Tutorials, Textures, Brushes and the such!

[donttrustme]

Does anyone have any excellent tutorials for Photofiltre?
I seriously can't find any.

[andrée joie dubois ♥]

T E X T I E S;;
So, I have recently acquired the skill of making texts that have no background. They're called texties. I had many, many attempts at this, but all were a fail. Then, I figured it out. Do you want to know how to make a textie?

P H O T O S H O P;;
First, go to

FILE>>NEW>>BLANK FILE...

And put

HEIGHT : 200
WIDTH : 500

The rest doesn't even matter, except you have to put :
BACKGROUND CONTENTS : TRANSPARENT

The transparency is key. If you don't have it on transparent, then your whole graphic will be an epic fail.

Pick your desired text, size, and other necessities. Then, you will type the text that you want, and add other things that you'd like. Then, click X or save. It will ask you what format you want to save it in. Save it in .gif or .png. If you don't it will turn out with a white background.

Next, upload your textie to Photobucket, or your desired photo sharing website.

You have created a textie!

PS : I'm not absolutely positive that it will work on your version of Photoshop, but you can try.

[sunlois]

Zephyr;;

Used it! It's amazing (darker because added something to it)




Andrée;;

About to test

[agnes]

colouring tutorial

Okay dokey, I decided to write a tutorial for those who need help with colouring…

1. Open your image, add sharpen, or surface/smart/gaussian blur to improve the look of your image
2. Duplicate your base (Ctrl + J) and set it at 45% opacity (it’s optional because it brightens your image a little bit) - you can change the opacity at will
3. Add a selective colour layer with the following settings:

4. Add another selective colour layer with the following settings:

Red: -55, 0, +55, +55
Yellows: -100, 0, -32, 0
Greens: -100, +100, 0, +100
Cyans: -100, 0, 0, +100
Whites: 0, 0, +40, -42

5. Next, add a curves layer with the following settings:

RGB: first point: input: 86, output: 124
second point: input: 225, output: 220

6. Create a new layer and fill it with #c78b35 and set it on Exclusion, 8% opacity
7. Create another curves layer with the following settings:

RGB: input: 123, output: 100

8. Add a level layer with the following settings =D

RGB: remains unchanged
Red: input: 34, 1.03, 242
output: 27, 246
Green: input: 17, 1.00, 237
Blue: input: 24, 1.00, 236

[basia]

let's do some coloring !
OR SOME SUCH NONSENSE

because a. i liked the coloring i did for this graphic,
and b. i have way too much time on my hands.

step one.

pick your image, crop it to your liking, etc. etc. and what have you.

( image so far )

step two.

duplicate your image and set it to screen at 45% opacity. (this is subject to change; the image i picked was just bright already. use your discretion.)

( image so far )

step three.

fill a new layer with #b4b4b4 and set it to color burn at 73% opacity.

( image so far )

step four.

fill another layer with #003157 and set it to exclusion at 63% opacity.

( image so far )

step five.

fill yet another layer with #b2fbfe and set it to color burn at 67% opacity.

( image so far )

step six.

this is the last of these, i promise. xD another layer, this time filled with #00ff8a, set to soft light at 20% opacity.

( image so far )

step seven.

time for selective coloring! here are the settings:

red: -100, +100, +100, +24
yellows: 0, 0, +16, 0
greens:: +100, 0, 0, -100
cyans: +100, 0, 0, 0
blues: +100, +100, 0, +100
magentas: +100, 0, 0, 0
whites: +100, 0, 0, 0
neutrals: 0, 0, 0, +3
blacks: 0, 0, 0, +12

( image so far )

step eight.

i thought the reds were kind of lame and the blacks were kinda... soft and i wanted to bring up the greens, so i added another selective color layer. it's optional, though. xD settings:

reds: -45, +19, +28, +1
yellows: 0, 0, -20, 0
greens: +100, +100, +100, -100
blacks: 0, 0, 0, +12

( image so far )

step nine.

curves! also optional; i just wanted it a little darker. two points.
point one: input, 89; output, 79
point two: input, 169; output, 153

( image so far )

step ten.

text!

( image so far )

step eleven.

finally, to make it a little more... grungy, i added this texture from loveicon set to multiply. then i rounded the corners and added the outline, and i was done!

( finished product )

hope this was helpful! xD it's my first ever tutorial, so let me know what you think, or if you decide to try it.

[agnes]

Basia, what program do you use?

[basia]

photoshop cs4.
you?

[agnes]

photoshop cs3
you're lucky (:

[basia]

xD it's only because it took me a really long time to save up the money for it - i only got it last christmas. i went halvesies with my mom, because she needed it for work. so it all worked out nicely for me. xD

[agnes]

well, i like my photoshop cs3
i don't think it has any big differences when it comes to their tools
maybe at the design...

[the charlotte™]

I've tried both photoshop cs2 and cs3...
And personally my favorite has to be cs2, just putting that out there. xD

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[, scarlett bennet .]

i feel so left out.
me and my psp
xDDDD

[basia]

xD i wanted psp for the vector stuff, but they don't make it for macs.
also, i actually don't know what i'm doing with photoshop. xD i was working on elements for a while, which i did like - except no selective coloring. other than that, it's cs4 and paint. xDDD

[` audrey whitman]

Tried your tutorial, Dree. I was new to Photoshop, so
I figured I'd try some tutorials for Photoshop, and I
happened to want to create some text banners, but
I don't know how. So I stumbled upon your tut and I
found out yours worked in my version! xD yayy! Here's
the final product. It sucks, but I do trial things without
much effort. Yeah, that's meh. xD Love ya btw! -hugs-

[lifeislove]

ughhh. I tried and tried and tried to do something with the program I just downloaded, and this was the best I could manage. I used the same idea that Vee had with a siggy she made for me on another charrie (Sarah Lonsbury), and tried to do something similar. Not very good...

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