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Post by seffy on Jul 7, 2006 13:13:34 GMT -5
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Post by 2bfoundwanting on Jul 7, 2006 14:04:28 GMT -5
This stuff is amazing! How do you DO that... do you have a special program or something? Cuz i sure dont know how to do that amazing stuff on Photoshop!
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Post by Tyual on Jul 7, 2006 15:59:30 GMT -5
I make mine in Photoshop or Gimp....I think that's what most people use. Unless Seffy is holding out on us.
I like the ones called The Mudslinger and the one with the name Christina Olmos (although I have no idea who that is.) I haven't checked the wallpapers yet though. I'll do it after I restart, my computer is acting like crap because its been on for days without stop.
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Post by 2bfoundwanting on Jul 7, 2006 16:13:43 GMT -5
But But.. how do you do that snazzy stuff on photoshop? the most intricate thing ive ever made is only slightly more intricate than the siggy i have now! And your guys are like
kapow... snazzy. *pouts* I want to know how to make cool siggys!
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Post by Tyual on Jul 7, 2006 23:17:28 GMT -5
I use gradients. lots and lots of gradients and a lot of play with filters and opacity. Text, just download fonts and find some you like. it's a trial and error kind of thing.
I dunno how seffy does his. It seems he uses opacity and patterns alot. I also see a really good use of the feather effect on a rose in one of them....That's just what it looks like to me at a glance.
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Post by seffy on Jul 10, 2006 6:59:49 GMT -5
It's mainly done in Photoshop. In fact, the only thing I do that isn't Photoshop is fade some of the images. For that I use macromedia Fireworks, cos that program has a much better fading and feathering tool than Photoshop. Like Ty said, most of the fonts are just d/l off the net. The two Ty mentioned, Christina Olmos and The Mudslinger siggy's, the text is a Blade 2 font and is based on the movie of the same name. All I do is just google for them.
All the effects are also trial and error. All I do, and I know Moog does the same, is just make an image and then play around with all the differant tools and see what happens. Just one thing, when you start playing around with all those snazzy tools and you become addicted to it, don't blame me. ;D
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Post by moogman on Jul 10, 2006 7:01:55 GMT -5
or me, Seffiy is still trying to pin his obsession on me, i had nothing to do with it.
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Post by seffy on Jul 10, 2006 11:18:41 GMT -5
It was all you, you bugger. There I was, happily surfing away and up pops Moog, right under the pop-up blocker and says *cue spooky yet strangely sedductive voice* "Photoshop, all those tools to play with, all those images to make. You know you wanna, yes you do." ;D
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Post by moogman on Jul 10, 2006 13:58:12 GMT -5
i should get a contract with adobe
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Post by wiilyr on Jul 10, 2006 23:40:37 GMT -5
*blames Seffy for own addiction to image making* I'd be programless more or less without you  Anyway, I do love your walls. They're really cool! |
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Post by Tyual on Jul 11, 2006 1:17:08 GMT -5
Lol, I do the same style you guys do then, Seffy. I make the base image, and then I play with effects for each layer until I get what I want. (Unless the base image happens to be exactly what I want.
I need to get better at blending/rendering though.
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Post by moogman on Jul 11, 2006 2:23:02 GMT -5
use Masks, a little trick i found out only a yer ago and I have never used anyting else since!!!
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Post by Tyual on Jul 11, 2006 2:47:28 GMT -5
what do you mean by use masks?
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Post by moogman on Jul 11, 2006 3:18:04 GMT -5
oky doky here we go a quick lesson in masks one of tTHE most powerfull tools in photoshop mostly for its simplicity and effectiveness, Def gunna be a saleman for Adobe. anyways... So if you have a layer lets say a lyer of a person and you want to get rid of the edges and really blend it in well with another image, simply select that layer/image and goto the menus Layer - Add layer Mask - Reveal All. ok you saw nothing happen, thats ok thats how it works. now you have a layer mask. you can now use white and black to make bits of the image appear or dissapear. simply by painting out the bits u want. u can use gradients made of black and white to do full screen blends, u can use soft brushes to blend in the sides, heck you can even use the smudge tool to really get into the small bits like loose hairs that make the image look really blended. Another great thing about it is that if you go wrong simply change to white and you can put it back again!!! genious! ohh you need to take note that in the layers selection menu u can swap back to editing without the layer by clicking on the original image box, ull see what i mean when u look, plus to return to editing the mask u just click on the mask again. heres a wall i made using just masks and 7 original images none of it was cut out, all made by painting msak and full painting..... Vala Dan |
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Post by Tyual on Jul 11, 2006 3:32:51 GMT -5
Ah!! I've heard of that before. I've never tried it but I've heard of it. I generally do it by over-layering. Like I make a layer and on that layer, I take a soft brush or whatever I want for the picture, and I do the modification work the picture (the modiciation work i didn't do before hand, like blending/removing edges and stuff. I generally do the majority of the work to the cut-out picture before it's ever put onto the background.) in it. Really, I suppose it has the same effect, but in a simpler form. Keeps it in one layer.
I think also in my desktop publishing class I had to do something similar...May have been masking, because that seems like a very familiar process...
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Post by seffy on Oct 14, 2006 14:32:32 GMT -5
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