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I'm horrible with abstract renders.

At 11/13/08 07:00 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: I'm horrible with abstract renders.

You can get the same results with photoshop actions.

Shooped posters are always fun.

At 11/13/08 07:00 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: I'm horrible with abstract renders.

Ah don't be so hard on yourself, looks really great. Except I think you should lose the two white hazy thingies, they just don't look right and they take away from the whole flow. Other than that I think it looks superb.

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MST3k

"North by Northwest" (2008 remake)
starring Judd Apatow

Tom Servo: "Did you see that, he just wrote two scrips while running."

Mike Nelson: "*huff* *huff* I think I... *huff* just pooped... *huff* a little... *huff*"

CROW: "What the hell is that guy's problem? What a dick. This can't get any wor... oh crap I just stepped in cow shit."

At 11/13/08 07:09 AM, cast wrote: My first shop with Cs4

Observe.

Holy shit.

hello there photoshop HQ this was what i was looking for my name is mr nonplusultra and i always try to improve my knowledge and skill. i often do cosmetic stuff with photos and photomontage is kind of my thing so we will have lots of fun with each other :>

site i found with great tutorials for CS3 and CS4

At 11/14/08 12:10 PM, BlindShoemaker wrote: site i found with great tutorials for CS3 and CS4

Ah yes, Planet Photoshop. Believe me when I say that this is no major discovery, the place is famous among photoshop fanatics and professionals worldwide. Corey Barker is well known as the reigning king of photoshop, I frequent his site very often for software update news and announcements. I believe I previously linked to his newspost about CS4's (at the time) upcoming release and his review of his first trial with it.

On a related note, I recently upgraded to Photoshop CS4 a day or two ago, and let me tell you guys, it's freakin' sweet. It's going to be hard saying goodbye to CS3 considering all the fun times we had together, but I can't help it, I think I'm in love.

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MST3k

"American Psycho" (2008 remake)
starring Dane Cook

Tom Servo: "AHHHH look out, he's murdering comedy!"

Mike Nelson: "If he wanted to kill someone, he should tell jokes. There'd be more yelling, but slightly less blood at least."

CROW: "You guys SHUT UP. JUST SHUT UP! HE'S JUST MISUNDERSTOOD JUST SHUT UP!!"

MST3k

"American Psycho" (2009 remake)
starring Jimmy Fallon

Mike Nelson: "Good Lord, another remake?"

Tom Servo: ".*blehhh* ...oh man, I'm so sorry Mike. I just vomited on your shoes."

CROW: "Well, it's the end of the world and I'm a bit gassy but otherwise OK."

MST3k

"North by Northwest" (2009 remake)
starring Jimmy Fallon

Tom Servo: "bebebebebebebebebebebebebebebbebebe"

Mike Nelson: "Uh oh, Crow passed out."

Hey, can someone teach me how to make a picture fade from black and white to colour?

I'm going to do a project and I will be doing that, so I want to know.

Here's a picture for the sake of example.

How's my sig look? It's the first thing I did in CS4

At 11/14/08 10:47 PM, THEJamoke wrote: MST3k

"North by Northwest" (2009 remake)
starring Jimmy Fallon

Tom Servo: "bebebebebebebebebebebebebebebbebebe"

Mike Nelson: "Uh oh, Crow passed out."

Stop with theese now?

At 11/15/08 09:09 AM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Hey, can someone teach me how to make a picture fade from black and white to colour?

1) Create new layer
2) Open the gradients tool, and make it a "black to transparent" gradient
3) Use the gradient on your image
4) In the blending options, change the layer from "normal" to "saturation." The part of the gradient that was black will now be black and white

Full size - http://img.skitch.com/20081115-d27gknchd ary8r7txeg767d5nw.jpg

The Asylum Presents:

"Epidemic"
The story that inspired South Park's "Pandemic"

Tom Servo: It's not enough that The Asylum has to rip off blockbuster movies but South Park episodes? What has Hollywood come to?

Mike Nelson: A rip-off of a rip-off.

At 11/15/08 06:47 PM, STEM wrote:

At 11/15/08 09:09 AM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Hey, can someone teach me how to make a picture fade from black and white to colour?

1) Create new layer
2) Open the gradients tool, and make it a "black to transparent" gradient
3) Use the gradient on your image
4) In the blending options, change the layer from "normal" to "saturation." The part of the gradient that was black will now be black and white

Given our recent discussion with gradients, she should have no problem now ;

I would also like to point out the somewhat often over-looked gem that is the History Brush. Another method would be to change the pic's attributes to b&w with Image > Adjustments > Black & White, then take the History Brush, set it to 0 density and a large diameter and simply sweep over the pic with a few strokes to custom fade the pic between color and black & white. This can be useful if you intend to make the fade less uniform than the simple shapes the Gradient Tool provides.

At 11/15/08 12:10 PM, doody1 wrote: Stop with theese now?

I'm sorry, and you are? Having never seen you in this thread before, I'm not really sure.
Let's see... ah, judging by your post history, just a +1 spammer jackoff.

At 11/15/08 09:01 PM, Heinrich wrote: The Asylum Presents:

<3 Asylum.

I still use CS2...
Would posting extremely distorted pics here be allowed?

since I am horrible at cutouts and coloring.

At 11/15/08 10:48 PM, shadowchaotailsevil3 wrote: I still use CS2...
Would posting extremely distorted pics here be allowed?

since I am horrible at cutouts and coloring.

If you're going to post like 5+ random warped images, it's best to throw them all onto a site like imageshack and put them in one post. I've always seen this thread as a "here are my photos, how can I get better," as opposed a thread you could just make on the art forum and call "here are my photos!"

At 11/15/08 10:50 PM, STEM wrote:

At 11/15/08 10:48 PM, shadowchaotailsevil3 wrote: I still use CS2...
Would posting extremely distorted pics here be allowed?

since I am horrible at cutouts and coloring.

If you're going to post like 5+ random warped images, it's best to throw them all onto a site like imageshack and put them in one post. I've always seen this thread as a "here are my photos, how can I get better," as opposed a thread you could just make on the art forum and call "here are my photos!"

That helps a lot...I got bored late last night after i hopped off of the forums so i took a blank photoshop page...just the basic color white and using only filters still managed to make something out of it..
Thanks for letting me know STEM.

I'm just starting using fireworks, how's this?

Sorry for the double post, but heres something else I've done.

Here's an example of what I was talking about.

At 11/16/08 03:08 PM, shadowchaotailsevil3 wrote: Here's an example of what I was talking about.

Pretty cool for basic effects. I really enjoy just tossing random effects around and seeing what I get, so I took your image to make the thing below. If you duplicate what you have now, duplicate the layer, flip it horizontally, then set that new layer to Screen, you can get some cool blending effects with certain images. I did that a few times to this and changed the colors with adjustments > color balance.

At 11/16/08 08:06 PM, STEM wrote:

At 11/16/08 03:08 PM, shadowchaotailsevil3 wrote: Here's an example of what I was talking about.

Pretty cool for basic effects. I really enjoy just tossing random effects around and seeing what I get, so I took your image to make the thing below. If you duplicate what you have now, duplicate the layer, flip it horizontally, then set that new layer to Screen, you can get some cool blending effects with certain images. I did that a few times to this and changed the colors with adjustments > color balance.

That is pretty sweet..
Also for starters to make it a little funner and easier add in a few colored lines then I begin to use the filters and keep mixing using only filters and sometimes flip it so it looks better..
Here is an example from another thread I did..
I took the base pic and finished product....well..to me it looks liek a building being destroyed in anime..
I'm thinking of just making a DA account so I can make wallapapers using the style of filters..
Not bad for CS2 alone though is it?

This makes me think..
How do I add the effect of like those swirly looking lines surrounding the person in pics?

never figured out how to do it?
multi-layered maybe?

Looking at the last few posts, I see you guys are experimenting with the various filters and whatnot, but it looks like so far you're just applying one filter after another until your pic is floating in the void of Filter Hell. The various filters, like all tools in Photoshop, can be used in combination and in moderation to make more than just over saturated abstractions. With a light touch and the proper mix, the filters can add flare and pop to any ordinary photo, which is then lost on the file size limit restrictions on the bbs :P

THE END.

Tom Servo: "Start smoochin'."

Mike Nelson: "...and the hooooome, of theeeee, braaaaaave."

CROW: "If not completely satisfied, please return any non-used portion for a complete refund."

haha so this means I am the winner? :3

Awsome! Who's second and third though?

At 11/18/08 04:02 AM, THEJamoke wrote: Looking at the last few posts, I see you guys are experimenting with the various filters and whatnot, but it looks like so far you're just applying one filter after another until your pic is floating in the void of Filter Hell. The various filters, like all tools in Photoshop, can be used in combination and in moderation to make more than just over saturated abstractions. With a light touch and the proper mix, the filters can add flare and pop to any ordinary photo, which is then lost on the file size limit restrictions on the bbs :P

ey mang thats 100 % made out of this tutorial

here you go
Turned out very well ! but i think its even nicer if you vary the colours into orange/red tune

btw, if you visit the same page, can you make an example picture with this
pin up effect
because this was the only tut that didnt work properly on my pc
when he explans the ctrl + alt + ~ part my selection doesn't work. HALP !!!

At 11/18/08 08:19 AM, Whirlguy wrote: haha so this means I am the winner? :3

Awsome! Who's second and third though?

No 2nd and 3rd, because nobody deserved to win more than you. Highlander rules: there can be only one.

At 11/18/08 02:41 PM, NonPlusUltra wrote: ey mang thats 100 % made out of this tutorial

here you go
Turned out very well ! but i think its even nicer if you vary the colours into orange/red tune

Left in intentionally to give contrast between the blue satirized layer and the brush "lights." In fact, I enhanced the o/r with color replace and the new CS4 Sumi-E filter (faded significantly) just to give that layer extra contrast.

btw, if you visit the same page, can you make an example picture with this
pin up effect
because this was the only tut that didnt work properly on my pc
when he explans the ctrl + alt + ~ part my selection doesn't work. HALP !!!

I too have trouble using this supposed Ctrl+Alt+~ function which he describes. My best guess as to why it works for him and not for either of us is the fact that he's using a Mac. Even so though, I wasn't even able to locate aforementioned shortcut anywhere on the list of Layer Pallet Shortcuts anywhere on Adobe's own help center itself: CS3 Shortcuts, CS4 Shortcuts
It must be there somewhere, hiding but good, but anywho, there's always an alternate route seeing as how it's a shortcut. Taking the "long way" around isn't too very difficult to begin with:

In order to manually select the areas of highlight on a pic or subject-
- go to Select > Color Range
- make sure the "Image" option at the bottom is toggled on
- in the Select bar, hit the drop down button and select Highlights, click ok.

That's all there is to it.

In all honesty I hardly ever use any of the shortcut keys, except for Ctrl+U,I,L or B. The rest I find to be a frivolity which take away from the knowledge one can gain by learning his or her way around the program by doing things "the old fashioned way." Is a few extra mouse clicks really so much of an inconvenience? For me the real inconvenience is having to take my hand off the mouse, I almost never touch the keyboard when I'm working in Photoshop. But that's just me. While others seem to find the practicality in the various "shortcuts," I do not.

And on your advice of adjusting the color contrast with that previous pic, I added an extra layer and refiltered it, then adjusted the mode to overlay and, you were correct, the color tones did come through with more stunning clarity.