Inside Damen 1 of 3
Thursday, December 14th, 2006 running time 13:20
Bert explains how his work of art, Damen, has over 15,000 layers and 500 alpha channels by focusing on the level of detail in just a part of the train at the station.
Bert has made his source files for this episode available here.
Highlights
Wacom
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1:27, 1:32, 1:27, 1:32
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space center
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7:56, 7:56
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clearer
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4:42, 4:42
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layers
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1:03, 1:59, 4:58, 5:14, 5:38, 5:47, 1:03, 1:59, 4:58, 5:14, 5:38, 5:47
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Wacom
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1:27, 1:32, 1:27, 1:32
)
space center
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7:56, 7:56
)
clearer
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4:42, 4:42
)
layers
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1:03, 1:59, 4:58, 5:14, 5:38, 5:47, 1:03, 1:59, 4:58, 5:14, 5:38, 5:47
)
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" Welcome to another edition it's the perfect would be there -- Show actually all kinds of weird tricks. -- out pixels abandonment with the men and do what you want them to do. Well I think what I've read a lot of you know some people are curious about it and called name. And does a lot of questions about how. There's some statements -- about 15000. Layers 500 alpha channels and things like that well -- explain all that stuff and show you some of about it. -- People want me to. Extended my explanations of its open next week shows this one next to. I'm gonna talk about this pain in the -- so how -- what I did and expand you'll be wise and so. Right so. First while I tell you that I'm actually working on a Wacom. In a -- one knows what is that thing you're working on -- tablet. It's a Wacom and T which is the habit that's built into this things actually worked directly me. Lot of advantages to that one it's where with -- the look at my hand is doing things. -- and oh here's a couple of cinema like it's up and that is something to that hand eye coordination. -- actually the connector and doing stuff. It really makes it easy. Now. -- want to think about it having 15000 layers you -- that not all in one file. There are many files that made up that -- go fifty. Actual files that make up that you've -- there's a whole bunch of sub files -- little pieces -- not that goes on the wall. And that wall is a file that kind of thing a lot of the files and what that a lot of the affair well. Effect next show. What about illustrator and how it played a important role in the great that this thing. Now on the screen here Wi fi opening. Now I want to keep in mind that dubbed. If we look at this let me go over here and there's little picture here of me standing next to the actual print you can see that it's really -- it's actually ten feet long. The actual dimensions -- forty inches on the site by a 120 inches on the link now it took me. A little less than eleven months to create. Or make it clear people say why anyway so -- time it that -- that I'm. Coming up my techniques and this is how I -- myself. This what I do McCain here and paint when I take a photograph. Not a part of a photographer. Painter. My joy is creating this stuff and result. It's not important not the picture itself it's the Internet. All the steps in between solving the problems that come up. That's what I do that show here is solve both problems where you'd never the end result it's always how I got there."
" And get it is. And I want to draw attention here to very bought small part of this painting and that is trying. Down here. Come in real close on it disputed the train there is and this is not the actual file. Back here I've got the actual while waiting for that's a file of the train itself now. The frame. Is made up of quite a few filed its own face which -- his second and aside. I only paid one side. Once that all the elements and then I duplicated at twice the the other two cars in those duplicates -- changed the dirt. Entities are reflections and the numbers and the other little things that make you are unique. One basic car broken up at the three cars warden will once does that make it look different. Now we get a real close here to this area right here you'll see that there is up. Members about it civilization. 'cause there's only 444 megabyte file final file is -- point seven gigabytes but it takes forever open so. Right here I have the actual files that need to zoom in on that same little area here and you'll see that this one is far clearer. Then the one that we're looking at. Back bit of getting closer to see that there's a lot more clarity in the actual file now. Looking at this file on here and a -- like that. Why their 15000 layers to show you layer Pallet to -- but this one file which is just the face are. Open up that -- and I've gone ahead and open up or sub. Groups to. So if I scroll through Pallet here mr. that there are a lot of layers and make up just the face of the train it. I had a few. -- I could feel like right here pretty for the door you have. Some that are very nice mainly of five but it one they had to win though in the bottom plate in the bottom please copy and handles in the shadow on the -- edged instead door frame. All these layers makeup people on them. I expect to get an idea of how there are 15000 is that just a rough guess there's a lot more why there is 15000 layers and now. This particular episode -- gotta do is concentrate on his window here. On the windows because that can be used for a lot of different things to say you create this cool little rocket ship and -- tonight the windows on it or a jet plane something. As well to do here it's just this little scene for you and show you what it's. Done to create the the effect that I have there. Bad thing about this now and will create a new file. And regularly do is I'm gonna start with might and cool. Pretty much always start my pencil and create them we have fait via the window objectives. I'd like a jet plane side window come over here and create this little shape it though. Year. Curve here. Up here in the curve and close it off. Curve and we can just to be in the path you can easily adjusted that's that we bring we've got up a little bit and bring this guy down. This over that about it at the beauty depends who you going there and make any adjustments that you want as -- basic fit. Well to do now is in later that put everything into a layer with the -- background is a color that's gonna make it easy to see things on top of that. This window. With the -- quote the window in fact will quote the class. What specific. And I turn that packed into a selection. -- Nice action and that's get some callers that is -- at that. You grade like that and for the background it's gonna really need gray almost black accessible gradient right here. -- right through there like that. I've -- now. Leave it select it and in another layer. On top of that I'm gonna put the little gas development rim around it at -- called -- And I'm gonna stroke that has been given a stroke that's pivot different -- go to. Grave somewhere between the two before. Go -- and say stroke. Edit stroke. And us space center. And it's a nice big stroke debate when he pixels now keep in mind that. That's setting is in pixels PX pixels. That's size is gonna be determined by the resolution of it. If you're looking at seventy PI twentieth debate about a third of an -- if during a 300 PPI mean -- then. He reminded all those settings and -- the pixels are basically dependent on the resolution of current. -- click okay it standard and is a little rip. Steve select. That's it that's all I need for basic shape of my window and my a glass. What's gonna make it pop out of the theme is a latest -- I'm gonna go into the latest now for the -- itself right here. And a -- drops data. And -- dropped Saturday appeared on edge here. And on the bottom and it's just a little more distance a little tiny bit of distance and bring down the past we've had -- will separate them here. And the theory here. And it also -- who action and federal in the last up above. Now I'm really make it look rounded and barber and given little Babylon bowl. We had that light source coming up above and we can also see in the class yet the light comes towards the top and darker towards the bottom we have -- light source above. Go in there and add that little rubble to an increased the debt. That's gonna make the -- and darts much stronger and that's offered up a little bit like that and then we -- we have this nice little fate. Back there now click okay let's just say we wanna know the panel here a little -- My background and I want to throw nice. Home back it in light of great. Like -- like that and maybe a light of greatness when. And opera that reflected gradient in the background. But the gradient right back there like that. Right now and the panel let's hold this window and place. I got my original path. And there attend the selection again and expand that 100. Span that's election."
" And it would expand its day some 25 pixels. It gave me a little panel outside there one bigger problem it's expanded Samoa. That's the beauty of this would have done it in tomorrow we're -- with the selection and expand a little more of the expanded another up another twenty pixel. About it it is nice big panel. Go back while there is there. Above it will say this is panel. So panel with a window is -- that I thought that's integrated into it. Ingredient that we created before there it slight nuance and toned down below no problem what's gonna happen -- it would really enhance that. Depression in the battle you might say with the windows and that by giving us a list. I go in here and give it that -- little battle on the boss they except. We'll play around instead so I'm going to have the light coming that the direction maternal my global lighting here. And but the like going from -- that -- that I that increased the size than that. And bring down the depth the little so it's not so strong and -- it up a little more. And click okay there we have to thank the panel that hard right now. -- No problem I can give that. Right. -- just to soften up that it was like god in -- to soften up that it a little bit right there like that click okay and now we have when. Now in the train there was a -- there no problem. And annual output in the air a reflection in my that is -- put two things inside of the ship be visible through there. And then reflections on top of that that. Really stuff to do next week. Get more complicated with the meaning and actually look at Adobe illustrator which is part of the creative suite got Photoshop suite illustrator. Well we enjoyed the show today. I think my sponsor godaddy.com. Will host your website. On the web site for you and if you. Use the code TE RP which happened in my name is it. No coincidence that. We'll give you an additional happens that this got -- and news service that you get from them that's going to go about that now all of the information. Thanks for watching remember played -- way to learn Photoshop C. If there's anything you want to see anything that has been bugging you have you can't figure out on your own. And Anemia that at the -- at revision3.com. We'll have to do on the show. And the Metafile then creating some files and his father shows you can also go to Revision 3 votes slash pixel perfect and you find files if -- use. Well got a good time."
" It's."
" Welcome to another edition it's the perfect would be there -- Show actually all kinds of weird tricks. -- out pixels abandonment with the men and do what you want them to do. Well I think what I've read a lot of you know some people are curious about it and called name. And does a lot of questions about how. There's some statements -- about 15000. Layers 500 alpha channels and things like that well -- explain all that stuff and show you some of about it. -- People want me to. Extended my explanations of its open next week shows this one next to. I'm gonna talk about this pain in the -- so how -- what I did and expand you'll be wise and so. Right so. First while I tell you that I'm actually working on a Wacom. In a -- one knows what is that thing you're working on -- tablet. It's a Wacom and T which is the habit that's built into this things actually worked directly me. Lot of advantages to that one it's where with -- the look at my hand is doing things. -- and oh here's a couple of cinema like it's up and that is something to that hand eye coordination. -- actually the connector and doing stuff. It really makes it easy. Now. -- want to think about it having 15000 layers you -- that not all in one file. There are many files that made up that -- go fifty. Actual files that make up that you've -- there's a whole bunch of sub files -- little pieces -- not that goes on the wall. And that wall is a file that kind of thing a lot of the files and what that a lot of the affair well. Effect next show. What about illustrator and how it played a important role in the great that this thing. Now on the screen here Wi fi opening. Now I want to keep in mind that dubbed. If we look at this let me go over here and there's little picture here of me standing next to the actual print you can see that it's really -- it's actually ten feet long. The actual dimensions -- forty inches on the site by a 120 inches on the link now it took me. A little less than eleven months to create. Or make it clear people say why anyway so -- time it that -- that I'm. Coming up my techniques and this is how I -- myself. This what I do McCain here and paint when I take a photograph. Not a part of a photographer. Painter. My joy is creating this stuff and result. It's not important not the picture itself it's the Internet. All the steps in between solving the problems that come up. That's what I do that show here is solve both problems where you'd never the end result it's always how I got there."
" And get it is. And I want to draw attention here to very bought small part of this painting and that is trying. Down here. Come in real close on it disputed the train there is and this is not the actual file. Back here I've got the actual while waiting for that's a file of the train itself now. The frame. Is made up of quite a few filed its own face which -- his second and aside. I only paid one side. Once that all the elements and then I duplicated at twice the the other two cars in those duplicates -- changed the dirt. Entities are reflections and the numbers and the other little things that make you are unique. One basic car broken up at the three cars warden will once does that make it look different. Now we get a real close here to this area right here you'll see that there is up. Members about it civilization. 'cause there's only 444 megabyte file final file is -- point seven gigabytes but it takes forever open so. Right here I have the actual files that need to zoom in on that same little area here and you'll see that this one is far clearer. Then the one that we're looking at. Back bit of getting closer to see that there's a lot more clarity in the actual file now. Looking at this file on here and a -- like that. Why their 15000 layers to show you layer Pallet to -- but this one file which is just the face are. Open up that -- and I've gone ahead and open up or sub. Groups to. So if I scroll through Pallet here mr. that there are a lot of layers and make up just the face of the train it. I had a few. -- I could feel like right here pretty for the door you have. Some that are very nice mainly of five but it one they had to win though in the bottom plate in the bottom please copy and handles in the shadow on the -- edged instead door frame. All these layers makeup people on them. I expect to get an idea of how there are 15000 is that just a rough guess there's a lot more why there is 15000 layers and now. This particular episode -- gotta do is concentrate on his window here. On the windows because that can be used for a lot of different things to say you create this cool little rocket ship and -- tonight the windows on it or a jet plane something. As well to do here it's just this little scene for you and show you what it's. Done to create the the effect that I have there. Bad thing about this now and will create a new file. And regularly do is I'm gonna start with might and cool. Pretty much always start my pencil and create them we have fait via the window objectives. I'd like a jet plane side window come over here and create this little shape it though. Year. Curve here. Up here in the curve and close it off. Curve and we can just to be in the path you can easily adjusted that's that we bring we've got up a little bit and bring this guy down. This over that about it at the beauty depends who you going there and make any adjustments that you want as -- basic fit. Well to do now is in later that put everything into a layer with the -- background is a color that's gonna make it easy to see things on top of that. This window. With the -- quote the window in fact will quote the class. What specific. And I turn that packed into a selection. -- Nice action and that's get some callers that is -- at that. You grade like that and for the background it's gonna really need gray almost black accessible gradient right here. -- right through there like that. I've -- now. Leave it select it and in another layer. On top of that I'm gonna put the little gas development rim around it at -- called -- And I'm gonna stroke that has been given a stroke that's pivot different -- go to. Grave somewhere between the two before. Go -- and say stroke. Edit stroke. And us space center. And it's a nice big stroke debate when he pixels now keep in mind that. That's setting is in pixels PX pixels. That's size is gonna be determined by the resolution of it. If you're looking at seventy PI twentieth debate about a third of an -- if during a 300 PPI mean -- then. He reminded all those settings and -- the pixels are basically dependent on the resolution of current. -- click okay it standard and is a little rip. Steve select. That's it that's all I need for basic shape of my window and my a glass. What's gonna make it pop out of the theme is a latest -- I'm gonna go into the latest now for the -- itself right here. And a -- drops data. And -- dropped Saturday appeared on edge here. And on the bottom and it's just a little more distance a little tiny bit of distance and bring down the past we've had -- will separate them here. And the theory here. And it also -- who action and federal in the last up above. Now I'm really make it look rounded and barber and given little Babylon bowl. We had that light source coming up above and we can also see in the class yet the light comes towards the top and darker towards the bottom we have -- light source above. Go in there and add that little rubble to an increased the debt. That's gonna make the -- and darts much stronger and that's offered up a little bit like that and then we -- we have this nice little fate. Back there now click okay let's just say we wanna know the panel here a little -- My background and I want to throw nice. Home back it in light of great. Like -- like that and maybe a light of greatness when. And opera that reflected gradient in the background. But the gradient right back there like that. Right now and the panel let's hold this window and place. I got my original path. And there attend the selection again and expand that 100. Span that's election."
" And it would expand its day some 25 pixels. It gave me a little panel outside there one bigger problem it's expanded Samoa. That's the beauty of this would have done it in tomorrow we're -- with the selection and expand a little more of the expanded another up another twenty pixel. About it it is nice big panel. Go back while there is there. Above it will say this is panel. So panel with a window is -- that I thought that's integrated into it. Ingredient that we created before there it slight nuance and toned down below no problem what's gonna happen -- it would really enhance that. Depression in the battle you might say with the windows and that by giving us a list. I go in here and give it that -- little battle on the boss they except. We'll play around instead so I'm going to have the light coming that the direction maternal my global lighting here. And but the like going from -- that -- that I that increased the size than that. And bring down the depth the little so it's not so strong and -- it up a little more. And click okay there we have to thank the panel that hard right now. -- No problem I can give that. Right. -- just to soften up that it was like god in -- to soften up that it a little bit right there like that click okay and now we have when. Now in the train there was a -- there no problem. And annual output in the air a reflection in my that is -- put two things inside of the ship be visible through there. And then reflections on top of that that. Really stuff to do next week. Get more complicated with the meaning and actually look at Adobe illustrator which is part of the creative suite got Photoshop suite illustrator. Well we enjoyed the show today. I think my sponsor godaddy.com. Will host your website. On the web site for you and if you. Use the code TE RP which happened in my name is it. No coincidence that. We'll give you an additional happens that this got -- and news service that you get from them that's going to go about that now all of the information. Thanks for watching remember played -- way to learn Photoshop C. If there's anything you want to see anything that has been bugging you have you can't figure out on your own. And Anemia that at the -- at revision3.com. We'll have to do on the show. And the Metafile then creating some files and his father shows you can also go to Revision 3 votes slash pixel perfect and you find files if -- use. Well got a good time."











