Tips and Tricks Adobe Photoshop

Blast Light

2009-03-09T00:46:00.000-07:00

Creating a "Blast Light" in Photoshop
... inspired by the Star Wars movies
Luke from PA, using GIMP 2 with Windows, writes in with:
[Quote:] how you you do the lightsaber thingie i always see? (Here's an example of the technique I'm looking for)

Photoshop 911:
Create the object you wish to make the light sabre. Use the Pen tool to create a simple straight path. This will provide the structure for the "light" ...
Now, set a soft-edged brush to the appropriate size to be the thickness you need for the sabre.
Now, you'll use the Stroke Path command to paint the sabre. The Stroke Path command allows you to create a paint stroke (using the current settings for your painting tools) that follows any path.
Start a new layer. When you stroke a path, the color values appear on the active layer. Make sure the layer you want is active before beginning.

1. Select the path in the Paths palette (Cmd/click or Ctrl/click).2. Click the Stroke Path button at the bottom of the Paths palette. Each click of the Stroke Path button builds up the opacity of the stroke and in some cases makes it look thicker.
To stroke a path and specify options:
1. Select the path in the Paths palette.

2. Select the painting or editing tool you want to use to stroke the path.

3. Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the Stroke Path button at the bottom of the Paths palette. (Or, Choose Stroke Path from the Paths palette menu.)
There's the sabre.
To create the aura surrounding the sabre, duplicate the layer. Now select the bottom most Blast
Ctrl/click (Mac: Cmd/click) the layer to select the Blast Choose: Select > Modify > Expand Selection... and expand it to approximate the amount of aura you desire.
Fill the new, thicker, sabre with the desired aura color. Click Okay.
Drop the selection and choose: Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur
Adjust the slider until the aura is as you wish.
Presto... Blast Light And, may the force be with you.
If you can help, just comment below! Thank you!

Jokes : The Prince

2008-05-29T05:59:00.000-07:00

One day, there were customer going to photoshop editor in the corner of street. He brought a photo. He showed his photo to the editor. He had the photoshop editor edited his photo to be a prince.
“Hi editor, I want you to edit this photo, so it looks like a prince!” customer said, “I give you five minutes to edit it, so be quickly! I will give you much money, house, gold, plane, whatever you want, I will give to you. Here is the photo.”
The first time the editor looked the photo, he felt stomach-ache and head-ache. He said in the deepest heart,
“How ugly this person is!”
Actually the editor didn’t want to done the job but he didn’t wanted his customer satisfied and because the reward too, so he kept to finished the job.
The editor was stress, what must he did to edited the photos to be a prince. There were no idea in his brain to edited the photos. Three minutes passed away, the editor still stayed cool in front of his computer with the adobe photoshop opened. No action. He still thought hard.
Finally, the editor got the idea. He took the action very fast. He edited the photos just two minutes to change the photo looked like prince. Then, the editor showed the photo to customer. The customer was surprised with the photo. He gave what the editor asked and left from the shop. The editor prayed, “God, please don’t give me job like that again…”
Do you want to know what the editor did to the photos?

MbiX Fire

2008-05-27T08:25:00.000-07:00

This tips and trics make fire from Adobe Photoshop. I worked with Adobe Photosop CS. It is not too simple but I think you can do it if you learn it slowly. Learning Photoshop needs experience. So more experience you had makes you get more tricks in photoshop. In this tricks you will learn about liquify and blending mode, enjoy your photoshop. Here is the steps :

1. Make a New File
Make a new file with background. I worked with black background color, you can change whatever color you like. File > New
2. Draw Lines
Draw horizontal or vertical lines whatever you like. I worked with blue line, you can change it. Use brush tool to make lines.
3. Liquify the lines
Click filter > Liquify (Ctrl+Shift+X). Make lines like fire with tool in the left side. After you finish Click Ok.

4. Blur the line
Blur the line with smudge tool. Make more like fire with this tool. Then, blur the line with gaussian blur. Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set the radius to 7,0 pixels. Click OK.
5. Make a New Layer
Make a new layer. Layer > New > Layer (Ctrl+Shift+N)
6. Make Ellips
Make Ellips with ellips shape tool.
7. Blur the Ellips
Blur the ellips with radial blur. Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. I worked radial blur twice. You can blur it more than one. Set the amount to 100. In the blur method, choose zoom and the quality is good. Click OK
8. Blend the Ellips
Double click in the Ellips shape (in the layer box,right side) or Layer > Layer Style > Blending Option.
Give mark to the Drop Shadow
Give mark to the Inner Shadow
Give mark to the Outer Glow. In the Structure box, you can set the color whatever you want, I picked blue. In the quality box, set the Contour to Cove-Deep.
Give mark to the Inner Glow. In the Structure box, you can set the color whatever you want, I picked grey. In the quality box, set the Contour to Cove-Deep.
Give mark to the Satin. Click OK to finish.
9. Type a Word
You can type whatever you want.

After you try this tips and tricks, show me your fire…don’t forget please leave comment for me. If you have some tips and trics Adobe photoshop, share to me. I want to increase my knowledge with you. Thank you very much…
My email Mbix13@gmail.com

Autumn picture

2008-05-25T21:24:00.000-07:00

This tips and trics looks so beauty. It can change the picture (natural environtment:tree, flower, etc) into like autumn season. So I called it autumn trics. This trics is very simple, I believe all people can do this after he/she reads this. This image was edited in adobe photoshop CS. Cool down, here is the steps :

Prepare the image

Click File > Open (Ctrl+O), choose image you want to change into autumn and open it. I suggest, there are some trees or flower in the picture. Click Open.

Create a mask

Use any tool you like to make a selection of the object which will not change into autumn (like people, road, house,etc). I worked with magnetic lasso tool and brush.

Inverse the Mask

Inverse the mask. Click Select > Inverse (Ctrl+Shift+ I)

Change into autumn

Lets get the autumn. Click Image > Adjustments > Color Balance (Ctrl+B). In the Tone Balance select Midtones, set the Color Levels into -57 +48 -86. Change the Tone Balance to Shadows, set the Color Levels into +81 -24 -100. Change the Tone Balance to Highlights, set the Color levels into -8 -98 -60. Click OK. You can change the Color Levels until you get your own autumn.

Deselect the Mask

Click Select > Deselect

After you try this tips and tricks, show me your autumn…don’t forget please leave comment for me. If you have some tips and trics Adobe photoshop, share to me. I want to increase my knowledge with you. Thank you very much…