Blend

[molucca]

The saphire color was set at 10% for the blend.

Rich

[Burpee]

Turned out well. Your butterflies are so pretty.

[molucca]

Colored with a seed map.

Rich

[ginger44]

1. That's a very nice colour bleed/stain.

2. The neat tear drop effect

had to edit as I posted and then saw that there was another pic...............

[molucca]

The tear drop was an overlay of a Semi Transparent Reflection Map. This was a gazing ball made transparent using erase blending.

I made an erasing PNG image. Only opacity is relevant, and not color in this case.

On screen, the result appears somewhat jagged, but the render is good.

Rich

[ginger44]

thanks, we keep learning

[molucca]

Erase blending is non destructive and layer dependent. Everything below the eraser will be made transparent depending on the opacity of the eraser. I say eraser because anything will work. A grayscale image made transparent with Red Prince White Wash Alpha, Grayscale image strokes, PNG image strokes or images, vecror strokes, fringes..., I think you get the idea.

You can make a grayscale image an image stroke, and adjust the path length and width.

Rich

[molucca]

The result of a transparent map. Applying a blank paper texture will cause the transparent map to reveal transparency on screen.

Rich

[ginger44]

thank you - paper textures could give very interesting effects indeed. Really like the effects on the edges of this one.

[molucca]

In this case, I used a blank white image as a texture. With a texture, the gray causes transparency. With just white, there is no texthre applied, but it does let the transparent map be transparent on screen. Without doing this, the transparency appears gray to black.

It will save ont to transparency, but make it difficult to work on screen. This is not in the manual.

The transparent map is more transparent on the edge and more opaque in the center. So, the map fill flows with the shape to get the effect.

Using a texture works, too.

Rich