Bubble wrap

[Hacker]

I was playing around with Photoshop this morning and tried to re-create an image I saw a few months ago, I can't remember where I saw it or what the technique was.

I had some old images of smoke from an incense stick and I combined three of them together, made a circular selection and inverted the image to give a negative effect, used the Filter > Spherize tool twice on the circle and made a new layer via a copy. Then a new background, added a gradient, copied in the 'bubble' and made a shadow (this needs some more work I think).

What do you think?

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f273/HackerUK/Bubble-wrap.jpg

[h.r.ford]

WOW makes my head hurt just thinking about it. I think it is very cool!

[Gandhi]

I'm not sure it needs more refining, looks good as it is!

[Grendel]

:agree: Looks pretty good to me as it is Colin :thumbs: Very nice work

[Janice]

Looks good to me too, Colin..........but Im just wondering if your day job is demanding enough!! :D :lol:

[dod]

that's taken a lot of work and came up with a really good result, good stuff :)

[minimeeze]

Wow! I love it - very arty

[Dark Star]

Colin - superb image!

I'm envious of your PS skills mate :thumbs: !!!

Way beyond me :D

[Hacker]

Thanks for all the comments, amazing what you can do when bored and wake up early!

Looks good to me too, Colin..........but Im just wondering if your day job is demanding enough!! :D :lol:

Believe me it is! This is my escape from corporate drudge. :D

that's taken a lot of work....

It didn't take as long as I thought, about 20-25 minutes in total once I had worked out roughly what I was going to do, the hardest part was working out how to make the bubble, making a gradient (something I haven't done before) and the shadow took longest of all which IMO still doesn't look right.

How would you guys make the shadow? The way I did it was to make an elliptical selection, feathered by about 50 pixels, copied to another layer, inverted so it was dark and the played with the opacity, I'm sure there must be other, easier ways of doing it which give a more realistic result.

[busterboy]

I wish I had some ideas like this Colin, Superb mate really nice..:clap:

[photostar_1]

Excellent Colin and I think I know where you saw it........one of the photo mags showed a chaps work last year, and it was this kind of thing.