Toying with photoshop

xr8d302

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Sep 10, 2006

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like the topic says, i'm slowwwwwly but surely learning how to do small things on photoshop

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anybody have any extremely easy tips as to making cool things happen with this stuff?

 

SeventyMach1

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Sep 11, 2006

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I wish. I can't figure the crap out.

 

MysteryMachine

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Sep 11, 2006

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i like the 2nd one

 

urban96

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Sep 11, 2006

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i would do some kind of text effect/border

 

Killercanary

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Sep 11, 2006

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DUW!

Nice pics! Text is what I can't seem to master. The only shortcut I can tell you is to use the magnetic lasso tool to get a rough outline of what you want, then select the polygonal lasso to either add to the selection or subtract from it using the option selector at the top of the toolbar. I used to outline everything with the polygonal lasso and it'd take forever, the magnet is MUCH faster. For the pics below I used the magnetic lasso to outline the tree line and sky, then I went to the select tab at the top and hit the "inverse" button which selected everything except the sky. I then copy and pasted it and then added the backgrounds I wanted.

Here's a few I've done lately while bored, I'm trying to get better at matching the back ground brightness and contrast with the picture.

 

Therian

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Sep 11, 2006

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illustrator is a very handy tool for doing text manipulation and many other effects. you may want to look into that

 

xr8d302

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Sep 11, 2006

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wow paul, some of those pics are incredible...the last pic is by far my favorite

 

deadlast

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Sep 11, 2006

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very nice peoples, i've also been doing some background changes but canary, i think you're one step ahead of me. very nice work!

you can clearly tell which ones i spent time on and which ones i didnt lol.
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heres one i did for fun:

 

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reddy351

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91LX_5L

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those are wicked I tried one it turned out alright, gotta keep practising, plus I was too lazy to get a mouse so I was useing my finger pad on my laptop lol.