Shimmer freebie & Tutorial

 

you can download the freebie here

http://www.4shared.com/file/34232914/9afc7c02/shimer_set.html?dirPwdVerified=2c88277c

 

would you like to know how to make these well ok here is another one of my quick tuts shimmer 101 lol

as you can see from my pack you can add shimmer to anything pretty much.

so you really don't need filters

ok first make image or have an image you want to shimmer open

must be a plain un textured area like the blank middle of a metal heart or maybe a solid colored sticker of a flower.

 

 click blank middle of heart layers new raster layer then choose solid color for background that you wish for shimmer 

select a light gradient not a multi colored although that would be your choice the light single colors do better.

( you can also make a gradient by putting a solid color  foreground and a lighter of same color or white in back ground, then go to gradient in foreground and  find gradient called foreground)

you can angle gradient anyway you wish I use it with no angle  or at 90 degree angle.

repeats 0  fill your image with gradient.

now lets add some noise for that shimmer effect with image still selected you can ither use a filter or you can go to your adjust ad remove noise then ad noise  use 50 or lower uniform selected! Or you can use a filter I use filters unlimited 2 -noise and fool with settings until I find something I like this is not a science do to image size image area and so on..

but you will get a good result and with practice a great result so now your area has noise.

for heart I want a clear effect so I make sure the shimmer layer is selected and lower opacity to oh about 50 percent and done merge layers and save as png

for sticker you want a new layer over solid area select solid section then click layers new raster layer fill with gradient complete the same way

as above

glassy and plastic I select pre made item add new layer and do the same

you can also make a texture and save, like great ones are stain glass then add your noise and flood fill objects i use in my blend mose some times instead of normal color shimmering  is alot of fun to play with try different settings and different stuff that suits you i also added a bit of very light noise to the heart frame made it shine a bit

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