Convincing cloth challenge...

[Welles]

My attention was captured recently by a question about creating convincing cloth for a background. A little experimentation and I ended up with the image below.

It was really very easy. The first layer had the pattern which I just made with a pattern overlay in Styles. The top layer was made with a dark grey/white gradient set to Difference and run several times in short segments.

Once the gradient layer was to taste, I copied that layer and created a new image into which my gradient layer was pasted for a displacement map and saved. Then I ran the displace filter on my pattern layer and finally changed the blend mode of the gradient layer to multiply.

So the challenge is to make a convincing cloth/material background. Extra credit for silk. Extra-extra credit for crushed silk.

[Moth]

Here's a try at crumpled cotton cloth. I used a similar technique as Welles.[/b]

[Welles]

Moth,

That looks very 3D because of the strength of the red/blue image. Unfortunately the strength of the pattern has also tended to overwhelm the crumple effect, on my monitor anyway.

[Moth]

I know what you mean. I was going for a patiche (spelling?) look but it came out far more intense than I intended. You can see the crumpled look by the distortion of the pattern but the shading can't compete with the colors. I'll submit another attempt in a day or so. Right now I am so wiped from my job and a bout of common cold that I can't hardly think straight. \:]

[TaoBoogie]

I did this a while back and had almost forgotten it until I read this thread Welles. Thanks for reminding of it I have precious little computer time at present so I will just post "on the run" as it were untill I have a bit more time.

I used a similar method as you and Moth.[/img]

[Moth]

Oooh good one. I think I remember thiis piece. A how to do curtains thread, right?

[Welles]

Nice job, TaoBoogie! I'm glad you remembered it.

Speaking of yin yang, which we weren't, I've been toying with a program called Xara3D 6. The absolute master of this program, Mike Sims, used it to create a yin yang animation and then went bonkers...

http://talkgraphics.com/eve/ubb.x/a/...8/m/6841098311

[TaoBoogie]

Yup, you got it Moth, that was about a year ago I think. I really like that Yin Yang animation Welles I've seen that before somewhere but did not know how they did it, thanks for the link.

[Moltas]

I've been trying to do some realistic cloth images and this is what I can contribute with:

(no use of displacement maps)
Cloth in perspective


Cloth on a golden ring


/Moltas

[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. )