Tutorials and Icon help

[Cal]

Jade, you can duplicate your base and set it to 'Screen' a few times. Just copy the original image/layer and paste it on top, set it to 'Screen'.

(Okay, I know I'm awful at explaining...)

[.Cat.]

Or you can use curves

*brb with examples*

Ok, so you have your image.

Then go Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves

My layer looked like this, but your settings will depend on your image.

The higher the point goes up on that line, the brighter the image becomes.

Click ok, and this is how it turned out:

No major change, just a little bit brighter.

[Eli]

Does anybody have any tips or tutorial on brightening images, but so they still look natural? I've been experimenting a little but I can't seem to get it quite right.

I usually just use the curves tool, and then use auto levels afterwards. Either that or duplicating the layer twice and setting them to soft light and screen, and then experiment with different orders and levels of opacity.

Here are two tutorials I've made that I use as well. I can't guarantee that they're any help, but still I thought I'd give you the links...

http://backtothebay.com/forum/index.php?ac...&pid=696979

http://backtothebay.com/forum/index.php?ac...&pid=631645

[Jayde]

Thanks The problem I have with Screening is that the images I use don't turn out so natural when I do. Putting in a soft light layer sounds like a good idea though, thanks for the tip And I'll be sure to try out those tutorials!

Curves generally work for me, but lately anytime I click into them PS shuts down But they seem to be working ok now...

[13max13]

Does anyone know hoe to bring out certain colours? for example if the person was wearing a green dress, how do you make it seriously stand out?

[Cal]

Does anyone know hoe to bring out certain colours? for example if the person was wearing a green dress, how do you make it seriously stand out?

Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color. Scroll down to the green tab and play with the levels.

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[Jayde]

Well, here's a quick, simple tutorial that I just wrote because I was awfully bored

We are going to make this Icon -

Made with PS7, Uses Curves, Hue/Sat and Selective Colouring

Step one - Open and crop your base.

Step two - Curves - Input 133, Output 168.

Step three - Hue/Saturation - Saturation +6, Lightness + 6.

Step Four - Selective Colouring -

CYAN

Reds -27

Magenta +1

Yellow +18

YELLOWS

Cyan +70

NEUTRALS

Cyan -3

Magenta -1

Yellow -2

Nice, simple, quick, effective

[13max13]

Thanks Cal! That helped LOADS. And thanks Jayde that is a really helpful tute.

[Zetti]

Animations on CS3?

[.Amy.]

As requested by Kirst

Animation:

1. Prepare your bases, crop etc:

2. Move all the bases on top of one:

3. Once you have an avatar with all the pictures on top close the others and click this:

4. Once your in Adobe image ready open your animation window:

5. Now heres where it gets tricky, multiply the base in the animation window, multiply it by how many pictures there are :

So if you have 5 different pictures on top of one another then multiply it 4 times because there is an original

6. This is hard to describe but click on the first picture in your animation bar, on the right make sure only one picture can be seen

So click a picture:

and then the pictures being shown:

Click another picture and:

And so on:

7. Decide the duration of each picture (how long it can be seen before it moves on)

Click where it says 0 secs:

And pick:

Sorry for the bad explanation but ask questions if you have problems or get confused, I would love to see results but remember put under link!

Same as in CS2 Zetti, only leaveout the transfer to imageready bit, it is done in Photoshop.