looking for reference images (xray vision effect)

[DDD]

I am doing a DVD cover and need to nail down a effect I have been working on all morning. But I need some images or example of the xray vision seeing through walls effect. Kinda like how superman peers through the vault in the new Superman. Right now I basically have a mask with feathered edges revealing what I want. But it just does not seem convincing. I googled and didnt find any images. If anyone has some please post links.

[Cello]

Hi DDD - I guess you'll have to have some very opaque layers to show what's being seen through - like flesh...

Might these help?:

[DDD]

well not quite what I am after, but thanks... I just need a convincing way to show what under a layer. Kinda like if the user has xray vision or the ability to look into the dvd case. Hard to explain, but right now my attempt just isnt cutting it. (Cant post it either NDA)

[simplistik]

Hmmnnn just use like the outlines of the object and ghost the insides... i had to do it once for a project at rbk, the reference I used was xray stuff from Getty.

[DDD]

Yea, I can see it in my head but I just cannot seem to translate it into PS. Serious designer block.

[bwh2]

do you mean like an airport xray (http://images.google.com/images?q=airport+xray) image?

[ronnie]

A Google search on Thermal vision might turn up something you could use.

ronnie

[jimhere]

Invert (negative-ize) your image, boost the contrast a little with a curves layer, select the image's transparency, and mask the original with that.

Then maybe colorize the masked layer to some sort of green or blue...

[DDD]

I know how to make a x-ray effect like Cello posted. But for some reason I can make a convincing peer through solid objecs effect like in the Superman movies when he looks through a wall or something.

[hypnotoad]

Well, i assume you're cutting out a layer to make the 'hole'. Can you not just cut a smaller hole in the cut-out part, then gaussian blur it to soften the edge of the original hole?

Know what I mean?

[=guinness=]

there was a series of photos in a recent ComArts magazine that did actual xray photos and then dutoned them. i think you might be able to do a layer mask with a custom gradient to control the amount of transparency.

might want to try making a detailed gradient mesh in AI and then use it for a mask in PS.

my $.02

[DDD]

Well, i assume you're cutting out a layer to make the 'hole'. Can you not just cut a smaller hole in the cut-out part, then gaussian blur it to soften the edge of the original hole?

Know what I mean?

this is what I did and it looked cheesy as hell....I couldnt think of anyways to spice up the image. I think I may abandon the concept and come back to it later. Seems like it should have been easy for me to do this one :(

guiness can you recall the issues/month? Also was comarts PS?

[=guinness=]

I found the issue. November 2005, Design Annual 46, #346.

its on page 151 under Public Service title.


Page:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8858/xraysourcepj9.jpg


Detail 1:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/8698/detail1wa0.jpg

Detail 2:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/3522/detail2sh2.jpg

[DDD]

I think I have that issues floating around here somewhere. Thanks. Ill take a look at it.

[Seb Hughes]

DDD can you post what you haev ATM pleasE?