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At 8/24/08 08:19 PM, americanidiot2f wrote: Here is one I made, a knife in an iTouch. This is actually my first photoshop using photoshop. I gotta get familiar with photoshop even more.

I knew I missed something.

At 8/24/08 02:44 PM, Heinrich wrote: Here we are at the first Photoshop Competition. This week's theme is Revolution.

You have to photoshop theme of revolution like a revolutionary portrait, historic picture, propaganda and the like. You have until August 30 to create your photoshop.

Let the games begin ;)

At 8/24/08 03:17 PM, Marsupial wrote: Been done, by me.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/6846 27/1

and it did rather well for a bit

I see that it went dead for a whole year and was only recently revived for only a short time. Thanks for the link to some info, but the purpose here is not just help and tutorials, we are here primarily to have fun posting shops that one would normally find in the many random threads in general without the usual riff raff showing up to post a spam meme and saying "it had to be done." Shitty MS Paint Bedns and cocks NEVER HAVE to be done!

Aside from that, we'd like a fresh start for some lulz rather than tacking onto an already established/failing thread where we could get lost in the mix. Thanks for continuing to contribute anyway. I see from you other thread that you've had plenty of practice time, so take the liberty to post shops and join in on the contests or just entertain the public at large.

At 8/24/08 03:17 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Hi.

All I gotta say is, thanks THEJamoke for making this thread. I want to go into the area of graphic designing when I get older, and I don't know one bit heck of a thing about photoshop.

I can be one of those like, "watching members" where I'll just read everyone's experiences here with photoshop and all those other softwares.

I'm looking forward to learning with the best :)

I'm glad you came. I know you're a big fan of graphic design and photo manipulation, and I hope to see you around more.

At 8/24/08 04:13 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Oh hey look I made lightning.. (sort of) .. not bad for the first day of using paint.net.

Any point outs on how i can make it look more realistic?

I'm not all that familiar with Paint.net, but I do have some experience with lightning effects in PS. With PS it's quite simple to adjust the image. In case there are any similarities between the two methods, or if anyone with Photoshop is also curious, I'll post what I know anyway.

- (In PS) go to Image > Adjustments > Levels (Ctrl + L) and play with the lighting to sharpen or blur the color tones of the lightning to the disired effect. This will make the white of the lightning stand out and make it more realistic.
- You can also Change the colors with Image > Adjustments > Color Balance (Ctrl + B)
or
- Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Ctrl + U)

At 8/24/08 06:40 PM, rahvin-the-vampire wrote: I've tried to watch some of these tutorials but my program is kinda obsolete for them. I could easily search youtube for Photoshop CS2 tuts, but I figured since there's this trove of information, maybe someone out there will wonder as well: Does anyone here know of any CS2 tutorials that are worthwhile?

Has anyone else been helped by CS2 tutorials somewhere?

You should browse through HERE to see if there are any tutorials of use to you. They cover PS 5, 6, 7, CS2 & CS3.

I made this someone on NG when they were sad, by the time I got back with the shop the thread was closed. I was sad because this one actually turned out alright...

I remember that thread. It lived very briefly. What happened to it? Why did it get deleted? I never found out. I went to go shop the base, came back and blammo it was gone.

At 8/24/08 07:21 PM, Whirlguy wrote: Hey everyone, thanks for inviting me!

You're welcome.

Finding these images was quite a hassle. I'm usually very picky when it comes to my choice of images.

Google Images, Yahoo! Images and Flicker are a photoshopper's best friend. You can find almost anything on one of those three. Spend some time every day just browsing through them for random pics that could be used as fodder for later projects. I keep a folder of pics with elements and scenery that I think may be useful later down the road for just such purposes.

At 8/24/08 08:19 PM, americanidiot2f wrote: Here is one I made, a knife in an iTouch. This is actually my first photoshop using photoshop. I gotta get familiar with photoshop even more.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but right around the hilt in the metal area where the blade meets the handle, it looks like you were using the magic eraser tool and it ate a little into the image. That appens a lot when working with grays and especially metallic objects. When that happens, use the art history brush to rebuild the lost parts. You can always go back with the undo function and touch-up things with the eraser to smooth edges. Other than that, not bad.

We all make mistakes and any artist will find it hard to get as close to perfection as they'd like. But still take your time anyhow. I have this habit of going back 3 or 4 times before posting a shop to glance over it again with the magnifier to catch little imperfections, but even so, it's hard to catch them all, especially late at night when you're tired.

At 8/24/08 08:31 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but right around the hilt in the metal area where the blade meets the handle, it looks like you were using the magic eraser tool and it ate a little into the image. That appens a lot when working with grays and especially metallic objects. When that happens, use the art history brush to rebuild the lost parts. You can always go back with the undo function and touch-up things with the eraser to smooth edges. Other than that, not bad.

Yea, I actually just focussed my time on making the crack on the iTouch. For the knife, I just got one and used the paint bucket in eraser mode. Thanks for the feedback.

At 8/24/08 08:21 PM, americanidiot2f wrote:

At 8/24/08 08:19 PM, americanidiot2f wrote: Here is one I made, a knife in an iTouch. This is actually my first photoshop using photoshop. I gotta get familiar with photoshop even more.

I knew I missed something.

Great for a first 'shop. The knife is a bit out of proportion with the iPhone, though. If you can't find a suitable knife pic that's perpendicular to the iPhone, just go to Image > transform > Distort and skew the top so that it's shorter but still at the same angle.

As for the crack itself, I think the highlights need to be slightly brighter to contrast with the jaggedness of the darker sections. If you're willing to do some extra work and make the cracks by hand instead, try using the concepts from this tutorial. Sure, it uses a stone slab as the base pic, but I'm sure you can convert the tips into something for glass.

Like I said, though, great work for a first Photoshop using the program.

At 8/24/08 08:31 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but right around the hilt in the metal area where the blade meets the handle, it looks like you were using the magic eraser tool and it ate a little into the image. That appens a lot when working with grays and especially metallic objects. When that happens, use the art history brush to rebuild the lost parts.

Yeah, that's a good tip to get rid of accidental clipping that may ensue when you use the Magic Wand tool or something similar.

When I had the first Photoshop Elements (NOT TOO LONG AGO!), there was no healing brush tool. :O
So, I had to use the lengthy process of taking a bit of a similar-looking section from somewhere else (usually right beside the mistake spot), distort it a bit to line it up with the rest, and erase the parts that stuck out.

If yours doesn't have the tool that THEJamoke was talking about or you're having difficulties using it, I suggest doing that.

At 8/24/08 08:31 PM, THEJamoke wrote:

At 8/24/08 04:13 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Oh hey look I made lightning.. (sort of) .. not bad for the first day of using paint.net.

Any point outs on how i can make it look more realistic?

I'm not all that familiar with Paint.net, but I do have some experience with lightning effects in PS. With PS it's quite simple to adjust the image. In case there are any similarities between the two methods, or if anyone with Photoshop is also curious, I'll post what I know anyway.

- (In PS) go to Image > Adjustments > Levels (Ctrl + L) and play with the lighting to sharpen or blur the color tones of the lightning to the disired effect. This will make the white of the lightning stand out and make it more realistic.
- You can also Change the colors with Image > Adjustments > Color Balance (Ctrl + B)
or
- Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Ctrl + U)

Oh awesome. I got the lightning to look more realistic...
...but I couldn't quite understand Marsupial's method to darken the background... sorry, but remember I'm very new to this and it doesn't help that you use a different program :/

Anyway, pic:

I was invited here, and thought I'd post a photoshop or two-hundred here.

This one was made a while ago, but I still think it's funny.

At 8/24/08 09:34 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote:

At 8/24/08 08:31 PM, THEJamoke wrote:

At 8/24/08 04:13 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Oh hey look I made lightning.. (sort of) .. not bad for the first day of using paint.net.

Any point outs on how i can make it look more realistic?

I'm not all that familiar with Paint.net, but I do have some experience with lightning effects in PS. With PS it's quite simple to adjust the image. In case there are any similarities between the two methods, or if anyone with Photoshop is also curious, I'll post what I know anyway.

- (In PS) go to Image > Adjustments > Levels (Ctrl + L) and play with the lighting to sharpen or blur the color tones of the lightning to the disired effect. This will make the white of the lightning stand out and make it more realistic.
- You can also Change the colors with Image > Adjustments > Color Balance (Ctrl + B)
or
- Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Ctrl + U)

Oh awesome. I got the lightning to look more realistic...
...but I couldn't quite understand Marsupial's method to darken the background... sorry, but remember I'm very new to this and it doesn't help that you use a different program :/

Anyway, pic:

well yeah thats basically what i meant, more black around the outsides, it looks better now but i recommend you at least get a trial of photoshop, i can assure you will get better results than with paint.net lmao.

and TheJamoke, i guess its ok to have another thread but remember the one in the art forum had an advantage cos we could post bigger pictures ;)
but whatever you probably put more effort into this than i did in mine so im gonna keep posting here.

At 8/24/08 09:48 PM, Marsupial wrote:

At 8/24/08 09:34 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote:

At 8/24/08 08:31 PM, THEJamoke wrote:

At 8/24/08 04:13 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Oh hey look I made lightning.. (sort of) .. not bad for the first day of using paint.net.

Any point outs on how i can make it look more realistic?

I'm not all that familiar with Paint.net, but I do have some experience with lightning effects in PS. With PS it's quite simple to adjust the image. In case there are any similarities between the two methods, or if anyone with Photoshop is also curious, I'll post what I know anyway.

- (In PS) go to Image > Adjustments > Levels (Ctrl + L) and play with the lighting to sharpen or blur the color tones of the lightning to the disired effect. This will make the white of the lightning stand out and make it more realistic.
- You can also Change the colors with Image > Adjustments > Color Balance (Ctrl + B)
or
- Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Ctrl + U)

Oh awesome. I got the lightning to look more realistic...
...but I couldn't quite understand Marsupial's method to darken the background... sorry, but remember I'm very new to this and it doesn't help that you use a different program :/

Anyway, pic:

well yeah thats basically what i meant, more black around the outsides, it looks better now but i recommend you at least get a trial of photoshop, i can assure you will get better results than with paint.net lmao.

Cool, I'll get the trial once I come home from school tomorrow.
...It's 30 days if I'm not mistaken, right?
Well hmmm.. I'll mess with it for those 30 days and then see if some of the things you can do some things using PS with paint.net as well..

Lucky college people, get discounts from everything :P

Wow can't believe no-one had this idea until now, I'm reasonably new to photoshop and just mess around making banners and user page layouts for people. My favourite piece I've done so far is a banner for Lilcheeselad. It was definitely the oddest request ever.

"Flying cats, rainbows and sparkles."

I'm trying to get to grips with drawing in photoshop mainly drawing in flash, because you can get much more detail and texture in photoshop.

At 8/24/08 09:34 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Oh awesome. I got the lightning to look more realistic...
...but I couldn't quite understand Marsupial's method to darken the background... sorry, but remember I'm very new to this and it doesn't help that you use a different program :/

Anyway, pic:

Looks like it worked. I see improvement.

At 8/24/08 09:42 PM, Sunglasses wrote: I was invited here, and thought I'd post a photoshop or two-hundred here.

You certainly were. We're more than happy to have the legend that is Sunglasses back.

This one was made a while ago, but I still think it's funny.

Ha, I recognize a BBR base pic when I see it. Nice.

At 8/24/08 09:48 PM, Marsupial wrote: and TheJamoke, i guess its ok to have another thread but remember the one in the art forum had an advantage cos we could post bigger pictures ;)
but whatever you probably put more effort into this than i did in mine so im gonna keep posting here.

We were advised to put this in the C&C forum. It seems a more fitting place anyway. AF also has the rule stating a thread must start with a pic or it dies instantly.

As for the smaller file size limitation, we can deal with that. We've been making shops to go in General for a long time and the 150k limit never became an issue. We should be able to get by just fine.

At 8/24/08 10:16 PM, Scuzzfest wrote: "Flying cats, rainbows and sparkles."

I'm trying to get to grips with drawing in photoshop mainly drawing in flash, because you can get much more detail and texture in photoshop.

Yes, and it's very detailed. One comment though, you should try spacing the cats out a little further, it just looks a bit crowded with them clustered together like that. Try to space your subjects so that the details of each one are distinguishable and accent those of the next at the same time.

.........

The electricity in my house just flickered off and on and restarted my computer (*shakes fist towards the heavens, cursing*) I was literally 2 minutes away from completing my shop for the contest. I have to start all over again. I'll be posting it soon.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll submit at least one photoshopped image a day to keep improving.
Here is one I did a long time ago, there was a thread and I thought the guy looked similar to Heinrich, so I made this.

Done in fireworks, just a quick photoshop.

At 8/24/08 10:34 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Yes, and it's very detailed. One comment though, you should try spacing the cats out a little further, it just looks a bit crowded with them clustered together like that. Try to space your subjects so that the details of each one are distinguishable and accent those of the next at the same time.

Yeah I would of done that but I wasn't going for a whole image originally, it was just meant for a header so it would look like this.

Budda bing budda boom.

Sleep now it's 3am in the UK.

At 8/24/08 02:44 PM, Heinrich wrote: Here we are at the first Photoshop Competition. This week's theme is Revolution.

Ill get in on the next one.

At 8/24/08 10:36 PM, americanidiot2f wrote: Thanks for the feedback, I'll submit at least one photoshopped image a day to keep improving.
Here is one I did a long time ago, there was a thread and I thought the guy looked similar to Heinrich, so I made this.

Done in fireworks, just a quick photoshop.

Heinrich's Plumbing photoshop thread is probably one of the best there is. Mucho talent in that one, mostly from Hein himself.

One quick tip though, whenever importing a new layer, always try removing the rough edges by going to Layer> Matting > Defringe. It can smooth out the image greatly and make it blend better without using the eraser to get rid of those annoying pixels.

At 8/24/08 10:37 PM, Scuzzfest wrote: Yeah I would of done that but I wasn't going for a whole image originally, it was just meant for a header so it would look like this.

Even though it's the same image, now that it's cropped it looks much better. Getting rid of all the negative space really makes it work (that is, if you like kitty sigs :P) Now that I see finished product, I retract my previous statement. It's fine as is.

Photoshop Competition: Revolution

"...and so, it begins. None shall be spared."

Photoshop Club, alright, i was hoping somebody would start one up. I don't have anything that i'v recently done but i do have this pic that i did from an older "Photoshop this" thread. Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done.

At 8/24/08 01:17 AM, americanidiot2f wrote: Oh and, anyone is welcomed to PM me if they need help operating Fireworks, since thats the program I use, specifically Fireworks 8.

I use Fireworks 8, and you are the only other person I've ever seen on NG who also uses it.

Haha I know where to find my images Jamoke, but thanks.

Count me in! :D

And i'll also attach a photoshop i've done just now... although it's not exactly my best one plus it's not to do with the competiton... But the concept of my photoshop made me laugh :]

At 8/24/08 11:53 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Photoshop Competition: Revolution

"...and so, it begins. None shall be spared."

Haha, nice! This one reminds me of Alexander Romanov from Red Alert 2!

At 8/25/08 09:55 AM, mythicaljake wrote: Count me in! :D

And i'll also attach a photoshop i've done just now... although it's not exactly my best one plus it's not to do with the competiton... But the concept of my photoshop made me laugh :]

You need some improving and you came to the right place for constructive criticism.

The main thing you need to work on for this picture is to get rid of the white around the images. Try grabbing an eraser tool and trim the edges to make them fit more and perhaps change the emo into something brighter so he fits in with the picture more. If you have FireWorks, you can use the "Dodge tool" to brighten him up or use the color filters to doodle around with his color to make it more believable.

Take your time in making them. There's no need to rush and all it takes is time and effort to make a good photoshop.

Righto, I made a picture for the competition :]
I screwed up the spear a tad though :(

At 8/25/08 12:59 PM, Heinrich wrote: You need some improving and you came to the right place for constructive criticism.

Taa muchly for the tips... Indeed, i didn't do a great job on the white outlines; although i can improve that in future photoshops :]

Avast, I forgot the picture xD

As I said before... This is for the Revolution Competition,
Although I screwed up shopping the Spear :\

How many images is one person allowed to enter in this contest?

I revised the rules a bit and placed it on this picture.

BEHOLD: The five competition commandments!

At 8/25/08 02:31 PM, Heinrich wrote: I revised the rules a bit and placed it on this picture.

BEHOLD: The five competition commandments!

Aww Damn, I started before you posted the rules. Oh well I'm gonna post it anyway because I spent quite a bit of time on it.

Forget revolution. Candeh!

At 8/25/08 02:59 PM, Scuzzfest wrote: Aww Damn, I started before you posted the rules. Oh well I'm gonna post it anyway because I spent quite a bit of time on it.

Forget revolution. Candeh!

Aww Damn, I started before you posted your image. Oh well I'm gonna post it anyway because I spent quite a bit of time on it.

Forget Che guevara. Whirlguy!

At 8/25/08 03:14 PM, Whirlguy wrote: Aww Damn, I started before you posted your image. Oh well I'm gonna post it anyway because I spent quite a bit of time on it.

Forget Che guevara. Whirlguy

Nice. We should probably post WIP: insert idea first then start work. :D

hahaha, I'm really liking the competition entries so far. I like how we all seem to agree that nothing says "Revolution" quite like red backgrounds and/or black-and-white layer-filtered faces. Truly propaganda that conveys a state of fear. Thanks to everyone who's entered thus far, and to Heinrich for creating the "Official Rules Plaque," it fits nicely.

Scuzzfest, even though I hate memes with a violent passion, especially the dead horse that is Bedn, I have to be honest and say that you gave it a very creative spin. I assure you it will be judged fairly alongside the rest despite it being contrary to the given guidelines. I understand that you began working on it while being bereft of the "rules" (and I use the term loosely. I never liked the word "rules," it always seem a bit too foreboding.) I especially like the Che Guevara motif.

nice enries so far. I like Scuzzfests the most i think. ill do mine when my main computer is fixed.

ive been transferring a simple tutorial i made once into flash and i was wondering if anyone would be interested in making a broader tutorial based around photoshop with. this is open everyone with som amouunts ok experience. and it could be more than one person of course.

nice entries so far. I like Scuzzfests the most i think. ill do mine when my main computer is fixed.

Ive been transferring a simple tutorial i made once into flash and i was wondering if anyone would be interested in making a broader tutorial based around photoshop with me. this is open to everyone with some amounts of experience. and it could be more than one person of course.

sorry, there were a lot of typos there so i had to fix them

i hate this laptop