Pages: 1 2  Next -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 2:19 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 If you have been wondering how to do something in Photoshop and not sure how to go about it, feel free to ask here. If and when I have time, I will make up a tutorial for it. Obviously there are many ways to do the same thing in Photoshop so this is what *I* would do. Contents: -Make your own brushes (Beginner) -Make a spot color effect with colored images (Beginner / Advanced)   Happy Photoshopping! (Edited by WigAOK9 at 4:48 pm on Sep. 18, 2005) -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 2:20 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 Making your own brushes: Beginner Step One: Select the square marque tool from your tool bar. Step Two: Click and drag a box around the shape or image you wish to make into a brush. Step Three: Go to: Edit > Define Brush Preset.. Step Four: Name your brush, then press OK. *DONE* You have created your brush! You can find your brush at the bottom of your brush library and can use it just like any of the other brushes. -- Posted by unknown figure at 2:21 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 good website to check out for photoshop is www.goodtutorials.com good examples on there too -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 2:22 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 Those suck. Mine are better. -- Posted by unknown figure at 2:23 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 possibly but theres a wider range on tht site than you will post, just trying to help out -- Posted by anti christ at 2:24 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 Personally, I find it a MILLION times better for me to just sit down and figure it out myself... For God's sakes, its a GUI. Its supposed to be self explanatory.... -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 2:25 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 Quote: from anti christ at 2:24 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 Personally, I find it a MILLION times better for me to just sit down and figure it out myself... For God's sakes, its a GUI. Its supposed to be self explanatory.... I am in the same vote as you but not everyone is like you and me SO GET A GRIP. -- Posted by anti christ at 2:29 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 Quote: from WigAOK9 at 2:25 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 I am in the same vote as you but not everyone is like you and me SO GET A GRIP. Or wait... I could be wrong. If the software maker programs some incredebly complex tool, then they could make a tutorial, and become ever richer. It all makes sense now...   http://www.videoprofessor.com/ But yea... thats a nice WindowBlinds skin you've got there.... That program always screws up my computer for somereason... (Edited by anti christ at 2:31 pm on Sep. 18, 2005) -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 3:02 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 HEY BUDDY, I made this topic to help LiveWire members with their specific questions about Photoshop. PLEASE, don't tell me it can't a pain and incredibly frustrating to try to find a Photoshop tutorial for your specific situation. Furthermore, I am NOT doing this for money. I can EASILY say that I know more about Photoshop than you but that does not mean you know a different way to accomplish the same job. You can ALWAYS learn something new about Photoshop and it never hurts to get help, tips or tricks from someone else. I would appreciate it if you would stop spamming my topic and move on with your life. Thank you. -- Posted by SeanG at 3:15 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 coooooooooool thanks -- Posted by kira at 3:29 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 What a great tutorial Scott!  I definitely think finding things like this online can be very difficult. -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 4:41 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 Make a spot color effect with colored images: Beginner / Advanced   Starting image: Step One:   Select the layer image you wish to edit in the Layers Palette. Then go to: Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/ Saturation...     Step Two:   Name your new style layer and check Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask. Then press OK.     Step Three:   A new Hue/ Saturation window will pop-up along with the layer mask in your Layers Palette. Slide the Saturation bar all the way to the left (-100) then press OK. Your colored image will become grayscale.   Step Four:   Make sure your new style mask layer is still selected. Choose your Paint Brush tool set with black. When you are working with a layer mask, black erases the mask away and white paints it back in so when you start painting over the image with black, you are erasing the style mask layer, revealing the image's original colors.   *DONE*   The best part about this method is that it is totally reversible. All you need to do is hide your new style layer mask and all your original colors come back!     Continued: You can also take it one step further and change the colors of the flowers. Make sure you select the original image layer and then repeat steps One and Two. This time, instead of changing the Saturation, slide the Hue bar until you get the colors you want. How about some blue and purple? -- Posted by SeanG at 5:15 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 Thats cool.. very helpful.. how would go by umm.. deletein a brush u make? -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 11:54 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 You right (Option) click on the brush in the brush palette and press delete. -- Posted by RyGuy at 3:49 pm on Sep. 19, 2005 I wish I had photoshop! -- Posted by SeanG at 2:48 pm on Sep. 20, 2005 lol am trying to think wat else i should learn.. is der like.. any other cool things u can teach us? -- Posted by anti christ at 7:28 pm on Sep. 23, 2005 WigAOK9, wouldnt it be easier to select the flowers with the markie too, then invert select the whole pic, then make the saturation to 0? -- Posted by anti christ at 7:31 pm on Sep. 23, 2005 Quote: from WigAOK9 at 3:02 pm on Sep. 18, 2005 HEY BUDDY, I made this topic to help LiveWire members with their specific questions about Photoshop. PLEASE, don't tell me it can't a pain and incredibly frustrating to try to find a Photoshop tutorial for your specific situation. Furthermore, I am NOT doing this for money.   I can EASILY say that I know more about Photoshop than you but that does not mean you know a different way to accomplish the same job. You can ALWAYS learn something new about Photoshop and it never hurts to get help, tips or tricks from someone else. I would appreciate it if you would stop spamming my topic and move on with your life. Thank you. Ahh!!! Calm down dude. I didnt mean it that way..... I'm not Einstein, but I have enough brains to tell that you arent trying to gain anything in monetary value. -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 10:09 pm on Sep. 23, 2005 Quote: from anti christ at 7:28 pm on Sep. 23, 2005 WigAOK9, wouldnt it be easier to select the flowers with the markie too, then invert select the whole pic, then make the saturation to 0? No, not really… -You won’t be able to get as much detail. -You can't control the edges as well or as easily -One mistake or one extra click of the mouse while using the markie tool and you will have to start all over again. -Once you finally finished selecting what you want and then change the saturation, you won’t be able to undo or edit your actions. -- Posted by SeanG at 6:16 am on Sep. 24, 2005 How do you do Inking? -- Posted by Shuichi at 7:56 am on Sep. 26, 2005 Quote: from WigAOK9 at 10:09 pm on Sep. 23, 2005 Quote: from anti christ at 7:28 pm on Sep. 23, 2005 WigAOK9, wouldnt it be easier to select the flowers with the markie too, then invert select the whole pic, then make the saturation to 0? No, not really… -You won’t be able to get as much detail. -You can't control the edges as well or as easily -One mistake or one extra click of the mouse while using the markie tool and you will have to start all over again. -Once you finally finished selecting what you want and then change the saturation, you won’t be able to undo or edit your actions. You can still use the edit undo option in markie tool too. -- Posted by WigAOK9 at 12:18 pm on Sep. 26, 2005 Yes but that becomes extremely useless when you move on to the next step, when it clears from your history palette or when you save, close and then re-open your project to continue working on it. -- Posted by SeanG at 3:25 pm on Sep. 26, 2005 I gots others for you    since u love doing them   How do you do inking? And, How do you colour hair? -- Posted by kira at 9:42 pm on Sep. 26, 2005 I HAVE ONE!!!! I HAVE ONE!!!!!!!! Remember you Da Duck avatar?  Remember the edges now they were all ragged and jagged and not straight?  How do you do that??? I know how to feather the edge and erase so that it fades out to being transparent but I want the random jaggedy edges please!   You're on break this week so I'm sure you have lots and lots and lots of free time. -- Posted by LinZ at 9:15 pm on Sep. 27, 2005 I liked the brush tutorial - I had no idea it was that simple to do. Well good, then I can make my own blood brush tool rather than trying to download the legendary one from mysterious sites that I've never heard of. Also, there are tutorials on the following site for PhotoShop, as well as Flash, and 3D Studio Max:  www.tutorialoutpost.com  I found the "Coloring Line Art Professionally" to be very useful, especially if you're into drwing cartoons or anime in PhotoShop. -- Posted by cutie2 at 10:43 pm on Oct. 2, 2005 I can't remember what you do to invert a selection so that the opposite is selected. I COULD find it but I don't have the concentration because I have a cold (yes, that's a good enough excuse). Help a poor little noob (speaking of which.. 97) -- Posted by Sol at 4:36 pm on Oct. 16, 2005 ctrl+shift+I would invert for you. Pressing it again after that would invert it to the origonal selection. If you want to get rid of the selection completely press ctrl+d to deselect (Edited by Sol at 7:38 pm on Oct. 16, 2005) -- Posted by anti christ at 11:38 am on Oct. 17, 2005 You should do a tutorial for the "Extract" tool.... I sometimes have a hard time getting transparency behind the strands of the persons hair.... do you even know what I'm saying? -- Posted by ilovecookies at 8:48 am on Aug. 1, 2006 Wow Scott! I don't know why everyone is being a pain in the ass, because this is so fucking awesome! Thanks a LOT! You're great at explaining things. More so then alot of sites and "profressionals" were. Thanks for taking the time to help us air-heads. -- Posted by heirofslytherin at 9:25 am on Aug. 2, 2006 Very enlightening. Finally, I know how to make a custom brush. Pages: 1 2  Next