Photoshop Tutorials/General Photo Editing links and advice
spaceyphysicist:
These are great tutorials you guys! Thank you for taking the time to share them with us. :)
*jumps on bandwagon* One of my favorite photo effects is rain animation, like in the picture below, and when a few people asked me how I did it, I wrote a tutorial that can be found here. It's really image-heavy so I don't want to post it here; it holds your hand every step of the way. If you can be out in public unsupervised, you can understand this tutorial. ;) It's for Photoshop CS2 and ImageReady, but if you know how to open another program you can probably figure out how to do it.
Kielen:
Since I know a lot of us use screenshots rather than the ingame camera, here's a quick little tut on how to keep the proportions when you resize a screenshot with GIMP. :D
Here's the pic we're working off of...Trillium lent me her parents for this. :P
With the picture up, select the 'Image' menu from the top menu bar.
In the menu, select the 'Scale Image' option.
This will open a nice friendly box with lots of buttons. Underlined is the length of the longest edge of your picture. The little figure 8 the arrow is pointing to controls how your picture will resize.
If the 8 looks normal, when you adjust one side of the image, it will automatically correct the other so the proportions remain correct. If the 8 is split in half, then each side will resize seperately, often resulting in rather distorted pictures.
In the case of this picture, the width of the picture is greater than the height. I need my picture to fit in the forum rules of 600x600. So I correct the largest side, in this case the width, to 600 pixels, and hit enter. Since the little 8 is together, it automatically resized my height as well. Now my picture will be changed to 600x507, within the picture rules.
You can fiddle with other quality settings at this point, but they don't make a huge visible difference in the picture itself...After getting everything set to what you need, click the 'Scale' button at the bottom.
Tada!! As you can see, the file has been resized, and I can now save it, or continue fiddling with photoshop effects if I need to.
Hope it helps!! :D
Buffy:
im loving this thread, im definetly going to be trying that rain effect, and yes summer, im becoming fast addicted to photoshop. babyblueheart, im not sure how to make a transparent layer, but when you use the layer mask, you can use a paintbrush to choose what you want to show up in your pic, by painting either black or white, you can show more of the background image or more of the foreground image, so this kinda makes it transparent. with this image i used the tut to merge my two images, then used the paintbrush to expose different bits of either picture, then i opened another pic and dragged it onto the pic i had just been playing with, created another layer mask and used paintbrush again to paint in maryanns face, using white caused the foreground image to become more visible, and using black brought out the background image more. hope that kinda makes sense.
open up the 2 images > press "V" > drag image onto other> create layer mask> then use paintbrush to paint in either more forground or more background. play around with the opacity to either make it more blended or solid.
Charmy:
These aren't mine, and they're not necessarily just for sims, but here:
I've learned to do lots with photoshop, i recommend these sites to try, they have good downloads, and some tutorials.
[Add a Soft Effect to Your Pictures]
[Filters/Diamonds to Text]
[Adding Taped Edges to Your Pictures]
[Downloads/Tutorials]
[More Downloads/Tutorials]
[Painting Tutorial]
[Matte Painting/Manipulating an Image Tutorial]
Deviant Art is good for tutorials and brushes!
Buffy:
thanks charmy, i will be saving all of those to my favourites:)
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