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Dynamic Layers / Liquid Metal Pt 2




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What we are going to do in this particular lesson is we're going to paint a characters reflection. So what I'm gonna do to set that up is I'm going to use liquid metal to paint an open image as well a placed image. So let's go ahead and place our character first of all into our document. I'll put him right there then I'll move him. I'm also going to scale him up just a little bit. And I'll go ahead and right click and commit that transform. And now what I want to do is I want to open this as well, so I'm gonna go to file, open, because I want to use this as a clone source. So I'm gonna go to open and I'm gonna open this guy in his own document and we're gonna go to file, clone source and we're gonna choose hammy. And this file is available for you on the CD as well as download. So this has been set up as the source, so our liquid metal will use this picture to paint. So we're gonna go back to this document and we're going to add our liquid metal layer. As you see it's above the picture. And all we have to do now is choose the map which is going to be the clone source which is our picture. Ok. So we've established that the clone source is our other image, now we can paint our picture. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to just paint along the edge like this, I'll just move this down a little bit. As you see we already have a reflection of this character and to change this around all we have to do is play around with the size of that and the amount. And as you'll see when we use the amount slider it will change the direction that the reflection goes in so this way his head matches his head here. But if we go all the way in the opposite direction the amount will flip the image forward which is very cool. And once again we can smooth that out a little bit, we can increase the size some more and now we have a big drop, a reflective drop. We can change the vine of that drop and we can also change the refraction. So if we want to have it very, very shiny, you can do that. But if you want to make believe he's looking into a lake or something like that then you want to increase of a fraction so you can see less and less of the image and see more of the other one. So that looks kind of cool. And what we have here we can make believe that he is looking into a globe of some kind. Now I'll go ahead and click OK and now we have this liquid metal floater, it's a very cool effect.

Tutorial Information

Course: Corel Painter IX
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33688
ISBN: 1-933736-15-1
Release Date: 2006-03-31
Duration: 8 hrs / 129 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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