Marble Tile

[Psaumure]

I made my own marble tile. You won't find this one in your loco hardware store. Looking for some input on showing on reflective surface.

Paul

[angelize]

Very nicely done Paul, you got me with the title! I was expecting a marble texture

[Rik]

I'm glad I didn't post first!
I too thought that it was a tile made of marble - a marble tile.

Though I played marbles when I was in India, and had many prized (to me) marbles, I never had anything that looked like that.
If I had, it would have been locked away and only brought out when special friends came to visit.

[A Wrigley]

Stunning can't say anymore

[Psaumure]

Well, it is a marble texture. and it's on a tile. i have been talking with my kids to much. my brain is getting warped. i think my kids are going to be attorneys. As my kids would say, "Made you look." Ha ha...

I do thank you for you comments, but i would like to get some input regarding the shadow at the base of the marble. it just dos no look right. any suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

Thanks,

Paul

[gwpriester]

This is another case in which you need to make the reflection a bitmap and soften it. The lights should be a bit darker and the darks a bit lighter and the reflection should tuck up under the marble a bit.

The top of the reflection would be darker because it is reflecting the underside of the marble.

And the marble itself is too sharp overall.

This dicussion came up in a stereogram forum that in real life not everything is in perfect focus. Generally what we are focusing on is in sharp focus but that focus falls off as you move out from the point of focus.

I distorted the reflection because it would probably not be an exact mirror image but would be forshortened a little.

And as the reflection excends downward, it loses its sharpness.

[Psaumure]

Yes, that makes sense. what are you using to darken the bitmap under the marble? I understand the blur, what are you using, two layers to create a blur and darkening it? How do you soften the marble? I'm not familiar with how to soften vector graphics.