I'm trying to implement some effects in C++ for my user interface controls. I've figured out that Photoshop Layer Styles uses an anti-aliased form of the Euclidean Distance Transform for "Precise" techniques (Inner Glow and Outer Glow).
But what is the method used for the "Softer" technique for Outer Glow and Inner Glow? It seems this is also used for the "Smooth" technique when computing the height map for Bevel and Emboss.
I want to put an outer glow round the policeman. I've been trying but I must be missing one important step. I can get a glow or shadow rounf the whole square frame ...... but I want it just around the figure.
I've tried uploading the image here .... but it keeps tellin me that my photo (which is only 45kb) and is called McFadden.jpg is not a valid file type. The photo is a plain white background with an image cut out of a policeman on it. I want to put the glow around the policeman.
I'm trying to make a thin outline around my text. I read that outer glow is the feature to use but I cant seem to make it work. Is outer glow the way to make outlines or is there a different way?
View 2 Replies View RelatedAt layer style on my text i can add outer glow, but not black or too dark colours, why?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have a logo with a white background. i want to "lift" the logo from the background so i can add an outer glow to just the logo.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want is to be able to Add some text to this logo.."CHAT!" at the end of SwankPets and add an outer glow to this text. However, the "layer style" option is always grayed out. I tried doing it on a separte file and then copy and pasting, but the Paste option gets grayed out too!
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to take the outer glow from a layer and use it with my layer mask to achieve a glow effect. This is what I have:
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I need the white outer glow to be used in the layer mask to appear as a gradient (glow effect). How do I achieve this?
I am in the process of creating a flier and I am running into a problem with my type. In my head line I am attempting to use an outter glow but when I do I get a choppy distortion on my letters. It isn't all that aparent when I look at it in photoshop but when I export it to a pdf you can tell and it is really obvious when I print it. There has be no noise added to any of the effects applied to the type. In fact the only other effect applied to the type is a gradient overlay.
I am using photoshop cs6 on a mac running 10.6.8
Are the light rays made using outer glow around invisible lines? If not how can I make the white light rays like that in photoshop or illustrator?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI used an outer glow layer style to make a curvy gradient but it fades towards the edges of the canvas. Is there any way to get rid of the fade short of making the style larger than I need and then cropping it, or is there a better way to make a gradient like this?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am currently working on a wallpaper and I have run into a bit of a road block. I was hoping someone here might be able to lend a helping hand or perhaps offer some tips as to how I might jump this hurdle.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhat I mean by "Holy Grail" is that intense outer glow of crosses in religious illustrations but that looks natural in photographs. I am looking for technique, filter or third party plug in.
I have product photos to create this type of outer glow but I also want it to look natural.
I am looking for a fast, easy and adjustable way to do this -- if at all possible.
I have this picture, and I would like to put a outer-glow outside the pic, how do I do that?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to make a neat planet image for some hobby stuff I'm working on. I have an image (2048x1024) as a texture (from the program Fractal Terrains). I can render it into 3D using Shape3D (AWESOME plugin, btw).
Now I'm trying to add the inner and outer glow on the planet. I guess I'm not well enough versed in PDN to follow it exactly... my results aren't getting me where I want to be (yet, I know it works because others are praising the author).
Anyhow, here's the link to the original Glow tutorial. Here's an example of the type of effect I'm looking for -- the purplish halo around the planet.
I am using Illustrator CS5. I am trying to put an outer glow on text that I have done the 'create outlines' to. My settings are Normal color is white opacity is 90% and blur is 10mm. I hit OK and nothing shows up. If I change the color I use then I get the glow. The thing is I need the white glow. Can I not use white or am I missing something else?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI applied an outer glow to my objects in illustrator but it just won't display.
I've hit some kind of hotkey that turns raster effects off or something, but I dont even know where to start looking. I've used glows in the past and its always a bit wonky but now it just wont do anything.
I've been using spot colors, but have tried it without to no effect, and I run windows 8. I want to apply it to the compound shape hammer time, I thought maybe it was not working because of the compound shape so I tried getting rid of my inside shapes, but its not really changing.
I did just notice that there is a weird haze around the top hammer time on this image, but ONLY if you turn your head and look at the monitor from a strange angle can you really see it. So it might just be that I screwed up my glow settings here.
I'm trying to get the glow to be very strong for about half an inch and the fade out.
Since upgrading the AI CC (17.0.0), when applying an outer glow effect to objects, the effect sometimes expands its appearance involuntarily after saving and closing the file. The outcome is similar to selecting "expand appearance" from the Object menu.
When the saved file is reopened, the outer glow effect has become is its own object, grouped with the original shape. You can no longer adjust the effect in the Appearance panel.
I'm created a photo of an alien boy being beamed down to someone's house in a cone of bright white light from a flying saucer, and I tried to use the "layer style" to create the glowing light effect in this cone of bright light - but somehow I'm not getting the "glow" effect that I got before. I'm stumped as to what I'm doing wrong/not doing right to produce the glow effect. In other words, the outer/inner glow effect no longer works. Can anyone please help me?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow can you create an outline fade in Corel Draw like the outer glow in Photoshop? where the outline fades out.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI just need to be able to have the glow or shadow around the object, but no fill or stroke at all.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhat I mean by "Holy Grail" is that intense outer glow of crosses in religious illustrations but that looks natural in photographs. I am looking for technique, filter or third party plug in.
I have product photos to create this type of outer glow but I also want it to look natural.
I am looking for a fast, easy and adjustable way to do this -- if at all possible.
Clone tool, in that when I clone (let's say grass as example), the new cloned area does NOT come out as sharp as the area selected. It comes out much softer and somewhat blurred. I have the opacity and flow both set at 100%. This is very frustrating since I can not get a true clone.
View 5 Replies View Related1. find the attached “Rays on Oval.png” file. (Tried attaching .cdr file but the File Size is 400KB.)
2. I would like to Repeat / Duplicate that Black Color on Outer Path of Oval Shape. (Like shown in the Yellow versus Black. The Yellow is a Circle and the Black is from Star Tool)
3. I think the Best Bet would be to Link the Rays to the Outer Path of Oval Shape.
4. I need the Rays and Oval as 2 Different Objects so that I could Change the Color Scheme.
I created some shape with line tool and added extrude modifier to it. After being converted to editable poly I want edges to be slightly softer. But turbo smooth creates a big mess. Swift loop won't work. Is it because sides are single polygons? Is there an easy way to add edges inside them?
View 3 Replies View Related9.0 CS2, but it is not so important, because the questions are fundamental.
Gradient Overlay
1. Look at the gradient settings scale. Why gradient isn't stopped at the second opacity stop and go on till the edge of the settings scale? After all, following the logic it’s the opacity stop and the gradient filling have to be stopped at it. That is to say If the logic of gradient algorithm is next. Filling begins from the left edge of the settings scale and stops at the first opacity stop(this filling is initiated by first markers). Then it continues since first markers and stops at the second opacity stop(this filling is initiated by second markers). But in practice filling continues since second markers also, though there is no third markers which initiate it.
2. Why second markers are necessary(they can’t be deleted)? I can suggest if second markers would be deleted and the first would be moved to position of the second, we would got the same gradient preview. Of course if the filling begins from the left edge and is initiated by the markers as I wrote above.
3. User color – you can set fixed color, which you can choose for the future in a dialog window. The window can be called via click to the pointer near the color icon.
When I click the pointer I see only one window where are three text items – foreground, background, user color. All is clear about foreground and background, they are set in two squares in the tools palette. When I choose “user color” there is no any window is appeared which have to contains at least current user color icon, color picker window, and buttons that allow to tune and apply user color: “set as user color sample” for picked color, “use user color sample as user color”. So how I can tune and choose user color?
Gradient:
4. I use gradient tool from tools palette. I spent it since canvas top edge till guide line. What is the gist of spending it for a specific distance? Why the color of first color stop fills the space till the guide line changing and stops at some light blue. And then monotonically fills with it all distance from guide line till canvas bottom and have no any opacity changes at bottom. Although it have to have some opacity changes because them present in the end of gradient settings scale.
I read an interesting technical article today about the development of JPEGmini algorithm, that supposedly will provide lossless compression, and can be read by any current software that reads a jpeg file. THe article is rather technical, but that is good, as it sounds like a real deal rather than a magic concept. Give it a read and post your comments on JPEGmini. URL....
Here is a couple of excerpts:
Q: How does the JPEGmini algorithm work?
A: The algorithms we have developed, on which we have filed 14 patent applications, simulate the human visual system. Our technology analyzes each specific photo, and determines the maximum amount of compression that can be applied to the photo without creating any visual artifacts. In this way, the system compresses each photo to the maximum extent possible without hurting the perceived quality of the photo.
Q: How much compression does JPEGmini enable?
A: Our technology can reduce the file size of photos by a factor of up to 5x without hurting their quality. The amount of compression that our algorithms apply varies from photo to photo as mentioned above, but you can estimate the average amount of compression according to the photo resolution, as described in the following table:
Photo Resolution Average File Size Reduction Using JPEGmini 8MP and more70 – 80%5-7MP60 – 75%3 MP50 – 60%2 MP30-50%1024×76825 – 35%800×60020 – 25%640×480 or less10 – 20%
I was wondering if anyone was familiar with algorithm used to Color Balance.
I'm interested in automating a process which includes Desaturating and then Color Balancing.
I solved the Desaturation (take the highest number of R G B, divide by 2, apply to R G B values of pixle.)
I am curious to know how a pixle would be modified by say, +100 Blue in Lows/Mids/Highs
I usually use feature to bring details out from shadows. I worked very well for me but it seems the way the function works was changed in Photoshop CC,
For example, shadows sliders always made dark areas brighter before but in CC the areas often become darker instead (like in attached picture, decreasing radius doesn't make it brighter). Explanation of mechanism behind the new Shadow / Highlights function.
How to write an algorithm for triangulation in surface modelling ( using Delaunay's method) ?.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI think circle after reduce using mask should stay circle instead of you can get in photopaint.
Steps:
1. make 10px circle
2. make mask from it
3. reduce mask by 3px
4. crop object to mask
system configuration:
Win 7 Pro 64bit, Intel i5-2500, 8 GB RAM, 128 SSD SAMSUNG + 2TB on hard drives.
corel version:
X6 VERSION: 16.4.0.1280
I'm thinking about switching to the DNG-Format for the RAW-Files taken with the Fuji X-E1.
When the initial RAW-Conversion for this file type was recently replaced by a much better one, my RAW-Files were automatically updated. I wonder if this would also have happened if I had saved my RAWs under the DNG-format.
Or, in other words, does a DNG include all the data from the original RAW allowing it to be reprocessed when a better technology is available ?