A Plate?

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2014 3:47 am **(#61)**

Well thank you Sallyanne - and now my last plate (for a while anyway), a soup plate made out of a rockface from Kakadu National Park.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2014 4:03 am **(#62)**

Another good one, you have got some good textures and I assume great memories too.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thanks system, I will try that.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2014 7:15 am **(#64)**

molly wrote:

Tux, I tried and tried to make a plate template and I can't get it to work. Can you give away your secret as how you did it.

SysTemX wrote:

Molly - You need to lower the opacity on the ares you want changed.

What I did..

Create a 800x800 canvas, create a circular selection and filled with black.
I ran Gaussian blur of 3px for an edge bevel.
Duplicated the layer and performed alpha to selection on the top layer.
Shrink by 80px and deleted the center section of the top layer, creating an 80px ring.
Select the bottom layer, grow selection by 10, invert the selection and delete the outer area.
Set the top layer's opacity to 95 and the bottom layer's opacity to 90, then merge down the top layer.

The overlapping 10px area will be darker, which gives you the center ring in the plate. :bigthup

You can see it if you decrease the opacity of the merged layer to less than 100%.

Then, ensure the merged layer is back at 100% opacity and run BRL, using the map of your choice.

You should experiment with variations of this. It would be interesting to see the results if the outer ring had a graduated transparency/opacity (gradient transparency) that when from the outer edge of the ring to the inner edge.

SysTemX · **Joined:** Dec 08, 2013 **Posts:** 1088

This is mine

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

GnuTux wrote:

molly wrote:

Tux, I tried and tried to make a plate template and I can't get it to work. Can you give away your secret as how you did it.

SysTemX wrote:

Molly - You need to lower the opacity on the ares you want changed.

What I did..

Create a 800x800 canvas, create a circular selection and filled with black.
I ran Gaussian blur of 3px for an edge bevel.
Duplicated the layer and performed alpha to selection on the top layer.
Shrink by 80px and deleted the center section of the top layer, creating an 80px ring.
Select the bottom layer, grow selection by 10, invert the selection and delete the outer area.
Set the top layer's opacity to 95 and the bottom layer's opacity to 90, then merge down the top layer.

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The overlapping 10px area will be darker, which gives you the center ring in the plate. :bigthup

You can see it if you decrease the opacity of the merged layer to less than 100%.

[ Image ]

Then, ensure the merged layer is back at 100% opacity and run BRL, using the map of your choice.

You should experiment with variations of this. It would be interesting to see the results if the outer ring had a graduated transparency/opacity (gradient transparency) that when from the outer edge of the ring to the inner edge.

Thank you Tux I can't wait to try this. If it is a success, I will save the templates. woo hoo :jumpclap

@system, I love how you did the plate with the S. cool

GnuTux · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:18 am **(#67)**

Another simple approach is an outer ring at 100% opacity and an inner ring of 98% opacity. It does takes longer to render at higher depths.

Here are a couple of results...

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very cool, love the second one.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

My first try at building a template, I am going to start experimenting with different shapes next.
I would like to try to make the plate deeper with more depth.

SysTemX · **Joined:** Dec 08, 2013 **Posts:** 1088

Try feathering the edges or stroking with soft brush Molly.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I wanted that one to look like the gold is rough like glitter. I could have gotten a smoother edge but I kind of liked the rough edge effect in this one. Thanks System for the feedback.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:47 pm **(#72)**

Nice start, Molly. Can't wait to see what you come up with. :hehe

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Thanks,

Neither can I.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:42 pm **(#75)**

Well there is me saying no more plate pictures ... then GnuTux gives away the secrets of his BRL templates!

So I could not resist trying out the technique and the first 3 plates all looked OK ...

but thereafter, using that same template, they all looked like formless, flat discs!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I tried a coffee mug with the same steps but different values and it just came out with a ridge instead of rounded. SHUCKS

sallyanne · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:03 am **(#77)**

I tried it with a heart

sallyanne · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:36 am **(#78)**

And a 'nibbles' bowl

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

great sallyanne,
On this one I started with a white mug, gave it a 3 blur, shrank it 4 pixels, Ran it through the BRL, and this is what I ended with.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:22 am **(#80)**

Wow that is fantastic molly. Looks like glass now.
Thanx but I didn't like mine so changed it.