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Graffiti Text Design

2008-05-06T09:35:00.000-07:00

~Ayayay Tutorials~
"MAKE UR OWN TEXT DESIGN"

Here is the text

Right click on the name on the layers pallett and select "rasterize type"

Then, Create a new custom blend similar to this.

Ctrl/Cmd click on the layer to select it.

With the gradient tool set to linear draw the blend by dragging the gradient tool from top to bottom.

Don't deselect.

Create a new layer

Edit>stroke

Add a 2 pixel gray stroke to the "outside"

Filters>blur>gaussian blur

Add a .08 gassian blur to the new layer with the outline on it.

Merge the outline area with the graffiti layer by clicking Ctrl/Cmd+E or select "merge down"

Select the layer again. Cmd/Ctrl+Click on the layer thumbnail.

Add another stroke, this time make it black and put it right on the graffiti layer.

Looking good! Now for the shadow.
Duplicate the layer by dragging it to the new layer icon on the layers pallette.

Select the new layer and Fill with black.

Drag the black layer behind the graffiti layer and move down and to the left a little bit.

Here I added a background and changed the layer blending mode of the graffiti to Hard light. See how it blends nicely to the background like it was painted on.

OLA AND NOW, WE'RE DONE! ehehehe..^^

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Digitally Paint Comics Like the Pros

2008-05-06T08:57:00.000-07:00

Salamat sa pagkocontribrute Mark Rivera. (cheers!) ^^

In this tutorial we will be using real life textures to assist in color rendering the Lady Blackhawk drawn by DC Comics artist Ed Benes. As you are digitally painting you may want to add details to give certain parts accentuated realism. I have found this brown leather texture sample that will be applied on to the color. We don’t necessarily need a black piece, just as long as we like the texture of the material. We can turn this black by first going to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate. This takes out the color while keeping the light and dark values of the leather.

Even real life black and white tends to have shades of color, so to add realism we will add a light shade of blue to the now dark gray leather by going to Image>Color Balance and adding +10 to blue. Now we have a nice texture swatch of shiny black leather.

If you would like your line art to remain on top while remaining transparent to the color render beneath, select the layer with it and press Ctrl + A to select the entire layer. Press Ctrl + C to copy it and then Ctrl + V to paste it into place. Drag this layer to the top of the layers panel. In the line art layer pull down the drop-down menu and go from Normal to Multiply. This will make the line layer transparent while leaving the black lines while revealing the colors beneath.

In the Flats layer, block out an area to fill with a base color. With this area selected, create another layer on top of your line art. I have chosen a dark gray/blue with the hexadecimal value #3E3E3F.

Open your leather swatch and select the Clone Stamp Tool. Set the Opacity to 40% and the Flow to 75%. Hold in the Alt key and click in the center of the swatch. This will hold the memory of the texture that will be stamped onto our art.

Go back into the art with the flat color and use the Magic Wand Tool to select the paintable area. On a new layer called Textures, paint into the area with the Clone Stamp Tool. To get smaller detailed areas, you can decrease the sample texture by 50% and use a smaller brush to vary the sizes of the texture creases on the jacket. Experiment with your strokes and brush sizes to meet your desired effect.

Now we will go in depth about how to paint with selections to add dramatic shadows and highlights. Let’s go ahead and manage our layers. I like to make a Flats layer along with a Shading, Textures, Shadows, Highlights, and a top Line Art layer.

Just like we did with the jacket, lets block out the rest of the shapes in the Flats layer. There are a couple advantages to having a separate flats layer. After blocking out your flats you already have a base tone to add any details with. However simple or detailed as you wish to go, you will always have your base color there. The flats layer also serves as a nice selection device as you paint in the other layers. Magic Wand the blocked out color and you now have a selection that allows you to color inside the lines like when you were a good little boy or girl.

As you add some dark and light tones in the shading layer with the section blocked out, you will begin to reveal the shapes in a more 3-Dimensional manner. Magic wand each section to brush. Just be sure to select the appropriate layer before painting so you don’t end up painting on your flats. I like to use a darker color and brush the edges and work my way in depending on the light sources you imagine.

Now with the Lasso Tool we will be creating cuts to color in selections. These cuts, or shapes, create a dynamic effect that you often see in printed digitally colored comics today. After drawing a cut, hold down the Shift key to create another cut without losing the first one you’ve drawn. Here I’ve cut out the areas of the jacket that will fill in the darker shadows in the leather folds and areas of Blackhawk’s face and skirt.

You can do the same with highlights as well.

With some experimentation, depending on how fast or detailed you want to go, you can digitally render line art with a style of your own.

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Customize Brushes

2008-05-06T08:10:00.000-07:00

Add more effects by using your "BRUSH" from Adobe Photoshop.
~Customize Brushes~Adobe Photoshop~
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Step I:
First thing to do is to open a new photoshop file. Make sure it is in grayscale mode, and make it 100px by 100px.

Step II:
This step requires just a little bit of artistic ability, so if that is not your strength, just do your best. Take a 3 pixel, 100% hardness brush and draw in a few birds in varying positions. You could do just one bird, but you will get a slightly more realistic looking flock if you put a few different ones. If you are really having difficulty drawing some birds, I 'm sure you can find some on the internet and then make a brush from those.

Step III:
Once you are happy with your birds, go to Edit, Define Brush Preset. Another dialogue box will pop up and you can give you brush a name if you wish.

Step IV:
Now when you go to your brush selections, you will find your bird brush as one of the options. It should be the very last brush on the list! Select that brush and get ready to customize!!!

Step V:
Now look for your brushes panel. It is normally located in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Click on the brushes tab and start customizing. I will not go into detail for all of the settings, however, below is a brief description of each setting:

Brush Tip Shape:
allows you to change the angle, roundness, hardness and spacing of your initial brush tip shape.

Shape Dynamics:
includes size, angle and roundness jitter. Makes it possible to randomize the shape of your initial brush, we will be using this for our brush later.

Scattering:
this makes it so that your brush tip shape is not placed on the canvas in a straight line, we will also be using this to customize our brush.

Texture:
this makes it possible to overlay a texture onto your brush.

Dual Brush:
a very cool feature that allows you to combine two different brushes. It even allows you to change how to two interact. We will not get into this setting in this tutorial, but mess around with it...it's very cool.

Color Dynamics:
allows you to use both foreground and background color on your brush as well as randomizing the hue, saturation and brightness.

Other Dynamics:
allows you to change the opacity and flow of the brush. We will also use this for our brush.

Noise, Wet Edges, Airbrush, Smoothing and Protect Texture do not provide additional options, but they do basically what the names say.

As a side note, if you have a tablet, there is also the ability to control most of these features with pen pressure, tilt, etc.

Step VI:
The next three steps show what settings I chose for the flock of birds brush. These are really a matter of personal taste and usually require some trial and error.

Here are the settings for Shape Dynamics.

Step VII:
Here are the Scattering options.

Step VIII:
And finally the Other Dynamics settings

Step IX:
Once you've played with the settings and are happy, you want to make sure and save the brush settings. This is done by clicking on the little arrow in the brush tab, and then selecting New Brush Preset. You can then give your brush a name.

Step X:
Now lets use our brush on a real photo. Open up whatever source file you want to use. For this tutorial I will use a source from sxc.hu (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/964480 - thanks redvisualg).

Step XI:
Click on the new layer icon

Step XII:
For this first part, i want the birds to be going from left to right, so under the brushed tab, click on Brush Tip Shape and then on the flip x box. Now the birds go from left to right!

Step XIII:
Now just draw the birds on the canvas!

Step XIV:
Lets create a little more depth to this pic. Make another new layer by clicking on the new layer icon again.

Step XV:
Click on the "Brush Tip Shape" again under the "Brushes" tab. Now unclick the "flip x" option and bump up the size of the brush to around 175 px.

Step XVI:
Draw some more birds, this time going from right to left.

Step XVII:
I wanted to add a few more birds so I flipped the brush one more time and did some in the upper left corner.

Step XVIII:
Now just a few more finishing touches...change the opacity of the first birds we drew to about 47% so they look more like they are in the distance.

Step XIX:
Next, duplicate the background pic by clicking on the layer and pressing ctrl-j. Then move it to the top of the layers palette and reduce the opacity to about 30%. This help to give the impression that the birds are off in the distance, you can see the sunrays overlapping them a little bit.

Step XX:
Finally, click on the layer mask icon and using a brush of about 350 px, 0% hardness, paint over the birds in the upper left corner, this will help them come to the very front!

Step XXI:
Here is the final version.

...Hope you learned again from my simple tutorial...
See you again next session..
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BAD! BAD! BAD! Yahoo Messenger Boot Programs REVIEW

2008-05-03T06:40:00.001-07:00

Unofficial Chat Clients of Yahoo Messenger

A lot of chatter knew that Yahoo Messenger is one of the most popular chat servers service. We can talk by voice, text, even by camera when we use YM chat service. Beside an official chat client Yahoo Messenger, those are many other unofficial yahoo chat client developed by some programmer to support chat activities via Yahoo Server. The programmer developed unofficial chat client for many purposed. One of the most important reasons is to build a chat client that save from attacker via boot attack or other. This mean the chat client become more stable and have a good security. And the activities of our chatting become far from disconnected.

Here I’ll give you some of unofficial yahoo chat clients review (if you want to download the program just email me for the installer). These are yahoo messenger chat client that the most used by chatter in the world wide. I am personally more like to used these chat clients than official yahoo chat client , especially when I was in the chat room. I’ll try to give some of point a view of unofficial chat clients depend on my own experience.

YahElite (An acronym from Yahoo Elite)

YahElite is the most popular unofficial chat client of yahoo messenger. May be the popularity is caused by the stability, speed of connection and security provided by this yahoo chat client. YahElite is free ware software. Therefore you can download and use Yahoo Elite chat client with a free payment or registration. YahElite is created and developed by David J. Binette. The official web site for YahElite is www.yahelite.org.

Goodness of YahElite: Stability, Speed, Security, Tools, and unbootable, no advertisement.

The Plus Point when I am trying this software is the stability and the speed when we connect to the chat room or when we login to the server of yahoo messenger. YahElite also have a good protection again spam, bots and other harmful activities. You can also use a sock proxy or proxy to connect to yahoo server. Webcam is available if you want to see your friend’s web cam via YahSee software. When you want to use your microphone and talk via voice chat, you can also use YahElite option to talk with your friend. Tattoo is available too. You can also make an alternating font easier and better with YahElite chat client software than you use official yahoo messenger. And of course YahElite have no advertisement on it’s, so you can avoid unnecessary advertisement that always make us annoyed.

Badness of YahElite: Emotion Icons, Nickname, Appearance, and complicated

One of the difficulty or badness relating to YahElite is this software not easy to operate, especially, for newbie or beginner users. The options are too many which seldom make a beginner user disoriented. Although the emotion icons more complete than regular or official yahoo messenger, YahElite didn’t support with animated icons. The icons stuck just like silent picture. The appearance of YahElite is not good enough, simple, and minimalis. Of course, this make YahElite not eyes catching. YahElite also doesn’t make nickname appear in the chat room. It is also difficult to use public id in YahElite.

Y!mLite

Y!mLite is another unofficial yahoo chat client software that rarely used among chatter. Created and developed by Craic. C (YM ID craig.us). Y!mLite or Yahoo Messenger Elite have a two mode option login to yahoo messenger server for a better reason. If you want to be bootable when you are in chat room, you can login using YMSG mode, but I recommended you to use DHTML mode to make you become unbootable. This is a good thing belong to Y!mLite.

You can find and download Y!mLite from his official web site in www.ymlite.us.

Goodness of Y!mLite: Appearance, stability, unbootable, and emotion icons

In my opinion, Y!mLite have a good appearance. You can also change Y!mLite skin if you get bored using default skin. The skin appearance of Y!mLite almost like windows xp skin. The stability when you are in chat room is good enough. Y!mLite also become unbootable when you are activated some of bots filter or spam filter and login undre DHTML mode. The icons also complete, moreover, you can also get a number of icons that specially design and created for Y!mLite user. You can also used a voice or web cam in Y!mLite

Badness of Y!mLite: Operating, Popularity, Help and connection

For a newbie or beginner users, Y!mLite not easy to operate and use. Popularity is bad. When you are get problem operating Y!mLite, unfortunately, the Help menu doesn’t help you to find the answer of your problem. You must go to Y!mLite forum to find a help. Trying to DHTML login mode also took a long connection and sometime it doesn’t work when the bandwith of our connetion is too slow.

Yam

Yam is one of the kind of unbootable yahoo chat client I ever proved. I enjoy using this chat client because of the flexibility, easy to install and operated.

Goodness of Yam >> flexibility, operated and appearance

For a newbie Yam is the solution when they are want to have a good and easy yahoo chat client but have a good unbootable. You do not have to install this chat client to operate and using it. You only have to extract to a folder and just in one click you already using it. You can bring a Yam chat client in flash disk and you just plug your flash disk to the computer and using Yam chat client without install in a new computer. The appearance of Yam is also good. You can change the skin and download new skin. You also can use a tattoo when chat in the chat room.

Badness of Yam: Webcam, and text font

Yam does support a Webcam, so you can not see a web cam from your friend or from yourself. The text font also simple and we cannot change enough in text font. When I used a official yahoo messenger and get a message in chat room from Yam chat client the font was small and cannot be resize to a bigger ones.

Yazak Chat Client

Yazak is one of popular unofficial yahoo messenger chat client. Yazak is also a good chat client that design to protect you from b0ts 4tt4ck. In Yazak Chat Client you can also make a simple b0ts 4tt4ck but the affectivity of b0ts 4tt4ck not quite good enough.

(you want? I will send it to you)
Before you installed and operated and downloaded Yazak, please be surely that you have installed official yahoo messenger. Because if you don’t do this, Yazak will never be used, and the error message raising after you wanna run it. And you have to updated Yazak, if you gonna chat in chat room. It is because Yazak need verification code to enter chat room. Almost forget, be sure too, to install VB run program in the Yazak file download.

Yazak Webcam Error

Unfortunately, Yazak doesn’t support with webcam or video viewer or webcam video grabber. Yazak only support voice chat. If you want to see a webcam and captured you have to used Yahoo Intai or YahCamView to do that kind of webcam watcher activity.

Because of doesn’t support webcam preview or video preview (usually error), I am personally rather choice YahElite than Yazak. With YahElite you can see your friend webcam or video even though you cannot captured. But with a screen capture software or with print screen key you still can save the picture of your friends webcam or video.

If you insist to use Yazak Webcam, please note that you may need Ycabby before Web cam Viewer run properly. In my own opinion, I suggest you to use Yahoo Cam Viewer such as Y Intai or YahCamView

Y! Intai: Web cam Yahoo Messenger Capture and Grabber

If you are a chatter maniac, particularly used yahoo messenger, you already know that the web cam viewer used to view cam from your partner chatter can not be capture or grabber or save in a file. This mean we can not recorded the web cam we have been viewed before. Yahoo messenger, indeed, doesn’t give us that kind of tools or support. We only can grab and save the web cam yahoo messenger by pressing print screen and edit that copy screen via paint or other tools image processing. It’s upsetting, is it?

Fortunately, Yahoo Intai have the solution for that kind of difficulties. Y! Intai is software that has main purpose to capture and save the image from web cam to a picture, so we can record and view again in another time without losing the best moment we have. Y! Intai is very well known among web cammer [a name for chatter who loves to seek a web cam and grabbed].

Tutorial yahoo intai for Dummies: Like chatting in official chat client yahoo messenger, Y! Intai need a user name or Id to login to the server of yahoo messenger then Y! Intai can be used to view and capture web cam from your chatter friend. Unfortunately for us, Y! Intai cannot be used to enter the chat room or to make a simple conversation or talk by sending Instant Message or Private Message. Y! Intai was designed for web cam purpose only. The question is: If we cannot join room or PM with yahoo intai, where we can find our user name friend and grab him or her web cam. The answer is: Used your official yahoo messenger to find the user name and write the user name to Y! Intai. If, the user is online and used web cam, automatically, Yahoo Intai will show the user online and used web cam by an icon. You can also find a list of user name by adding your friend list in yahoo intai folder. Another easy way to find the user name is try to seek user names from forum that talk and discuss about web cam user name.

Here another tutorial for you, relating Y! Intai: For a best result to seek web cam via chat room, you can used MultiID and enter a number of chat room that have an enough web cam chatter in it. It can be easily find by the indicating web cam when we try to join room. Showed like this w[3]. This mean in a chat room have 3 users ID that online with web cam.

PS: Intai is Indonesian language for Spy and Y for Yahoo: Yahoo Intai
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YahCamView: Web Cam Yahoo Messenger Capture

Beside of Y! Intai, YahCamView or Yahoo Webcam Viewer is an alternative to capture and save web cam yahoo messenger. Just like Y! Intai, YahCamView also need a username to login to the server of yahoo messenger before it going to work. And YahCamView needed a permision before you can capture your friend web cam. Sound like Y! Intai, doesn’t it?

With YahCamView, you can login with 10 user name or ID, so it’s mean that your possibillity to have accepted web cam higher than with 1 or 2 user name. In my opinion, the options in Yahoo WebCamViewer is more reliable and more easy than in Y! Intai. You can also ceck the Keep Trying option to make your possibility getting webcam higher. I notice that YCV cannot be used for webcam room (its not free webcan room)

(Want to have this? I will send it to you)
This software is a webcam software that can capture webcam free.

Y Hook (YHOOK) Chat Client of Yahoo Messenger

YHook or Yahoo Hook is chat client that may be will be useful for us to protect our chat conversation from being hazardous. Y Hook has YMSG Server to login to yahoo chat and at the same time its also will login to HTTP Server. This way of login will make you far from being disconnected or locked.

YHook also has voice recorder that will allow us to record conversation that happen in Yahoo Chat. Ignore list for unwanted ID or bots, Chat Filter, and also has Ignore Message facilities. More chat tools from Y Hook you can see by your self

~Dito nagtatapos ang aking pagpapahayag tungkol sa YAHOO BOOT
~Mayroon pa akong iba nalalaman ngunit, sa ibang araw ko na lang ipopost
~Para naman sa mga interesadong kunin ang mga programs/softwares ng mga nasabing YAHOO BOOT. i-PM niyo na lang ako sa aking YM or sa friendster, pwede din sa email

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PALATASTAS MUNA

2008-05-03T05:42:00.000-07:00

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Yahoo Messenger Hidden Emoticons XD

2008-05-03T05:24:00.000-07:00

You won't find these in the emoticon menu, but you can send them by typing the symbols directly into an instant message.

These are the new emoticons available on Yahoo messenger 9 beta and not in the prior versions :

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Making cool vector cartoon character with Adobe Photoshop

2008-05-02T04:47:00.000-07:00

Para sa gumagawa ng comics, try this one..
Bka may mapulot kayong ideya para sa mga gagawin niyong character para sa comics na gagawin niyo.

Step one, creating the document

first step is to make a new document sized 280px on 230px.
then, paint it in gray: #888888 by using the ‘Paint Bucket Tool’.

Step two, making the cartoon head of the character

*important note: whenever you make a new object in photoshop- choose the ‘Shape layers’ option so it will be vector and you’ll be able to edit it later.

First thing you need to do is to choose the ‘Ellipse Tool’ (U) and make an ellipse in the general shape of the head.

*please note that you need to change the Foreground color to #FAD1BB before making the ellipse(one click on the currect foreground color, and then paste the desired color in the ‘#’ filed)

Here’s the result you need to get at this moment:

For making it a bit more human but still cartoonish, go to ‘Edit-Transform Path-Warp’ and choose the ‘fisheye’ option from the list

don’t change anything in the parameters in the top bar- 50% in the Bend and 0 in the rest.

Currect result in this step should be like this:

Now, go to the ‘blending options’ of this layer and add stroke effect of 3px in black (#000000) color.

click on the ‘new style’ button in there because we’ll use this style again.
Choose the ‘ellipse tool’ again and draw a new ellipse, paint it in the same color like before, change the mode to Multiply and make it 50% opacity.

next, choose the ‘Path Selection Tool’ and select the new ellipse path.
a new top bar will be shown in front of you. choose the ’subtract from shape area’option:

One click on the layer and then click ‘ctrl+alt+g’ for making the clipping mask.

Choose the ‘Pen Tool’ (P) and start drawing the hair. after finishing- click ‘ctrl+alt+g’ and add this shape to the clipping mask. Paint the hair shape in black (#000000)

Next thing you should do is making the eyes shapes. this will be done with the next method:
(1.) choose the ’rounded rectangle tool’ and change the ‘radius’ to 10px

(2.) change the shape color to #B91919
(3.) go to ‘edit-transform path-skew’ and change it so it will look like below image (4.) choose the ellipse tool and make a perfect circle by holding on shift and dragging the mouth. do it 3 times in different sizes and paint those circles in white (#ffffff)

(5.) select the red eye layer, duplicate it and then make it smaller but still in the same ratio as the right one. then go to ‘edit-transform-flip horizontal’ and move this layer to the left area of the face

(6.) select again from the layers group the 3 white circle layers (hold ctrl and click on each layer), duplicate them and transform them a bit so they will fit into the left smaller eye.

and you’re done with the eyes part. here’s the desired result you should get after doing the above steps:

last part of the face you need to do is making the mouth. This will be done very easily..
all you need to do is to choose the ‘Line Tool’ (U) and draw a simple 10px horizontal line. then, go to ‘edit-transform-warp’ and then choose the ‘Arc’ option from the list.
change the values to the ones in the next image:

then rotate it a bit: go to ‘edit-transform path-rotate’ and change the values like below:

congrats! you’re done with the whole face part. the result till now should be like here:

Part three, hands part with the message

First thing you should do in this step is to make a bourdeaux rectangle (#7b0d0d).
duplicate this layer, paint it in a bit lighter color (#b91919) and transform this layer to 60% height.

Now, you need to make your message. I chose ‘futura’ font colored #fdffce and wrote ‘TUTORIALSHOT”.
and now to the hands making part- (1.) choose the ’rounded rectangle tool’ (U) and leave the values at the top bar like before (10px radius). (2.) when the path of this rounded rectangle is selected, choose the ‘rectangle tool’, choose the ’subtract from shape area’ in the top bar

and “remove” the right rounded side of the rounded rectangle.
Paint this layer in #f7bea2.
apply the style we have done in step two with the stroke.

Next, duplicate this layer (right click on the layer > duplicate layer), go to ‘edit-transform-flip horizontal’ and move it to the left size of the message.
Select the whole message layers (I count 5) and rotate all of them (edit-transform-rotate) with the next values:

last nice effect is the message drop shadow on the character face. this will be done by the next steps:
(1.) duplicate the bourdeaux colored layer (2.) move the duplicated layer to the clipping mask you made before (3.) paint in #fad1bb (4.) change the mode to Multiply.
Here's my final result:

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ABANGAN

2008-05-01T20:05:00.001-07:00

YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER, ipamimigay q for free... w8 nyu lng ung installer

This is the easy YouTube videos downloader. You simply paste YouTube URL, then click mouse. The software will download the video as FLV file instantly. You don't have to use any other download manager, 1-Click YouTube Downloader uses its own fast download function. You can download videos as fast as you can imagine. Now this version supports new YouTube layout. It's freeware. Feel free to use and distribute this one.

Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Limitations: No limitations

Beginners' Guide to Adobe Photoshop

2008-04-30T09:15:00.000-07:00

Ever wanted to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop, but had no idea where to start?

Most Adobe Photoshop tutorials (including my own) are for people who are already familiar with Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial goes right back to the DAWN OF TIME! :) ...and is designed for the Adobe Photoshop beginner.

It gives you the very basic features you need to know to start using Adobe Photoshop. From there, you'll quickly discover most of the other features of the program.

The images in this tutorial are from Adobe Photoshop 7.0, but they're very similar to those from earlier versions of Photoshop.

Umpisa..

Click File > New, and create a new image of any size you desire.

Introduction to Photoshop

1 – Setting Adobe Photoshop's Undo option
Press Ctrl+K to bring up the Preferences window. (In Adobe Photoshop 5.0, you'll need to click on the Settings tab, on the File menu.)

Change your "Redo Key" to Ctrl+Shift+Z. This enables you to press Ctrl+Z while working to undo your last actions. Remember this.

2 – Using Adobe Photoshop's Layers window
The Layers window shows the various layers that your image is made up of.

To make a new layer, click the New Layer button, as shown by the red arrow.

To work on a different layer, click on that layer. The eyeball will apear next to that layer.

You can drag layers up and down the list.

Remember – create a new layer for each part of your image. This allows you to go back and edit the layers individually. Every Adobe Photoshop novice at some time makes a masterpiece, only to find out that they did it all on one layer, kaya minsan 'di na nila mapalitan o mabago kung anuman ang nagawa nila dahil isang layer lang ang ginamit. o_o' *common mistake*

3 – Learning about Selection
One of the most important concepts in Adobe Photoshop is Selection.

This is the Rectangular Selection Tool.

Use this tool on your image to select an area of the image. This lets Photoshop know that that's the area you want to work on.

4 – Adding to a Selection and making a square
To add to a selection, hold Shift before dragging.

To make the selection exactly square, start dragging, then hold Shift.

You can press Ctrl+D to "deselect" and remove the selection at any time.

5 – Elliptical Selections and subtracting Selections

Hold down on the Selection Tool on the Toolbar, and choose the Ellipse.

To move the selection, just click inside it and drag.

Holding Alt while selecting subtracts that area from the selection. I've done that with the Ellipse Selection Tool.

6 – A Selection exercise
If you're following this tutorial in Adobe Photoshop, see if you can make these shapes.

Other relevant Adobe Photoshop tools

Lasso Tool – Allows you to draw a selection area with the cursor.

Magic Wand – Summons elves. (Also believed to select an area of one colour.) :P

7 – Choosing a colour
Now that you know how to select an area in Adobe Photoshop, we can look at some tools that can do something with that area.

Before we get started on colouring your selection, you'll need to pick a colour.

This part of the Toolbox is where you select your colours.

The top square is the foreground colour. If you use a brush or paint bucket, it will apply this colour.

The bottom square is the background colour. It has various purposes, but it's also a good place to store a second colour that you're using.

Click on either square to change its colour.
Click the arrow to swap the two colours.
Click the little squares to reset the colours to black and white.

8 – The Paint Bucket and Gradient tools
These two tools are on separate buttons in Adobe Photoshop 5.0, but share a button in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0. To select one, click and hold.

On a new layer, just click the Paint Bucket tool inside the area of your selection to fill it with the colour you've selected.

Click and drag from one area to another to fill the area. The point where you started to click will be the colour of your foreground colour, and the point where you took your finger off the mouse button will be the colour of your background colour. The area in between will gradually change from one colour to the other.

In this case, I went from corner to corner, with the default white and black selected.

9 – A colour exercise
With what you've learned so far, you should be able to recreate this piece of hippy history. :)

Remember to create each step on a new layer.

Other Adobe Photoshop tools of interest include

The Text Tool – Just click it wherever you want text to appear. Choose a font, colour, and size, and start typing.

The Move Tool – Use this tool to drag things around. If you have a selection, it will drag the contents of the selection. If not, it will drag the contents of the layer you're on.

10 – Adding Effects
Now that you know the basics, it's time to start adding some easy special effects.

To demonstrate Adobe Photoshop's special effects, here's an unembellished button for a website.

Each part of this image is on a separate layer.

11 – Key Adobe Photoshop Blending Options

In the Layers list, right-click on a layer, and select Blending Options (Adobe Photoshop 6.0 & Adobe Photoshop 7.0) or Effects (Adobe Photoshop 5.0.)

This is a picture of the left-hand portion of the Blending Options window that will appear. (The window is much smaller in Photoshop 5.0.)

Drop Shadow
Selecting this option will make your layer cast a shadow on layers below it.

Bevel and Emboss
Makes the layer like a block of gold bullion - raised in the centre, with edges that slope down. (This is a good effect for creating buttons.)

Texture
Makes the surface of the layer look like it's made of wood, stone etc. Use the "Overlay" setting.

Stroke
Stroke is just another word for "outline". A Stroke is useful to make an object stand out from its background. (In Adobe Photoshop 5.0, this option doesn't exist. Use Outer Glow as an alternative.)

12 – The end result
Other than using some of the Blending Options, nothing else has been done to this button.

It's really that easy.

A final few Adobe Photoshop features

Zoom: Press (Ctrl and +) to zoom in. Press (Ctrl and -) to zoom out. This is very useful if you're a bit of a pixel pirate :)

Transformation: To Transform (resize/rotate/distort) an object, press Ctrl+T. To Transform a selection, click Select > Transform Selection. Use the Shift key while transforming to stop the image distorting.

"Special Message"
I hope this tutorial has helped you get the idea of Adobe Photoshop. You can now face the "wall of random icons and palettes" with confidence. :)

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Creating a Web Page Header in Photoshop Part 2

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7 – Making an uneven Gradient
Click on the Gradient Tool. Then click on the visual representation of the gradient (Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0) or click on the Options tab and then click Edit (Adobe Photoshop 5.0.)

Put in an alternating series of about eight black and white tabs, as shown, and click Ok.

8 – Applying the Gradient
Create a new layer. If the blue area isn't already selected, Ctrl+Click the layer that the blue area is in.

Click on your new layer in the layer list, and apply the Gradient Tool across it. Change the layer from Normal to Overlay.

9 – Choosing a colour and texture
Press Ctrl+D to deselect your selection. Click on your blue layer again. Press Ctrl+U to bring up the Hue/Saturation properties. Play with the sliders until you've got a nice colour.

Although Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0 have special texturing effects, I still prefer the old Sandstone texture. Click Filter > Texture > Texturizer, and choose "Sandstone".

Whenever you make anything coloured in Adobe Photoshop, always play around with the Hue/Saturation Properties (Ctrl+U) to see if you can find a better colour. Don't be afraid to reduce the saturation - your image may look drab at first, but you'll find it will add some realism.

10 – Creating a watermark
Click on your topmost layer in the layers list.

Click on the text tool and type "kj" in Wingdings font, with the colour set to black, and the font size set to 100 or more. Change the layer from Normal to Overlay. This is a simple way of creating some nice swirly watermarks.

You may notice, however, that parts of the watermark extend over the edge of the area and into the shadow.

11 – Cropping the watermark
Right-click on your swirly watermark layer in the Layers list. Render it (Adobe Photoshop 5.0) or Rasterize it (Adobe Photoshop 6.0 & Adobe Photoshop 7.0). It can now be edited.

Ctrl+Click on your gold-coloured layer to select it. Press Shift+Ctrl+I to invert your selection (this selects the white area) and press Delete.

12 – Creating a button layer
In the layers list, Ctrl+Click on your gold layer to select it. Create a new layer and drag that new layer almost to the bottom of the layers list.

Select a colour (I've chosen orange here) and fill the area with the Paint Bucket.

Select the Move tool and press the down key several times to move the layer downwards.

13 – Making notches with the Freeform Pen Tool

Press Shift+P to switch to the Pen Tool. Make a series of points as shown, simply by clicking to place the points. Photoshop will connect them with straight lines.

14 – Cutting the Selection
Right-click the line you've made, and select Make Selection. Press Delete to cut the selected area, leaving you with these buttons. Press Ctrl+D to deselect the area.

15 – Putting text on your buttons

Using the text tool, put in some black text on each button. With a short amount of text, you can just rotate it slightly (press Ctrl+T) instead of trying to use curve effects on it.

16 – Inserting some header text

Add in some header text, in white. It looks nice as it is, but due to the varying darkness of the header image, some parts of the text don't show up properly.

On the layers list, Ctrl+Click on the gold layer to select it, choose the Selection Tool, then hold Alt and drag the cursor across the top of the selected area, to cut the top off the selection, then do the same for the bottom, leaving just a band.

17 – Making the semitransparent band

Create a new layer at the top of your layer list and reduce its opacity to 30% or as much as you feel is necessary.

With the Paint Bucket tool, fill the area with black.

Save the picture For the Web (on the File menu) as a jpeg with quality 60. In your web page editor, select the Hotspot tool and draw an area over each button to turn them into links.

That's it! :)
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Creating a Web Page Header in Photoshop

2008-04-30T07:46:00.000-07:00

Creating a Web Page Header in Photoshop
The most important graphical element of any website is its header image. It's the image that will be seen more than any other on your web site, so it's important to get it looking good.

This tutorial gives an example of how to use Adobe Photoshop to make a graphical header image for your web page, that has some button functionality too.

1 – Creating some curves with the Freeform Pen Tool
Open Adobe Photoshop and make a new image. Set the image's width to the width you'd like your header to be on your web page.

Hold down on the Pen tool, and select Freeform Pen. Draw a small line. (Make sure you have the "Paths" option at the top left of the screen selected.) You can hold down Ctrl and drag the points around, or you can manipulate a single point by dragging its "arms". Remember to always hold down Ctrl while you do it.

Use curves liberally in your web pages. A number of factors, including the easy use of tables, has made modern web design very straight-edged. By using curves in your pages, you can give your page a much more organic feel.

2 – Manipulating the Path
Hold down Ctrl and drag one point to each side of your image. Drag the arms away from the points to make the curves more gradual. To see outside the canvas, you may need to maximise the window you're working in, or zoom out (Ctrl -).

3 – Extending the Path
It's important that you form a whole shape with the Freeform Pen tool. Simply creating a line isn't enough.

Without pressing Ctrl, click on the line just next to the leftmost point. This will create a new point. You can then drag the leftmost point up above the top of the image as shown.

4 – Creating a full circuit
Repeat the process, by clicking just below your highest point, to make a new point and then moving your highest point way over to the right.

5 – Creating a selection and filling it with the Paint Bucket
Right click your line (you must right-click a part of the line that's inside your image.) Click Make Selection. This connects the last point on your line to the first point. (In Adobe Photoshop 5.0, you may have to right-click again and click Turn off Path, to make the line go away. In Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0, it's automatic.)

Make a new layer, select a colour, click on the Paint Bucket tool, and fill the selected area.

6 – Creating a shadow and bevel
Right click on your layer, and select effects (Adobe Photoshop 5.0) or Blending Options (Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0). Give the layer a Shadow and an Inner Bevel.