Perplexing Plasmids

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This is a thread to discuss the Perplexing Plasmids tutorial. Please keep all posts on-topic, don't spam, and read the entire thread BEFORE you post - any issues you have could be answered deeper within the thread.

[Lhii Kanakari]

I tried this tutorial and it totally didn't turn out. I dont know what was wrong but right from step one it was Black and Whitle unlike the colorful example. I still got a cool effect though in the end (It was sortof like mercury)

But thanks for the tutorial! It was fun to do!

[wolven_rage]

came out black and white for me, looks cool though, if you run Hue/Saturation at the end maybe youll get the same effect as the tutorial.

great tutorial i like the effect
i probably need this thanks:P

I got messed up starting with step 3. It's all black and white after that, making the color adjustments pointless.

What could I possibly be missing?

[sherragray]

I tried this several times with your directions following them to the letter. PErhaps you assume a level of proficiency that we don't have -- I've done that before. Maybe you could go through and see if you've skipped an important something that you thought we'd get. I love the end product you came up with and I'd really like to learn how to do it -- so please try again? Thanks so much for your tutorial!

I'm stuck at part 3, 'cause I don't know how to change Blending Option to Color!
Help plz

[Tamlin]

Originally Posted by Billythekid

I'm stuck at part 3, 'cause I don't know how to change Blending Option to Color!
Help plz

There are a number of ways to do this in Photoshop, but the easiest is to use the dropdown menu in the Layers palette - see attached screenshot.

[lilymoonsilver]

Great effect and good description. Thanks so much.

[mayamaven]

Please help: I followed the tut extremely carefully, repeated times, but I'm obviously doing something wrong, or missing something; I keep ending up with black and white images...it seems wrong, from the first illustration you used, as yours was multi-colored, and mine was only B&W at that stage (and remained that way, even after I colorized it in the Hue & Sat step...I'd love to know how to do this, but I'm stumped! Thanks for the tut, though, and more please! :-)

[mayamaven]

OOPS I see! It says draw as many swirls as you like "in many different colors"! *grin* I knew it was something I wasn't paying attention to! Hope this helps the others with the same problem. Thanks again!

Originally Posted by mayamaven

Please help: I followed the tut extremely carefully, repeated times, but I'm obviously doing something wrong, or missing something; I keep ending up with black and white images...it seems wrong, from the first illustration you used, as yours was multi-colored, and mine was only B&W at that stage (and remained that way, even after I colorized it in the Hue & Sat step...I'd love to know how to do this, but I'm stumped! Thanks for the tut, though, and more please! :-)

[sumit982073611]

for this we need patience.........