DA Theme 025: It Looks Like Fabric

[Sonya]

Er, may I interrupt?

Age is only relative, and nobody looking at your art can possibly say you ladies are, ahem, senile (or even near it). About losing memory, well, less said the better for what I do with my work... And I don't qualify for Medicare for a long while yet!

Some pretty fabrics here. I have one too (well, I need a smiley for a little kid jumping up and down with excitement with hand in air) Would it be ok to post something done for another website's challenge, or do I need their permission first? (Seems to me I do).

[cat bounds]

Hi, Sonya. Of course you can join in the discussion. I've always been forgetful and a bit absent minded, but finally I can blame it on my age!! No, actually, when I was working, it's as if I had trained my brain to remember schedules and deadlines and important stuff, but when I stopped working, my brain said Woo Hoo! No more pleasing anybody but me (and occasionally my hubby)! And promptly went on indefinite leave of absence!

Would it be ok to post something done for another website's challenge, or do I need their permission first? (Seems to me I do).

Yes, please post it! We'd love to see it!

[phyllis stewart]

Dee Dee, what a beautiful fabric design! Pretty good for an old lady...lol! I need a few more years to get medicare, but at least I get my first SS check this month. Yay... the benefits of being an old lady!

[Swampy]

Congrats, Phyllis! Trust me, the governent will find a way to take some of it back. LOL

[Sonya]

Thanks Cat, now I can put the blame on you when someone complains about the lousy job!

Ok, here it is - from the post processing challenge at POTY a while back now (damn; I can't connect to the site just now - will post link to thread later.) I saved only the for-web version then, so what you see is what it is! I had to re-position some of the hills to get the effect I wanted, but I thought it sort of looked like painted on fabric - or maybe handmade paper.

[cat bounds]

from the post processing challenge at POTY

Do you mean Paint Outside the Frame? It does have a fabric feel to it, Sonya, and looks Japanese. Very pretty.

[Sonya]

Nope. Sorry, shouldn't have used the acronym. Its Photo-of-the-year. But for the life of me, I just can't find the challenge I participated in. Checked all my entries, and the forum, so either I didn't submit, or the site lost it in a recent glitch. The original photo is dated Jan06, but I can't find that either

And did I say thanks?

[cat bounds]

Hey, no problem. I was just curious. I'm glad we got to see this version of it.

[lylejk]

Found this cool tutorial for creating satin texture. I didn't follow all the steps precisely; I used DCSpecial's Nylon filter instead of the Angled brush technique for the fine lines. By the way, this texture is also seamless (it's what I do).

[cat bounds]

Hey, Lyle, thanks for the tutorial link. This looks sooo realistic. Well done!

(it's what I do).

Just keep doing what you do.

[lylejk]

Added some strategic noise created by Xero's Fuzzifier filter for the texture instead of DCSpecial's Nylon. Thanks for the comments too Cat.

[Tyeise]

That looks like smocking done on satin!

[cat bounds]

Yes, it is like smocked satin. My aunt used to make beautiful pillows that looked just like this.

[lylejk]

I've seen this type of satin pattern before; thanks to you all, I now know what style it is called.

[cat bounds]

I now know what style it is called.

It's a girl thing. We're born knowing this stuff!

[lylejk]

Found a cool effect using GIMP's Mosaic filter and the Grain Extract Layer property. With some bumpmap (and other) enhancements, really makes for a cool sewing machine stitch effect.

Edit {9/12/2007}.

Below is another example that I did as a response to a post on DPR's site (thanks to Peter S):



Image hosted free thanks to ImageShack (http://www.imageshack.us).

[lylejk]

Had another play at the Lace technique. This time, I set the darks to square and left the lights to be more complex to get this result. I also made the target seamless before starting the process. The reference image is a crop of this photo from the Free Photo Index.




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[cat bounds]

These are incredible, Lyle! I especially like your sig and this last one. It doesn't get any closer to real fabric than this.
(When folks follow your link to RTP, they'll need to log-in, in order to see the images.)

[lylejk]

Thanks Cat; and yes, I forgot to mention that.

[lylejk]

...out the sweater. Created this tileable texture using the plugin and tutorial from the link below (maybe Phyllis can add this to the treasures area since this site has some cool stuff and free too).

http://www.mondsichel-sternenstaub.de/b ... index.html

[cat bounds]

I would like a sweater out of that knitted fabric, please Thanks for the link, Lyle.

[phyllis stewart]

There is a way to make various fabrics by mixing three angled gradients, then repeatedly applying a filter... but I forget which filter...grrr... USM, surely, but I think there's another one involved. Will try to remember.

[lylejk]

Now that I have a decent Rope Brush, it didn't take much to make the outlines using it for this version of Lace (some may have remembered this fleur de lis pattern).



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[lylejk]

There is a way to make various fabrics by mixing three angled gradients, then repeatedly applying a filter... but I forget which filter...grrr... USM, surely, but I think there's another one involved. Will try to remember.

I think the website below is what you are thinking about Phyllis.

http://www.mondsichel-sternenstaub.de/b ... index.html

[phyllis stewart]

Nice link...thanks, Lyle. That's not the way I did it, but the results are varied and interesting.

[lylejk]

My latest Crochet project. Reference here.



Image hosted free thanks to Image Ox (http://www.imageox.com).

[Sonya]

Have said it elsewhere and saying it again - you are GOOD at this!

[phyllis stewart]

Lyle, what an amazing effect! What filters/plugins did this?

[lylejk]

Glad you liked the result Phyllis, and thanks again for your comments too Sonya. I used my GIH brush (smaller size) and used Amphisoft's Xylograph filter and stroked the edges with the brush. One of the few filter sets that I purchased, Amphisoft's filters are definitely worth the $18 (I believe that was what I paid for them) dollars. The trick was to re-introduce the color back which involved a combination of Saturation, Color and Hue layer properties to do (lot's of interaction unfortunately, so I really can't outline this step accurately).

[cat bounds]

Very cool needlework effect, Lyle.