Photoshop & Apophysis Tutorial, Creating Crazy Fractal Effects

In this tutorial I go over how to use Apophysis with Photoshop and create some really crazy lighting effects like those seen in my piece "A Lovecracking Bottleneck".

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• tutorial
• photoshop
• apophysis
• help
• fractals
• art
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[FlamedIdea]

when i export it its too grainy.also can i export it with no bg color?? so i can make photoshop brushes? thanks a lot

[fictionalhead]

@FlamedIdea I haven't used Apophysis in years, but I remember the quality being tied to a setting like "samples" or "jitter" -- the higher the setting, the better the quality. As for the lack of background, I think that's determined by the format you save in. I have another tutorial called "Apophysis Tutorial, Saving and Rendering Your Flames" which might help you in these matters.

[Vedant002]

I am not very familiar with photoshop, and I am very confused when you say to turn the background black and all you do is press some buttons that I cannot see... Can you please tell me how to do it?

[fictionalhead]

@Vedant002 on PC you press Alt+Backspace, or Ctrl + Backspace, it's the same as doing edit >> fill, with foreground and background colors.

[garystorey]

Hi , I just downloaded apophysis for use with photoshop but all my randomly generated fractals look really grainy and low res. What can I do to improve the detail and quality ?

Thanks

[fictionalhead]

I'm pretty sure it's in the settings of the export. Turn up the samples, or quality. I'll have to look closer later, as I don't remember off the top of my head.

If it comes down to it, I may do a tutorial later on export settings.

[TheTrippleTKA]

Apophysis only for PC>

[xzendor7]

@AnaestheticGas You Can Use An Apophysis Clone For The Mac Called ApoMac - It's Available At DeviantArt Through The Member hebejebelus. It Works Under The Leopard OS.

[xzendor7]

I Do Something Similar But I Use Fractron 9000 And Photo Elements To Create Fractal Art Compositions That Aren't Abstract But Look Like Painted Scenes Of World, Fantasy Art, Dreamscapes And Epic Creations

[AnaestheticGas]

Too bad Apophysis is only for Windows :\

[TheVane4ever]

Do you NEED to have Photoshop to use this program?

[AjfromDamons]

Liked and subscribed. Thank you so much.

[TheDNAevolution]

dude... so nice !!! the one you where doing with shapes from 3d max... oh !! nice

[itsOVAforreal]

@FlamedIdea You can export it with no bg just go to options and there should be a drop down menu asking if you want png transparency enabled or not :)