mana pic i made
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your picture is very nice... ^_^
Random question, where is everyone hosting their avvies for this board? Last i knew we couldnt have them hosted by geocities... also... whats the pixel by pixel for them for when I make mine...
Thanks... I never remember this shit. ^.^
Random question, where is everyone hosting their avvies for this board? Last i knew we couldnt have them hosted by geocities... also... whats the pixel by pixel for them for when I make mine...
Thanks... I never remember this shit. ^.^
Nah, you can go up to 150x150 if you so desire.
Hmm interesting. I'm pretty much computer illiterate, but a friend of mine is burning me a copy of photoshop, which I should have the next time I get around to going over and picking it up.
Pretty...
~Sasa
Pretty...
~Sasa
mija wrote:
I've heard (as was reitterated earlier in this thread) that it's a bit difficult to use. Is there anything I should brace myself for beforehand?
~Sasa
All right, thanks for the help. I really am mainly going to use it for banners for my lj community, as well as randomly playing around with photographs. I have a digicam (granted, I've dropped it a few times and once accidentally chucked it across the parking lot at RHPS...) So I take far too many pictures and spend far too much time trying to understand how to make them look cooler than they really are.
Woo!
~Sasa
Woo!
~Sasa
Well, I personally think it'a very easy to use (as opposed to some other paint programs. Corel. Yegads, I hate their interface.)
Just might take a bit to get used to. But for starters... kick off any menus you don't need, and go from there. I use PS for actually painting digitally, not photomanipulation. But you can do anything with it.
Be wary with the filters and effects, though. Some of them have their uses, some look kinda cool. But most of them are awfully cheap looking. Use with caution, if at all.
Heh.. I'm so prejudice against filters. ;D
Just might take a bit to get used to. But for starters... kick off any menus you don't need, and go from there. I use PS for actually painting digitally, not photomanipulation. But you can do anything with it.
Be wary with the filters and effects, though. Some of them have their uses, some look kinda cool. But most of them are awfully cheap looking. Use with caution, if at all.
Heh.. I'm so prejudice against filters. ;D
Eh, Filters are interesting. I mainly want to be able to do black and white prints with highlights colored. Is that possible with photoshop?
And yeah, a lot of those things do look rather corny. I try to avoid that, and mainly use it for sleeker photo editing than I can acheive with say, paint.
I have no idea what menus and whatnot are being referred to, but I'm sure I'll figure it out when I get the software. Thanks for the help.
~Sasa
And yeah, a lot of those things do look rather corny. I try to avoid that, and mainly use it for sleeker photo editing than I can acheive with say, paint.
I have no idea what menus and whatnot are being referred to, but I'm sure I'll figure it out when I get the software. Thanks for the help.
~Sasa
If you referring to what I think you are, then yes. But it would require painting, unless there are very solid lines separating wherever you want different colors to be (in wich case the fill tool would do just fine).
Just duplicate the background layer and set the blending mode to multiply, and paint in a separate layer under it. Eh... you'll know what I mean once you see the program. Layers are the only bitchy thing about Photoshop. They aren't always nescessary, but they do help a LOT with certain projects. But then you have ther idiots like me who forget which layer they're working on and screw up and entire picture. ;D Whoops!
Menus are just little windows in the workspace, stuff like your color pallette, your toolbar, your history, your layers, your naviagtion... etc etc.
Probably makes no sense, but whatver. ;] Don't worry, it sounds a lot more complicated than it is.
Just duplicate the background layer and set the blending mode to multiply, and paint in a separate layer under it. Eh... you'll know what I mean once you see the program. Layers are the only bitchy thing about Photoshop. They aren't always nescessary, but they do help a LOT with certain projects. But then you have ther idiots like me who forget which layer they're working on and screw up and entire picture. ;D Whoops!
Menus are just little windows in the workspace, stuff like your color pallette, your toolbar, your history, your layers, your naviagtion... etc etc.
Probably makes no sense, but whatver. ;] Don't worry, it sounds a lot more complicated than it is.
... hey, I use Corel Photo-Paint 
A version that's like 5 years old too... hahaha. I like it just fine though. Maybe sometime I'll get a new program if I feel like spending the money.
A version that's like 5 years old too... hahaha. I like it just fine though. Maybe sometime I'll get a new program if I feel like spending the money.
I took one look a Corel ran straight back to photoshop.
y'know what's funny, I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone say something along the lines of "set the blending mode to multiply" over the last two years that I've been using Photoshop, and I still haven't figured out what that means o.O
y'know what's funny, I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone say something along the lines of "set the blending mode to multiply" over the last two years that I've been using Photoshop, and I still haven't figured out what that means o.O
Well, in Corel you just go to the Objects panel, pick the object you want, and use the drop-down box to change the "merge" to Multiply. 
... or did you mean what it does?
... or did you mean what it does?
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Here are some piccus to illustrate it, sort of. Proudly made in Corel
http://www.prideofmind.com/images/demo.jpg
And a Corel version for you at:
http://www.prideofmind.com/images/demo.cpt
Pretty much, the different merge modes tell Corel Photo-Paint (or whatever other program you might use) how to draw things when there is one object in front of another. In multiply mode, it draws the object in front by multiplying its pixel values color-channel-wise by whatever's behind it. In my example there are 4 rectangles, and the one in the center is in front of them all.
The center one has an RGB color of 255, 128, 0 on the usual scale of 0 to 255. In other words, that's 100%, 50%, 0% for the purposes of multiplication.
So for example, when that square is in front of the pure green square (color 0, 255, 0), we get a blended color of (100% * 0, 50% * 255, 0% * 0) - i.e. (0, 128, 0) which is a darker green. The rest are left as an exercise to the reader.
As for the smiley faces, I put them there to show another example of multiply vs. regular merge.
Did that help at all? ^^;;;
http://www.prideofmind.com/images/demo.jpg
And a Corel version for you at:
http://www.prideofmind.com/images/demo.cpt
Pretty much, the different merge modes tell Corel Photo-Paint (or whatever other program you might use) how to draw things when there is one object in front of another. In multiply mode, it draws the object in front by multiplying its pixel values color-channel-wise by whatever's behind it. In my example there are 4 rectangles, and the one in the center is in front of them all.
The center one has an RGB color of 255, 128, 0 on the usual scale of 0 to 255. In other words, that's 100%, 50%, 0% for the purposes of multiplication.
So for example, when that square is in front of the pure green square (color 0, 255, 0), we get a blended color of (100% * 0, 50% * 255, 0% * 0) - i.e. (0, 128, 0) which is a darker green. The rest are left as an exercise to the reader.
As for the smiley faces, I put them there to show another example of multiply vs. regular merge.
Did that help at all? ^^;;;