Tutorial (link): Amazing circles (Photoshop) - another fun fad

[palms1]

I saw this link on another forum and as it looked fun thought i would give it a go


http://brilliantdays.com/how-to-create-amazing-circles/

Well it is fun and quite easy ( for once no hard slog )
have posted some i have done using Janet Petty's spring photo and Patricia Kay's Rose posting ,with one of my own last

[Trimoon]

My try it it.

Larger Images:
http://www.pbase.com/trimoon/circles

[Trimoon]

And more of the same.

[DannyRaphael]

Wow... great fun.

I just wrote a Photoshop action to streamline the steps. Click my name above/left and send me an e-mail (not a PM) if you'd like to try it out and give me some feedback.

[palms1]

Trimoon what a selection, they are great, I have been playing around with this most of the day, flowers seem to work best for me, i tried a face ( animal and human ) but it looked quite goulish ! ! ! ! Is your animal a cat ?

Palms

do they remind any one else of the glass paper weights you can get ?

[Kraellin]

fun!

craig

edit: on the third one, i wondered what would happen if you already had a round patterned shape and did this. i took my image from the patterns thread and tried it. changed it a bit, but not that much

[palms1]

Well some one had to do it ( Craig let me down )
a horrible one, and another thought they look a bit like marbles ! ! ! !

[Kraellin]

i let you down? oh my; that will never do. uh...how did i let you down?

and yes, i remember those glass paperweights that were semi-spheres and had a glob of something inside the clear glass. and yes, they do remind me of those a bit.

craig

[palms1]

Craig
because you done pretty ones, by the way i like the third one

Palms

[Kraellin]

palms

thanks. i like the original better on that one

oh, you were expecting an animation or something humorous? boy, tough crowd

craig

[palms1]

Today i have been trying out Danny's action which works great , I did have one mishap (my Fault) but in doing so found out that you can use rectangles which give you oval's, doubling the fun ! ! ! ! ! ! !

thak you Danny

Palms

[Kraellin]

lovely. and fun. who could ask for more

i always find it fun to learn the method and then take it out on my own. i see you've done the same. i tried it a couple other ways also, repeating the same step instead of changing the setting and also in only rotating it 90 degrees instead of 180. try it with triangles

craig

[philbach]

Here I was I had my little daily plan and ran into this darn thread. Tripped over it and made my little action and constructed some of these gizmos and I am way behind on my schedule. The good news is that since I'm retired I don't have a schedule.

[palms1]

Thought there for a minute i might of been in trouble Glad you have retired, but your time was well spent they are great in fact i cant pick which one would be my favorite ( have you tried doing the rectangle ones woops there goes a few more hours)

Palms

[Trimoon]

Used Eye Candy (Weave)

More Here:

[Kraellin]

very cool, phil. i like the first one best, though the purple one is a close runner-up.

trimoon, i'm going to have to actually try that plugin. very nice

craig

[palms1]

Trimoon you have been busy, I have found my favorite though Number 32 beautiful

Palms

[Trimoon]

An Animation sequence of images

[philbach]

Darn thats great. Thanks for producing and posting it.

[Kraellin]

trimoon,

very cool. i like that deep red one in there. you also gave me an idea

craig

[Kraellin]

let's see if this will work...

http://65.5.254.8:8080/guitar-morph-1-k-1.avi

craig

[palms1]

It worked for me Would it be possible to have a little pause at the end, it goes quite fast and dont get that good a look at the circle ( unless you are pretty nifty with the pause button ) other than that very good

Palms

[Kraellin]

palms,

thanks and glad it worked! i couldnt get it to play. it downloaded ok, but it seems my .avi viewer wont show it. thankfully, i saved it as a .gif also.

as for the speed, yes, i can change it. i wondered about that. however, i've got some other plans for this yet, so i'll probably wait and change the speed when i do some more with this.

one thing about doing this, was that i used meesoft's smart morph. i like that program. simple, easy to use, and does a very nice job. but, it's got its limits. what i was hoping i could do was really show the neck of the guitar curving around like it ends up as. smart morph couldnt handle it that way... too many 'crossed lines'. but, i'll be playing around some more with this, so we'll see.

craig

[Trimoon]

A flash move (Sound)

Circles II

[Janet Petty]

Nicely done Steve. Very creative and quite entertaining. I liked it a lot.

Janet

[Kraellin]

very nice, trimoon. i especially liked those last two.

craig

[philbach]

Hey nice movie. Thanks.

[Cameraken]

These Are Fun.
The instructions ask for a square picture but if you start with a rectangle you get “Amazing Ovals”

Pictures by Boris Vallejo.

Ken

[palms1]

Ken they are fun and yours are really nice , yep had worked out about the ovals (by mistake ) and this is what i got trying out Craigs idea

Originally Posted by Kraellin

try it with triangles
craig

Palms

[Kraellin]

palms,

not quite what i expected. in fact, i'm a bit surprised. i would have thought it would have been more thoroughly symmetrical. oh well, it's still an interesting piece

craig