!#@%!! How did I do that??

[Sh4x]

Ok here's the deal, I did this thing in 30 inspired minutes while experimenting:

http://www.nrcrew.com/mr.r1/PAv3.jpg

now there are things I wanna fix in it so I drew the shapes again on a white board exactly like I did the first time and now I'm trying to do the lighting. I've been trying to get the same results for 5 hours now and all I can get is this shit:

http://www.nrcrew.com/mr.r1/Test2.jpg

Anyone know how to achieve the same shadow/lighting effect from the first one? All I know is I used "Neon Glow" and "Lighting Effect" and that's all. I swear, I really don't get it. I really don't know why I can't get the same "smooth shadow" feel.


Download the shapes here (.psd) and try to come as close as you can to the first gfx. Use "save as" to get the file. (http://www.nrcrew.com/mr.r1/shapes.psd)

[Boozer]

make the shapes smaller and blur them and blend I say. or some layer style with strange curves how the @#%#% would I know...hehe :D

[renapunx]

Looks like Inner and Outter Glows to me..

[Sh4x]

Originally posted by renapunx
Looks like Inner and Outter Glows to me..

100% sure I didn't use inner or outter glows. No blur or strange curves either :\

I remember doing the shapes in yellow, then neon glowing them to give em the blue shadowed look and turn the white background to yellow then I used Lighting Effects to make the middle brighter. That's what I remember...

I tried again for 2 hours today and I still havent figured it out :\

(You know when you use neon glow, there are 3 colors to consider.)

[SoulScream]

Originally posted by Sh4x
100% sure I didn't use inner or outter glows. No blur or strange curves either :\

The road is not important, the destination is.

What I mean by that is, who cares how you make it, if you just have a way to obtain a certain image/effect. I tried some inner and outer glows on the forms, with a radial gradient on the background and it practicly looked the same.

[Sh4x]

Originally posted by SoulScream
The road is not important, the destination is.

What I mean by that is, who cares how you make it, if you just have a way to obtain a certain image/effect. I tried some inner and outer glows on the forms, with a radial gradient on the background and it practicly looked the same.

I'd like to see that :\

[levi]

I dunno, isn't this a bit of an absurd question? Soul's anwer is right, re-create it, it's not the freaking Mona Lisa, in fact ....

[theKeeper]

I agree... inner and outer glow will produce the effect... and then either reduce the FILL opacity level, or add a new layer atop the palette, fill it with the same colour as your bg, and reduce the Opacity until you get the desired level of faintness.

[Sh4x]

Ok you guys must be right, don't get mad at me I'm just a newb at photoshop.

I'll try hard with inner and outter shadows and see what happens.

[Arleau]

How did you do the BG on that? Just a gradient, with some colour dodging on it?

[1NNU3NDO]

I think for the light in the background you used a different layer effect and a slighter blur.

A very wild guess is this. It seems like on the attempt to recreate it you used "overlay" while in the original it looks more like a "soft light".

Might be wrong though and you didn't use any layer effects just a different color ;)

About not using outer glow. What i personally prefer and what it looks like you did is you copied the layer with the 2 figures, put it behind the original layer and put a "gausian blur" filter on it (of a reasonable amount so it seems) then you lowered the opacity on the original front layer.

[Sh4x]

Originally posted by Arleau
How did you do the BG on that? Just a gradient, with some colour dodging on it?

I did neon glow on the shapes+white_background and shapes turned blue-ish and backgournd yellow-ish.

Then some lighting effect on that.

I haven't had the time to try to get the same results with a different approach yet but I'll post future results.

[heathrowe]

Just for future references, If your using Photoshop CS, turn on History Log in the Preferences panel, and it will record your steps, including filter/style parameters to a text file.

:)

heathrowe

[Sinister]

so I guess alpha channgel, section selection, Feather, blur, Layers Channel, Paint doesnt work?

[Sh4x]

Originally posted by heathrowe
Just for future references, If your using Photoshop CS, turn on History Log in the Preferences panel, and it will record your steps, including filter/style parameters to a text file.

:)

heathrowe

Oh really... I'll get that. I'm using PS7 right now.

[Boozer]

woo hoo...I didnt know there was an hostory log...nice I learned something today :D

thanks heathrowe :thumbs:

[tsu]

Looks like you duplicated the shapes layer gave it a slight gaussian blur and changed it so soft light. And a drop shadow somewhere in there.

[heathrowe]

np Boozer
comes in handy when you've exceeded the History states and your trying to duplicated experimental stuff, for sure.

:)

heathrowe

[Sh4x]

Ok I tried again using the techniques ppl suggested here and it didnt work out really well. Has anyone tried it? I would love to have someone replicate it and send me the .psd with the history saved or something... I'm probably asking too much. But then you guys make it sounds like it's easy.