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shrela — Faceted Gems Tutorial
Published: 2007-07-23 19:45:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 13245; Favourites: 197; Downloads: 651
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I have been trying to make good gems for a long time. Got pretty good a "web" gems but never sparkly enough to satisfy me the way faceted gems do. I had all but given up when I had a convo with ~nmsmith about his gems that made want to give it try again.I started trying that way but really wanted a way that would work all the time with a set series of steps. After almost a week of tinkering you have this tutorial.
Credits:
The black and white illustrations are brilliant and very informative also without them this method would not be possible!! After looking a long time to find the author these illustrations appear to be from a old text book. As far as I can tell they are public domain.
Many of the gradients are default photoshop gradients and some that have been tweaked to be a lil more interesting.
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Comments: 29
I love the look of your Faceted gems, but I found this tutorial really incredibly hard to follow. Very few of it made sense to me, any chance of you rewriting it so each step is more detailed?
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I want to make something like that blue one on the bottom left corner, but it looks really intimidating >.<
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I found anoth method that I was able to comprehend much better... But I still used a few tips from this one, so I thank you SO much.
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What method for gems did you find? I would really like to know.
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Ooh, let me find it for you.
*Intermission for a search*
Here it is: [link] Although I WAS rather dissatisfied with a semi-flat appearance for what I wanted to do, so I used some white/transparent gradient methods from your tutorial to give them more of a three dimensional shine.
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Thank you! Combined with this tutorial, it will be perfect.
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Apologies; I'd breifly mistaken you for the author of the tut these comments are on... 
Either way; indeed! 
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lol no problem! 
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Sweet, I'd be interested in seeing it. ^_^
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It's up! Here it is...[link] I used this tutorial mainly for the flowers, and textures from the other one on the dragonlike thing in the middle.
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Very cool and original! I like! 
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This looks VERY helpful! I'm working on a piece with a ton of garnet stones right now, so I'll let you know who it goes.
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I used your zip file here: [link] This is so helpful!
I'm not done yet. I don't really know how to shade or highlight it...
Anyway thanks
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Yw I hope you have fun making something pretty!!
Id love to see if you do
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Thanks! With this tutorial, i can finish my new pic easyly
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Hey hon Ive missed see you around. Thanks for visiting me
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I've missed seeing you around too - I'm sorry for vanishing so much!
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