Help with a background

"(a)" wrote in message

I was hoping someone might be able to direct me or provide me with a step

by

step tutorial on how to create the background image at
http://www.geocities.com/cshelp2002/

I believe it is a combination scan line with gradient, but my attempts at reproducing it have not been successful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jason

It can be done manually (!) in less time than it would take to explain how to do it. What were your attempts to reproduce it?

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12/7/03 9:44 PM:

I was hoping someone might be able to direct me or provide me with a step by step tutorial on how to create the background image at
http://www.geocities.com/cshelp2002/

I believe it is a combination scan line with gradient, but my attempts at reproducing it have not been successful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jason

http://www.geocities.com/cshelp2002/bg.jpg

Look at what the background really is… and see if you can do it.

I went to this site and got a pop up add – offering to check my system for security!!!!!!!!!
anyone else get this?
Harry
"(a)" wrote in message

I was hoping someone might be able to direct me or provide me with a step

by

step tutorial on how to create the background image at
http://www.geocities.com/cshelp2002/

I believe it is a combination scan line with gradient, but my attempts at reproducing it have not been successful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jason

That’s a "feature" of having a geocities link… 😉

"Harry Limey" wrote in message

I went to this site and got a pop up add – offering to check my system for security!!!!!!!!!
anyone else get this?
Harry
"(a)" wrote in message

I was hoping someone might be able to direct me or provide me with a

step

by

step tutorial on how to create the background image at
http://www.geocities.com/cshelp2002/

I believe it is a combination scan line with gradient, but my attempts

at

reproducing it have not been successful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jason

Look at what the background really is… and see if you can do it.

I downloaded the bg …. and am working on it …. First I created the solid bg using the gradient tool on each vertical half of the image ….now working on the scan lines ….

Here’s my question … I observe the following weird phenomena …. if you zoom in on the bg file to 1600% you can look at the individual pixels … the color of the first row is 131,2,2 the second 128,2,2 the third 128,2,2 yet the 2nd and third rows appear as different colors on my monitor! What’s up with that ????

the color
of the first row is 131,2,2 the second 128,2,2 the third 128,2,2 yet the 2nd and third rows appear as different colors on my monitor! What’s up with

that????

Honestly? A defect in the human visual system.

Human vision is dependent on surrounding color. To see this, create a grayscale image. Color one-half of the image 10% gray and one-half of the image 80% gray. Now put a small 50% gray square in the center of the light gray area and a small 50% gray square in the center of the dark gray area.

Those two small gray squares will look *completely* different, even though they are identical…because the surrounding area is different.

There are many optical illusions based on this principal; check out any book on optical illusions and you’ll see what I mean.

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Honestly? A defect in the human visual system.

No way …. did you try it ????? Blow it up to 1600%, set the info to display pixel coordinates … use the color picker in precise mode…..

I won’t believe it until you tell me you’ve tried it……

The colors are dramatically different, not even close to being the same…. the line between them is clear …..

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:54:51 -0000, "Harry Limey" wrote:

I went to this site and got a pop up add – offering to check my system for security!!!!!!!!!
anyone else get this?
Harry
"(a)" wrote in message

I was hoping someone might be able to direct me or provide me with a step

by

step tutorial on how to create the background image at
http://www.geocities.com/cshelp2002/

I believe it is a combination scan line with gradient, but my attempts at reproducing it have not been successful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jason

Harry

Get the google toolbar. it has a great pop-up stopper….you wouldn’t believe how good it is…and transparent….try it!!!!

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DosBoss57

Imagine all the people living life in peace !

Try this….

File New
Make it the appropriate size and resolution
Name = redscanlines
Set the foreground and background colors to match the light red and dark red colors
Choose the gradient tool
Click on the Gradient thumbnail on the gradient tool option bar Alt-Click-Drag one of the Color Stops on the color bar.
Move the stop to the center of the bar.
You should now have three color stops; left, center, right The next steps set the color of the stops
Click on the left color stop
this makes it active
Click on the dark red color on the tool palette foreground/background color palette.
Click on the right color stop
this makes it active
Click on the dark red color on the tool palette foreground/background color palette.
Click on the center color stop
this makes it active
Click on the light red color on the tool palette foreground/background color palette.
The color bar now goes from dark red to light red and back to dark red Click OK
Click-Drag from the top to the bottom of redscanlines canvas. This paints the canvas with the gradient
Duplicate the layer
On the new layer, add scan lines
Filter/Sketch/Halftone
Size = 1
Contrast = 0
Pattern Type = Line
Layer Opacity = 30

From here you can tweak the scanline layer for more or less effect.

HTH,

Mr3

"(a)" wrote in message

I was hoping someone might be able to direct me or provide me with a step

by

step tutorial on how to create the background image at
http://www.geocities.com/cshelp2002/

I believe it is a combination scan line with gradient, but my attempts at reproducing it have not been successful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jason

Ahhh… the problem was the color picker was set to a 3×3 sample ……

No way …. did you try it ????? Blow it up to 1600%, set the info to display
pixel coordinates … use the color picker in precise mode…..

Your color picker may be averaging values of adjacent pixels. When you blow up the image, make sure your color picker is selecting a single pixel, not a 3×3 or 5×5 sample.

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On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 01:25:01 -0500, DosBoss57
wrote:

Get the google toolbar. it has a great pop-up stopper….you wouldn’t believe how good it is…and transparent….try it!!!!

Just make sure you get the limited version and not the one with included spyware. 🙂

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Thank you very much Mr3. That was a great tutorial and created the effect I was looking for.

There were a lot of techniques that you used that I’ve never had a reason to use before (eg Filter/Sketch/Halftone) so I’ve got a new topic to learn about as well.

"Mr3"
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Try this….

File New
Make it the appropriate size and resolution
Name = redscanlines
Set the foreground and background colors to match the light red and dark

red

colors
Choose the gradient tool
Click on the Gradient thumbnail on the gradient tool option bar Alt-Click-Drag one of the Color Stops on the color bar.
Move the stop to the center of the bar.
You should now have three color stops; left, center, right The next steps set the color of the stops
Click on the left color stop
this makes it active
Click on the dark red color on the tool palette foreground/background

color

palette.
Click on the right color stop
this makes it active
Click on the dark red color on the tool palette foreground/background

color

palette.
Click on the center color stop
this makes it active
Click on the light red color on the tool palette foreground/background

color

palette.
The color bar now goes from dark red to light red and back to dark

red

Click OK
Click-Drag from the top to the bottom of redscanlines canvas. This paints the canvas with the gradient
Duplicate the layer
On the new layer, add scan lines
Filter/Sketch/Halftone
Size = 1
Contrast = 0
Pattern Type = Line
Layer Opacity = 30

From here you can tweak the scanline layer for more or less effect.
HTH,

Mr3

"(a)" wrote in message

I was hoping someone might be able to direct me or provide me with a

step

by

step tutorial on how to create the background image at
http://www.geocities.com/cshelp2002/

I believe it is a combination scan line with gradient, but my attempts

at

reproducing it have not been successful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jason