Photoshop Tutorials & Requests

[Tanya]

I thought I'd make a request thread for tutorials, as I have no life and plenty of time to do this crap, lol. If you want an effect or something explained post here, and I'll try to help the best I can,

I just had to make one up real quick for a guy over on SF, so I'll start with this one, which is pretty simple.

BW and Color Specific Image.
Open your picture, then go up to the top and click "layer" then "duplicate layer".

On that 2nd layer, desaturate it

Then go to your brushes, I like the softer ones for this kinda stuff

Erase the areas you want colored. And there you have it!

And for a more artisic effect, you can flatten the image, duplicate it and then gaussian blur it...

Got to the layers box and click on "overlay" and mess with the opacity

Before

After

 

[Big Wang Bandit]

Cool! Im gonna give that a shot later Tanya!

 

[Tanya]

Simple Fading GIF Image

Open your pictures in PS, I am only using 2 pictures to make this relatively simple.

You will need to have a black background for this type of animation, so you need to open a new layer on one of the pics

Fill that layer with black.

Then you need to make a duplicate layer of the background and move it on top of the black layer

Put your other picture on top of the other... you should have 3 layers, the black, and the 2 different pictures.

Then open in ImageReady

In ImageReady, you need to have 2 toolboxes open, the layers box and the animation box

In the animation box, duplicate the original frame.

On each frame, you only need 2 layers open, the black layer and the picture layer, click the picture thats not to be shown like this

Now you need to set frame delay, usually no delay or 0.1 works good

Now you're going to go to the first frame in the animation box, and click TWAIN

You need to set it to "tween with: next frame" and then choose the number of frames to add, I chose 6

Refine this animation more by taking the 1st frame and sliding all the way to the end, twaining between the last frame and the 1st frame...

And then save as optimized, this file is 1MB :aigo:

You can make the image smaller by going to IMAGE > IMAGE SIZE

This reduced my file size from 1MB to 282KB

 

[RazoE]

sweet...

for those wondering, another way of making a pic black and white is to go to Image->Adjustments->Chanel Mixer, and then clicking on the "monochrome" box towards the bottom..(desaturation removes colors, monochromizing makes the pic black and white, big diff).

Try both, and see which you like the most..




OT for Tanya: love the stuff in your shop!