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At 8/30/08 05:10 PM, Marsupial wrote:

At 8/30/08 05:04 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Okay, another one of my concerns is about the things you guys photoshop. Usually I see you guys manipulating a photo by adding things to it or cutting it out and sticking it in another photo.
The type of graphic designing I want to do in the future is like the pic below, but question, is this entire picture drawn from scratch or how do they do this? This is the type of pictures I want to learn to make, something cool and very... graphic-y. :P

thats pretty epic.

Epic indeed. It's currently my wallpaper :D

professional designers tend to use programs like cinama 4d and 3d studio max to create the shapes and photoshop for colouring and editing.

I see... Must take years of learning to learn to make the shapes look so cool.
Also, I'm pretty sure this pic can be done with photoshop, if I'm not mistaken:

At 8/30/08 05:21 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote:

At 8/30/08 05:10 PM, Marsupial wrote:

thats pretty epic.

Epic indeed. It's currently my wallpaper :D

i know a few guys who make some amazing stuff too, ill show you them later.

professional designers tend to use programs like cinama 4d and 3d studio max to create the shapes and photoshop for colouring and editing.

I see... Must take years of learning to learn to make the shapes look so cool.
Also, I'm pretty sure this pic can be done with photoshop, if I'm not mistaken:

yes youre not mistaken. but i have a feeling the face is drawn. I may be wrong.

Sol Cero by Ethernity

Let's give this week's winners of Revolution a round of applause! I'll prepare next week's theme!

I just downloaded the trial version of Photoshop CS3 extended and I'm trying to practice with it before my ordered version comes in. It should be in no later than September 6. It's quite tricky but I'll get the hang of it!

Here's my first. I'll try to make it more realistic in the future.

It's marsupial :P

good looking medals though.

does this mean I won?

At 8/30/08 06:15 PM, Marsupial wrote: It's marsupial :P

good looking medals though.

does this mean I won?

Despite the minor spelling error, yes it does. Congratulations. I hope you're glad you participated now :D

At 8/30/08 05:04 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Okay, another one of my concerns is about the things you guys photoshop. Usually I see you guys manipulating a photo by adding things to it or cutting it out and sticking it in another photo.

'cuz bouncing is what us Tiggers do best...

The type of graphic designing I want to do in the future is like the pic below, but question, is this entire picture drawn from scratch or how do they do this? This is the type of pictures I want to learn to make, something cool and very... graphic-y. :P

A pic like that is generally made with several of any multitude of graphic design programs. The eye one you posted is something that can be done with just one program such as Photoshop. I'll show you how.

1. First, find a pic you want to mess with and open it in Photoshop, durrrrrrrrrr...

2. Next, create a second layer to work with on top of the pic. This is so that if you are not satisfied at any point while working you can simply delete the layer altogether and start over without having to close and re-open the file. Also, this step will prove even more useful down the road for work like this.

3. Grab your color replacement tool and start adding colors to where ever your heart desires. Try to stay in between the lines, but remember if you make a mistake you can always hit "Undo" in the Edit menu, or use the Art History Brush tool to fix minor imperfections.

4. Once you have added all the color you want, go to the layer menu box in the bottom right corner and select Blending Options. Play with the different settings until you achieve the desired effect.
In this case, try Hue, Soft Light and Luminosity. One of those three should give you something close to what you are looking for. Adjust the opacity and fill opacity settings until you're happy. If you don't like the new shading of the skin tone around the eye, just use the Art History Brush to fix it (If you plan on doing Step 5 don't bother.)

5. Now your eye should look colorful and blended smoothly. Flatten the layers, and if you want to duplicate the black and white effect on the rest of the face select the Elliptical Marquee tool and try to select as much of the eyeball as possible, don't worry about getting the skin, it's better to have too much than too little. You can fix this later.

6. Right-click and select "Layer via copy" to make the eyeball its own layer. Now highlight the layer you just clipped it from and go to Image>Adjustments>Black&White and just hit OK. This will instantly give you the black and white tone around the eyeball on the face. You can adjust the color levels before hitting OK to lighten or darken the black and white if you desire.

7. Finally, just use the eraser tool (on the eyeball layer only) to fix any imperfections, such as the normal skin tone showing among the black and white. Flatten the layers and you're finished.

The final result will look something like this:

Wow I'm second! Cool!
I'm saving that! =D

At 8/30/08 07:01 PM, THEJamoke wrote:

A pic like that is generally made with several of any multitude of graphic design programs. The eye one you posted is something that can be done with just one program such as Photoshop. I'll show you how.

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And, voila! The finished project:
(btw I used the same pic as you for this one so I can get used to doing this. It still doesn't look better than yours though :P )

This calls for a sexy party!

Oh lawd!

At 8/30/08 08:11 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: And, voila! The finished project:
(btw I used the same pic as you for this one so I can get used to doing this. It still doesn't look better than yours though :P )

It looks great, you did very well for a first timer. And what a wonderful student too, very patient and attentive ;D

At 8/30/08 08:12 PM, Heinrich wrote: This calls for a sexy party!

This seriously made me lol.

At 8/30/08 08:51 PM, Whirlguy wrote: Oh lawd!

...and now my waffles have been thoroughly rofl'd.

This indeed does call for a sexy party. So here's to this week's winners and all you fine photoshppers out there, Conan Hefner salutes you.

At 8/29/08 06:32 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Try and guess the movie and character who was used as the base pic ;)

I wanna say pulp fiction, I dont know the characters / actors name but its the guy that made john travolta and the black guy strip down, they had to dispose of some bodies or someshit so they called that guy in. He owns the junkyard him and his lady.

I dunno having a brainfart right now cant even remember the black guys name in pulp fiction >.<

Muahah after doing a quick google search I was right =]

At 8/30/08 10:09 PM, Bruute wrote:

At 8/29/08 06:32 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Try and guess the movie and character who was used as the base pic ;)

I wanna say pulp fiction, I dont know the characters / actors name but its the guy that made john travolta and the black guy strip down, they had to dispose of some bodies or someshit so they called that guy in. He owns the junkyard him and his lady.

I dunno having a brainfart right now cant even remember the black guys name in pulp fiction >.<

His name is Samuel L. Jackson, a.k.a. Jules "Pitt" Winfield goddamn yer hide.

At 8/30/08 10:11 PM, Bruute wrote: Muahah after doing a quick google search I was right =]

Yep, you guessed correctly, that would be Winston Wolf. And just for the record, The Wolf didn't own the junkyard, "Honest" Joe did, and the girl, "Raquel" played by Julia Sweeney, was Joe's daughter.

Thanks for playing this little round of "Guess that Shop."

At 8/30/08 05:21 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote:

At 8/30/08 05:10 PM, Marsupial wrote:

Also, I'm pretty sure this pic can be done with photoshop, if I'm not mistaken:

yes youre not mistaken. but i have a feeling the face is drawn. I may be wrong.

That's definitely a photoshopped photo. It probably wasn't drawn.

At 8/30/08 02:47 PM, THEJamoke wrote: The submissions will be judged and a winner chosen and notified via pm by this evening.
Thanks to all who participated. Remember, there are no losers.

Except for everyone that doesn't win...

At 8/30/08 09:52 AM, Whirlguy wrote:

At 8/29/08 06:32 PM, THEJamoke wrote: Try and guess the movie and character who was used as the base pic ;)

A please would be nice..

"Pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the fucking car."

From Pulp Fiction?

...Looks like someone already guessed that (well, I wrote that before reading the posts above.

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Is there any way to do the eye thing with Fireworks? What is the difference between Fireworks and Photoshop? It seems that Photoshop is just more powerful, and Fireworks doesn't really have any distinguishing qualities.

Luis, train the young grasshopper how to Flash!

(I wanted to post this here because it's the first 'shop in a long while that took literally an hour to find the base pics and edit them. Likey?)

My best PSCS3E picture so far. I'm really getting the hang of the basics!

Here's to my favourite Drow!

As requested by Marsupial, I fixed his name.

This week's Photoshop competition theme: Movie Posters

Whenever we go to the theatres and see posters of upcoming movies, we get intrigued and then excited. Here we make movie posters that you would like to see.

Also, you have until September 6 to make your poster.

Haha I love this new contest

At 8/31/08 02:37 PM, Whirlguy wrote: Haha I love this new contest

As am I. This competition is one that I've been looking forward to.

And to give you guys a little more girth with your ideas, your movie poster can be either a fictional movie that you make up, or you can take a pre-existing movie and add whatever star you would have liked to have seen appear in it. The focus of this contest is more on the side of creativity rather than overall skill so try your hand at the first of the criteria if you can. Try to do a good job and make it look believable, and the funnier the better.

Have fun with this one. As always, you can enter as many pics as you'd like. Choose the most lulzy for top consideration or we will pick it for you.

Now on with the show.

At 8/30/08 09:13 PM, THEJamoke wrote:

At 8/30/08 08:11 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: And, voila! The finished project:
(btw I used the same pic as you for this one so I can get used to doing this. It still doesn't look better than yours though :P )

It looks great, you did very well for a first timer. And what a wonderful student too, very patient and attentive ;D

I'm starting to think my eye looks sexier than your eye. Teehee.
Thanks for having the patience to teach me, sometimes I get lost and it takes a while for me to get back on track.
Also, you said you were going to post the lightning tutorial here? I closed our AIM convo - sorry.

Also, did this out of sheer boredom... and to improve on the eye technique.

At 8/31/08 04:36 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Also, you said you were going to post the lightning tutorial here? I closed our AIM convo - sorry.

And I shall, as promised.

This is one quick and easy method for making lightning with Photoshop CS3 Extended that I picked up along the way. It can be used to make lightning for a variety of things. So here it is, for Sk8terGirl and anyone else out there in photoshop land who wants to add some spark to their art:

Lightning Tutorial #1

Open a new document and set the custom size to 400 or 500 pixels wide and 200 pixels long, with a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. (You can make the document wider or smaller depending on the size of the pic you are planning on adding the lightning to, bu for now this should give you decent resolution for most standard sized pics.)

Step 1: using the Gradient tool, draw a line from top to bottom starting about 4/5 of the way up from the bottom of the document. This will ensure that the lightning will appear near the middle of the document.

Step 2: (**Important: make sure your foreground color icon is set to absolute black**) go to Filter > Render > Difference Clouds. This will transform the gradient into grayish clouds with a black streak in the middle.

Step 3: press Ctrl+I to invert the colors making the clouds light gray with a white lightning-like streak in the middle.

Step 4: press Ctrl+L to bring up the "adjust lighting level" window. Move the little gray arrow in the middle all the way over to the right. Now the lightning should be clearly visible and surrounded by black.

Step 5 (optional): if you want colorful lightning rather than just the boring old white variety, press Ctrl+U to bring up the "color adjustment" window. Be sure to click the little button that says "colorize" in the bottom right corner, then play with the hue/saturation levels until you achieve the color you're looking for. If you want stronger and wider lightning, move the "lightness" setting up just a little. For darker, thinner lightning, move it down slightly.

Step 6: Now you can take your Rectangular Marquee Tool and copy/paste the image onto any pic. Once you have pasted it, go to the layer blending option ("fx" symbol in the bottom right corner of the workspace) and set the blend mode to Screen. The black will be completely removed leaving only the lightning.
Use the Move tool to adjust the size and move it into position, use the Eraser tool to remove excess haze and trim down what you don't want, use the Blur tool to smooth the haze edges and rough ends of your lightning, and you can also press Ctrl+L again (from Step 4) to make the lightning look even sharper.

Flatten the layers and you're finished.

Practice with this method a few times and it will become easy as riding a bike and smooth as a Swiss watch. Make multiple bolts, paste and layer flatten them together to make designs and electric effects to add to a project. When using colorful lightning, be sure to remember your color setting in Step 5 to make each bolt uniform. Another great tip is to take your Color Replacement tool and add minor highlights to surrounding objects to match the lightning. Have fun.

couple of bassist sigs i made that i want you guys to have a look at. especially Jamoke as he wanted to see some of my work (saved low quality to fit the requirements)

thanks for the edit btw Heinrich ;)

and this new competition seems interesting, i have an idea and ill be making my entry soon enough

At 8/31/08 07:23 PM, Marsupial wrote: couple of bassist sigs i made that i want you guys to have a look at. especially Jamoke as he wanted to see some of my work (saved low quality to fit the requirements)

thanks for the edit btw Heinrich ;)

and this new competition seems interesting, i have an idea and ill be making my entry soon enough

Nice! The lights and the swirls definitely make it stand out. If only NG didn't have a filesize requirement; the full-res result would look even better!

At 8/31/08 07:23 PM, Marsupial wrote: couple of bassist sigs i made that i want you guys to have a look at. especially Jamoke as he wanted to see some of my work (saved low quality to fit the requirements)

BOOTSY!!!! I freakin' LOVE P-Funk! lolololololololol

That's awesome.

At 8/31/08 06:58 PM, THEJamoke wrote:

At 8/31/08 04:36 PM, Sk8erGirl14 wrote: Also, you said you were going to post the lightning tutorial here? I closed our AIM convo - sorry.

And I shall, as promised.

Oh sweet, looks pretty good.
I was kinda arsed with the fact that I was looking for the tool that lets you rotate it... poop.

I think TehSlapHappy should have been in Amos and Andy, personally.