Photoshop V7.0 > current version (CS/V8.0)

Hi guys!

it did not automatically start here either...I spent some
time figuring out the issue...I made a research online and
I found a way to see it from Adobe. I followed these instructions
and it worked...


Follow the following path in your Photoshop folder (Programs folder in your Hard Drive)...Adobe Photoshop/Presets/Photoshop Actions...

...Copy your downloaded action in this directory. Open Photoshop and open the Actions Window, go to option (right hand side arrow in actions palette) and choose 'Load actions' select required actions you want.
And I took a screenshot of what I saw in Adobe...

Actions=scripts in French
So I think I got them all right.

 

Still no joy.

 

Are you running V8.0?

Anyway, I think that it may be a corrupted file. Nevertheless, I now know how to make actions and I will be posting more of these in the near future if I want to show people how to perform a string of 'actions'.

Thanks.

p.s. keep the images coming, let's see what goes on in some people's heads .

 

Nice one Uguel...good stuff! Have a play around with the stroke width and bevel/contour settings and post back your results .

Regards,
Jade.

 

Whilst making images transparent, I know that you can only use the .gif format to get any good quality. However, I want to make my image with a transparent gradient, so that the image gradually "fades" into the background. When trying this with a .gif extension it basically cut the image where the gradient started, so that there was no gradient. This isn't necessarily a Photoshop query, but more like a general graphics query.

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to make a gradient-transparent picture?

 

thanks Jade for the actions, I'll keep them
and when I'll be more familiar with the program
I will use them with more confidence.
Can we choose only what we want from them...?
I mean, I pick only the action that suits me best..right?


Mishimasan thanks for the "Bevel and Emboss" pic.. but Im afraid
I would need your assistance a bit, can you tell me in what
order come, "screen" and "multiply" in the drop down menu
of Highlight Mode and Shadow Mode for my program is in French
and I can't really find the proper translation for it...
normally it would be,"écran'' and ''multiplier'' in French but I have
none of them...so just tell me in which order they come ...
See what I got ...there are over 20 settings to pick...

I did a few ones tonight for our theme with the same picture...

Thank you to both of you.

For the frame I applied the same setings as in post 17
except that I had "Outer Bevel" intead of "Inner Bevel"...

 

Just as an example, I wanted to show this one I made with
Paint Shop Pro this time. This is the kind of frame
I am trying to do with Photoshop....

 

In order to make the last frame, you are either going to have to use the selection tool, or make a new layer where the next part of the frame would be, and that way the bevel and emboss would work nicely over and over again, making the inclining effect. I'll show you if you want

 

Thanks, I will check that!

As I said earlier....

I could not post my screenshot in the same post ...
As you can see there are many of them .... if it is possible,
I'd like to see your screenshot too so I'll be able to figure out
which ones you picked. Thank you!

 

from post 13:

I like that effect a lot!

 

Here is a screenshot of my layer options (only for you Uguel - shh don't tell anyone else):

 

Alright here's a bike riding around a European mountain in Summer. I took the images from the net, and the overall image was made as a signature for a gamer on a gaming forum. I liked the "racing-boy" feel to it.

I used a few layers here, and plenty of gradient masks (foreground to background). Although it may look complicated to an inexperienced user, it really wasn't, and things that I have learned since then have led me to become more of an advanced user.

If anyone wants me to explain in detail, or would like to have the original .psd, then please contact me.

 

Thanks a lot!
That layer options screenshot will come in very handy!

I like a the speed effect you put in the bike picture!
It is really well done.

 

Hi Everyone!

I am currently using photoshop 7.01 emphasis on the 01. I just thought I would mention for the benefit of anyone using PS 7.0 that what appears numerically to be a minor revision, is in fact a very important update. It has to do with the way transparent layers are handled. with 7.0 PS decided to handle the layers in a new way. I don't think that they realized at the time, but it turned out to create many compatability problems for example with plugins that were capable of acting on transparencies of the earlier type. Some things didn't work anymore. The patch can be downloaded from adobe, I don't think you have to register first, but if the updater thinks you have an "unauthorized version" then it won't install.

This is not an issue in CS since the problem was resolved prior to its release.

From my brief experience with CS I can say two things about it.

1. It has some nice technical improvements
2. The interface is very ugly asthetically when compared to version 7.

Maybe its just me, I am sure there are many people out there that actually like "puke green" and crude stylized feathers. It is a feather isn't it? Couldn't they make it work better AND look better?

Hey remember these girls? One way I use layers is to keep different versions in order to see what I like and don't like about the changes I am currently making. sometimes I end up just blending them together when I can decide which one I like.

By the way I am not an artist or but I feel that drawing with photoshop intitles me to an "honarary artists temperment" so i am compelled to be irritating quite a bit!


- HandsOff

 

You know HandsOff, you remind me of someone I am talking to right now. Hehehe, the same sense of humour. I think that you're going to be a great addition to this thread.

And she is a beautiful woman isn't she...

p.s. how did you reform her body shape? I mean, how did you go about it? Was it just Photoshop editing or was a third-party program involved?

 

Hi Mishimasan -

The shapes are for the most part identical. Its easy to see I did a mirror image to make her face the opposite direction (image>rotate canvas>flip image horizontally) I did this because I wanted the arch of her back to look more like the angle of the snow covered trees.

what might surprise you it that the slimmer appearance I simply scupted. I just kept shaving of parts with the eraser. When I got to the butt, i just couldn't resist. I wanted a bubble butt! again I just shave off underneath and above.

The whole ideal making her slimmer was due to the illusion in the original which kept tricking my mind about what HER shap really was. is she slender, and much of what seems to be her shape just background. When i recolored her i got tricked. i mistaked the near side of her back for a fat arm. i mistook the near shoulder (or billowing garment?) to be a prodigious bossom. when i glanced at one of big bucks images i saw my mistake and decided not only would "my girl" be as slim as his. It was going to be slimmer. I think the hair came from another illusion when i placed the layer onto the background. I like it so i lassood the shape and got the color to match and pasted it on her head. The shoes I did have to fill in a bit because they were to faint in my original. again i filled in color and then erased out to try and keep the shoe shape. (notice the grayscale girls shoes ar not quite complete).

Now the arms...the arms i am very proud of because they come from some really funny pictures i made, and i did not have resize them at all. BTW her left and right arms are the same arm rotated and flipped. I finally figured out how to do it! I have to show you the origanol it is so funny.

- HandsOff

P.S. - the top guy reminds me of Mr.Blaze for some reason. Does he have a long ponytail?

 

oh wait...did you mean the stretched out ones in the space version (in the other thread)?

that is KPT3's Vortex filter. KPT3 is really a great plugin. it takes me a lot of effort to learn how to use something but when i do then i use it to death. Check out the following. i am pretty sure what happened was first I made the black with stars background. then i put the glider things in and used vortex. its just possible i also used video feedback (KPT3 again to make it seem to go on and on). Notice the blue clothes designs are actually the vortex again. basically i have vortex within vortex within vortex. If this is not bad enough, i did not stop here, i eventually added at least three more layers of vortex's.

 

So basically, it takes a layer and "wraps it around" like some kind of... vortex? Brilliant plug-in. I'm going to get that.. or you could add me on MSN if you use it and send me that

 

That vortex filter is terrific!
Well done HandsOff!

I did another one out of 2 pictures.
A bunch of Flowers + Gwen Stefani.
First I started with the flowers (layer1) I added cold gradient colours
in the middle (layer2)...reduced the opacity to 40% approx. and added
my model in the end (layer 3). I reduced the opacity of layer 3 to 75%
When I was done, I adjusted the colour balance to make
the colours come out.

 

Here's a screenshot showing how I applied the gradient colours...
See the cold pink rectangle in the screenshot....
The gradient colours in the rectangle were magenta + coblat blue,
Although the opacity was 52% at first, I reduced it to 40%
after. The rectangle tolerance (or feather) was set to 30%
to avoid sharp edges. After I was satisfied with the results,
I pasted the pic of my model in it (as a new layer) and reduced the
opacity a little before adjusting the colour balance.

 

Same one with more yellow in it and less purple....

 

Hi Uguel,

That was really nice. I have never really tackeled the gradient tool but the effect is good, so I will try. aside from being more colorful it makes things blend in better.

Have any of you ever used Adobe Photo Deluxe? It is sort of a watered down version of photoshop, only less serious. It has a pretty cool "artistic effects" section, at least the old version I have does. anyway it had something that photoshop 7 doesn't have. Or at least I can't find it. it let you add a layer to a picture, but the layer had "handles" on it. with the handles you could drag it, rotate it, and resize it (it being the image on the layer with the handles on it).

Think about it! Uguel, when you placed the girl you could have rotated her made her bigger or smaller...in real time! anyway is that feature here somewhere? i can't find it!

i was working on, Mr. Summer Heat


- HandsOff

 

You've got some great plug-ins there Hands-Off. To me, you are the plug-in man. If I've ever got anything that needs some plug-in treatment, I know who to come to. Uguel, you're beautiful with Photoshop - so much more than in PhotoFiltre and PaintShop Pro - COME HERE PERMANENTLY! Joke, great work keep it coming - you're extremely imaginative. Let's see what you can do experimenting with the tools on the tool bar. Let us know exactly what you used and what you think that tool does or those tools do. I'm going to post a tutorial about skin-smoothing for cosmetic photography and I'll mention how to use a number of tools effectively.

However, I've just gotten back from a vacation, and I'm one too many beers down the road, so I'll have to give it a wait until further notice! Stay tuned.

 

yeah, yeah, yeah...
C'mon, everybody looks beautiful with Photoshop!

I did not have time to do stg really substantial ...but
I played with the filters a bit. Here's a rose that I will modify with
Flaming Pear Flood's filter....Next time I might post a picture
re-worked with the tools palette.

First I had this rose....

 

... I opened the image of the rose in Photoshop...
I resized it with the crop tool in order to get rid
of the little pink frame ...for I will put another
one later on....

1. I went to the menu>Filters>Artistic>Paint Daubs
2. I chose these settings:

Thickness:8
Hardness:7

then I return to the menu>filters> I selected Eye Candy>
Flood ...and I applied these settings...
see screenshot attached...

to get the filter:
flood filter