Volcanic Background
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a volcanic background as the preview below shows:
1 :
Start out by creating a 500 x 500 pixels document.
2 :
Set Foreground color to #000000
Set Background color to #E35412
3:
Now Go to Filter > Render > Clouds, Apply this filter 5 times by clicking Ctrl+F. Now you should have something like this:
4:
Now go to Filter >Artistic > Watercolor. Apply these settings:
Now you should have something like this
5:
Now go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome. Apply these settings:
Now you should have something like this
6:
Click Ctrl+U to choose colors
Now go to Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap
7 : Final Result
July 14th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
A few comments:
- how many times you render clouds is a matter of personal preference/finding something you think will look good. I’ve never been able to tell any difference in rendering clouds on a transparent layer vs a solid fill layer vs a clouds-rendered layer vs etc.
-On the other hand, I did something like this:
–Render clouds
–Render clouds again
–Fade “render clouds” (ctrl+shift+f, or it’s on the edit menu), choose color dodge as the blending mode
–watercolor
–chrome, fade chrome with mode color dodge
–plastic wrap, fade plastic wrap with linear dodge or color dodge
For people who don’t know about it, playing with the Fade option is a good way to get interesting effects. (It’s similar to doing an effect on a different layer and then setting the blending mode and opacity or fill on the layer, but you can do it with filters whose output actually depends on the layer they’re performed on.)
July 14th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
this is an awesome tutorial thanks
July 15th, 2007 at 6:38 am
hmm, i don’t find it realistic….
July 15th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
If you don’t hit the colorize,spot you blew it.