Challenge 266 at PSPIZ


A Script for PSP8
If you would like to try out the scipt that I used in this challenge to form an unusual ball/globe, you can download it here.  Be sure to save it to your "Scripts-Restricted" folder.
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Be sure when you run the script that you:  
1] start with a 500w by 400h transparent canvas,
2] completely fill the canvas with "color"....don't have any empty areas where the transparent background is showing through. This will ensure a complete circle for your finished image. Use lots of colors on your canvas or use a photo,
3] merge "visible" your layers before starting the script.  You can't run the script from a "background" layer...it must be a raster layer.

This was the first script that I made, and so it will not be your imagination if it appears to undo and then redo several steps.  Just go ahead and click "ok" to every box that comes up.  At the end of the script, if you like the blue shadow on the globe, merge it.  If not, just delete it. Or you could change the shadow's color.

See Script 2 below if you want this without the shine and final shadow.

 Above is the winning image for
week 266 at PSPIZ.  To the left is the challenge image that we were to start with.  I put this challenge piece on two layers of a 500 by 400 canvas.  I stretched the lower layer to fill the canvas.  Then I merged the layers and ran a script that I had made previously. [See script to right.]  The script ends with the image as a globe with shiney areas. [On this one I believe that I rotated the globe 90 degrees and ran the script a second time,  but without doubling up on the shine.]  I opened up the deformation and mesh warp tools and shaped the globe into the paper weight that you see in the final image above. Using the deformation tool, I placed the image of an old deed under the weight.  Added shadow and reflection under the weight.

Balls/Globes done with Script1:


If you want to try this without the shine or the shadow,
download Script2.  Follow the same intructions as those for Script1 above.
I used a modified photograph to make this one.
 


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