Archive for November 12th, 2005

Night Vision Filter Effect In Photoshop
Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ November 12th, 2005
Night Watch tutorial
Open whatever image you like to use for this night vision filter. I suggest you to use a high resolution image, 1024×768 or greater. This filter is good for planes, helicopters, cars or human targets :) This is the image I used, 1024×768.
Set your foreground color to #124e14 or around (a dark green will do) and you background color to a lighter green (not too light, let’s say 39780a).
With these colors set, go to Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern and in the dialogue that will appear, set these numbers: size:1, contrast:0, pattern type: line. After that, your image should look like this:
Go to Filters>Noise>Add noise to render the scene more realistic. Those in photography business will know what I’m referring to. In the pop-up dialogue set the amount to 5-10, Uniform, monochromatic. Hit OK.
Now Hit D key to revert the colors to default, black foreground and white background. Now make a new layer and, with radial gradient black to white, make a gradient like in the example and than put it in the overlay blending mode.
Your image should look like this:
We could stop here, but let’s make a hood also. Make a new layer. Using the rectangle marquee tool, make a selection of what size you want the hood. Fill it with white, than go to Select>Modify>contract with 2 pixels, than hit “delete”.
Your image should look like this:
Also with the rectangle marquee, make the target, filled with white also. Put the layer in overlay blending mode. This is the final result.

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Creating A Chrome Text Effect In Photoshop
Filed under Photoshop Tutorials - Head Nerd @ November 12th, 2005
Chrome text effect
Make a new document 1000×1000 with black background.
Using the text tool, write whatever you want with white color (I am using “photoshop” for this tutorial) with Arial black 100 pt. Right click on it and choos “Rasterize type”
select a dark gray (#2f2f2f) for your foreground color and a light gray (#b9b9b9) for your background.Keeping the CTRL key (Command key on Mac) and clicking on the text layer, you’ll have the selection of the text. Select the gradient tool (Linear, fore to background) and drag from the top to the bottom of the image. By keeping the SHIFT key pressed, you’ll
constrain it to 90 degrees.
Your image should look like this:
Double click on the text layer to bring up the Layer style dialogue. Choose “Bevel and Emboss”, check it and Set the Depth to 200%.
Your text will look like in the example:
Now we want to remove the layer style, but we want to keep the bevel (Merge the effect into the
layer).We do this by adding a new layer and dragging it directly underneath the layer with the effect. Now select the “text” layer thumbnail and press Ctrl+E (Cmd+E on Macintosh). This merges the selected layer with the one directly under it and “renders all effects”
Go to Filters>Artistic>Plastic wrap and apply these values: Highlight strenght: 20, Detail: 13 and Smoothness: 8. Remember, these values are relative, you can play with them until you reach the wanted effect.
Go to Image>Adjustments>Curves to “build” the chrome. Make the curve as in the example.
Repeat the same settings 2-3 times, by holding down the Alt key (Option key on Mac) as you open the dialog box Image>Adjust>Curves. This is your chrome effect.
You can proceed further with imagination, by colorizing it. Hit CTRL+U (Command+U on Mac) to bring the Hue/Saturation dialogue and play with values as I did.

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