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Last post 03 Nov 2008 by

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aliencraft

Any tips anyone would like to share?

Reply 23 May 2008

devian

Pen tool is your friend, love it, caress it :)
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Quote 23 May 2008

aliencraft

I hate it! I will not love it! :)

But by doing so, I will never make it professionally. But that is fine. I'm a film junkie first, art junkie second! Muaha

Quote 23 May 2008

aliencraft

But as far as tips go:

Quick one,

1) Find image
2) Duplicate image
3) Softlight (or overlay depending on your needs) the duplicate
4) Voila

You get something like this: http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs29/300W/f/2008/144/6/2/Simple_Tutorial_1_by_aliencraft.jpg

Quote 23 May 2008

devian

I'll sometimes do that with a light gradial blur to create a bloom effect. Not as much lately though.

I used to hate the pen tool severely, but it makes precise selections and really helps with blending. It's a love/hate relationship. I can't live without it now.
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I don't control my emotions. I just make them digital.

Quote 23 May 2008

aliencraft

I just don't have the patience to accurately pen out each curve. That's my main beef with it. Plus when your max-res is 1024x768, you don't have much room to work with!

Quote 23 May 2008

mydeadpony

Control+S

Simplify your way of thinking by not using tips :D

Seriously, the pen tool rocks, I always keep my little finger on the Control button to switch between the pen tool and the direct selection tool

Quote 24 May 2008

shelly

aliencraft said:

Plus when your max-res is 1024x768, you don't have much room to work with!

WHAT?!?!

Seriously, though; I worked in that resolution for the longest time. Now I wish I'd gotten a bigger monitor, or upgraded to a higher resolution, sooner. (I do most of my work now with a res of 1280x1024.)

As for tips?

* Shift + Control + C (copy all layers to clipboard)
* Extraction tool (especially when doing photomanips)--right now, I prefer it to the pen tool. (It and I don't get along very well.)
* Play with gradient maps.
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Quote 24 May 2008

aliencraft

yeah it's unfortunate. if you think my res is bad, check out my computer specs:

pentium 3, 600mhz.
192mb of ram
voodoo3 graphics card
windows xp

legally, or physically rather, lol, i shouldnt be able to run photoshop with 192mb of ram under windows xp!

isnt the recommended amount of ram for xp like 512mb?

ahah

Quote 26 May 2008

shelly

Something like that; I think.
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Quote 26 May 2008

zenko

My genus tools tip:

I) Duplicate, flip around, cut out areas and put together.
II)Duplicate, blend modes, merge layers, do step I.
III)Filters. If you can experiment with them you can learn that filters are not as bad like people say.

genus or not? I think not. ahaha
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Quote 03 Nov 2008

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