I did something similar.

1. Made a green layer
2. Made a white layer above it with RGB noise @ .10 with the "Independent RGB" box unchecked and the "Correlated" box checked.
3. Inverted the noise layer and adjusted the levels to 0 on the left and 100 on the right.
4. Used Brush and set mode to color erase essentially making the layer transparent around all the noise dots.
5. Duplicated the layer 3 times and just changed the orientation. (rotate 90 degrees, flip vertically etc.)
6. Ran Gaussian blur at 1 on all the noise layers and merged everything.
7. Map>Map Object, selected sphere, adjusted the orientation and the rest was decoration. (shadows, highlights etc.)


Still looks more like metal flake than metallic or pearl.

That is very good Drac. best one yet. I think the shadows, reflections and lighting is what makes it. You could make it into a pattern and try it on a car, bike or motorcycle... I think it would be very effective.

Thanks Molly. I'm working on some. I forgot a step though in my previous post. Forgot to mention I merged all the layers before I did the map to sphere step. I'll go fix it now.

I was kinda waiting for Rod or someone to make that in between image of his and mine. All I can do is post the method I used for my post on making the glitter. I'll attach the steps. They are very brief for my use as a guide, to remember what I did, and in no way should it be considered a tut.


Edit - OK I revised it to be a little more accurate and understandable.

Jaw dropping! Molly that was the exact paint I was looking for. Drac Nicely done!
To both of you :
You see how the light completely determines the pixel coloration?!? That is true metallic paint right there! Now to see if I can recreate Drac's green to see if that works on my side. Nice job guys! Getting closer by the day! Now we have to figure out how to make this into a palette (hopefully!)!

Or what could be done is to make it a series of patterns in a category (for GURM and 2.8) and use a layer mask to (essentially paint the areas that are wanted). Then they could use lighting effects to create that "glow" (wrong word I think to describe it) or light points to create the "true metallic part". And after this is over if we can't do this part I will create a tut for it, take the work of your guys' shoulders L:D

PS: This little doodle "L:D" is just something I use. Its a ":D" with a mohawk or block cut, something along those lines.

A tute would be great ZWard117. You guys are doing all the work and I am doing the prodding. lol.

Can't wait to see it executed into a vehicle of some sort.

Trust me, will be putting on a vehicle of some sort, maybe like a motorcycle of some futuristic type L:D

Having a huge issue reading your instructions Drac. Hard to understand how you did the flaking? Can't figure out the layers part, there are three layer threes....

Drac .. I'm going to have to agree with Z here. The text file you posted was a bit on the confusing side. I started to do it and got to the point were your scaling a layer and I was totally lost. Especially when I read duplicate layer 4 times. I was like is that the 4th layer duplicate or do I make 4 copies of that layer.

Please please please fix it? If your graphic example is true to the point then this a really simple effect with a nice wow factor!

Thank god I'm not the only one. Was starting to feel stupid...thanks for joining in MrBiggz.
Was trying to follow them but I couldn't figure it them.

Looks nice Draconian.

Sorry for the confusion. I's a typo. I revised it so many times as I was experimenting. You only make two duplicate layers and apply the effects to each layer as they are numbered. See the parenthesis after each line of text, that refers to the number of layers you now have.

If that's not clear, just remember it does not matter a whole lot how you do it. I recreated the whole thing using only three layers but you just have to remember to rotate each layer a different direction so you don't get that machine looking pattern repetition. I also moved one duplicate layer about 10 pixels up and to the left and the other one 10 pixels down and to the right. If you try this out you'll see what I mean.

The scaling of the layers is just to get different sizes of dots in the pattern. I got the method from Greg Martin's PS tutorial on making a realistic space background I posted about a week ago.

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts ... field.html

Let me know if this doesn't help, you don't have to use the exact method I used.
If you remember the pearl brushes I made a while back you may like this one. I made a new glitter pattern and placed it above the black pearl image. I scaled it down to 20% (pearl image was really small) and set the mode to overlay at 30% opacity to make the pearl look glittery. (is that a real word?)

Just so everyone will know, I replace the zip file in my other post with the revised process. Glad everyone liked it. I have all my patterns ready to upload to DA but can't seem to figure out how to do anything but upload the pic. Where do you go to include the zip file?

The top 11 are plain glitter and the bottom 11 are with the sparkles

Drac those are amazing. They are perfect, how do you add a gloss layer like on the pearl? That would be the final step in the metallic paints.

EDIT: Nevermind, would just create a clear layer with a gradient set white to transparent and then use that. Also where are these on DA?

It's been almost two years but... Select the zip file as your upload. It will then ask you for a picture file to display.



I don't know if deviantART supports .7z files. You may have to save it as a standard .zip file to upload it. Plus, everyone has software for unzipping .zip files; 7zip is a separate download for Windows so most Windows users won't have it and you'll have to field questions about how to unzip your file.

Nice job Draconian.

Ya know, even following Drac's revised steps. I still don't get the results Drac does!

Here's what my try looked like ..

Hey Draconian how about just attaching a zip for us here.I am dying to try these out on some objects.

Rod he (I think Drac is a he, sorry if I'm wrong) attached a .7zip file to this thread --> http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3654&start=30#p45686

Which is what I did my try on .. but it looks nothing like results.

yes that is a txt file i suppose Rod as me was hoping for what represented in this preview

omg these are so perfectly awesome and this thread has been so educational to watch..got the glitter text and waits impatiently for the patterns.....i am all the time needing something like this...for non vehicle pictures...woot!