New to photoshop. ice.

[??m.w]

I made this random broken sheet ice effect, well I like it. Let me know what you lot think :} I have a small tutorial for it if anyone is interested. Well here goes.

 

[Welles]

Welcome to the forums, ??m.w. That's a very nice effect and I, for one, would like to see how you accomplished. It would make great 'rotten' ice on a flowing water, too!

 

[??m.w]

Photoshop tutorial: Ice.

Make a new canvas: Width 1071 pixels
Height 1259 Pixels
Resolution 59.055 pixels\cm.

Mode RGB colour
White background

Select colours #0600FC as the foreground and #00EAFF as the background.

Filer > Render > Clouds. Then press Ctrl+F a few times
Filter > Render > Difference Clouds. Now you will have a murky looking black and green mess. But Don?t worry.

Filter > Brush strokes > sumi-e.
Stroke width 12
Stroke Pressure 2
Contrast 16

Filter > Sketch > Bas Relief.
Detail 13
Smoothness 3
Light direction Bottom
And there you go. Hope this is easy to follow adn useful aswell. Welles what do you mean "rotten" ice. I was going to try a few streams of running water/droplets going down the picture but I don't know how to. ;\ Hope you like. Also added 2 more variations.

 

[MsOz]

what a great, easy to do Tut! Kudos!

 

[Tron]

If you are looking to do water drops on it check out this tute

http://www.photoshopgurus.info/intermediate/rain-drops.shtml

 

[Welles]

That's a fun effect, ??m.w. Thank you! Rotten ice is a term used to describe the state of an ice pack on water when it is becoming dangerous to traverse and block ice is no longer cut. What happens is that the structure of the ice becomes more like a honeycomb crystalline structure which is filled with water, rather than being solidly frozen. This occurs during the spring thaw and the danger is that the ice still looks solid but is quite fragile, ready to break up. During the day, often there will be a thin layer of liquid water on top of the degrading ice pack with little crystals of ice floating in/on it. Your effect reminded me of that circumstance. Beware of black ice and rotten ice!

 

[sPECtre]

An alternate to greg/Mark's raindrop tuts is this excellent tutorial by Phil the Rodent http://www.dreamweavercafe.com/cafe/viewthread.php?tid=16574

Too bad the images links are broken, as the raindrops are hyperrealistic. The only "problem" is that, unlike the other tut that uses styles, the effect is not dynamic, but I repeat myself stunning by its realism!

 

[??m.w]

Thankyou Welles, It is true, you learn something new everyday! And thankyou sPECtre for the link, I'll add some rain on..someday.

 

[Moltas]

I am not sure that this line makes any sense:
Filer > Render > Clouds. Then press Ctrl+F a few times

When you render clouds it does a complete render and the underlying image doesn't effect the result...or am I wrong?

/Moltas

 

[??m.w]

Filer > Render > Clouds. Then press Ctrl+F a few times

: Is just to get a pattern of cloud formation you like or find interesting, bigger dark areas produce a completly different effect where as lots of small dark areas produce yet again a different outcome. Also I don't think you need to add the difference clouds render, just makes another different outcome. Hope that clears myself up [oops]

 

[sPECtre]

sub-tip: remember that pressing alt while yo click on the clouds filter increases its contrast...