Convincing cloth challenge...

[TaoBoogie]

Gadzooks! I found the original tutorial that got me well on the road to the example I posted above. I knew I had it around somewhere.

Aprilgem's Journal
This has got me going again now, I'm going to try some more examples as soon as I get back from viewing another potential apartment to call home.
Nice work Moltas
Here is the Yin Yang tile that I used in the above example
in case anyone wanted to use it.

[Moltas]

Originally Posted by Welles

Both of those examples are superior, Moltas.

Could you tell me how you achieved such a smooth shiny silk appearance in the top one. That was the sort of effect I was trying to achieve originally but couldn't quite pull it off (so I gave up and started the challenge in the hope that someone else could provide a good direction. )

Well I hate to say it but it's a trick that almost comes out of the box...sort of. Here's a quick and dirty tut. Hope you can follow the steps, otherwise just post your questions.

1. Create a new layer and fill it with some color name it satin.
2. Apply the Pattern Overlay filter using 'Satin'. Scale it up (I used somewhere around 500%)
3. Create a new layer and move it under the 'satin' layer and merge the satin layer down (CTRL+E)
4. Transform the layer using perspective and distort to get a felling of perspective.
5. Using your tool of choice, erase the top so it follows the folds of the satin.
6. Give the image a gradient blur to get the out-of-focus feeling.

Sadly, this is a very limited way of creating cloth but it might be still useful.

/Moltas

[Welles]

Thanks for the tip, Moltas it took me a while to find the satin texture as I haven't had it loaded in a long time and I save zillions of presets. I tried doing a patterned sample with that Satin pattern as a displacement map and I thought it only looked fairly convincing, not nearly as good as your plain satin with the distortion and distance blur added.

[mflintjer]

It's been a very long time since I have been able to get over here. I am partnered up with a couple of guys from England, and we run a WindowsXP Skinning and general Windows Forums.

I have to say that when I get a chance, I will be trying this challenge out.

My hats off to all of you for these. Truly works of art in a very difficult (more advanced) challenge.



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[mflintjer]

ok -- here's my attempt at this. i was trying for a red denim look -- but got this after about 2 hrs of work.

[sPECtre]

Stunning results , Tao, thanks for sharing!!!