The saphire color was set at 10% for the blend.
Rich
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The saphire color was set at 10% for the blend.
Rich
Turned out well. Your butterflies are so pretty.
Colored with a seed map.
Rich
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...............
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
thanks, we keep learning:D
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
The result of a transparent map. Applying a blank paper texture will cause the transparent map to reveal transparency on screen.
Rich
thank you - paper textures could give very interesting effects indeed. Really like the effects on the edges of this one.
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
It only seems like a ball of snakes.
Left is the map fill without texture, and the right with a blank white texture. If I used a black image for the texture, the fill would disappear.
Rich
An image stroke used for variable with feathering in erase blending.
Rich
ball of snakes - did you uncover a undocumented feature ;-)
the effects are actually fascinating
I discovered an unknown capability. Of course, it wasn't documented either.
Basically, this was the ability to use transparent reflection maps.
Other things are just my ideas pn how to use things.
Rich
A fringe in erase blending. A fringe is a positive emboss and go to the outside of an object. The opacity of the object is affected by the shade of the bottom row of pixels in the fringe image. In this case, I needed to choose a fringe that had a black row at the bottom to erase the center as well as the fringe.
Rich
That worked well, had a good look at the large ver.
Two fringes. You can only recolor with one color. Making a fringe is like making a linear tile. Both fringes were the same dimensions, and match each other when applied to two separate objects.
The fill in a negative emboss with a third object, and was made using a Xara /EC4K map.
Rich
The fringes saved out and colored in Xara/EC4K.
Rich
A composition in Erase Blending when I was developing my resources.
Rich
Rich you are making jewelry
great work
like the 'jewellery'
the waterfall has an eerie quality
An old composition where I was trying to get the effect of seeing the stems in the vase.
Rich
Blending two images
I made a black linear transparent image in Xara and saved to PNG/alpha. Just one way to get there. The image was used in erase blending on the top image. The E3 way.
Rich
That erase blend is very effective and I do like the design that the stems in the glass produced
More designing your resources. An assembly I made to make light strokes. I just need to place an image in back and save the crop mark region. Variable width is used to shape the beam. I designed erasers for the vase as well.
Rich
nice shape to lights, which resemble the landing gear of an alien space ship >:)
A light stroke with the ripple image in erase blending.
Rich
that works well, are we going to see the pic that you you're using it on
Rich,
Your effects just blow me away. They are so many light years ahead of my abilities, that even when you explain how and why you did what you did, I am still no wiser (Please ..... someone else admit they don't know what he's talking about, or I'm going to look really dumb ......)
Yvonne,
I think I lost all those images when the tree hit the power line. The surge was too much for the surge protector.
Keith,
These are very simple ideas. Realizing how simple they are is the first step in doing them.
You should be able to adapt the idea to other applications. You just need to find the right path.
In E3, I made an image that would erase parts of the light stroke. Opacity erases in Erase blending. So, I needed to make the image white where I wanted to light stroke to remain. As an image, there are several ways to make a grayscale image transparent.
The erasing image is placed on a layer above the the ripple image, and set to erase blending. The light stroke is drawn below the erasing image. You have variable width to adjust the stroke profile.
The hardest part is keeping track of the layers. Not that difficult.
In Xara, you have bitmap transparency. Think about it.
Rich
Rich, was this recent?
Keith, I carefully copy & paste all the instructions, so I can follow or think them thru - seeing what Rich does with software is similar to a sharp smack round the earhole :D it has encouraged me to get my brain into gear and look at things differently.
Yvonne,
An older study. I lost the entire hard drive, and had to reinstall everything. I recovered some files from my archives. The hard drive was making noise and got turned off never to start again. I had planned to archive my files to disk.
Rich
that HD that died - just in case you didn't try this. I had a HD crash on me and one of the tech guys where I worked at the time connected it to the network, I have no idea what magic he used but he said that although it didn't run he could view it and took an image and copied the lot to CD's for me.
We tried lots of things wiht the HD, but it was never accessible. I had to write to lots of software companies for my program information. They were very responsive.
In Xara, you can brush on saturation or desaturation. E3 doesn't have any of those transparency capabilities. In this case, I saturated the image in back, and erased the image in front. I use clouds mostly. That way, you can selective saturate by removing areas of the base image.
Erase blending is non destructive, and you can always remove a stroke.
If you wanted to cross fade two image, you need to make an eraser that varies in opacity.
Rich
Rich,
One way I've had recovering data from a bad drive, is stick it in the freezer for a couple of hours and then reconnect it ...... Can't harm to give it a try!
This is off-topic, I apologize to Rich.
Actually it can. You were just lucky Keith, the 'freezer myth' has been a commonly perpetuated data recovery trick for many years.
If the data is very important, don't risk further damager by putting a drive in the freezer :eek: Get it professionally looked at. ;)
Maybe a myth, but it did work for me anyway. Now I admit my data wasn't critical so I wouldn't have lost a great deal anyway.
Steve the two links you posted seem to have missed the entire purpose of 'freezing' the drive.
It has nothing to do with shrinking the hardware components within the structure.
Freezing is to help keep electronics at a cooler temperature for as long as possible before they heat up and become unstable.
A drive with a crashed read/write head cannot be recovered using the freezing technique. Only a drive that has on board electronics that act up when they are 'hot' can be recovered by 'freezing'.
Sorry for inturrupting your thread Ron.
Yes this is no place to argue who is right about this.
I think this was Rich's thread anyway.
wow that's nice!