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It's been a while since I've made a post, but, I found out something really cool. I copied a picture of my dad's flamed up truck, and put it into Microsoft Word. I was working on my English project, when on accident, I highlighted the photo. The colors became inverted, and the "Orange" flames, turned to "Blue" flames. Just like on the color chart, blue is opposite to orange, red to green, black to white, and yellow to purple. So, here are the results of what happened...
The original:
The result:
We were planning on painting my car black, and do blue flames on it, but now, I kind of like the way it looks with white; the reverse of my dad's truck. The dragon looks good either way.
Because of this "accident" of mine, me and dad are talking about "the elements..." We've seen fire, ice and lightning, and now we're thinking of ways to paint the effects of wind and other elements.
Gump
[ September 21, 2005, 09:45 PM: Message edited by: James Rheaume ]
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looks good both ways Gump, think ying/yang or fire vs. ice, put the silver surfer in them blue flames... the colder the better to balance your dads oh so hot ride! See ya friday! we be jammin'
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Great Gump! I had a nice black backgrounded fire file that another letterhead sent me & I did an inverse on mine in photoshop... & of course, I got the same great look on white!
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Oh sure...encorage him! Now I gotta figure out how to make ice with paint!!!! Do you have any idea how..diffi...hmmm...you know if I...
Okay, I'll let it go this time, but you guys say anyhing to him about spacial anomolies and extradinensional travel and I'll haul YOUR butts up here and YOU can paint his car! Rapid
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Keep that creative thinking going- it'll get you a long way!
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or .... what if you had half the car black and half white (maybe rip effect down middle) Blue flames one side regular on other ... "kinda" like the Sabbath bloody Sabbath album.
"spacial anomolies and extradinensional travel" there, I said it
now haul my butt down there to help ... that would be a blast
I need more coffee hehe
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In Photoshop, if you go to image_adjustment_Hue/Saturation you can pull the hue slide bar left and right and it will give you the whole spectrum of color combos. If you select just the truck or just the flames it will adjust the hue just on that object. This will really give you some options.
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Ya know, you can cover the top pic and focus on the bottom one for about 45 seconds, close your eyes and see the top one. Is that useless or what!!
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Mark reminded me of something I've been thinking about for awhile: A ripped looking line right down the middle of the vehicle, with very nice but more conservative graphics on one side, and flipped out, cut loose graphics on the other, which of course, would be called "the wild side".
And speaking of extradimensional, I think we tend to regard the side of a vehicle as something to put graphics 'across', rather than 'into'. I need a digital camera right about now.
I had a plan to paint my little truck, but had to wait 'till I could get the bux to have the windshield sealed. So I decided to get artistic with the primer. Went to several stores, bought all the different 'colors' of spray primer. Some lighter, some darker, some warmer or cooler.
I then decided to see what 'urban camoflage' would look like. Streets, sidewalks, corners of buildings all done in greys, flat black and white. Two point perspective streets go 'into the side of the vehicle, a VERY different look. I havn't gotten much positive feedback, but sometimes you've got to go with what you like. And like it I do. It could be quite awhile before I get around to a gloss 'real' paint job.
Besides, this stuff sands really easy, and it makes my truck into a chalkboard of sorts. Drive around with one graphic for a week, sand and change it. It's over an old paint job, so rust isn't an issue.
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I'm not trying to boast, but thought I ought to put this here too: it's another variation on the flames idea- flames + remnants of an explosion in the air, the pic is pinched from the photoshop tricks thread of Michael Bendell's. The idea of the combination of both types of flames I came up with when teaching our kids a bit & showing them how to flame their own names.
For a really brief step by step, from memory, I did this: open the house pic. take a selection of the roofline & sky, mostly using the polygonal lasso tool. Ctrl-shift-J to copy it to a new layer, & alt-backspace to fill it with black, which is hopefully the foreground colour. Edit transform rotate 90 deg CCW. Filter>stylise>wind> blast from the right. Ctrl-F twice more to reapply that filter, then Edit>transform>rotate 90 deg CW to get it back. Filter>blur>gaussian blur about 3 pixels. Image>adjust hue & saturation. Colourise. Hue to yellow (about 40 on the slider). saturation to 100%. Lighten it a tad if it doesn't look very yellow. Lighten a tad more if needed.
Duplicate that layer just above the previous one & set layer blending mode to "Dodge" in the layers palette. Then Ctrl-E to merge the two layers together. Readjust lightness before that if needed.
Use the smudge tool in the tool menu box on the screen left (under the blur tool) experiment with brush size & softness & brush squiggles upwards till you're happy.
I think I then made a new blank layer on top of everything & ctrl-shift-alt-E to merge layers & copy to the new layer & leave originals where they were.
The next step was the explosion background in the air. Make a new layer & select the top half from house ground upwards with a rectangle selection tool. Filter>render>clouds. Then Filter>render>difference clouds. The ctrl-F to reapply the difference clouds filter about 15 more times, roughly. Then Ctrl-u to get ajjust hue & saturation. Colourise check box needs checking, & drag the slider to make the cloudy bang orangey. increase saturation if wanted. Then filter>render (I think)>lighting effects. From here I drew a swelled oval shape with most light from bottom centre, going up, soft light. (I can't remember which option lighting effects is in, but it's there, even in Pshp 5.5 & 6.)
Then drag this layer below the merged house & fire layer, & alter the top layer's blending mode from Normal to whatever works. It may have been multiply. That's in the upper left of the layers pallette. The explosion will look behind & above the flames then.
Then go down to the original house file layer & trace around it or pinch the roof selection & invert it & subtract from it, so you have a house selection. Type D, then Ctrl-backspace , to make it black. the Filter>blur>gaussian blur to fuzz it & adjust hue & sat to lighten it a tad. Then Ctrl-T & drag the top handle down to flip it upside down, & reposition it below the house doors. It needs to be on the top layer now.
Lastly pick a bit of a yellow colour (or sage!) & with the airbrush, lightened opacity, paint a bit of a faint glow along the roofline.
Hope that helps. It's pretty quick when you've done it a few times, and sorry if I forgot a step or two. That was from memory. It's variable anyway.
Good luck!
PS select the house & darken it a tad too,(cause it's night time) and also paint the yellow glow aound the sides & front, outside the shadow, with a big soft faint brush.
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