Attention 'Scientific Love' Lovers !

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

One word, outstanding!

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 3:38 pm **(#2)**

Here's my attempt at the 'Tronic Layering' tut, what do you think?...

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Nice tuts Esper like the first result.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

i posted some variation, so always go directly to the blog-adress if you dont want to miss out on the latest stuff:
Radiant Children

K1TesseraEna wrote:

One word, outstanding!

Oh !

he4rty wrote:

Nice tuts Esper like the first result.

thanks he4rty !

Wallace wrote:

Here's my attempt at the 'Tronic Layering' tut, what do you think?...

awesome Wallace, i just love when people come up with variations of my tutorials - the purple works great !
the background is great too !

you may want to tweak the bevel-highlight a bit - i think they could be improved

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:17 pm **(#5)**

ESper your work on the science labs is always outstanding 'congrats' :jumpclap

this is one of my favourite Images

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

thanks Graechan, thats a very nice compliment !

i must say without Erisian and his Innards experiments, i would have never discovered the possibilites of the Relief Light filter
also a big thank you to Rononours for writing that filter !

AnMal · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:34 pm **(#7)**

esper: i must have been over at gsl right after you posted those, because i have worked on the "illuminations effect" off and on for two days now - without a single tolerable result

. i can't get the relief light highlights in the right spots on the text, they always end up in the middle where the text is darkest, which makes no sense at all. i'm not giving up, though, soon enough i'll have this effect beaten and then i can leave my usual message at gsl again.
wallace: :wow

that's just brilliant! the background and text effect go so well together.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

AnMal wrote:

i have worked on the "illuminations effect" off and on for two days now - without a single tolerable result

. i can't get the relief light highlights in the right spots on the text, they always end up in the middle where the text is darkest, which makes no sense at all.

that sounds frustrating and odd at the same time, because i have no idea what is going wrong

i just apply 'New from Visible' and then open the 'Relief Light' filter with that layer activated

i set the 'Image Smoothness' first (~0.3 seems to be the value that works for me) and it instantly gets the plastic look treatment all over
i turn up the 'Specular Size' to the max and leave the x, y and z sliders as they are
then i go for 'Specular lightness', 'Ambient lightness' and 'Darkness (in that order) for contrast

AnMal · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:53 pm **(#9)**

esper: it is frustrating. i usually do just what you say, but i've tried moving the x, y and z sliders about too and it doesn't make any difference, really. i have been trying on different fonts too but that makes no difference either, no matter what font i choose i get the highlights in the darkest spots of the text. i will beat this one, though! i'm not gonna let some g'mic filter get the better of me

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Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:55 pm **(#10)**

Very nice, Esper. WTG!

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:34 am **(#11)**

I went all out on the 'Illuminations tutorial'. :cofscreen

This is also a super cool tut. :bigthup

Not one issue came up while doing it, it was nearly a cake-walk.

Esper wrote:

Awesome Wallace, i just love when people come up with variations of my tutorials - the purple works great!
The background is great too!

You may want to tweak the bevel-highlight a bit - i think they could be improved.

Thanks Esper, when working with the 'Tronic Layering' tut, I did all the beveling and shadows in reverse, along with a few other things that I can't remember. :hehe

I probably could have given the bevel/highlight a little more of a tweaking.
Great tut Esper! :jumpclap

AnMal wrote:

That's just brilliant! The background and text effect go so well together.

Thanks AnMal, you're a peach. :hehe

ek22 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:25 am **(#12)**

This came out really nice. If you don't mind I'll put a link up to your tut on my Tumblr with this.

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2769

ek22 wrote:

This came out really nice. If you don't mind I'll put a link up to your tut on my Tumblr with this.

Nice one EK,

great to see everybody gets good results with the technique !

i would very much appreciate a link on your tumblr !
i need a bit of promotion

Oregonian wrote:

Very nice, Esper. WTG!

thanks O !

Wallace wrote:

This is also a super cool tut. :bigthup

Not one issue came up while doing it, it was nearly a cake-walk.[/font]

nice background there, Wallace

ek22 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:22 am **(#14)**

Well I got all of like 16 followers so I don't know how impactful it will be to promote. Mainly I have that tumblr so when people ask me what I do with my time I can point to it and say, this.

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:31 am **(#15)**

Esper wrote:

nice background there, Wallace

Thanks Esper and all your tut's are pretty cool, especially if I can make them work with purple. :bigthup

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:34 am **(#16)**

ek22 wrote:

This came out really nice.

Yes I have to agree, your text look really great.

Well done! :jumpclap

ek22 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:58 pm **(#17)**

I know it looks almost like balloons. Very smooth.

Wallace · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:18 pm **(#18)**

ek22 wrote:

I know it looks almost like balloons. Very smooth.

"IT IS BALLOON"!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-lgnXM54Zw :hehe

ek22 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:06 pm **(#19)**

Oh I really didn't wanna chuckle at that. But I did lol.

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Jun 08, 2013 2:22 pm **(#20)**

wallace and ek22: great results from both of you! i always like your backgrounds, wallace, and your neatness and exactness, ek22.

i finally got a result with this! i just couldn't get anything useful out of the relief light filter and i felt like an idiot because everyone else seemed to work this with ease. well, today when i got home i thought it was time to upgrade to the latest version of g'mic to try the box fitting filter - and after upgrading i had no problem whatsoever with the relief light filter! it was like magic and i have no idea what happened. well, whatever happened i can now make jelly text!