Moho Forum

Hello,

Very happy new user here.

I was going through the yahoo! groups area, and found the following picture:

http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/mo ... +Hells.jpg

Can someone please go through the steps involved in creating the shading effects? I particularly like the clouds.

Thanks!

jorgy

Hello jorgy,

I can guess at two ways of doing this:

1. Layer shading - set to fairly transparent or light-coloured, and blurred.
Due to the different shadow angles, some clouds would have to be on different layers.

2. Shadow shapes - set to fairly transparent or light-coloured, and with a soft edge.

And, of course, soft edges on everything - in fact, apply the soft edges effect twice, as both Effect 1, and Effect 2.

Here's my quick attempt - the cloud on the left uses a shadow fill shape, the one on the right uses Moho's layer shading. Is this close enough to give you a starting point ?

Sample image:


Moho file: http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~myle ... louds.moho

Check out the fill properties using the Select Shape tool.

Regards, Myles.

Thanks for the great example, and the quick followup. However, I'm using the linux version and it won't load the beta version 5 file. Is there any way you can save it in a version 4 format?

Thanks!

jorgy wrote:However, I'm using the linux version and it won't load the beta version 5 file. Is there any way you can save it in a version 4 format?

Oops! Okay, try this one:
http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~myle ... ouds4.moho

Still created on a Windows machine, but using v4.6 (4.6.1, I think).
Uploaded in ASCII mode.

Let us know if that works or not - if not, I'll boot up into Linux tonight and try that - assuming someone doesn't beat me to it.

Regards, Myles.

Bingo!!!

Thanks Myles!