Tutorials and Icon help

[~Amy~]

New color balance layer

Midtones-

-58

Di I put -58 in all the boxes?

[-Emily-]

No, you see the order they are in? Well in the first box you put the first number I listed, the second in the second box and so on....

[~Amy~]

Anyone know a tutorial for Sigs. I know the basics its just whatever I do seems to look .......... whats the word, oh yeah horrible!

[Marieh]

This is a tutorial for blending in Adobe Photoshop 7.0. The features I mention are most likely to be included in other versions of Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, just in different places.

Please do not take this tutorial for your site or another forum, because evry screen print etc was taken by me.

1. You will need two or more pics for your blend, I used these three.

2. Use the rectangular marquee tool to select the part of the pic you want to blend with the other.

Like this:

3. Then, use the move tool to drag the selected area onto the other pic, where you want them to blend together.

Like this:

4. Do this for the other pic, if you have one and you should have something that looks like this:

5. Then add your brushes, textures etc and you're done!

This is my finished product!

Sorry that the 2nd before last pic came out small, its just Photobucket being annoying

Heres one

[Marieh]

Someone requested how I made the HSM sig, so I wrote up a similar tut.

How to make this:

The Blending

I think I wrote a tutorial on how to blend a few pages back (pg 4 I think), but i'll give you a quick sum of how to blend here. I'm writing this as though you're using 2 pictures.

First off, you need the pictures. To make the job easier, use pictures that are similar, e.g. same background, otherwise you may find it looks a bit..err.

I'm using a few Hilary Duff pictures (typical).

First we open up a canvas (Ctrl + N), and make it big enough so all our pictures can fit on it. Overlap them.

Now the blending! We select our "Lasso tool"

Now the lasso tool bar appears at the top!

See the part that says "Feather"? Enter in about 2 or 3 in that. Feathering makes the blend look better (not all the time but mostly). You can leave it at 0, or 1 if you want.

Now, we slowly start you draw around the selected picture, i.e. the one overlapping the over, like this:

Then I press "Delete" on my key-board.

I keep cutting around until I end up with this:

And thats the blending!

Merge all.

Effects

Now we duplicate our image twice, and set the first to softlight. Then the second, i.e. the one at the top, we go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur, and set the px box thing to 2.0. Click ok, and set the layer to "Overlay". Duplicate base once more, drag to top, go to Filter> Sharpen>Sharpen. Leave layer at Normal, but set opacity to 20. Merge.

Mine now:

I then added this gradient, that came with the program:

And set it to Lighten, but because it was covering most of Hilary's face now, I then transformed it by going Ctrl + T and expanding it (just press Ctrl + T and you'll see what I mean!).

I set the opacity to 88%

Now for an effective look, I merged all, and then made a new layer. I added a brush (splatter brushes work best..text brushes won't be as effective), and set it to Overlay (you could try Softlight, then duplicate it..do what you wish). Then made a new layer and added a text brush (thanks to Dora from Zashley online), but left it at Normal.

Then, just so the right corner wasn't lonely I added Hilary's name in JaneAusten.

My finished result:

Please do not copy exactly. Also try using different gradients e.t.c. ;)

I also made this, using the same tutorial:

One more

[~Amy~]

Thanks Marieh

[~Amy~]

And set it to Lighten, but because it was covering most of Hilary's face now, I then transformed it by going Ctrl + T and expanding it (just press Ctrl + T and you'll see what I mean!).

I set the opacity to 88%

You lost me here...

[.Cat.]

Set the Gradient to Lighten. Press Ctrl + T on your keyboard- doing this, you can make the layer bigger/larger e.t.c. I stretched it out a bit, because part of the gradient didn't look right. Press enter.

Very confusing! I could print-screen what I mean if you want.

[~Amy~]

Very confusing! I could print-screen what I mean if you want.

If you wouldn't mind.

[SfanS]

Tutorials!

After Sevenpudding's suggestion, it was decided to have all the turotials in one thread.

Please post your tutorials here.

-Mercury_Girl.

From to this

Crop the image.

Use the brush tool to go over the little picture.

Filter >> Sharpen >> Sharpen

Use the Blur tool at 50% strength to smooth out her skin, pick a small soft brush. ONLY the skin, not the eyes or lips.

To add contrast I use curves.

Layer>>New Fill Layer>>Solid colour

# 100943, dark blue, set to exclusion, 100%

Layer>>New Fill Layer>>Solid colour

# EC76DD, pink, set to soft light, 86%

Duplicate base, drag it to the top, set to soft light, 100%

Duplicate base, drag it to the top, Filter>>Blur>>Gaussian = 1.6, set to multiply, 18%

Hmmm...I tried this, but I KNOW I did something wrong. Mine turned purple!!

Or perhaps I'm just bad...