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Post by Lillias on Aug 3, 2024 15:07:21 GMT
I came across this tutorial (linked below) done using Affinity Photo.
Creating a 3D Letter with a popout image.
It certainly exercised the old grey cells but eventually I got through it. A giraffe was used in the tutorial but I used a gazelle just to be different. The image came from Pixabay as did the background image.
I’m not sure whether the reflection looks right so if anyone has any advice to give I’m all ears...lol. Font used is called ‘bebas_neue’ and I got it from dafont.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv1bHOpOOgY  |
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Post by hmca on Aug 3, 2024 15:42:20 GMT
Great job with that, Lillias! I think I had actually tried a similar tut awhile back but wasn't pleased with my results.
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Post by Lillias on Aug 3, 2024 18:25:53 GMT
Great job with that, Lillias! I think I had actually tried a similar tut awhile back but wasn't pleased with my results. Thank you Helen. I might try it again in a while when I have recovered from this one! |
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Post by tourerjim on Aug 5, 2024 17:22:35 GMT
yep I agree as well, great job, maybe experiment with a shadowed G to the right connecting your bottom shadow to it.
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Post by Lillias on Aug 5, 2024 18:10:00 GMT
maybe experiment with a shadowed G to the right connecting your bottom shadow to it. Thanks for your suggestion but I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly. When you talk about a shadowed G to the right - are you talking about a shadow to the top image or the bottom reflected image? |
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Post by tourerjim on Aug 5, 2024 18:22:28 GMT
yes I thinking with the top one and then move your shadow wee bit back and to the right to join both shadows, I can kinda picture how it would work and shadows do make effective 3D, should make it pop out even more.
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Post by tourerjim on Aug 5, 2024 18:31:50 GMT
Also you could use a Layer to draw horizon guide line and move it up/down between the two, this may help you to workout where best to align your shadows
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Post by Lillias on Aug 5, 2024 18:52:50 GMT
Thanks Jim. I will have a play and experiment and see how it goes. I agree with you that shadows do make effective 3D - I like shadows and I know that when done correctly they can make a big difference to our scrapbook pages too.
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Post by tourerjim on Aug 5, 2024 19:05:26 GMT
Look forward to seeing your results, Lillias
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Post by Lillias on Aug 5, 2024 20:18:09 GMT
Looking online at examples of shadows on 3D objects shows a variety of ways of doing this depending on the 3D object itself. Anyway ignoring the reflection for the moment I have tried two different shadows. Which one, if any, is the sort of thing you are thinking of Jim. I am using Affinity Photo for this and I am not as used to the shadow properties in it yet as I am to PSE. That’s my excuse anyway! Oh and I don’t think I have managed to connect the bottom shadow to it properly. It is what it is as they say.  |
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Post by tourerjim on Aug 6, 2024 20:04:27 GMT
Hi Lillias, yea I only ever work with PSE, your 1st one if you can in Affinity follow PSE for Layer Style, Drop Shadow that might work better for that one, 2nd one is more to what I was suggesting, maybe if you align as my sample to bring your faded G and the shadow aligned this would also give your background a horizonal floor effect as well.  |
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Post by Lillias on Aug 7, 2024 9:24:24 GMT
Hi Lillias, yea I only ever work with PSE, your 1st one if you can in Affinity follow PSE for Layer Style, Drop Shadow that might work better for that one, 2nd one is more to what I was suggesting, maybe if you align as my sample to bring your faded G and the shadow aligned this would also give your background a horizonal floor effect as well. For this 3D effect I’m not so keen personally on my first example with the idea of a drop shadow. I much prefer the shadow effect in my second example. I think it accentuates the 3D effect much better. I did that one in a bit of a hurry and having looked at it again I realise that I omitted to create a proper shading effect on the shadow to make it more realistic. I will remember that in future. I appreciate your comments Jim and your suggestion on how to align the shadow with the reflection. Not something I would have thought of myself but I can see how that would work. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts, all food for thought for future projects. |
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Post by mart44 on Aug 10, 2024 13:32:22 GMT
A different methodology but maybe still applies. I found reflections looked better if they went straight down. If an object has a reflection, would there still be a drop shadow? Perhaps it's an either/or situation?  Edit: Looking at example 2, a drop shadow could still be there. |
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Post by mart44 on Aug 10, 2024 15:40:20 GMT
Just did this one that has a reflection and a bit of a shadow. Not sure how successful it looks though..  |
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Post by Lillias on Aug 10, 2024 16:02:09 GMT
Thank you mart44 for your much appreciated comments. I started this intent on following the tut in the link I provided. My main interest being in creating the 3D letter and the pop out effect. The reflection and shadow ideas were just incidental really. I thought the small elliptical shadow under the letter looked a bit peculiar and as regards the reflection, I have since noticed in the comments below the video someone point out exactly what you have re the angle of the reflection. And interestingly enough the originator of the video came back in and agreed with the comment saying he thinks he got confused with adding some sort of perspective shadow and said thanks for the constructive feedback which I thought was very nice of him. I think as to whether I would ever use a reflection and a shadow together would very much be dictated by circumstances! I think your second image shows how both can work together just fine. At any rate it looks fine to me... |
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