Shapeshifter

As we all know by now, only those people who waited to purchase KPT5 got the presets for Shapeshifter. This is one of the penalties for being an "Early Adopter," I guess. So I've used some of the presets I collected on the web. See the LVS Message Boards for a list of URLs, or go to my home page, click the Link List and check out the KPT category (I'll update it soon).

So, here's the results. For these experiments, I chose Ornament01.jpg from the Goodies/Masks/Ornaments folder that came with my implementation of KPT5, resized it to 300x300 pixels and pasted it into a new channel, so I could get the same selection for each trial. When I put them into the web page, 300x300 looked WAY TOO BIG, so I told the HTML to resize them down to 150x150. I think you'll be able to get the original sized ones if you Control-Click (right-click for Windows) on the pictures and choose Download Image to Disk. Why you would want to is another question.

	From DigitalAttitudesSS1, chose row 1, column 2, cut Internal Reflection to 10% to cut down on the glare. It looked flat, so I turned on a black shadow and set the transparency to 20%.
	From DigitalAttitudesSS1, chose row 1, column 3, made no changes. But I didn't like the way the first one just kind of "hung in space," so I reversed the selection and applied Shapeshifter again. This time I used row 4, column 2, altered the bump map to Voronoi (bump scale 40%, bump height -25) and chose the straight line (middle icon) in Main Shape.
	From DigitalAttitudesSS1, chose row 3, column 1, and turned down internal refraction to 0%; set the bevel scale to 5% and the bevel height to 54%. Then I inverted the selection, used Noize to get some texture in the background. I used the preset Soft RGB from Noise Examples (this is, after all, about using presets). Then I went back to ShapeShifter for DigitalAttitudesSS1, row 2, column 3, but it completely obliterated the Noize, so I lowered Mix Tinting Color to 32% in the Environment pane.

The next part of the assignment had to do with making our own presets and applying them to things. This was fun. I made up a bunch of presets, then to display them created a document with four selection channels, each taken from the Goodies/Masks/Web Buttons folder. I tried applying them to all four at once, but that didn't work out, so I had to apply it to each button separately. If you like, you can grab the presets here.