Artwork for All - challenges, graphics, tutorials

[Hyndara71]

No challenge-entry. I only needed some new WPs for my cell:

[yamiinsane]

Gorgeous arts from last week

lg: Love the set!

Sci: Love the icons! Especially the Doctor Who ones

Hyn: Awesome arts!

I made this while trying to get my mind to cooperate to make 40-47 icons which it doesn't want to do

[JadedWraith]

No challenge-entry. I only needed some new WPs for my cell:

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps02a38355.jpg http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps4a41c547.jpg

Gasp...Those are wonderful.Really, Really. My cell is quite lucky to have the photo of my dog...

Gorgeous arts from last week

lg: Love the set!

Sci: Love the icons! Especially the Doctor Who ones

Hyn: Awesome arts!

I made this while trying to get my mind to cooperate to make 40-47 icons which it doesn't want to do

http://i1085.photobucket.com/albums/...43478-yami.jpg

THOR! Squeeee! Thor! *severe fangirl attack*

Gorgeous! I'm streching my imagination to get seven... 40 is an overdose!

[Hyndara71]

Thanks, yamii and JW!
JW, well, I tried with a pic of Jules (my cat) but ... don't know. After I got my new cell last year I began to make WPs, and I'm also using them for some callers, because I still haven't figured out how to download and install some cool sounds instead of that boring stuff that's already installed. Well, it makes it a little personal - and I like the reactions of people looking (more or less) accidently on my screen
yamii, good luck with the icons! The Thor-banner is gorgeous!

Twitter-challenge with a friend - I think I won as I was retweeted from one of the actors *giggles*:

[JadedWraith]

Thanks, yamii and JW!
JW, well, I tried with a pic of Jules (my cat) but ... don't know. After I got my new cell last year I began to make WPs, and I'm also using them for some callers, because I still haven't figured out how to download and install some cool sounds instead of that boring stuff that's already installed. Well, it makes it a little personal - and I like the reactions of people looking (more or less) accidently on my screen
yamii, good luck with the icons! The Thor-banner is gorgeous!

Twitter-challenge with a friend - I think I won as I was retweeted from one of the actors *giggles*:

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac88/Hyndara71/fanart/th_fightoftheyear_zpsb6e238aa.jpg

Congrats! That is amazing!

[RodneyIsGodney]

Sci, Hyn, yamii, great arties guys!

yamii: How did you achieve that 3D effect in your text? It's ultra cool!

Gotcha... sounds good to me and thanks hun.

Uh...you're welcome? Not sure what you're thanking me for.

How ya doing?

I'm okay.

Thanks, RiG.

Welcome.

Definitely! I'm watching Andromeda and my favorite character is Harper. There's just one exception, since I can't stand McKay (sorry RiG!) and I'm always tempted to tell him to go suck a lemon...

No worries. To each her own, eh?

McKay suffered of over exposing ( I don't mean being naked, yuck! Sorry, David) himself. I just mean we had too much McKay time.

And that was just fine my me. Sorry JW. Though I do think it would have been fair to give the other characters the limelight more often.

Now, the icons : that's an interesting challenge: I think I already have two down, now for the other five...*brain melts*

I already have 3 done. "Past" is giving me trouble.

EDIT: Never mind, I just got an idea for "past"

[Nolamom]

RiG: that is likely a layer style. Type your message in whatever font you like, then select layer styles>bevel and emboss. You can get a lot of really cool premade styles to make fonts very special try this link or here

[Hyndara71]

Just a possible stupid question ... includes "Faceless" also the front of skulls?

EDIT:
Found another inspiration

[scifan]

Oh, I love them all...And Doctor Who. How clever!!!! ( still on season 6...I have to catch up). Love your solutions for Yellow and Past. I'm still struggling with Past and Crop. I'll come up with something...I think.

Thank you so much hun... and I totally forgot you haven't seen it yet So sorry hun.

Past was hard, but when you got a show that does time traveling... there are some ep that make it a bit easier. Cropping for me is a bit easier. Pic a person/persons you like and find a section you want to keep. Could be any body part.... like an arm, leg, eyes. As for the yellow, I couldn't resist. Those fall leaves where calling for attention.

Lovely work, sci!

Thanks Josi.

No challenge-entry. I only needed some new WPs for my cell:

http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps02a38355.jpg http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps4a41c547.jpg

Nice hun and great job on your twitter challenge.


Thank you Yamii... and Awesome Thor sig... Thud!!!

[scifan]

Sci, Hyn, yamii, great arties guys!


Uh...you're welcome? Not sure what you're thanking me for.

Thanks hun. Because you helped me with what to do with the prompt Past. Was totally blanking

[Ikorni]

I guess I should share what I've been rather busy with this past week or so. I've long been fascinated with the possibility of using PS as a tool to convert photos to sketches akin to that in a graphic novel. Obviously PS isn't the best tool for it and seeing as I can't draw (at all!), I used a series of steps in PS to get the sketch effect (something that also resembles Illustrator's live trace function), though admittedly it's not as sharp as I'd like it to be. So the best I could come up with is this:



I added the speech bubbles and got the right font for it to look more like a comic than a photo. In order to save time, I made the steps into an action that I can easily apply to all images. Essentially, I've been using these steps to make a 'graphic novel' of sorts for the Sam/Jack pairing that I'd share when ready.

If anyone's interested in this series of steps, let me know and I'll write it up.

[yamiinsane]

JW: Thanks! Trust me, I have everything I need but my mind won't cooperate.

Hyn: Thanks!

RIG: Thanks! It's just what Nola said, all I did was make the bevel style Outer Bevel and left everything else default.

Sci: Thanks!

Ikorni: Awesome!

[Nolamom]

Ikorni - have you tried this?

before

after

Spoiler:

1. isolate your figure on a separate layer (I use the pen tool, but you can copy the layer and erase if you like)
2. copy the figure layer
3. on layer styles, select stroke - set it to whatever pixel width looks good.
4. on that same layer go to filter>render>halftone paper, set to luminosity 100%
5. go to your background layer and filter>blur>box blur ---get it nice and blurry
that's it!

[Ikorni]

Thanks, Nola, never seen this method. I should try this!

[Nolamom]

That's what I love about PS - there are always a half-dozen ways to do something