Mick Hazelgrove wrote:

> BTW anyone know any good sites that might help with the making of the wave
> HFs...there I've given it away Ken!
> 
> All the best
> 
> Mick

    I have been looking at the incredible number of photo shop effects
 plug-ins. I think there is a lot of possibilities available by using
 these with simple gradient grayscale images. The majority of the
 plug-ins are compatible with versions of PSP v4.0 and latter as well
 as the other bigboy high priced image processing programs out there.
 I would post a couple links to free plugin pages but you could do
 better by using "plugins" or "photoshop plugins" as a search identifier
 on yahoo's search engine. I got more hits that I cared to wade through
 that way.

   I have had some preliminry sucesses using a couple of the plugins
 for a different application I was working on. The trick is having a
 good base image to start with. I found a pov gernerated grayscale
 gradient on a plane one of the better starting places. Use no light
 sources and depend entirely on the ambient modifier in the finish
 statement. If you use lights and a diffuse surface to illuminate the
 pigment you end up with sharp spikes in the color pattern that are
 difficult to remove afterward. 

   Something to consider anyway.


-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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