sparks

[TheGremp]

I always see tutrials saying to do sparks and saying to displace them, and the example turns out like so:

I fill my canvas with sparks, displace it at 20 each, with the sparks layer being selected with wrap selected, which is what it tells me to do, and I get this:

you may think I'm a noob for this, but whatever, how do I get it to look like the tutorials make them?

 

[Nate]

1.) Before doing any sparks, do Edit - Copy Visible, and paste it on a new layer.
2.) Open another new layer, fill it with sparks, and hide it.
3.) Select the Copy Visibled layer, displace it by the hidden sparks layer.

 

[TheGremp]

oh I see... none of the tutorials went into that kind of detail lol

thanks

 

[TheGremp]

sorry for the double post but...

when I do that, I end up with this

 

[dragonflamez]

sorry for the double post but...

when I do that, I end up with this

That's a lot cooler than the intended outcome

 

[Grawr]

sorry for the double post but...

when I do that, I end up with this

That's a lot cooler than the intended outcome

Yeah...


That looks pretty awesome. D:

 

[TheGremp]

I agree it does, but that's not what I need for the effect I'm trying to get here

 

[MGMT]

sorry for the double post but...

when I do that, I end up with this

That's a lot cooler than the intended outcome

Holy crap he didn't criticize!

Anyway I think it looks a lot cooler than it's supposed to be too.

 

[TheGremp]

yes but that's not the outcome I need, it does look cooler but that doesn't matter now, I need the intended effect

 

[Nate]

That's what it should look like, just start erasing some of the stuff that doesn't look right. It should've mentioned that in the tut.

 

[TheGremp]

no the tut is saying it's supposed to look like this: