Effect in PS CC 17 Who can tell me how to get this effect in PS, please?

[louisav89976763]

[Mylenium]

This is not an effect, this is a semi-transparent 3D mesh obscuring itself with an incidence based shader, thus giving different opacities where it overlaps. If you were to re-create it in PS, obviously trying to re-create it with a 3D mesh and a texture might work. Otherwise you can of course emulate it with tons of semi-transparent layers stacked on each other, otehr apps like Flamepianter or the Corel ParticleShop plug-in. Even some stuff from the parametric fills section liek the flames might get you there.

Mylenium

[Juan Muro]

Además de con las técnicas 3D que ha explicado Mylenium, este tipo de fondos pueden realizarse de manera sencilla en Photoshop aplicando filtros de desenfoque sobre manchas y deformando dichas manchas desenfocadas.

Para ello primero seleccionamos una mancha en una capa:

Luego aplicamos un filtro de desenfoque:

Por ultimo deformamos la imagen resultante:

Duplicando esta capa o repitiendo el proceso en otras capas y jugando con sus transparencias se consigue el efecto deseado en pocos pasos.

Buena suerte!

[louisav89976763]

Thank you so much. Going to try it.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Hi Louise

It's always nice to make this sort of effect yourself, rather than downloading smoke or abstract brushes.  This was done with a custom bush that took me less than a minute to make.

Make a new layer, and run a black to white gradient down the screen

Select a vertical strip about 5 pixels wide, and delete the rest (Invert select and hit delete)

Gaussian blur the thin gradient with a value of about 5

Add a small black dot to the top of the line.

Go Edit > Define Brush preset Call it something like Veil or Curtain.

OK, select the brush tool, which should have your new preset.

In the Brush presets panel set spacing to 1%

Under Shape Dynamics set Angle Jitter to Direction

Under Scattering, se the Count to 2 (to make the line denser)

Under Transfer set Opacity Jitter to Pen Pressure

OK, set the brush opacity to about 60%, and lay down some lines.

If you want to make the effect brighter, duplicate the layer and set to Screen.

You might like to look at this old thread

Re: Corel ParticalShop — Brush plugin for Photoshop

[louisav89976763]

Thank you so so much, Trevor for such a good, explanatory tutorial.  going to try it immediately.

[louisav89976763]

Please don't laugh, this is wat I ended up with, lol!

[Trevor.Dennis]

To make the brush preset you need to be on a new layer, and set the gradient to Linear in the options bar

Select a thin column like below.  Mabe a bit thinner than this.  An easy way to go from there is to copy the selection to a new layer (Ctrl j - Cmd j).  I have turned off the gradient layer for the sake of clarity.

Give the line a small Gaussian blur

I've added a trick now, by setting the eraser to 50% and painting over the line to reduce its opacity.  Then paint a small black dot at the top of the line.  This gives nice edge effect when painting.

Edit > Define Brush Preset, and give it the settings I mentioned back up the thread.

The lines on the right were done after setting the brush angle to 90°. 

Experiment with all the jitter, dynamics and presets.  You can't break anything, and you'll discover all sorts of effects.

100% Foreground background color jitter on the left, and 100% Hue jitter on the right.  It's a lot of fun.

[louisav89976763]

Thank you so much for the time you spend to help me.  I'm making progress, whoohoo!  thank you, thank you!

[louisav89976763]

Got it, now i can start playing with it, Thanks !