[litoxshortaii]

can anyone tell me how to make the swirly lines like in this picture: http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/2240/roundone2eo3.jpg (credits to jae7)

[Nathalie]

^
Its filtering..you can go to the first page and look up filter and there will be a clear tut for it.

Hope it helps!

[Tailo]

^ I don't think it's technically called "filtering," but you can also check the tutorials on page 141 for "lines".

Hiii!! Can anyone make a tutorial on how to do this: *this is my BEST attempt HAHAH XD (btw its a pic of Aaron Yan) and i cut myself out and paste it on!! HAHA
I want to learn how to make it look more real =D

Okay, just got permission from Michelle to post this. It's for doing it in greyscale. For colored pictures, you'll have to play with your color curves and hue/saturation settings. Check for the tutorials on coloring if you need help for that. Also it's not an exact science. This tutorial involves overlapping someone in the picture. It should still be helpful nonetheless.

A Guide to Manipulations Photoshopping Photos Together

1. Open up the pictures you want to manipulate together. Choose wisely because the realness of the outcome depends on the compatability of the photos. I decided to use these:



First thing I like to do is open up a new canvas and just put both the photos on it. More space, woot!


3. Desaturate the photos. This is to hide the fact that the people aren't exactly in the same place (lighting, colors, etc). ^^;


4. Now I'll try to get Seulgi to fit into Jaejoong's picture. I like to play around with the blending modes, particularly Multiply/Screen/Lighten, so that I can kinda see where I'm putting Seulgi and if she's the same size as Jaejoong. If you're gonna cut out any part of her picture, use the lasso tool and I suggest a feather setting between 2-10 px.

So set the blending mode of Seulgi's picture to Multiply/Lighten/Screen/etc. and using Free Transform (CTRL + T), reduce the size of Seulgi's picture until it looks like Seulgi's in the same picture as Jaejoong. Remember to hold down SHIFT while you're doing the transformation or else you'll reduce the picture unevenly.




You can change the blending mode back to Normal sometimes to check if you're doing it right.



The blending mode here is Lighten.

Tip: When transforming the photo, I try to match the sizes of their eyes to each other and the general sizes of their faces (because sometimes people squint or make their eyes bigger, haha).


5. This is the fun part! Well, at least for me, hehe. Once you've gotten Seulgi in place, change the blending mode back to Normal and start cutting away the unnecessary parts, blending Seulgi into Jaejoong's picture! =]




6. When you're done blending Seulgi in, crop the picture accordingly.



The manipulation's really coming together now. You're almost done!


7. Now let's adjust the lighting settings to make the manipulation look more real. Play around with the Brightness/Contrast settings to your liking, but for the sake of this guide, I will be using the following settings:

Seulgi - Brightness: -13 & Contrast: +3
Jaejoong - Brightness: +10 & Contrast: +10


8. Finishing touches! Seulgi's face looks a little bit smoother than Jaejoong's, so I'm gonna use the blur tool. With the strengh set to 10%, I'm gonna blur both of their cheeks a little to create a more uniform look. You can play more with effects on the pictures if you want, but I'm gonna stop here.


Hooray! Now you're done! This is what yours should basically look like:




Whew! I hope that wasn't confusing. If anyone has questions, feel free to ask and I'll try my best to answer them. =]

- Michelle

All tutorial copyrights belong to Michelle @SKO (Appolpai @Soompi). Do not take out without permission.

[nuuniie]

how do u make the white swirl?



credit : chelly

[lilchan]

^Its filtering....you should look at page one..>.<

[psique]

credits to jae7

Just a quick question (I don't think this has been asked before)-- I'm pretty sure the font that was used is Arial, but how do you adjust the settings for the font so that the letters are closer together? Pretty much, how do you edit the spacing to your liking? Is it something you can do on photoshop elements as well? Because I have photoshop elements and I can't do some of the stuff that you can do on regular photoshop (for example, I don't have the pen tool x___x).

[Tailo]

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l221/sle...jae7graphic.jpg
credits to jae7

Just a quick question (I don't think this has been asked before)-- I'm pretty sure the font that was used is Arial, but how do you adjust the settings for the font so that the letters are closer together? Pretty much, how do you edit the spacing to your liking? Is it something you can do on photoshop elements as well? Because I have photoshop elements and I can't do some of the stuff that you can do on regular photoshop (for example, I don't have the pen tool x___x).

I'm not too sure with Elements, but in Photoshop 7.0, when you select the Text tool, this toolbar shows up:


Click the last button, and it'll make this Text Palette show up:

The part in the red box is how you control the horizontal spacing. Positive means farther apart and negative means closer together. Above it controls the vertical spacing.

I hope that helped a bit.

[psique]

^Yeah, it did. Thank you very much! :]

[nuuniie]

how u guys make dashed line border??

[Tailo]

how u guys make dashed line border??

The tutorials on pg.141 has this. Click HERE for the Dashed Lines tutorial. Then, when you finish making the brush, first create a Work Path for your border. If you want to put the border onto a whole layer, just CTRL+Click on the layer in the Layers Palette, choose the Marquee tool, right click on the image, then select: Make Work Path. Once you have the Work Path, then just use the Stroke option in the Paths Palette. Done!

If you have more questions about this, feel free to ask.

[spark.]

AHHH! I just love this forum! It helped me lots! Thank you thank you! Love this forum! ^^

[spark.]

I have a question, how do you do this on Adobe Photoshop???

[nuuniie]

Tailo
thx much for ur answer but I dunt know how to make work path???

[nuuniie]

As for my technics to make Swirls

- make a new layer
- use the white brushes with difference sizes.
Then draw them on the new layer
- filter-blur-guassian blur
- filter-distort-twirl/shear

just mess around....
easy???

but I STILL dont know how to make DASHED border...
any1 has the easy way to do it?

I used to do it by make a selection the Print Screen and paste on Paint
then u know crop...
But I hate this way.


Help plzzzzz

[aoura.]

Question - My photoshop is being reallly wierd. Like if you type something using size 12 font it'll show up a lot bigger than it should be.

does anyone know what the problem might be?

Nevermind, I figured out the problem.
Thanks anyway.

[elevatormusic]

I have a question, how do you do this?

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3128/ca...nlookingpp7.jpg

the girl is a vector i'm sure
there's a tutorial link on the first page i think...well, i think it says "a note on vectoring" or something like that

as for the background
checker pattern and a couple brush strokes

[spark.]

the girl is a vector i'm sure
there's a tutorial link on the first page i think...well, i think it says "a note on vectoring" or something like that

as for the background
checker pattern and a couple brush strokes

Sorry sorry! Don't mean to be a bother, but I don't see it. T-T Can you please please be a little more specific for me? I'm very blind, so I'll need help definitely. -.-' Sorry for the bother.

[mgyfan]

Sorry sorry! Don't mean to be a bother, but I don't see it. T-T Can you please please be a little more specific for me? I'm very blind, so I'll need help definitely. -.-' Sorry for the bother.

It's number 6 on the first page 6. A Note On Vectorizing a Raster Image (Intermediate) by kiki

[anirin]

first of all, thanks for all the tutorials. i learned a lot from this thread ^____^

i have a question about brushes, though... how do you make an .abr file with a collection of brushes? i tried experimenting on ps 7, but i only managed to make separate individual brushes. how do you group them in a single file?

[silentxtears]

^ All you have to do is click on the ">" arrow on the right corner of the pull down menu for brushes.. then click save brushes.