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Author:  Synariel [ August 29th, 2005, 8:38 pm ]
Post subject:  These affects*
There are a few things that I've been wondering how to do, and
I've tried to figure it out on my but, to not avail.

One is what I cal "The soft light" affect.
Like in this avvy by Arwen here: Image

And then there's the "blur" affect like in this:

And then there's this one I've been wanting to do forever-Streams of light:
Author:  Elanor [ August 30th, 2005, 2:36 am ]
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What program are you using?
Author:  Ororuthiel [ August 30th, 2005, 7:26 am ]
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I know how to do all of them, Syn, but Elanor asked the question for me: ^
Author:  Synariel [ August 30th, 2005, 12:12 pm ]
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Yeah. I forgot to put that. I was going to edit the post yesterday
but my internet wasn't be cooperative.

Anyway, I use PS7. :)

And what I mean to say before was the "streaky" blur affect that
doesn't totally ruin your pic. I've tried using motion blur on my pictures
to give them the affect, but it always ends up over bluring...:Z
Author:  Ororuthiel [ August 30th, 2005, 1:10 pm ]
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what's that 'blur effect' that you said?

But the 'soft light' is:

1. Open your image
2. Go to Layer>>Duplicate Layer...
3. Go to Filter>>Blur>>Gaussian Blur... and set the radius to 3.0
4. And on your layers palette, where it says 'Normal', click the arrow and go to 'Overlay'.
5. If it's too strong, lower the opacity a little :)

The 'streaked light' effect is the same as above, but using 'Motion Blur...' instead of 'Gaussian Blur...', and set the radius to about 25.

Hope that helped :D
Author:  Elanor [ August 30th, 2005, 1:27 pm ]
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^ I usually use "soft light" instead of overlay but I'll need to try that :)
Author:  Ororuthiel [ August 30th, 2005, 1:39 pm ]
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^ or, as Elanor rightly says, you can use 'soft light' too :D I'll have to try that Elanor :D
Author:  Synariel [ August 30th, 2005, 1:56 pm ]
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The blur affect...like, Kinda like in this banner that I found on the old forum:
http://tinypic.com/bfnxjl.gif

Only so it doesn't blur the characters faces so much, and looks
more...neat, I guess.
Author:  Gilraen Ringeril [ August 30th, 2005, 7:27 pm ]
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well, for that, on my program at least, just merge all your layers, duplicate that layer. put a motion blur on it (however blurred you want it). then erase the blurred layer where you want it to look 'neat' and maybe lower the opacity of the blurred layer a bit. :) hope this helps! there's a full tutorial on www.magicbox.ti-fi.com ;)
Author:  Arwen the webmaster [ August 31st, 2005, 1:07 am ]
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The soft light I used in that avvy was actually the diffuse glow effect. I'm not sure how to do it with PS though, since I used Photo Impact for it.
Author:  Maetharanel [ August 31st, 2005, 1:27 pm ]
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With PS, just go to Filters, Distort, then Diffuse Glow, and play with the settings 'till you get something you like :) On the side of your screen there are two little squares of color, the bottom one is the color your glow will be. So if it's... say... bright purple, then your pic will be bright purple-y.
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