- Don't ABUSE eyecandy, stay away from
fire, inner bevel blows.
- Make a selection, do a linear gradient,
contract the selection, do another linear gradient, and it looks 3d,
sort of.
- For plastic looking balls, do the sphere
gradient in a circular selection, then add highlights with the brush
angle stretched, and then apply a gaussian blur.
- Save every selection, even the ones
you don't think you need.
- If you save a selection, then load
the selection, render a lightsource with that selection channel turned
on, you get a 3d/lighted effect.
- Less is more.
- Eyecandy glass is apparently useful,
sin and faust use it all the time. i can't get the damn thing to work.
it does metal and whatnot.
- Eyecandy cutout can make selections
looked raised and not cheesy.
- If a filter looks bad in normal mode,
try it in quickmask, go back to normal and play with the brightness.
- To get the edge of a unaliased picture
to look better, select the outside of it with the magic wand, contract
it, then blur it.
- If you expand a selection by 16, then
contract it by 16, it isn't the same, its a little changed. Save every
selection.
- Take a basic shape as a selection, go
to quickmask, load the quickmask selection, do a eyecandy glow, unselect,
filter->pixelate->color halftone.
- If you think something looks wierd,
get a second opinion, after you stare at the same image for 2 hours,
everything looks bad.
- Kai's power tools is a pretty useless
set of filters. The only group of good plugin filters is eyecandy, and
it has some low points.
- Layer effects, although they seem lame,
can be pretty handy.
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