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Sargon III
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Post subject: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement  Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:57 am |
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Fast method to make some text like below:  Please feedback if there is any mistakes, thanks, and I hope you will enjoy it  . Download the the PDF file in the Attachments:
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barbieq25
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:17 am |
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I love the Xor one the most. I'll do this as soon as I can. Thanks too for the pdf! You're a treasure. 
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theonlychad
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:27 am |
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awesome looking effects i will have to check it out when i get the chance
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Goonfella
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:19 pm |
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Great tutorial. Easy but so adaptable. I like the pdf idea for tuts. I`m getting a nice little collection together now. I suppose this way you don`t have to worry about the size of the images . Here`s my first go at this one - Forgot to add the reflection of the smilie under the `M'. Never mind eh? 
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barbieq25
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:52 pm |
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Great image! Love the smilies hiding in the text. Brilliant idea. On my pc it looks a bit jaggy on the M & the X. Very cute!
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LanceMcKnight
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:00 am |
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Trying to one up me, Sargon, huh? *evil eye*
Nah, that's a pretty cool method. That probably gives better control than using Metallize. I think we ought to make a community tutorial with glass, what do you think, Sargon?
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Goonfella
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:17 am |
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barbieq25 wrote:Great image! Love the smilies hiding in the text. Brilliant idea. On my pc it looks a bit jaggy on the M & the X. Very cute!
Yes , mine too. Classic case of me not using Alpha Mask. 
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PeterPawn
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 2:25 pm |
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Lance McKnight wrote:Trying to one up me, Sargon, huh? *evil eye*
Nah, that's a pretty cool method. That probably gives better control than using Metallize. I think we ought to make a community tutorial with glass, what do you think, Sargon?
I'm all for the tutorial with glass.... you got my vote.
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theonlychad
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:16 pm |
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awesome tutorial man here is my outcome of experimenting with it.
bubbles alpha displacement.png [ 276.91 KiB | Viewed 1540 times ]
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Sargon III
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:17 am |
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Thanks every one. Goonfella very nice image , whenever I see it I smile I don't know why, I think because of those smilies you just put them in their right locations. Very nice work Chad, I like the effect, I will post a mini tut on how to make the bubbles and water drops,  don't forget the Invert Selection step. @ Lance, OK I already started, I posted another new tut on WaterDrop, it is more on water effect then glass effect, but I don't see that big difference between them, what do you think?
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LanceMcKnight
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:46 am |
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Sargon, you do know I was just teasing you?
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theonlychad
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:06 pm |
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gah i can't quit playing with alpha displacement now lol here is something else i made with it
alpha mask nameplate.png [ 38.19 KiB | Viewed 1494 times ]
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Sargon III
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:36 am |
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@ Lance, thank you, you want the truth? I don't have any specific technique for galss, I just play around with Clouds, Dents, Alpha Displacement and blend mode, blend mode, blend mode....., till I satisfied @ Chad , that is nice just make the base a little bigger. See here water dew effect, I used exactly same method of this tutorial on Random white circles instead of text :
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barbieq25
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:07 am |
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Chad, looks swish!
Sargon, very nice effect!
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Vertigo
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Post subject: Re: Make Glassy Metal Text with Alpha Displacement Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:12 am |
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Will someone be kind enough to tell me where I can find the "Alpha Displacement" plug-in please. I assume that it must be in one of the plug-in packs on the Get-Paint forum, but I don't know which one and Paint.net seems to slow down if you install too many plug-ins that you don't need.
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