I tried what you said up there and even used your image and incandescent gradient. I didn't bump map it, but did fill it with the chrome gradient first. All I ended up with was a flat, gradient-colored picture with none of the depth that yours has.

Nice!

I did bump mine first, I guess I didn't word that too well. But apparently I'm mistaken. Here's bumped and just gradient mapped:



Here's chromed and gradient mapped:



I could have swore I didn't have to chrome it first.

This one has just been gradient mapped. I did sharpen the heck out of it though:

I love it, thanks for this wonderful tutorial

You're very welcome, it was fun to do.

I applied the tut to these signs of the zodiac. Gold off course, what do you think?

BTW, I'm a Libra.

Nice Wallace! Fun turning stuff into gold/chrome, isn't it?

After playing with it for awhile, I think I got it sussed. Do the tutorial as it is up and through the color curves. Next step is gradient map.

This Celtic cross, (got it here) I blurred only 3 and then bump mapped it twice to get the patterning.

Nice Oregonian. I wish I would have saved some of the chromed stuff I've done over the years. I used to have some custom gold gradients I made, that worked fantastic, but lost them.

Oregonian, you captured the spirit of the thing!


I think I managed follow step by step, still tracing the gradient makes a difference in the end.
Wanted to be able to play the scorpion equal to the example, but gave up after a few attempts.

Maybe Molly make a PDF of this tutorial, or Graechan make a script, who knows!?

Thx all!


Also, do not get the same result with the rose. But at least I was in the right direction.

I like it Akros.

i'm experimenting with this tut and some paisleys (is anyone surprised?) but getting nothing nice so far. i will, though, just give me some time ! one problem i have is that some of the depth of the paisleys is lost when i put on the gradient, so i always have to put on an extra bevel or something.

O: i really like your celtic cross in gold, nice job!

Very nice gold cross O. The green background really sets it off too.

Larger, flat surfaces tend to not do so well. I was experimenting last night, with a very wide text, and big letters. It definitely loses the effect on the flats.

I love your crustacean!

the warrior: yeah, anything that was originally planned out as a text effect is wasted on larger surfaces - i've given up trying to apply that kind of things to solid paisley shapes long ago. i'm working on the contours of paisleys and it looks okay but not the way i want it to look. like i said, though, i'm not giving up .

I found some paisley drawings and gave them a try. They were very rough and I smoothed them up a bit and zipped and attached them below. This is one of them.

Nice work Oregonian.

This is my result, pretty cool effect! Made my self a logo type thing