Quote (swordhunter4ever @ Sun, Mar 30 2008, 06:10pm)

Tutorial is nice... but its very sketchy.
A new user would never understand how to make scan lines/pattern overlays or how to turn a brush into a clipping mask.
HoweverfFor those who know photoshop pretty well or inside and out this is a decent tutorial.

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This is a semi-advanced tutorial, I'd say. It has some terms and techniques that some less advanced people might not know. Definitely not for beginners.

Quote (SeXyJeBuS @ Wed, Apr 9 2008, 11:01pm)

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii44/SexyJeBuS/kratoscopy.png

that's my (terrible) outcome after the first few steps. pretty sure i'm doing something wrong. i have it on clipping masks and all that jazz, so it's not that.

also, at the beginning it's pretty confusing. you say to duplicate it twice, but then you say "now select the third third duplicate layer, and smudge it again." I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that. I just assumed that i should (assuming i just smudged the 2nd layer), smudge the first layer out of 3, leaving the original render layer (the 3rd) on top. Also, it says "smudge it again". was i supposed to have already smudged this layer? zZz

Quote (Napkin @ Thu, Apr 10 2008, 04:09am)

Heh yeah I think you are doing something wrong .
Do you have the gradient maps set on soft light?
Also what I mean by smudge the third duplicate layer, is that you've duplicated the first layer twice so you have three and so you smudge the third one which is a duplicate .

Quote (SeXyJeBuS @ Thu, Apr 10 2008, 06:45pm)

thx for clearing that up. no, all of the layers were set on normal, as i thought that's what you said, i must have missed the "set to soft light" part zZz.

Quote (Napkin @ Thu, Apr 10 2008, 11:16am)

Well my computer isn't loading large images atm, so I can't check, but I don't think it actually said that in there I thought it was generally understood to have gradient maps on other blending modes though which is probably why I left it out at the time ;P.