# That microscopic cellular look **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 26, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756 "2003-07-26T00:17:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DDD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@DDD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DDD)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/1 "2003-07-26T00:17:37Z")
Does anyone have a tut or have any idea how to get that cellular, microscopic reversed negative look…man I dont know how to explain it. I know how to do it in max and LW but I wanna do it in ps7…If any one has a clue what I am talking about give me a hint, tip, tut, .psd anything…been pluggin at this thing for a while now ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/2 "2003-07-26T03:02:12Z")
can you give an example? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/3 "2003-07-26T03:04:52Z")
i think its called invert. i forgot the keyboard shortcut, but i think its called invert. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/4 "2003-07-26T03:07:25Z")
ctrl + I ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/5 "2003-07-26T03:32:00Z")
eh…it is that look how stuff looks when you look through an electron microscope…lemme see if I can find an image or whip up one in max ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/6 "2003-07-26T03:41:55Z")
you can try adding some glow and stuff to it, an example would be nice. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/7 "2003-07-26T03:44:15Z")
like this Basically I want to simulate the blood stream from a microscopic P.O.V ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/8 "2003-07-26T05:39:25Z")
oh boy…you got a job on yourhands. why do you have to do it in PS7? i cant help you but it looks like threre are bevels, but see how the light soruce is coming from the right? thats gonna be hard to simulate in PS7, i would seriously do it in MAX or LW… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/9 "2003-07-26T06:40:01Z")
I dont want to do that particular image but that effect…I probably will endup doing it in max but I will keep trying ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/10 "2003-07-26T13:36:14Z")
Whoa…why try to re-invent the wheel, thats a hard one to accomplish in PS ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/11 "2003-07-26T15:34:28Z")
Now I have taken it as a challenge so I will figure it out ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/12 "2003-07-26T17:22:19Z")
Channels… lots and lots and lots of channels. Lighting effects, lots and lots and lots of lighting effects. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/13 "2003-07-26T17:45:31Z")
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=240143](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=240143) all done in photoshop ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/14 "2003-07-26T18:04:49Z")
you did that?? looks pretty sweet ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/15 "2003-07-26T18:29:30Z")
yeppers: ty ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/16 "2003-07-27T16:18:00Z")
Heya. I’d never tried this before but I had an idea of how it’s done. If you notice, the parts of the geometry that are facing at an angle away from the camera are lighter and parts facing directly at the camera are darker. Falloff maps apply materials according to the angle of the polygon normal with respect to the camera’s Z-axis. So I gave it a shot with some basic torus knots in MAX. Attached is the test image I created. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/17 "2003-07-27T16:21:07Z")
interesting…but you are right…I like that…could you send me a quick write up or some screen shots of your settings. thanks al(ethos) although I wanted to do it ps which is looking impossible. But your technique is diff than mine. But I like the way you did it ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/that-microscopic-cellular-look/26756/18 "2003-07-27T16:22:45Z")
Attached is a screenshot of the material editor. As you can see, I used a Blend material, in which I assigned a simple black diffuse material to the Material#1 slot, and a white material with full white Self-Illumination in the Material#2 slot. For the mask I used a Falloff material, with its default settings (black diffuse to white on falloff). I assigned the material to my geometry, then dropped in an Omni light, set its multiplier to 0 to effectively shut it off (this turns off the default ambient lighting in MAX, which we don’t want), and rendered. Then I just added the DOF effect in Photoshop. Took only about 25mins and I think it mimics the effect you’re going for. If you want it to look even more realistic I’d suggest adding little blurred blobs here and there to simulate a fluid. -Al