Yahara River 11-17-2009 5-34-05 PM Modified 2

Yahara River 11-17-2009 5-34-05 PM Modified 2
Originally uploaded by Katie M 459

This was interesting. This was an accident.

Here's what happened.

I opened the original in GIMP to fix the signs, which were far too conspicuous. So I did that (created a couple of duplicates, cut out everything but one sign in one duplicate, cut out everything but the other sign in the other, merged them, and lowered the saturation and brightness, then merged back down to one layer).

Then, I couldn't leave well enough alone. :)

Duplicated the layer again.

Created a new white layer underneath, filled with plasma. In duplicated layer, did bump map with the plasma, depth of 1. Deleted the plasma.

In duplicated layer, did lighting and effects. Did bump map with itself, and made it backlit (Z is negative) from afar (distance is high), with an intensity of 100%. Made the material slightly glowing, slightly bright, but not shiny or very polished.

Applied the map, and I got a black image with white highlights around all the edges. Looked very cool.

Reduced the opacity of the layer to see the layer underneath.

In layer underneath, went into Hue/Saturation, and increased the saturation and brightness of the layer a little.

Saved.

Very interesting. Think I might do it again sometime. :)

Here's the original: