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[Mikhail]

A more simple approach to the tutor thread. Instead of asking your selected tutor a question concerning graphic design just post here and any of our talented artists will answer it for you.

Example

Q: How do I change the size of this image?

A: Well you could go to "Image" in the Photoshop Toolbar than go to "Image Size" and edit the dimensions. A larger number will give you a larger image.

Edited by Savior, 05 May 2009 - 12:01 PM.

[B l i t z]

I need a step by step tutorial on how to make something like this:

[PowerCrazy]

I need a step by step tutorial on how to make something like this:

no.






jk jk but yeah that looks really awesome

but so as not to spam this topic, I need to learn how to pen tool better

[doty]

I need a step by step tutorial on how to make something like this:

umm if you mean how to do the reflection part, then here:
http://www.moesrealm.com/photoshop/reflections.html
just repeat the process with each sprite and put them up together? D:

[B l i t z]

I rushed through, but idk how to do the bottom well. Looks bad.

[PowerCrazy]

I rushed through, but idk how to do the bottom well. Looks bad.

It's cause you didn't make the canvas big enough...and at the end take your eraser out and change the brush shape and change it to like a 100 pixel soft round and erase with the very edge of the brush to get the faded effect

[Chid0x]

It's cause you didn't make the canvas big enough...and at the end take your eraser out and change the brush shape and change it to like a 100 pixel soft round and erase with the very edge of the brush to get the faded effect

I am not a pro at photoshop but I think he just needs to add a gradient overlay. =p

edit: >layer>layer style>gradient overlay.

Edited by Chido, 10 May 2009 - 08:49 PM.

[Mystic]

There are lots of ways to fade the lower edge. You could take out the lasso tool (or any selection tool really) and make a circular shaped selection on the whole bottom edge then go select: >feather and choose a low amount like 10 or less and go edit: >cut.

Edited by ¤Mystic, 11 May 2009 - 12:26 AM.

[doty]

easiest= get soft brush with low opacity and erase down DX
but yes, all of the other methods work ;3

[Mikhail]

no.
jk jk but yeah that looks really awesome

but so as not to spam this topic, I need to learn how to pen tool better

When you pen tool try and play a little game of connect the dots. You can curve your paths by click in the middle of the path and curving with the CTRL key I think. All it takes is practice, start out by making some normal shapes before you start creating crazy stuff with the pen tool.

[Chid0x]

This question just popped into my head today.

but..what does gfx stand for? =S

[Mystic]

This question just popped into my head today.

but..what does gfx stand for? =S

Graphics.

[Chid0x]

I want to start making sigs and learn a how to photoshop. First, I hear people talking about c4ds and using X brushes.
lets start with te c4ds.
What are c4ds and how do I use them?

[Mystic]

I want to start making sigs and learn a how to photoshop. First, I hear people talking about c4ds and using X brushes.
lets start with te c4ds.
What are c4ds and how do I use them?

C4D's are 3d objects rendered in Cinema 4D. They can be any kind of object from a car to a candle. Usually sig makers are refering to abstract C4D render's like this: http://sophonax.com/rve/C4D_Render_Wallpaper.jpg

They can be used for the background and for the effects in a signature. You can get free ones from places like planetrenders.com and some on deviantart.com

[Confirm Pentecost]

In addition to what Mystic said there's really 3 kinds of c4d's (sort of).

PNG : I just called them PNG because they have a transparent background, but they aren't really referred as such. These are probably the most flexible, since you can use their outlines for shapes, or use their colors/highlights for effects, or just slap one in there set to Normal to incorporate some motion.

Effect Renders: These have a back background, and are primarily used for the effects you can generate from the highlights when using blending modes like Lighten, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge, Screen, etc.

Wireframe renders: Like effect renders, most of these come with a background. but the backgrounds are easy to crop (magic wand, delete) if they get in the way. Wireframe renders are like...the skeleton of renders. If you like lines, you'll love wireframe. Alot of the times wireframe renders have black lines, but I sometimes like to invert them (Ctrl I), which turns the lines white, and then I'll set them to Lighten or Screen or whatever.

With the PNG renders and the effect renders, you can distort them or smudge them to get different effects, and not everything has to be Set to Lighten and you don't always need the laser-looking effects. Get creative =)

[Chid0x]

Ok thanksm where and how do I add new brushes to photoshop?

btw Im using ps3.


and btw, do you guys just use a regular mouse when making sigs?

Edited by Chido, 02 June 2009 - 07:34 PM.

[Confirm Pentecost]

There are two ways to do it, and they are essentially the same thing.

The first way:
Download the brushes.
Click the brush tool.
Click this button.
Then click this button, a drop down menu should appear.
Click Load Brushes.
Choose the brushes you downloaded.
You're done.

the images in that explanation are not mine btw.

OR

Second way:
I don't have photoshop installed right now so I'm just imagining this...but if you look to the very right of the screen there'll be a tab that says "Brushes" in which you can do the same thing as the first step.

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I use a regular mouse. Though I'd like to get a tablet so when I draw things I'll be able to draw them a whole lot faster. The most you're going to be using the mouse for is well...clicking, clicking to this layer, clicking to that layer, maybe clicking and dragging for smudging, clicking to get a brush on a sig, clicking and dragging to move stuff in the sig. Yeah..mouse is important.

[Chid0x]

what is a good gfx community that I should join to become a top notch gfxer?

[Confirm Pentecost]

Umm...I don't know if it'd be considered "advertising" if this was answered....

[Mikhail]

what is a good gfx community that I should join to become a top notch gfxer?

Yugioh ETC, honestly there isn't much you can't learn here that you would learn at a big boy GFX site. Now that we categorized our tutorials into difficulty levels you can check out the tutorial right for you and since we have such a tight community asking for help is no problem.