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jamonathin

Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:11 pm


Cool Ice Background

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** For some reason I cannot upload images so they're in a zip folder **
I Figured I'd post a tutorial since i have nothing better to do with my life, and no one's really done anything since . .  feb? i think so, anyways . . 

This is what the final result will look somewhat like: (final.jpg)

Now I used 200x200 just because it's easier to do for a tutorial, but use whatever size is good for your background.

Select the Gradient Tool (G) with these settings:
- Black to White
- Reflected Gradient (horzontal stripe)
- and Difference for blend mode

Now click all over your canvas.  This is what mine looked like: (1.jpg)

Now go Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur with:
- Amount: 100
- Zoom
- Best

Duplicate the layer.  Now go Filter -> Filter -> Distort -> Polar Coordinates
[- Using Polar to Rectangle -]

Now you can set the blending mode of the new layer to either Lighten or Darken, whichever you think looks better.

Here's mine with lighten: (lighten.jpg)

Now what I did after that was I duplicated the first layer again, only I flipped the image horizontally so that I would have more 'beams' shooting out.  [- using lighten -].  I did the same with the Vertical bars (which should be your 3rd layer)

Now you should have a pretty cool black and white image.  You can either through a hue/saturation on the entire image, or go layer by layer and go to Enhance -> Color -> Hue/Saturation; that way.  (Which i think is better)

Play around with the colors and enjoy your background :)


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[Gandalf]

Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:34 pm



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Nice and simple tutorial, good job :).

Now, since I basically suck at art, I just edited the final image around to look a bit more like conventional ice (I don't have photoshop btw).
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/498/icelike25nv.jpg


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jamonathin

Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:25 pm



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Oh yeah, lol that does look more like ice.  Im not really "color coordinated" :P


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MihaiG

Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:52 pm



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nice i had a good effect by just adding an overlay layer... and giving that a light blueish colour

hers a a cool thing i amde based on ur thing


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MysticVegeta

Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:44 pm



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Isnt that just find-edges and then inversing the image?


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Mikleena

Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:29 am


Re: Cool Ice Background

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Hi friend, i like your post, I will try this and attached the come out picture here. I hope that its will a nice article.
Thanks for sharing this.


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TheGuardian001

Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:46 pm


Re: Cool Ice Background

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Mikleena, Please stop posting on 4 year old threads. Necro-posting is frowned upon here.


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jannatul18

Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:18 am


RE:Cool Ice Background

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Its really something cool I find as the background. Good one :)