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Posted on 30/12/10 1:53:15 PM |
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Stefano Giacomuzzi
Modernist Maestro Posts: 146 Reply  |
The blue light
By chance I found this free image on morgueFile and I photoshopped it. A thanks to Pietro, a friend of mine, for his help into this work. Suggestions and comments are welcome! I hope you like it.  |
Posted on 03/01/11 00:42:08 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2899 Reply  |
Re: The blue light
Its quite mesmerising Stefano..how did you achieve this effect? _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 05/01/11 8:49:59 PM |
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Stefano Giacomuzzi
Modernist Maestro Posts: 146 Reply |
Re: The blue light
Thanks for your comment Anna 
The hardest problem was to make the line getting narrower and narrower. It took me a while to figure out how to do this. Not sure this is the easier and faster method, but the only one occurred to me. So, first create a twirl path round the spiral staircase, then in a new layer stroke the path with a big white brush and erase most of it leaving only the line on the top floor, then, with a smaller brush stroke again the path and erase most of it. And so on…Then cut out the jagged edges. Not sure I made myself clear, but the image should give you an idea. 
Then apply a Gaussian blur and in a new layer paint along the edges of the line using a new brush with these presets: Spacing: 1000% Size Jitter: 1000% Scatter: 600% Or you can download the Audio Lines Brushes to paint along the edges of the line for a more “energetic” effect, but I prefer the first version. Apply a Gaussian blur with a small amount to this new layer too. Put the line and the “bubbles” layers in a group, change the group blending mode to Linear dodge (add), and merge the layers together. Select the pixels of the layer and in a new layer fill the selection with cyan, reduce the opacity to 30% and change the blending mode to lighten, select the pixels of the layer again and contract the selection, then in a new layer fill the selection with white, duplicate the cyan layer and put it above the others then change the opacity to 100% and the blending mode to normal. For the last time select the pixels of the line and add a Hue Saturation adjustment layer, check the Colorize box with these settings: Hue: 188 Saturation: 29 Lightness: -61 
Maybe not an accurate explanation, I skipped some steps, anyway I hope I made myself clear. Thanks Stefano _________________ “The secret to Happiness is low expectations.” |