Rusterizer by CorvusCroax

Good idea !

Love your example Thrash Love copper, bronze, platine, silver and gold works.

I don't have the "before" anymore but it was black & white. I merely started with a rectangle and started plopping down custom shapes in Photoshop to make some sort of coherent pattern. The corner elements are placed together in Illustrator fr om a font fr om Letterhead Fonts (highly recommend them for high dollar project fonts!) such as "LHF Americana Ornaments". Ran it through FF making usually the white as the raised area. Then used my DODGE tool in PS to "burnish" the exposed edges of the steel to look like orangish copper. If you TRULY want to get fancy, go to CG Textures and download some copper plating textures. Throw those in between two layers of your finished FF image. Set the top to "OVERLAY", the copper layer to "HARD LIGHT" and your bottom duplicate can be left at "NORMAL" blend mode. Fiddle with the OPACITY of each. If you already know all this in PS, I apologize. If you don't already know all this, then have fun!

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My brother wants me to start making him some DXF files with these designs to run through a CNC machine and make custom metal work for high end staircases and doors. Something like this (I've simulated where the screw holes would be) to adorn bannister posts on a stair case:



Or something like this to insert on a door as a panel section:



Has possibilities!

This is what I'm spending time on now, making custom iPad cases!




And making photorealistic covers for the Doodle iPod Speaker by OrigAudio:

My really big congratulations to Thrash and his excellent, beautiful and very well done examples. As Morgantao have said well, they are SOOO Coool!!

I have made a small quick example here with some 3D rendered letters and applied preset 9 that gives that brown and green bronze effect.

Extremely cool SpaceRay, can I just call you Ray?

You need a DeviantArt account and start posting stuff like that. I've been discovered many times with my stuff and have had some freelance jobs come my way doing what I like doing for nothing anyway!

Cool work everyone!

Hey; can I show you guys a couple tricks?

1) Take your original shaded map and use curves to darken it so that the the main areas are 50% gray, down to black in the shadows. Then put it in a layer above the bronzerized rendering, and set it to hard light blending mode.

poof: keep the nice shadows + the nice texture! (see pic below) This is a clever Zbrush technique.
(Protip: you can paint right on top of the hard light 'lighting mask'. If you paint lighter than 50% gray, it starts to lighten the image. If you paint colors (doesn't take much!) they start to look like metallic highlights.)

2)spaceray: can your rendering program render out a normal map? If it can, the individual R/G/B channels of the normal maps can make good feeder material into heightmap-driven filters, like the bronzerizer!

Hi Morgantao, it would be easy to add, but hard to understand I think. Most people wouldn't be starting from a nice clean 3d render, and I'd worry it would just confuse things. (The thing is really designed for working with flat heightmaps, with no particular shading at all.)

I'll try to dig up a better image describing tip #2 above...

Just to let Corvus know that his filter "children" are STILLout here in the world being fruitful... Getting a TON of use out of Rusterizer STILL... Making these icons (people don't get enough of them, they're all over the web now) and I just want Corvus to know he's STILL appreciated.

The crackle effect is a brush set on clear. It is one of Ron Deviney's incredible brushes, he has dozens of the best PS brushes I'll ever get to use. I basically create the icon in black & white 2D, run it through the rusterizer. Set tolerance low on the magic wand and start grabbing areas that will be painted, the less perfect the better. The different colors of paint go on their own layer and get hit with the brush set about 60-70% on clear mode to give it that cracked enamel paint texture. For the burnished edges, that's just the PS dodge/burn like we've all done with adding effects to results of this filter. The setting I use on Rusterizer is the lower left preset, 1st filter on the 3rd row for the default set. The rust is a rust texture I found on the net and I use the same one over and over to maintain consistent look, I just try to change the size and shape a bit. I lay the rust on after I emboss the entire thing up by about 10. Takes me a good 5-10 minutes to whip up an icon but it looks like you cooked all day

A link to Ron Deviney's incredible arsenal of products, which I buy whenever I have a specific need... http://www.daz3d.com/deviney

A few recent completed icons:

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A link to Ron Deviney's incredible arsenal of products, which I buy whenever I have a specific need... http://www.daz3d.com/deviney

Hey, nice tip. One can never have enough cyborg parts!