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icycatelf β Glassy Kanto Badges (printed, cut, and glossed)
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Published: 2014-12-07 00:38:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 1713; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 4
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Before anyone asks, I am not selling these! Feel free to print, cut, and gloss them yourself, though.- - -
Does anyone remember the "glassy" Kanto badges I posted a while back? Well, someone reminded me of them and I got the urge to print them. The resolution wasn't good for high-quality printing, but I figured they'd be fine for personal use.
I printed them with a black background on regular card stock, cut them out (leaving a sliver of black around them to avoid damaging the image itself), and used about 6 layers of clear coat nail polish on them (which surprisingly didn't cause them to bleed). They're each about the height of a penny.
I've not turned them into pins yet, but I will whenever I find some decent glue. I tried hot glue, but they popped right off...
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Original: karite-kita-neko.deviantart.coβ¦
Kanto League badges are Copyright PokΓ©mon/Nintendo.
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Comments: 4
Cool.
How did you mange to make all the ridges and recessed parts to make it look embossed like that?
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They're actually flat (it's just the shading on the images that make them look somewhat 3D).
I just drew the outlines in Illustrator, filled them with flat colors, divided them, put a gold stroke on them, exported them as a PSD, beveled embossed each section, flattened the effects, reverse-beveled everything but the gold stroke, merged the layers, beveled them, saved as PNG, opened in GIMP, duplicated the layer, rotated the image, embossed it, rotated it back, changed the blending mode until it looked shiny, merged the layers, adjusted the levels for contrast, scaled them down, duplicated the layer, blurred it about 5%, inverted the colors, embossed it, then changed the blending mode and opacity until they looked like glass.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation.
They look sharp!
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