Re: Effect question
At 23:13 24/7/00 BST, paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attached a small image, with two dots on it. Does anyone know how I'd be able to show one dot curving in, and one curving out? I often find that I can't understand people's questions like this, because there is not enough information. I am not trying to berate you here, but I would like to encourage people to provide more details, metaphors or half-baked attempts at what they are trying to do, when they ask how-to questions. Otherwise, the question gets misinterpreted six ways by the people who even bothered trying to understand it, and the asker only gets the answer they were looking for a week later. When you say "curving in" and "curving out", do you mean "in and out of the page" (i.e appearing like a crater next to a mound)? Or do you mean "one having a dent facing the other, and the other having a protruberance facing it"? Or is there some other meaning altogether? If you are looking for a crater and a mound, I suspect a bit of fiddling with bumpmaps would do the trick. I had a very brief (and not expert) go at it - see the attached file. Presumably you actually want a more curved appearance than this. You will probably need to put some spherical gradients in the areas you want raised and lowered. Someone more experienced with the bumpmap filter could probably give you a step-by-step example, if this is what you are trying to do. Regards, Ian bump_eg.png
Re: editing layer's mask
no, I am saying that when I applied the mask, the only way I can modify Alpha values is using leves or curves, seleccting "Alpha" on the pop-up menu and then modifying _only_ alpha values of the layer. But its a pain in the ass doing it this way. Hi, Open the "Layers, Channels Paths" dialog. This is where you probably added the layer mask in the first place. Notice the two icons next to each other? Also notice that one of them has a white border? When you activate the layer mask by clicking on it, it gets the border. Now you can paint (using black and white) in your picture, and the mask changes. This seeing-the-results-directly-while-editing is often nicer that having to edit the mask seperately, but it would be nice if the latter was available anyway. Also, it is not very handy that the colors don't automatically change to black/white while editing a mask. But using the palette dialog helps. In many cases the results get better (depending on what you want with the mask) when you "paint incrementally" by setting the brush opacity to less then 100%. Cheers, -- Victor
Re: Effect question
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:37:23 +1000, Ian Boreham said: - Otherwise, the question gets misinterpreted six ways by the people who even - bothered trying to understand it, and the asker only gets the answer they - were looking for a week later. - - When you say "curving in" and "curving out", do you mean "in and out of the - page" (i.e appearing like a crater next to a mound)? Sorry for the lack of details there. A crater next to a mound is what I'm after. I'll mess about with bump mapping later, and see what I can do. Thanks for your help.
