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Source Image for the ray gun...

An idea for a campaign... "Create Something"




I'm moving all of my "I made this" threads into this one

Still trying to figure out how to accomplish a few additions I need to make...

It needs some more work, and I'll admit that I didn't look at a photo for reference for this attempt (but I will if I decide to improve it).

Tutorial coming later today or tomorrow...I started with my old flame tutorial and played around with dents a bit...stretch is a handy tab that I hadn't messed with much before.



There are four layers of flames in there (two tall ones, and two short ones). Each pair has one layer that's duplicated, flipped, and offset a bit.

There's also a layer of smoke in the middle that I decided to leave in (it was originally rising from the word "burning", which I didn't leave in the png.)

Let me know if you like 'em.

UPDATE: "sine waved" version for comparison (also removed the "smoke"):

I've posted these before, but they're missing now, so...

Ben_R_R wrote:They are still amazing, especialy the sword, could you make a tutorial?

Sure...assuming I can remember how I did it the first time

Here are some notes for myself and anynoe interested, while I'm thinking about it:


I know I made the base for the blade in halves...one side was flat, and the other side I cut out with the ellipse tool. Duped the layer, flipped it and lined them up, then adjusted the brightness for the look of a shadow, then merged them and applied a gradient fill and curves to mettalize it.

The finger guard was a black rectangle plus a little octagonal reshape (duped, flipped, and joined).

The hilt was a rectangle filled with a linear gradient plus curves to mettalize, then a tan rectangle with oblique copied and pasted a few times on top and trimmed square at the ends. Applied unfocus to the tan padding to soften the edges, and merged it with the metal hilt, then applied a linear gradient in an overlay.

Added text in a rune-based font in red, duplicated the layer and darkened the text to black, then glowed the red layer and merged the two. Duped that text, flipped vertical and horizontal and positioned them on the blade.

Applied a few glows to the blade, flattened all of that down to a single sword, rotated it, and added the gradient background.

Whew! That'll be a big tutorial when I do it.

My favorite one of these is still my BarkBark00 tribute signature. I'm really pleased with that shotgun shell and the embossing.

I like the planet, most outter ring might need a bit frosted glass.

Sword is cool, I like it! letters on the blade is nice touch!

The rest I've seen it before I think

Can I Nominate more then 1 image? as I've already Nominate Ben's.
For IoTW.

You can nominate as many as you like...and from whomever you like.

I like the blue abstract alot, Nice Work!

Try typing:

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and you'll get this:

It works! very nice!

How much space do we have to upload Emoticons? I've been afraid to upload any more because I don't want to use up space.

Pretty much unlimited, as far as I know.

I wouldn't worry too much about space for emoticons. A one-page thread takes up more disk space (on average) than most emoticons do.

I got turned into an icon?

You did indeed...I also changed your rank.