- Walls :
- Sources :
- Capsule Corp :
- Fireball :
- PacMan Tee :
- Tycho's Tee :
- Magic 8Ball :
- Matrix Hack :
- Deathrace 2000 :
- Others :
Magic 8-Ball
Another wall based on a Penny Arcade. This one is of the mysterious magic 8Ball...
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Starting with a black background, I selected a 550 x 550 circle.
Holding the shift-key down will make the elipse select tool stay a circle.
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Next, I stroke the selection with grey (#707070) 10.5 pixels wide.
This will be the rim around the glass window in the 8ball.
A gradient or bevel could be done to make it look more 3D, but I stuck with grey.
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For the floating dice thingie, I start making a triangle from path points.
Here's my attempt at an equilateral triangle.
It's not even close to centered, I'll do that bit later.
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With the triangle points down, I select from path...
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... and fill with a nice blue (#1104C5).
To make the edges look smoother I stroke the selection 1 pixel.
I used black to stroke, as it looked a bit too large.
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Now I needed to center the triangle in the circle.
I selected the blue with the magic wand tool and grew the selection by around 10 pixels.
Then I floated the selection and moved it to my best guess of the center.
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To make the triangle look like it's floating in murky mystery goo, I want a nice black gradient coming in from the edges.
With the foreground color black, I used the 'FG to Transparent' gradient.
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After making a new layer I started making the goo.
Using the gradient tool set to radial at 90% opacity, I selected the start outside the triangle and ended the gradient near the center.
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All three radial gradients on a new layer.
with them on a seperate layer you can redo them as needed to get a look you like.
I then set the layer transparency to about 90% to add to the murky look.
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Now for the awe inspiring text.
A white sans serif font, with center alignment.
To make it look more realistic, you could add an inner bevel to the text to make it appear sunken.
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Lastly we need to get it all centered.
I selected the grey ring and grew it's selection by 10 pixels.
Next, it's cropped and the canvas size enlarged to it's final size, 1280 x 1024.
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The final wall.