Only SPE effects

[Arwin Profile]

Here you go Phelon

With my previous Walker in mind, I started today again with a small project to use only SPE effects and see what it brings. I need to say; love that kind of approach

If anyone like to know the effects used, let me know

Arwin

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[eadams Profile]

This image is stunning. I love the dreamy quality and the placement of the figures and the trees. The colors are wonderful. Wow.

[halhight Profile]

Arwin: I would like to know. I used several of effects. Really good stuff.

[Arwin Profile]

Thank you Eadams and Halhight!

Beside the effects used, I added the steps I made, take it to your advantage!

Kind regards,
Arwin


First two steps are how I did it, they can be done in different ways of course (like montage or a plain black image if you like)

01. Started with a normal image of 5048x3624 pixels to get the canvas.
02. Created an effect with only a filter-node (default settings) to get a black canvas.
03. Added the effect Fog by David.
04. Added the effect Relight landscape 2 by Tony.
05. Added the effect Tree silhouettes series one 010 by andrewb2012 and masked the effect to melt the trees a bit into the background (Fog and Relight landscape 2 effects).
06. Added the effect Accurate black and white by Tony and masked the orange parts of the fog effect to make that part of the effect white.
07. Added one of my new effects Silhouette figures backlight 06 combined with Ab silhouette figures 006 by andrewb2012. (see explanation of step 7)
08. Added the effect Romney bw.
09. Added the Light flare effect by tatianat (replaced the Merge node for a Place And Merge node, to relocate the flare)
10. Added a border effect.

Played a bit with the settings of all effects to get what I wanted


Explanation of step 7:
I created the Silhouette figures backlight effects in several colors, at the moment only blue and white are active.
To prevent a overload of effects I created these effect with the idea to (re)use any silhouette (effects/images).
For instance, in this case I used the Ab silhouette figures 006 by andrewb2012 within the effect Silhouette figures backlight 06.

How?
Just add the Silhouette figures backlight 06 effect, make a temporary mask for later use(just select a small part of the upper left corner for example) after that, add the effect Ab silhouette figures 006.
Manual eddit the Silhouette figures backlight 06 effect, click on the Effect Input node.
Rightclick the tab of Silhouette figures backlight 06 to choose for Merge With Ab silhouette figures 006 Effect.
Replace the Load Internet Image node with the one from Ab silhouette figures 006 and delete the Merge node and at the end of the node-chain reconnect the last node to the Effect Output node.

Now you have combined my backlight effect with the Ab silhouette figures 006 from andrewb2012 and of course, as I said before, you can use any silhouette effect or silhouette image by using this method.
You can use the temporary mask you created before to mask the silhouette even more to fit them nicely in the background.