photoshop tips thread

[vtotheinay]

hey kdwallace, on your first post how do u do step 3, where you isolated dennis im tryin to do it but i cant make it with the guy by himself and the rest of the background is the checkerboard. Thanks

 

[kdwallace]

I used a layer mask - go down a couple posts on the first page and I showed how using the same image.

[/b]"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English domination. It is in truth not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour that we are fighting, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life." Arbroath, 1320.
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[vtotheinay]

how do u change the color of the brush? thanks again

 

[twism009]

When I try to drag Into work space when cloning, It nevers creates another layer. Help Please
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[skunkindunks]

what version is the best photoshop? i saw a very expensive one and one that is not so expensive. thanks.
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[kdwallace]

You always want the latest one - CS2 (basically version 9.0) is very good.

Although 7.0 was perfectly adequate until I changed it recently. You may get a cheap copy of that somewhere.

[/b]"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English domination. It is in truth not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour that we are fighting, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life." Arbroath, 1320.
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[SVNTI]

i want to learn how to make a Tag for a Pic.. not just plain text but have some type of image on the pic to identify it.. like i seen some1 here on niketalk that puts a lil spiderman circle on his pics. any1 know how?

 

[unregistered(d)]

well if your talking about the ones like Cris1 and Fongstar then i think you need adobe illustrator

 

[jordan novice]

FINALLY!! THANKS 4 THE HELP

 

[kdwallace]

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how do u change the color of the brush? thanks again

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Just double click on the colored squares to the left - the top one is the foreground (basically what you paint with) and the back one is the background.

Here, the thing with the circle around it:

Two of my favorite shortcuts are:

press D to return to black foreground and white background

press X to change around the foreground and background (i.e. from black/white to white/black or vice-versa). That's especially useful when you're working in layer masks and want to correct something - it's really fast.

[/b]"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English domination. It is in truth not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour that we are fighting, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life." Arbroath, 1320.
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[kdwallace]

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When I try to drag Into work space when cloning, It nevers creates another layer. Help Please

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Just been out on my bike for an hour thinking about that and you've got me stumped. I'm no expert though - I've just been fiddling with the program for a year or so and picked a few things up. A few of the graphic designers who've seen my stuff don't like the way I do some of it.

Anyway, no matter what I do mine always makes a new layer. I don't even have to make a new layer - just drag it over and it drops it onto a new layer.

If you copy the image you want to use and then go to the one you are using as the master and just edit>paste it does it make a new layer?

If it does I don't know what's going on. Could be a setting somewhere but I can't find one - been looking through the preferences. Edit>pasting it should do the same as dragging it over.

[/b]"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English domination. It is in truth not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour that we are fighting, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life." Arbroath, 1320.
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[jae oh en]

yeeeeeeee....

these are all things KD has listed, but the way i do them is pretty different...same outcome...
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[jordankiid23]

how do you make a cool stamp?
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[jayburj]

How do you do the transparency like that ^^^? TIA

 

[jordan novice]

So How do you do this mini clip things? take lyke 10pictures and make it go in sequence or something. The thing with everyones avatar, is it even made with PS?

 

[kdwallace]

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So How do you do this mini clip things? take lyke 10pictures and make it go in sequence or something. The thing with everyones avatar, is it even made with PS?

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No, not in PS. I used a program called UnFreez to make mine. You need to make your image files into gif's and then you just drag them onto the program and specify the timing and stuff. It's dead easy and you can get it here.

Watch the size though - mine is just under the limit - it doesn't make compact animated gif's.

You can also make little movies if you can get screen caps - I have a Jordan one somewhere from a DVD I have - you just capture lots of frames close together and then fiddle with the timing and it looks pretty good.

[/b]"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English domination. It is in truth not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour that we are fighting, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life." Arbroath, 1320.
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[jordankiid23]

come on how do you make a nice stamp like crisone?
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[SVNTI]

i wanna learn how to do tha Blur effect.. like make tha obJect in front clear and kinda blurr tha backround to notice tha obJect better or viceversa...

 

[velasco820]

^use the blur tool and blur out what u want to be blurry

 

[twism009]

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i wanna learn how to do tha Blur effect.. like make tha obJect in front clear and kinda blurr tha backround to notice tha obJect better or viceversa...

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Could you screen this?
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[jae oh en]

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come on how do you make a nice stamp like crisone?

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get good with illustrator, aka the hardest program to get good with haha...i cant even draw circles in it...
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[air23jordan707]

Here are my first try.I used the final shot pic. I tried to blurr the people out u can kind of tell. I also made everything else but jordan and the ball black and white and you can kind of tell that everything else is blurred.

Here the Original pic :

Heres my photoshop kind of sucks but hey my first time :

 

[kdwallace]

^ that's pretty good. You did a good job isolating MJ and the ball.

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i wanna learn how to do tha Blur effect.. like make tha obJect in front clear and kinda blurr tha backround to notice tha obJect better or viceversa...

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Pretty easy - I would do it the same way I did the black and white one - first page I think.

Basically make a new layer and isolate what you want to keep clear (like the thing you wanted to keep clear - I used a layer mask). Then blur the background layer and you'll have that effect - just play with the filter>blur settings until you get one you like.

[/b]"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English domination. It is in truth not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour that we are fighting, but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life." Arbroath, 1320.
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[air23jordan707]

^ now the one and only thing i want to know how how to make a real life picture and turn it into a some what cartoony drawing picture? You know like in page one or two where they have that mini or whatever that car is and make it look like a cartoon. Ive seen it done before now i just want to learn and if your wiling ot elaborate on how to do that i would be very grateful haha.

 

[ladyexpensive]

I did mine differently though..
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