This thread is solely for the purpose of teaching some techniques in photoshop to some members who wants to learn how to. Feel free to ask/suggest anything that involves photoshop |
DropOutNov 6, 2010 5:27 AM
how do u add tht shadowed background like u do for this pic?  |
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| How to make member cards/signiture/layouts/banners for photoshop 7. :) |
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| for the shadow I use outer glow the default color is white so change it to black. don't you have a photoshop higher than photoshop 7? atleast CS? |
| Sorry can u give a more detailed explanation I don't seem to be doing it correctly... |
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@leaf: If your using photoshop 8.0 above double click the layer you want to put shadow on it can be a text layer or the photos layer.. by double clicking it a pop-up window will show up.. click the outer glow text located at the left side of the pop-up window you'll see structure elements and quality.. under structure you'll see a yellowish color just click it and a color picker pop-up window will show.. click anywhere until your satisfied with the color that you wanted for your shadow, after that under elements change the size to 6px if your picture doesn't have a stroke effect and 8px if it have a stroke effect.. now under quality change the contour to the picture that looks like a hill hit the ok button and you'll have the same effect as the picture above @______@ It's quite hard explaining sorry if it's hard too understand what I'm talking about.. if I have time I'll provide some visuals @______@ |
| I have Photoshop Elements- I just use the "drop shadow" option from my "Styles and effects" tools section for shadows like that... I assumed that was how everyone did the shadows. |
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| how do you make the corners rounded on your cards?? |
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| @dropout I have photoshop CS I see the stuff that you explained yet still i am unable to see the shadow... |
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| @leaf: You can't see the shadow while making them XD try saving it to JPEG or PNG then view your card you'll see the shadow.. btw your canvas has to be bigger than your picture.. @lyrical: to make rounded corners you'll have to use shape, on your tools at the left part of your work space there's a rectangle right? try right clicking it your see a rounded rectangle option so does custom shapes click the rounded rectangle then drag it to your picture you can also adjust the roundness of the edge of the card... @winden: yup drop shadow is also good but the shadow has to be in a specific angle.. it doesn't appear around the picture while using outer glow the shadow will appear around your card ^_^ |
| Ah, ok. I didn't realize. To get it all around the card when I want it, I use layers, make a drop shadow then merge the card with an empty layer then flip it around and drop shadow again then merge it. Then flip it to the right direction again. I think that with PS Elements that's the only way I can probably do it. I'll have to look into your way and see if I can or not. Just 'cause I’m curious now. |
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| @DropOut about the rounded corners i tried doing it a million times and tried experimenting with all types of things, but i still can't get the corners without blocking my picture or something of the sort. do you think you can make a more in depth explanation, thanks :) |
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| @windeen: ^_^ I want to try PS Elements but don't have that right now.. my CS3 PS crashed months ago so I'm just using PS CS @_@ @kballet: change the opacity of the rounded rectangle to 0%.. after that press CTRL then click the rounded rectangle layer once a dashed outline will appear after that.. then press SHIFT+CTRL+C or just go to edit copy merge.. then press CTRL+N hit enter.. then press CRTL+V.. the image will show ^_^ |
| Thanks for all the help Dropout!! :D |
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| @ DropOut: I don't have the latest copy of PS Elements, so I'm kinda behind. But I love it. I have 4.0 and I think there are much newer versions of it. I got mine about 3 years ago with my Waacom Intous 3 tablet. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to make a dash like border- other than attempting to draw it myself. I tried that several times using the shape selection tool. What I'm trying to get are lines around the border of my cards like the lines you would get when you use the marquee tool (If that makes any sense). |
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| @windeen: I haven't tried that either but I do have an idea on how to.. why not make a shape.. then change the opacity to 0% then put a stroke effect.. rasterize that shape.. use the eraser tool and erase parts of the stroke.. It'll appear like a dashed border ^_^ I'll try that on my next card.. to see if it works ^_^ |
DropOut said: @windeen: I haven't tried that either but I do have an idea on how to.. why not make a shape.. then change the opacity to 0% then put a stroke effect.. rasterize that shape.. use the eraser tool and erase parts of the stroke.. It'll appear like a dashed border ^_^ I'll try that on my next card.. to see if it works ^_^ Ok, I'll give that a try and see if it works, Thanks ^^ |
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DropOut said: @windeen: I haven't tried that either but I do have an idea on how to.. why not make a shape.. then change the opacity to 0% then put a stroke effect.. rasterize that shape.. use the eraser tool and erase parts of the stroke.. It'll appear like a dashed border ^_^ I'll try that on my next card.. to see if it works ^_^ I've tried my Idea and unfortunately it didn't work... but I made it work.. instead to changing the opacity to 0% the fill should be the one to be reduced to 0%.. then rasterize the photo.. save it to .png open the .png file then use the eraser/marquee tool to make the dashed lines XD |
my own style for making it, for the photoshop 8.0 CS first, download this file, there are 6 patterns for a dashed line, and OPEN the file, they will be loaded to photoshop. second, open the image and create a new layer above it. select the 1px horizontal line by the marquee tool: then press shift+f5 and select 'pattern' from the list. choose 2, 3 or 4px horizontal dash pattern from the list and press ok. make it again with the bottom of the image. then with the right and left sides, but choose the vertical patterns for the last two. and here is the frame: |
| cool @_@ teach me some cool techniques ^^ I mean new border style or whatever.. and where did you download the patterns? XD |
| I made the patterns by myself ^^ and it depends of what border do you want~ |
| woah.. that's nice it must be hard making patterns.. well umm.. not a normal border I guess something rare? and haven't been tried yet.. or a mixture of borders that will turn out good |
| btw.. how to make a .gif file in CS? @_@ I don't know ^^ we'll I know how in CS3 but there's no animation tool in CS |
| it's pretty easy, haha. about rare borders... I don't really know, because I'm using simple ones mostly. but you can experiment, and maybe it turns out good~ and animation can be done in the imageready program that's with the photoshop. |
| I see so It's separated XD I'll try to make some ^^ I'm a fast learner ehehe |
| hey, thanks for the rounded edges tips, but i have another problem: i made the card with an outer glow, but now i cant save it as a jpeg or else PS automatically fills in the area behind it with white. What should i do? |
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| How do you add thos clear lines to a picture? like people use on member cards? (I know im probly the only loser who dosen't know how..lol) I have Photoshop 5.0 |
"Wait for the signal, and I'll meet you after dark" |
| ah, thanks, that works :P now i feel dumb >w< |
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| @DropOut Im sorry i probly didn't describe it right. (I dont even know if people can make this kind of image with photoshop..) (there is stripes thru the picture, but you cant really tell that there are some) Like this: If you cant figure out anything im saying (im bad with words..T.T) then please dont worry about it. ^_^ |
"Wait for the signal, and I'll meet you after dark" |
| ah.. that lines.. try to use this move your image to this photo reduce the opacity to 0% press SHIFT+CTRL+C then go back to your original image click the layer of the image then press CTRL+V the lines will appear just reduce the opacity of the lines until your satisfied it will appear just like that but a little bit finer. |
| Cool! I've wanted to ask how to make the clear lines! Thanks, DropOut-san~ |
| Thanks so much! I think I got it now! :D (If i forget anything, i'll just come back a re-read your post.) Thanks your awesome. ^_^ |
"Wait for the signal, and I'll meet you after dark" |
| Glad I can help @_@ |
| it can be done with the patterns too ;) |
| Question to ladyAre how can I make animations in image ready??? @________@ |
| http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/discontinued/imageready/animation/ http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/animation/animation.htm here are some tutorials since I'm not using the animation myself~ |
| I copied it and I'll try this at home ^^ thanks |
| I can't find one either @_@ you can find one at the adobe site but it's only limited to 30 days |
| Can i ask how to make member cards??? I want to know how make the shape and add text with tranparent box in the card! can anyone help, please!!!=] |
Feed my squibies please!!!=]   |
| what kind of shape do you mean? and what version of photoshop that you're using? |
| Yeah . I want to learn how to DropOut-san ! Like a polygonial shape . or something with border shape styles ! |
| make another layer put the shape that you want in that layer you can use the custom shape tool or the polygon shape tool or something.. lower the opacity to 0% hold the CTRL button the click on the polygon layer. press SHIFT+CTRL+C or go to edit>copy merge... press CTRL+N or go to files>new hit enter.. then press CTRL+V to paste.. you'll have a polygonal shape photo/picture @_@ I hope that's what you mean.. |
UsuiAyuzawa said: Yeah . I want to learn how to DropOut-san ! Like a polygonial shape . or something with border shape styles ! As mentioned by UsuiAyuzawa, i wanted to learn how to those shape. I had made one card but seems like it does not work. White layer seems to appear!!!! Can someone teach me how to make it vanished!!!! BTW, i'm using photoshop CS5.:) here it is, the failed card See those white things??? how to get rid of it??? and why the words are kinda blur~ |
ttahneeNov 26, 2010 9:29 AM
| Feed my squibies please!!!=] |
| Just wanna help too, How to make grid lines, mirror, beam light, mirror, rendering like (taking the picture out of it's background), scan lines, gradient, In Photoshop CS4 Just show me a picture and where will I click, Thanks |
ttahnee said: UsuiAyuzawa said: Yeah . I want to learn how to DropOut-san ! Like a polygonial shape . or something with border shape styles ! As mentioned by UsuiAyuzawa, i wanted to learn how to those shape. I had made one card but seems like it does not work. White layer seems to appear!!!! Can someone teach me how to make it vanished!!!! BTW, i'm using photoshop CS5.:) here it is, the failed card See those white things??? how to get rid of it??? and why the words are kinda blur~ to make the white part disappear right click on your eraser tool select the 3rd one @_@ I forgot what it's called then click on the white part to make it disappear @_@ |
ishamaedoria said: Just wanna help too, How to make grid lines, mirror, beam light, mirror, rendering like (taking the picture out of it's background), scan lines, gradient, In Photoshop CS4 Just show me a picture and where will I click, Thanks for grid lines Here mirror - select the font or picture you want to have a mirror effect go to edit>transform>flip vertical/horizontal it's up to you... lower the opacity of the mirror image to make a nice mirror effect ^^ scan lines HERE light beam Here gradient Here ^_^ this is fun.. I learned how to make scan lines and grid lines thanks to you =D for asking the question ^^ |
| Thanks, dropout- sama!!!=] it really works, i'm so happy now!!!:) |
| Feed my squibies please!!!=] |
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