my pattern layer and finally changed the blend mode of the gradient layer to multiply.
So the challenge is to make a convincing cloth/material background. Extra credit for silk. Extra-extra credit for crushed silk.
That looks very 3D because of the strength of the red/blue image. Unfortunately the strength of the pattern has also tended to overwhelm the crumple effect, on my monitor anyway.
I know what you mean. I was going for a patiche (spelling?) look but it came out far more intense than I intended. You can see the crumpled look by the distortion of the pattern but the shading can't compete with the colors. I'll submit another attempt in a day or so. Right now I am so wiped from my job and a bout of common cold that I can't hardly think straight. [confused] \:] [confused]
I did this a while back and had almost forgotten it until I read this thread Welles. Thanks for reminding of it [righton] I have precious little computer time at present so I will just post "on the run" as it were untill I have a bit more time.
I used a similar method as you and Moth.[/img]
Nice job, TaoBoogie! I'm glad you remembered it. [righton]
Speaking of yin yang, which we weren't, I've been toying with a program called Xara3D 6. The absolute master of this program, Mike Sims, used it to create a yin yang animation and then went bonkers...
Yup, you got it Moth, that was about a year ago I think. I really like that Yin Yang animation Welles I've seen that before somewhere but did not know how they did it, thanks for the link.
Both of those examples are superior, Moltas. [righton]
Could you tell me how you achieved such a smooth shiny silk appearance in the top one. That was the sort of effect I was trying to achieve originally but couldn't quite pull it off (so I gave up and started the challenge in the hope that someone else could provide a good direction. )
Convincing cloth challenge... 
Linear Mode
