Graphic Arts Tutorials, Textures, Resources Thread

[Luciana]

Fainne I hope so.
Wasn't easy to make.

Sarai you're too kind.
Thanks and again. Awesome!

[Fainne]

Fainne I hope so.
Wasn't easy to make.

i will, as soon as i found the perfect pictures

[DJgirl]

Here's what I came up with for Luci's wing siggy tut...

[Luciana]

*swoons* Very awesome.

Your results look even better than mine.

[DJgirl]

*swoons* Very awesome.

Your results look even better than mine.

Thank you. That's very sweet of you to say, but I think yours are far better than mine.

[Sarai]

SARAI!!!!!! *glomp* glad you found us here everything is snurchable here

that's aweseome. great choice of pics!

Thanks Fainne *huggles* twas only a matter of time before I wound up over here

Here's what I came up with for Luci's wing siggy tut...

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...Luciwings1.jpg

Fabulous DJGirl, almost enough to make be a BB thunker .

Thanks again for this tut Luciana !

[spork67]

A tutorial how to make something like that.



Dedicated to Fainne and Camy (she asked me for a tut some time ago).

Spoiler:

Okay. Take a deep breath first.
I think you should have some basic PS knowledge.

It's not that easy as the thing I usually do cause it's pretty imageheavy.
See the wonders of "lighten"! ;D

BASE

Open a new document (mine is 1024x768) and fill with black.

Pics used:

#1, #2, #3, #4, #5

I took every single one and put it on my canvas. resized them, moved them around.
You should use pics with a dark background. It's easier to blend them.
Make sure there's some space around the person or object. Just look at my pics to see what I mean.

I set them all to lighten and erased everything I didn't want to have.
That means you may have to earse things form all the pics.
Not just the one you're just working with. You know? It's lighten. ;D
Makes things visible you don't want to have. It doesn't have to be perfect.
You can keep some parts like I did.

My base looks like that.



EFFECTS

Take CLOCK STOCK.
Desaturate. Resize to about 472x448.
Put it onto your canvas and set (guess what! ) to lighten 50%.
Erase they way you like.



Take THAT ROSE stock.
Resize it to about 375x500.
Put it above the clock and set to soft light 70%.
Erase once again to your liking.



Open that LIGHT BLUR.
Put it onto your canvas and set to lighten about 20%.
Once again...erase. ;D



Take that WINDOW LIGHT THING.
Put it onto your canvas as well. Set to lighten 30%.
Erase again. I didn't keep much.



Take that MOON TEXTURE.
I desaturated it -50.
Set to lighten 20%.
I reased almost everything in the middle. I mainly wanted to keep that outer stripes things.



You can merge everything now.

COLOR (no selective color ^^)

Spoiler:

Dublicate base and set to screen 30%.

RGB

point 1 input 101; output 140
point 2 input 132; output 183
Lookie.

*Filllayer

#d5c859 set to multiply.
Oppacity 100%; area 35%.

*Duplicate filllayer.

*New filllayer set to soft light #912326.
Oppacity 100%; area 31%.

*Merge Layers.

*Curves

point 1 input 90; output 101
point 2 input 121; output 148
Lookie.

*New adjusment layer > hue/stauration > saturation +15

*Merge layers.

*Image > adjust > auto levels

*New adjusment layer > hue/stauration > saturation -41

*And last curves layer!

point 1 input 134; output 103
Lookie.

Merge.

Dublicate again, set to exclusion between 10% - 20%.
I used 20%. You can also skip that step.



TEXT

I used a quote from that scene (I almost broke my heart I tell ya!).

"What am I supposed to do?" in Felix Titling 30pt. Picked a color from the piece. (#A5937F)
Looked a bit empty so I used more from the quote. ^^

"I let down the people I love.
I let Dad down. And now I guess I'm just supposed to let you down, too.
How can I? How am I supposed to live with that?"

In Minion. Different sizes. Color #7F4F46.

And I gave all the text an outer glow. (layer > layer style > outer glow.)
In black. Normal 75%.

And because it looked empty I dublicated "What am I supposed to do?".
Rotated it 180°. And rotatet it again horizontal.

Merge layers and sharpen once.
I used an artistic filter > paint daubs > both settings to 1.
I think it looks better than sharpen.

Done.



Any questions please ask. It's actually not that difficult. Just very hard to explain. O_o

Thank you for paying attention. ^^

All righty... here's a Sheppard walli that I made with your tut Luci

[Luciana]

Wooooo.
It works. Looks awesome. the color is great. And I love that you used some fitting pics.
Very very very well done.

[kali1]

My first texture! ^^

Love the texture Lili!!!

[Fainne]

beautiful Spork and DJ!

Thanks Fainne *huggles* twas only a matter of time before I wound up over here

hihi, sooner or later they find us all.

One thread to find them, One thread to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. *muahahahaaaa*

[*Erika*]

DJgirl and Spork great works!!! I snurched the wallie spork, I hope you don't mind.

[spork67]

DJgirl and Spork great works!!! I snurched the wallie spork, I hope you don't mind.

Oh I don't mind at all I'm glad you liked it.


oh and here are two Michael siggies I made from Cazz's tut:

[Luciana]

Oh wow.
I think it is worth saving him. It SO is.
Could you do one of Todd as well?

[spork67]

oh wow.
I think it is worth saving him. It so is.
Could you do one of todd as well? :d

oh i should!!!! :d

[Stargate78fan]

Love all the new artwork from the new tutorials. Hopefully after next week I will have more time to play with the tutorials, as I finish my course tomorrow!! I love the new textures aswell, thanks for sharing them!!