[lilchan]

^you have to upload it
tinypic.com is a good place
or imageshack.us
or xs.to
there are also many other image hosting sites..just google it

[angelic_betrayal]

Hm.. anyone can teach me how to make a dotted border?

Like this:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/TSLEvolution/4.jpg

Credits: Twistee from AsianFanatics

A quick walkthrough should be fine Thanks!

[dreamskye.]

^ there's one in the first post. you should look first before asking.

is there any way to lower the file size of a banner from 90 to 40 kb without lowering the quality too much?

[satisfaction!]

^ hi ai
you can go to file> save for web.
=)

-Jessica

edit.

READ ABOUT FILTERING HERE!
Don't ask about this thing anymore, the answer will be the same anyway.

Freda I and tru_minute posted simple tutorials a few pages back. here scroll down for more.
But I guess I have to explain it all again, more details this time. People nowadays are not so interesting with other types of filtering, only show interest in light filtering; sad actually. So I'm just gonna focused on light filtering this time.

[+] Why are people avoiding me when I ask them for help about filtering, esp the one who made the graphic I like?! Well, let me tell you something. You spend weeks/months/years to master filtering and then someone just asks you to reveal your secrets of filtering? Do you then want to share them? You spend times and efforts on your thing and then someone, with just one question can get it all? No, life isn't that easy.
[+] You know the thing with all types of filtering is that you need to be patient and be creative, no matter how advanced a tutorial may be but you're not creative, then it will be a waste of time anyway. There is no specific way to create this or that kind of effect, because there are several ways to do it. All the examples above - those artists used different metods to get the effect, such as using brushes and then add outer glow (first one), use cloud stocks (third one) etc.
[+] Light filtering = quite many ways to do it. Blending options, changing positions of layers, filter options, stocks etc. It requires a creative and quick mind. What do I mean by all those options? You don't have to start from scratch when filtering, there is an easy way to do it - use nice stocks, esp flowers and light ones. Look below to get what I mean.

[img]http://i10.tinypic.com/53rwk1x.jpg

[img]http://i2.tinypic.com/6ajy44k.jpg

[img]http://i4.tinypic.com/67dlmxx.jpg
g
[img]http://i7.tinypic.com/4yfnf69.jpg

[+] This is what I get. I changed colors&settings a little bit before saving. HOWEVER, this is totally copying of me. Whoever looks at this graphic will think that I copied starlette* right? I didn't mean to, I only did this to show you all who wondered about light filtering. REMEMBER, be yourself and don't copy other. This is just a simple graphic which only took me 10 min to finish.

[img]http://i10.tinypic.com/4xwnous.jpg

[+] Questions? Replay here or pm me. And any other artists who has something to add, feel free to do so and I will edit this post.

- apoptos dolor

OMGAHHHHHHHHHH! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS! I was just about to do the same thing (or at least collect all the filtering tutorials together on one page) so that many ppl wouldnt have to ask this repetitive question gah, you're the best esp�ce* Thanks for taking your time to do this.

So now to all those people who are wanting to learn how to filter;
it's right here for you. So please stop asking.
Thanks =]

[yangstars]

thank you so much for this thread, especially those who take the time to answer questions and make tutorials. you guys are awesome!! soooo many of my questions have been answered, especially about filtering, so thank you, thank you!! this is my new fave thread on soompi now. thanks again everyone!

[bwitched]

if you're installing 3.0, it might be because the program is so old they stopped accepting registrations for that program? I dunno that's the only thing I can think of.

this is exactly what I thought too. u shud dl PS version at least higher than 6/7. It's better...

^you have to upload it
tinypic.com is a good place
or imageshack.us
or xs.to

or photobucket.com

[deyanafu]

Hello. You know people keep asking about those filter effects.
Well, you can get the tutorials here. It might not be exactly
what you guys are looking for but it gives you the picture of
what you can/should do - distort, hue, colour, glow, wtv.

[xcelestialx]

wow, great thread, i'm here to request for some stuff
- erhh, does anyone have any websites with layouts or smth ? asian celebs based ones. blogger please

- some site with good tuts on making banners + icons. non abstracts ones like in good-tutorials.

[dreamskye.]

nvm. i figured it out =]

[infinityyy]

hii! i was wondering how to get this effect (credits to &;taebin).
(And no, it's not the filtering I'm asking about.) You know the Hyori picture? I want to get that black and white effect--where there's barely any greys, but when I click on greyscale for my image on Photoshop, it just goes grey, not how the picture above looks like. Do you guys get what I mean?
It's really confusing.. But overall, I'm trying to make my own t-shirt design with the black and white effects like the picture. Can anyone help please?

[lilchan]

sweettart88
desaturate it/grayscale it..then use Levels(Ctrl+L) to fix it up...move the white arrow on the right towards the left to get it brighter
or the black arrow on the left towards the right to make it darker

[**ThatGirlPhuong]

I have a question, I had Photoshop CS2 & tried out the Photoshop CS3 beta, but then I reformatted my whole laptop. So both programs are lost. I wanted to know for users that used both which was better? In terms of... interface, speed, size, how much memory is uses, and all that fun stuff :] Thanks.

[lilchan]

I have PS CS3 Extended...it uses 375mb
as comapred to CS2 which used about 200mb..for me
it does run faster though
and the format is simple, but more customizable
although, I like the Cs2 icons more than Cs3...
the ps cs3 icons just look..boring..>.<
as far as options/tools go..not that much change, but a lot of fancy stuff that sounds cool, but I dont really use..like video stuff..and ehhh

[renjitehsmex]

heya. i have a question to ask.

whenever i crop my picture to make it into something like this (notice the border) and I'll save it it gif so that the curve area would be transparent but the quality of my image decreases madly. i've seen other ulzzang / cyworld photos doing that border but their images are still nice. why is it so? can anyone help? thanks in advance.

[lilchan]

^instead of gif..save it as a .png with transparency
the thing with that is..some browsers can view the transparency in png...or you could just make the background the same color as the background of whereever you are going to post the image

[c_gunawan541]

I want to ask on blinkies tutorial


http://www.soompi.com/forums/index.php?sho...mp;#entry656219

This part has it already.......but i only have Image ready and photoshop.

Can anyone teach me by just using PS and IR to do blinkies??
And any recommendations to websites that have a lot of pixels?

Another thing is........filtering...i don't know what it means.

Because actually my photoshop is in chinese,so...it's hard for me to find what is that~~

[i_han]

how do you put a picture to 'soft light'?
thanks in advance.

[lilchan]

how do you put a picture to 'soft light'?
thanks in advance.

to soft light click (Alt+Shift+F)
the non-shortcut way:
select it from the layer window


c_gunawan
filtering is commonly used to describe the popular style of graphics in soompi for example this:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/mix...l/textingrf.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b247/mix...ol/jaychou1.jpg
Credits to myself.


but filtering in general is just using tools/options from the filter menu.

[mayo]

hey, quick question:

how do i make a digital pic look like a photograph thats taped at the corners? like this one:

[lilchan]

^you can draw the tape easily with the pen tool.