Spherica Custom Double-Alpha

Variations

Texture Maps

Diffuse Map

Bump Map

Normal Map

Spec Strength Map

Metallic Map

About This Filter

Author

• Author: ThreeDee
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Description
The presets only give a small taste of what you can do with this. The true power of this filter actually derives from being able to use images with two alpha channels, one for transparency and the other for a bump map.This is a two-stage filter and works together with the "Process Transparency Snippet," which is run before this filter for best results. Procedure:Start with an image that has two alpha channels, one for transparency and the other one for bump.Step 0: Make sure that the image supports transparency (that it is not on the background layer of Photoshop)Step 1: Load Alpha #1 (or the transparency map) as the current selection and run the image through the "Process Transparency Snippet" filter.Step 2: Load Alpha#2 (or the bump map) as the current selection and run it through this filter. (Note: Turn off "Simulation Mode" – it is there for the sake of the preset images.)See the thread "Two Alpha Channels" in the FF forum for more information.

Keywords
Ball, sphere, metal, glass, orb, transparency, bump, alpha, map, 2-stage

Filter Details

• Downloads: 5913
• Submitted: Sep 22, 2008
• Usage Rank: Low
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Filter Controls

• Sphere Size
• Bump Height
• Invert Bump
• Transparent Color
• Invert Transparency
• Reflectivity
• Reflection Blur
• Metallicity
• Simulation Mode