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Illustrator: How to create realistic reflective gold surface?
I am naming these chapters starting with V as the second part of this post.
The first part has renders of 3D models, the second half of the post has vector based images.
Chapter V. Illustration
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Cinema 4D setting up a 3 point lighting system for whole scene
You have it wrong... 3 Light setup is for photos in a studio. You do not have that outside.
On this planet, at least, we have one Sun.
And the light it casts bounces all over the place illuminating ...
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How do I create this lighting overlay in Photoshop?
I think I'd use Layer > New adjustment layer > Curves or Layer > New adjustment layer > Levels with a Layer mask.
Start with black and white image with the trees or what ever.
Black ...
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Emulating global 3D light on a functional web page
The only ways to do this are to:
Use "actual" 3D rendering (like WebGL) for the UI which isn't usually recommended for UI because it's harder to make UIs with just WebGL, especially making ...
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How can I color grade like Liam Wong's Tokyo Night series?
Layer above image, filled with 100% blue, Blending Mode set to Color.
Layer above blue, filled with 100% Magenta, Blending Mode set to Color. -- Add Layer mask to hide portions of magenta color.
The ...
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How do you find right plane/perspective to place a product on a photo?
Match what's there in most instances and whenever possible.
The light is stationary, therefore all object should cast the same angle shadow. The closer together objects are, the similar the shadow ...
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How do I create this lighting overlay in Photoshop?
Ok....but what did you try? what are your starting files?
There are many ways of doing this but since you are eager to use Blending modes, here you go:
have a tree or whatever without a background
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Illustrator: How to create realistic reflective gold surface?
Look at images of real gold! I mean sure you can try to solve this issue with plain thinking. But truth is, gold has a very special reflective behavior.
The trick to gold is that its reflection is ...
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Lighting setup for C4D
To me they both look like classic low-key setups.
The upper image has a two light setup with a low-intensity key that's basically white behind the subjects and quite low (probably a luminous poly ...
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How can I color grade like Liam Wong's Tokyo Night series?
I am sure there are many ways to do this, but this method gives a somewhat similar effect, and isn't too complicated.
Open an image in Photoshop and click Image > Mode > Lab colour
Add a new Colour ...
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Illustrator: How to create realistic reflective gold surface?
For me.. Gold has always been about using the proper palette for colors and then layering gradients on top of each other.
Too often people see "gold" as being strictly yellow when in reality the ore ...
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What are the mechanics of "bounce" light? How does it work?
The first and most basic concept of light you should know is:
Direct light vs Diffuse or soft light. You probably already know it on source lights, I will describe it because is the same concept.
You ...
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Repeat a bokeh light pattern the most naturally in Photoshop
You could try using Content-Aware Fill.
Make a selection of the area you want to fill.
I've just used the Quick Selection Tool to make a very crude selection. The more you refine this selection, ...
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How do I acheive this monochrom type of lighting in photoshop?
This is more basic experimentation than anything....
It's possible to start with a photo and remove color (desaturate) and boost contrast (levels) then use a number of different filters to achieve the ...
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Can you please identifiy the direction of light in this photo?
I think the light come from behind the camera, on the right and a little low, but there is probably a mountain casting a soft shadow over all the foreground. (the shadow stop on the hill behind the ...
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How to create 3d metallic man in inkscape?
Although you could recreate something like this in Inkscape manually, I think it would be better to use 3D modelling software such as Blender. I strongly suspect that is how the original was made.
If ...
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How to draw and manage complex shapes separately from their different shadow types in vector graphics?
In 2D drawings all textures which have some thickness must be redrawn for different watching directions and light conditions. Only flat textures and single colors can be adapted easily - I mean to ...
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How to manuallly create glossy/metallic lightning effect on object?
So, since you have the metal texture on a lot of your image, it's going to be difficult (and probably not desirable) to get a "plasticy" gloss on your figure.
However I can recommend a couple of ...
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Illustrator: How to create realistic reflective gold surface?
I will try to keep this as simple as I can.
I. Watch references. This alone will give you a quick answer if you watch carefully.
II. Seek wisdom on my related posts :o)
Prototype Visualization: How ...
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What aspects of this scene can be changed to improve it?
My initial thought isn't really enough to constitute a full answer, so I apologise for the brevity, but here it is anyway:
The most obvious thing to me is the lack of shadows cast by the furniture on ...
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How to do a glossy air bubble effect with Illustrator
It's merely a gradient using transparency on the color stops.
Set all the color stops to the same color (white in this case) and then adjust their transparency.
Sidebar: While possibly not ...
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How can i create following lighting effect in Adobe Illustrator?
Using Gradients or a Gradient Mesh....
Transparency is used in the Gradient color stop, or the Gradient Mesh anchor points.
To promote the "light" aspect a bit more, you could also add a secondary ...
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How to create light cone and haze effect
Tried a few things. So far the best result I have is by using the focus blur plugin (independent plugin or the one in the GMIC collection) on a vertical rod:
For the bottom, circle selection filled ...
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