Displacement tutorial inquiry for theKeeper

[Moth]

Hi Mark!

I was looking for displacement map tutorials through Google and came across a listing that showed a man coming through a wallpaper like background. The link was a photoshopgurus.info address but when I attempted to follow the link I received your "typewriter" error page. Will this tutorial be available in the future?

Fantastic effect by the way.

 

[theKeeper]

haha aaa... actually that's not mine, whatever it is. Probably a pic from one of the boards. Can you post the link so i can check it out?

 

[Moth]

Sure Mark no problem.

Here's the link.

http://www.pacificsites.com/~dglaser/art/PhotoShopTips/PSTipsSpec2D.htm

The one I'm talking about is number 9.

Here's the pic.

Weird thing is today I'm not being directed to your tutorials. When I click on it I download a pdf. But the pdf will not open. Needless to say it is now in my trash. Macs are not afraid of viruses but why take chances?

 

[Welles]

Moth,

I used the link you provided (that's a great index of displace tutorials) and a PDF downloaded directly into Safari. I then saved it to my hard drive. This is possible because of a plugin which is free for personal, non-commercial use.

I'm using OS10.3.4, Safari 1.2.2.

PDF Plugin...

http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/

 

[Rantin Al]

Wow! That guy has beeen busy. One for a good browse at leisure.
Nice to see that he rates PSG so highly.

Moth, I downloaded that tutorial (click and auto downloaded) and it is clean of viruses.

Welles, if you are intent on downloading to your hard-drive instead of viewing the pdf in the browser, use Control+click and select Save Selected file as:

It is a lot quicker that viewing the pdf via the browser.
Also, have you tried using the Preview app as a pdf viewer?
It is PDQ (fast)
Or is this all a lesson on egg-sucking?

Check out this PDFu doodah from If Then Software.
It lets you use a virtual printer to print out just about anything to pdf.
I use it all the time.

http://www.ifthensoft.com/index2.html


Cheers, Al.

 

[theKeeper]

Welles...

That's probably because i emailed Dale last night and told him about the broken file/link.

Plus... i explained that that tutorial is not mine and my name should be removed from it. :B

 

[Moth]

So I guess the question now is, whose tutorial is it? \:]

 

[theKeeper]

It says that at the very bottom of the PDF file Moth.
On the left side i believe.

 

[Moth]

Well, I just better download the pdf then.

 

[Moth]

Hmm. I downloaded the PDF but I get a damaged file error when I attempt to open it in acrobat reader. Is it working for every one else?

 

[theKeeper]

Ya don't download it Moth just click the link and let your browser open it. It works fine then. You can save it to disk after that.