Diva's Smudging Tutorial

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Diva's Smudging Tutorial
Topic Started: Jan 9 2008, 01:37 PM (147 Views)
Diva	Jan 9 2008, 01:37 PM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 82 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jan 6, 2008	Smudging Tutorial You'll need: 1) A smudgeable C4D 2) A pattern 3) A layer full of your cropped stock 4) The Vines tool 5) A gradient map 1) Get out a blank canvas. Any color will do. I set mine on white at 400x150, but you can have yours any way you want. Now, get out your Layers, Patterns, Brushes, Gradients, a C4D, and your cropped stock. 2) Resize your C4D to about the width of your canvas. Now, copy it, then paste it to the clipboard. Get out your 'Move' tool, and move your C4D where it looks good. Layer to Image size it, and paste it to a new layer. Hide the layer for now. This is the C4D I used: 3) Now duplicate your blank canvas, and pick a pattern from your Patterns dialog. I'm using Chocolate Swirl. Fill the layer with your pattern, and name your layer after the pattern you chose. Hide this layer for now. This is the pattern I used: 4) Now copy your cropped stock to the clipboard, and move it where it suits you. Layer to Image size it, and paste it to a new layer. Now, duplicate this layer about five times, and move each duplicate so it's right next to the original, and each other. You should have six of your cropped stock on one layer. Layer to Image size each, then merge them down to a single cropped stock layer with six cropped stocks. Hide this layer for now. This is the 'render' layer I used. Notice the six Diao Chan's? 5) Now we can do some smudging. Un-hide your C4D layer, and get out your Vines brush from the Brush dialog. Set the spacing to one so you get sort of a watery effect, and hit 'S' to activate the smudge tool. Smudge your C4D until you can't see a trace of it, and leave that layer alone. Next, un-hide your pattern layer and smudge in the same way. Set the layer to a mode that looks good to you--I set mine on Grain Extract at full opacity. Finally, un-hide your cropped stock layer, and smudge in the same way as the last two. Set the layer to a mode that looks good to you--I chose Grain Merge at 80% opacity. Go ahead and merge these layers down to a single smudging layer. This is the C4D smudging layer, this is the pattern smudging layer, this is the 'render' smudging layer, and this is the layer I got after merging all of them. 6) Now it's time to give this some coloring. Duplicate the merged smudge layer, and go back to your cropped stock. Pick two colors from it using the Color Picker tool (activate it by hitting 'O' on your keyboard). Set one as the foreground and one as the background. Now get out your Gradient dialog, and select the FG to BG (RGB) gradient. Run this gradient on the duplicated layer. Now set this layer on a light mode that looks right to you. I set mine on Addition on about full opacity. This is the gradient map I used, and how it came out: And there you have it. A tutorial for smudging. This isn't meant to create a new image, but is more likely to be a guide for the purpose of smudging. You can do your smudging in any way that you want, even add or subtract things that you either want or don't want.



Viral Labs	Jan 19 2008, 01:39 AM Post #2
Posts: 35 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: Jan 18, 2008	For practicing smudging, this is a great tutorial. But I don't like the monotone look of the outcome, the previous step's was more appealing to me.
Posts: 35 Group: Members Member #3 Joined: Jan 18, 2008


Jason	Jan 20 2008, 09:57 AM Post #3
Posts: 18 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: Jan 20, 2008	wow smudgetastic. Results looks pretty cool.
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Diva	Jan 20 2008, 10:40 AM Post #4
Administrator Posts: 82 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jan 6, 2008	Thanks. If you decide to try it, you can follow some steps of my tutorial, and go your own way in others. You may find that your result might look better than mine.



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