PS Graphics - Starting from scratch

[Mark Adams]

There is some granular "galaxy" stuff in that background that I forgot to talk about. I forgot how I did this (waaay back in April) and had to look it up. It's a wee bit involved, but here is the tutorial I used:

http://www.sf.edu/jhlavacek/tutorial...starfield.html

Sorry about that. :-)

Mark

[Mark Adams]

No borrowed layers. I rendered the planet with the Land script and handpainted clouds over the land layer rendered as a sphere. I also tweaked the lighting, yada, yada, yada.

Here's a link to a larger (40Kb) version: http://www.geocities.com/mark9117/ph...planet_big.jpg

How's that?

Mark

[T Paul]

Mark,

Both are very well done. You've created a very nice universe and did an excellent job mapping images to objects! I especially like the bright colors on the planet in the second version. Kudos for submitting a second version without any borrowed layers.


~T

[Mark Adams]

Originally Posted by T Paul

Mark,

Both are very well done. You've created a very nice universe and did an excellent job mapping images to objects! I especially like the bright colors on the planet in the second version. Kudos for submitting a second version without any borrowed layers.


~T

Well you know, rules is rules....

Mark

[sukku]

Hi Paul,

Im just about a month old on here..
Read this thread about designing from scratch.

Here's some stuff I've done. Its all basically furniture... but every one of them was made from scratch.

http://www.facetsindia.com/Gallery/gallery.html

I designed them on AutoCAD and then rendered them on 3D Studio Max.

Or did this thread mean PhotoShop ONLY??

[T Paul]

sukku,

Very nice work! By the way, this thread is open to all types of software and not just Photoshop.

So do you build the pieces too or just create 3D models? You have crafted some lovely virtual furniture pieces. I especially like the ones that are more of a scene, like the glass table with the tile floor below showing the shadows and reflections.

Great work!

~T

[Janet Petty]

Creating something from nothing is not my forte; but I've had so much fun with this little experiment, I thought I'd try and post it.

Have fun all. And remember to "Make A Joyful Noise".

Janet

[sukku]

Paul, thank u for going thru those images in my last post... and yes I do build the pieces I've designed. As you can see most cases I ignore the overall scene as I concentrate more on the piece I'm building.
Im still an amateur at this stuff and do it more of like a hobby than anything else, software design & programming being my line of work.
Its amazing what software these days can do for you, with so little effort too.
I also have posted a pic (link below) on here
http://www.retouchpro.com/challenges...cat/500/page/1

A manipulation challenge, I drew in the walls in CorelDraw and imported them into Photopaint. Basically did that to understand the concept of vanishing points. By extending guidelines from the visual planes i could arrive at the two basic vanishing points in the pic. From there on it was a piece of cake to draw in the missing parts, like the roof for example. It was very satisfying to watch the pieces fall in place just by fitting in the bits and pieces according to the vanishing points.

Accepted the walls do look faked, but you will however notice the visual perspective in the picture is perfection itself, thanks to vanishing points :d

Would you suggest I post a pic with the guidelines in place to show how they worked for me in that challenge??

Earlier today Doug Colwell pointed out how the cobbles stones in the horizontal in this pic (link below) should have been evenly sized.

http://www.retouchpro.com/challenges...cat/500/page/1

I see his point now. ( vanishing points again!! :d ) ... Unfortunately I wasnt aware of the concept when I worked on that pic.

I now believe the concept of vanishing points is very vital, not only to anyone trying to create objects from scratch, but even for restorations like these. It sure is worth exploring.

[Shalford]

Hi All

I know that this forum is a little old now, but I thought I’d
post this image.

I’ve started dabbling in portraits, totally painted in photoshop from scratch.

OK - this wasn’t done from memory and she didn’t sit for me. (I had to use a photo as my model)

It doesn’t look much like the original, but it’s getting there !!

It was all done using the paintbrush, burn, dodge, blur and smudge tools.

Oh …. and a fair bit of swearing.

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I've just seen the "NO Photo's" part of this forum!!! Ooooops (sorry Doug)

[sukku]

Shalford, for a from-scratch-portrait u've done a fantastic job. I'm guessing u use a tablet, (a luxury i cannot afford as yet) : and painting with the mouse isnt easy

Now, modern art!!! that is a mouse job so long as u can explain some hidden meaning into the mass of squiggles and blotches

Or mebbe just drag a squiggly line on a clean sheet and call it 'LifeLine'

[T Paul]

Originally Posted by Janet Petty

Creating something from nothing is not my forte; but I've had so much fun with this little experiment, I thought I'd try and post it.

Janet

Janet,

A colorful animation and very nice results. There is nothing wrong with having a little fun and experimenting with whatever graphic program you might have.

[T Paul]

Originally Posted by sukku

I also have posted a pic (link below) on here
http://www.retouchpro.com/challenges...cat/500/page/1

A manipulation challenge, I drew in the walls in CorelDraw and imported them into Photopaint. Basically did that to understand the concept of vanishing points. By extending guidelines from the visual planes i could arrive at the two basic vanishing points in the pic. From there on it was a piece of cake to draw in the missing parts, like the roof for example. It was very satisfying to watch the pieces fall in place just by fitting in the bits and pieces according to the vanishing points...

I now believe the concept of vanishing points is very vital, not only to anyone trying to create objects from scratch, but even for restorations like these. It sure is worth exploring.

A good lesson to learn. Vanishing points are the key to creating a realistic perspective view.

[T Paul]

Originally Posted by Shalford

Hi All...

I’ve started dabbling in portraits, totally painted in photoshop from scratch.....
It was all done using the paintbrush, burn, dodge, blur and smudge tools.

Oh …. and a fair bit of swearing.

Excellent work so far. For one who has just started dabbling in portraits, it looks like you are getting the hang of it quite quickly.

[FrannyMae]

I am stunned by all the great work in this thread! I almost hate to post my effort, but considering I can't even draw a stick man it's not too shabby! LOL! It is fun to try and recreate something in Photoshop, but much faster and easier to just take a picture in my case.

[1STLITE]

Awhile back a friend and I played this little game. (this thread reminded me of that, so I thought I woudl post this here) It started on Yahoo Messanger with the doodle IMvironment, but originally was somethign we played as kids in gradeschool. Your partner draws a line on a page, straight line, squiggle, round and round, whatever - as long as it is one line. THats about the only rule. From that line you draw what you "see" in the line/shape. These pictures came from this game. She would draw a line in a new document in her image editor and I would take it to Photoshop or Elements (cant remember if I had PS then yet) and make that into a picture based on her line. Might be a fun thing to try here (?). Anyways, here are a couple of them. I have apparentl since lost one or two of them and gotten rid of the original line pics. I know on the fish one, part of the line was the top of the back of the purple fish just below the top fin. But I know the first thing I saw in it was the two fish passign by eachother.