[sky.blue]

^ i want a darany tut ^^

LOLS
@_@ i'll try to make one too...but my banners look gay T_T
so nvm ^^

LOLSS HWAITING~~

[abcdellie]

hello !
can anyone help me on how to make a striped background like this?


i know how to make stripes in general - but i don't know how to make it like that ^
i don't really know how to explain it .. like making it centered? around the middle and the stripes coming out the sides?

thank youuuu.

[Tailo]

^ You mean radial lines. I would have assumed that it's a stock background. I'm pretty sure someone here will be willing to help.

[Mimi_182]

OMg thank lyna for
giving tutorial
i wat trying do like ur but then i did sum thing so
it keep going and
this my first time
here it is




I'm a beginner thank for the tutorial
i going keep on work
i did everything my hand i mean everything lol
i didn't find lot of border online
so i use d abrush and outline myself
lol

[jasonyc]

hello !
can anyone help me on how to make a striped background...?

Hope this helps.

[kehrizia]

guys could you send me the link to the tutorials posted here about CS3?
im a noob.thanks

[abcdellie]

Hope this helps.

http://www.jasonahn.com/images/soompi/sunraystut.jpg

it actually helped a whooole lot; thank you ! :]

[stoked!]

Or you could just make new GIFs.

but it would be very tiresome to make another .gif of the same .gif again. and no, you might think why would i make another of the same .gif when there's already one. it was just that i wanted to stick this pixel .gif that i made back then on another .gif that i recently made. so yeah .. :/

oh yeah, go dyang_17. haha. go and make banner tutorials. XD i`d definitely keep an eye on that.

[jasonyc]

guys could you send me the link to the tutorials posted here about CS3?
im a noob.thanks

Try to be more specific about what you need.
Being a new user, I know it's confusing to know where to start.

If you're a true beginner, I would suggest starting...at the beginning.
Learn the tools and what they do.
Here's a video tutorial site from Adobe that should get you plenty to get started with.

Adobe Video Workshop

[purplesoompi]

credits to: changing obsessions

do you use an icon mask
to put the pictures in place
or you just crop
and paste it on the new
document?

[aznpolar]

you know for the striped background, how do you put the picture in it? [using adobe cs3.]

i mastered how to make the background, but i'm super bad at putting the picture in.
so i open my picture and then paste it onto the striped background
and then i use the magic wand and lasso tool to get rid of the picture's original background.
and the picture comes out uneven, like, a part of my arm is like cut off and it's really hard to get it smooth and exact with the lasso tool.

so my question is, is there an easier way to place your picture onto the background?

JUST like the picture abcdellie posted up,

exactly like that, i want the body to be smoothly cut out.



thank so you soooooo very much! :]



oh and also, instead of making the background striped, how do we pixelate it? not pixelate the person in the picture, but just the background.
thanks again :]

[soyabeangirl16]

hey there, thanks to everyone for answering my previous question.
i have another one, and it has to do with the pen tool. I was trying to follow a tutorial and after making the line with the pen tool, you were supposed to press ctrl and drag the focal point so it curves. for me, the whole pen line moved. am I doing something wrong?

edit--
um, i think it explains it in a line art tutorial here. you can ignore this, sorry.

[elevatormusic]

aznpolar: after selecting the bg with the magic wand tool, you can change the settings on the lasso tool, (at the top, under file, edit, etc, there's several different pairs of boxes that highlights different portions. the pictures are pretty self explanatory) click on one of those(depending on what part you want to select/deselect) and trace the edge of your body. or you could just magnify it and use the eraser tool.

there's also a way to trace over your body with the pen tool, and i think that's in the index some where, i'm not completely sure.

[aznpolar]

hey there, thanks to everyone for answering my previous question.
i have another one, and it has to do with the pen tool. I was trying to follow a tutorial and after making the line with the pen tool, you were supposed to press ctrl and drag the focal point so it curves. for me, the whole pen line moved. am I doing something wrong?

edit--
um, i think it explains it in a line art tutorial here. you can ignore this, sorry.

sweeet.
THANKS a lot :]
i totally forgot that there was a zoom.
wow silly me. haha. x]

[Tailo]

^ Just to add to your situation, and a word to all new Photoshop users. Many times over, you're going to probably be taking an object/element from one image and putting it onto another, or erasing part of your image for some reason. If you read any Photoshop help book, and I think most PSers here will agree, making a good selection of your object is one of the most important skills you can learn. It will probably also be the most tedious.

I may make a short tutorial about this later, but for now, for every beginner, I suggest practicing your skills with all the Selection tools as well as maybe even the Pen tool(s) if you want to make clean "cuts."

[soyouniieee]

CREDITS TO Diorvirp @ GR.FORUMS. DO NOT TAKE THIS OUT OF SOOMPI. I ASKED HIM PERSONALLY TO POST THIS.

PHOTOSHOP BASIC INFORMATION
Rectangular Marquee Tool (M)
Use this tool to make selections on your image, in a rectangular shape. This changes the area of your
image that is affected by other tools or actions to be within the defined shape.
Holding the Shift key while dragging your selection, restricts the shape to a perfect square.
Holding the Alt key while dragging sets the center of the rectangle to where your cursor started.


Move Tool (V)
Use this tool to, well, move things. Usually you use it to move a
Layer around after it has been placed. Hold the Shift key to limit the movements to vertical/horizontal.


Polygon Lasso Tool (L)
Ok, this should be the Lasso Tool, but I use the Polygon Lasso a lot more often, even if i don't use it alot.
Use this to draw selections in whatever shape you would like. To close the selection, either click on the
beginning point (you'll see the cursor change when you're on it),
or just double-click. When holding the Ctrl key, you'll see the cursor change, and the next time you click,
it will close your selection.


Magic Wand Tool (W)
Use this to select a color range. It will select the block of color, or transparency,
based on wherever you click. In the Options Bar at the top, you can change the Tolerance to make your selections more/less precise.


Crop Tool ( C )
The Crop Tool works similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool (see above if you have no short-term memory).
The difference is when you press the Enter/Return key, it crops your image to the size of the box. Any information that was on the outside
of the box is now gone. Not permanently, you can still undo.


Slice Tool (K)
This is used mostly for building websites, or splitting up one image into smaller ones when saving out.
It's kind of an advanced tool, and since you're in here for the basics, we'll kind of skip over it.


Healing Brush Tool (J)
This is a really useful tool. Mildly advanced. You can use this tool to repair scratches and specs
and stuff like that on images. It works like the Brush tool (see below). You choose your cursor size,
then holding the Alt key, you select a nice/clean area of your image. Let go of the Alt key and paint over the bad area.
It basically copies the info from the first area to the second, in the form of the Brush tool. Only, at the end, it averages the information, so it blends.


Brush Tool ( B )
This is one of the first tools ever. It's what Photoshop is based off of.
Well, not really, but it's pretty basic. It paints on your image, in whatever color you have selected, and whatever size you have selected.
There's a lot of options for it, but this is basic, so you don't get to learn them. Ha.


Clone Stamp Tool (S)
This is very similar to the Healing Brush Tool (see above). You use it the exact same way, except this tool doesn't blend at the end.
It's a direct copy of the information from the first selected area to the second. When you learn to use both
of these tools together in perfect harmony, you will be a Photoshop MASTA! Not really, it's just less irritating.


History Brush Tool (Y)
This tool works just like the Brush Tool (see above) except the information that it paints with is from the original state of your image.
If you go Window>History, you can see the History Palette. The History Brush tool paints with the information from
whatever History state is selected.


Eraser Tool (E)
This is the anti-Brush tool. It works like an eraser (duh) and erases whatever information wherever you click and drag it.
If you're on a Layer, it will erase the information transparent. If you
are on the background layer, it erases with whatever secondary color you have selected.


Gradient Tool (G)
You can use this to make a gradiation of colors. Gradiation doesn't appear to be a word,
but it makes sense anyway. It creates a blending of your foreground color and background color when you click and drag it.
Like a gradient.


Blur Tool ( R )
The Blur tool is cool. It makes things blurry. Click and drag to make things blurry.
The more you click and drag, the blurrier things get.


Dodge Tool (O)
This tool isn't as crappy as the car brand. It's actually used to lighten whatever area you use it on.
As long as it is not absolute black. Absolute black won't lighten.


Path Selection Tool (A)
You use this tool when working with paths. Since this is all about the basics,
I won't go into details. It's related to the Pen Tool (see below) though.


Horizontal Type Tool (T)
It makes type. Or text. Or whatever you want to call it. You can click a single point,
and start typing right away. Or you can click and drag to make a bounding box of where your text/type goes.
There's a lot of options for the Type Tool. Just play around, it's fairly straight-forward.


Pen Tool (P)
I mentioned this tool above. It's for creating paths, in which you would use the
Path Selection Tool to select the path. Paths can be used in a few different ways, mostly to create clipping paths,
or to create selections. You use the tool by clicking to add a point. If you click and drag,
it will change the shape of your path, allowing you to bend and shape the path for accurate selections and such.


Rectangle Tool (U)
By default it draws a Shape Layer in the form of a rectangle. It fills the rectangle with
whatever foreground color you have selected. It's pretty complicated, don't hurt yourself with this one. (lol)


Eyedropper Tool (I)
This tool works by changing your foreground color to whatever color you click on.
Holding the Alt key will change your background color.


Hand Tool (H)
You can really make short work of your job with the Hand Tool. It's for moving your entire image
within a window. So if you're zoomed in and your image area is larger than the window,
you can use the Hand Tool to navigate around your image.
Just click and drag. You can get to this tool at any time when using any other tool by pressing and holding the Spacebar.


Zoom Tool (Z)
Pretty obvious what this tool does. It allows you to zoom into your image. Don't be dumb,
it doesn't actually change the size of your image. Hold the Alt key to zoom out. Holding the Shift key will zoom all
of the windows you have open at the same time. Double-click on the Zoom Tool in the palette to go back to 100% view.


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Photoshop Shortcuts!


Modes

Q - Quick mask mode toggle = view selection as rubylith overlay, accepts paint tools.
F - Cycles through Normal and 2 full-screen modes — very useful for previewing without clutter.
Tab - Removes all palettes.
Ctrl+; - Show/Hide Guides.
Ctrl+' - Show/Hide Grid.
Ctrl+R - Show/Hide Rulers.


Layer

Ctrl+E - Merge Down
Ctrl+J - New Layer from selection by Copy
Ctrl+Shift+J - New Layer from selection by Cut
Ctrl+G - Clipping Group with previous layer
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N - New Layer


Tools

V - moVe
M - Marquee (Shift+M, circular Marquee)
C - Crop
W - Wand
B - Brush
E - Eraser
S - cloning Stamp
N - liNe
T - Type
K - fill bucKet
I - Idropper (eyedropper)
G - Gradient fill
P - Pen
O - Dodge / Burn / Saturate (Shift cycles through)
R - bluR / shaRpen / smeaR (Shift cycles through)
H - Hand
Z - Zoom


Color

D - Default colours (Foreground/Background to B/W)
X - Xchange (Swap) foreground/background colours)


Image tweaks

Ctrl+M - Gamma Curves
Ctrl+L - Levels
Ctrl+U - hUe / saturation / lightness
Ctrl+B - colour Balance



Random

Alt+Backspace - Fill with foreground colour
Alt+Shift+Backspace - Fill with foreground colour, preserving transparency
Shift+F5 - Fill dialog box
[ ] - [Square brackets] Brush size up/down
ctrl+z - Undo
ctrl+alt+z - Undo further
Control + K - Removes the grey/blue box in the top left of your canvas.
Control + Q - Closes the open document.
Control + Shift + E - Apply image.
Shift + Control + S - Save your image.
Control + O - Open up a image.
Control + + - Zoom your image in.
Control + - - Zoom your image out.



I hope this helps all noobies :]. I personally didn't read though it, but hopefully it helps people newer to photoshop is some way.

[yangstars]

Dodge Tool (O)
This tool isn't as crappy as the car brand. It's actually used to lighten whatever area you use it on.
As long as it is not absolute black. Absolute black won't lighten.

that made me lol. thanks for posting that up.
maybe it can be added to the first post (index). i'm sure it could be useful for photoshop newbies. =]

[SamLien]

Umm hello ^^ I'm not sure if this had been asked before but can someone tell me how to make the fading effect in an animated gif? It's like the clip plays and then slowly turns to black. . . how can i make it slowly turn to black and as it turns darker a text slowly shows up along with it. Err hope it made sense though. Anyways thanks in advance ^^

[soyouniieee]

^
I think it depends on the program you're using? I'm not particularly knowledgeable with gifs sorry. But I think usually it's called the tween option. Not sure.

This is a really old tutorial, back in 2005. It was written for another forum by a soompier (ohmygee(=) here and she said she doesn't care if I posted it. there's some spelling errors but I'm guessing you can still comprehend what she's trying to tell you to do. She was 13 when she made this, I'm sure it can't be to hard to make the signature.. Maybe it'll help some people. The style of it is pretty old haha. It used to be the forum's rainbow trend (like filtering is now on soompi ) .


Other result:


If you want to take teh tutorial out you'll have to pm ohmygee(=

[<3KIMZ<3]

Umm hello ^^ I'm not sure if this had been asked before but can someone tell me how to make the fading effect in an animated gif? It's like the clip plays and then slowly turns to black. . . how can i make it slowly turn to black and as it turns darker a text slowly shows up along with it. Err hope it made sense though. Anyways thanks in advance ^^

in imageready, create a new layer and fill it with black. add text on top of it. then create a new frame at the end of the animation window and have that black and text layer viewed. then select the frame before that one and click on tween(it should be taht diagonal 3 pink dots at the bottom) and choose whatever number of frames u want it to fade with. that should do it. well, thats on my PS7. ionno about CS.