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[maneth]

Lovely wallie!

Hope you like my new look, here's the avi for reference.



I had to change the space between letters in a few places, the Farscape font is a bit uneven that way.

[Nolamom]

Lovely wallie!

Hope you like my new look, here's the avi for reference.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...richtonavi.jpg

I had to change the space between letters in a few places, the Farscape font is a bit uneven that way.

Some fonts are difficult to work with - you really did a great job with both the avi and the sig. I loved Farscape and Crichton.

[maneth]

Thanks! It helps when you have a great pic to start with.

[Madness reigns]

Was doing some fooling about with brushes...First time I've tried hair brushes.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j5...pingbanner.jpg

Fantastic job Nola, and such a lovely picture too

Amazing arts everyone again!

Cause i have time for PS this weekends - a blend for GoT challenge))

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii163/BlackyKitten/Artworks_and_other_stuff/Artworks/bleedlikeme/blends/th_daenerysblend.png

Oh lovely, not often you see things in yellow, I like!!

Great textures, great tut!



Yay! I love tutorial weeks! For a not-very-creative person like me, the creative jumpstart tutorials give is great.


Nice job Nola!


That's lovely, sci.


I love the coloring!

I decided to give MR's texture tutorial a shot. I discovered that making textures is lots of fun. I'm not sure if I'm happy with any of these, but here they are anyway:
http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z426/Rocket_Scientist1/th_RSText1a.jpg

http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z426/Rocket_Scientist1/th_RSText1.jpg

http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z426/Rocket_Scientist1/th_RSText2.jpg

*Snurch snurch snurch........ runs away and hides the pretties* Lovely Rocket And yes it is lots of fun!!

Rocket, love them. Especially that last one!

I'm going to have to give Mr's tut a try!

Speaking of tuts, made this using this tut from syfyfan. Made a few changes, but I like it.


http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/...chidBanner.jpg

Very pretty lg, and yes you are going to have to try i, I want to see what amazing stuff you can come up with!!

*applauds Challenge Entries* Awesome job everyone It was fun to see lots of my fave shows/friendships represented in there

Love the Calenders scifan, they look excellent, loved what you did with Mr's texture too.


I spent far too much time I didn't have this evening with PS, I knew dropping by earlier for a quick catch up would not be a good idea (especially since I had to go on the hunt for screencaps)! I can never visit without feeling the need to open PS.

Maggie from Falling Skies

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ies/Maggie.jpg

Lovely banner for a great character. Her and Tom were probably my favourites. Can't wait for season 2!!

New art, using one of Mr's textures.

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j452/ladygris4700/Gimped%20Images/Lorne/th_LorneLeadershipWallie.jpg

WOW..... amazing. Definitely a great contrast between the pics

Ooh, pretty. Fabulous job Nola

Excellent work MR

Lovely work Sci

Beautifully done

Those are beautiful Sy

Wonderful job MR

Gorgeous work. Love the yellow

Those are fabulous Rocket!

Lovely job lg

That looks great Oma

That's beautiful. I agree with Nola, the contrast between the pics looks great

Thank you

Thanks, everyone.
I love your Lorne art, lg.
I needed a new sig, so I decided to use sy's tut.

Here's what I came up with:
http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/...beckettsig.jpg

Perfect Rocket, you may just have given me an idea!!

Found an interesting tut online that I'd like to share. It's for fading out by pixels. I used it on Amanda's pic. Text is Ornamental Versals and Callie Hand.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j55/Nolamom/Sanctuary/th_NMTappingwp.jpg

Effective! might have to take a closer look at that tut at some point. lovely WP

Lovely wallie!

Hope you like my new look, here's the avi for reference.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...richtonavi.jpg

I had to change the space between letters in a few places, the Farscape font is a bit uneven that way.

Nice, that font is brilliant, and that's a perfect Crichton picture to go with it


WOW that a huge MQ for me, hopefully I got everyone. If not I'm sorry and it's all amazingly fantastic work.

[Madness reigns]

Loved Rocket's textures so much I used them

2 different versions - 1 had one of the textures, the other used 2

1 texture:



2 textures:



Same thing different colours


Definitely not the Castle/Beckett thing I set out to do this morning!

[Jumble]

Gosh, you've all been busy with those textures!

Rocket, beautiful textures *snurches*, awesome sig

lg - love the sig and the wp - any chance of a tut for the wp?

*waves to Oma* Lovely sig

Nola - love what you've done with that tut!

Mane, your new look is gorgeous

And well done with those wps Mr - brilliant use of Rocket's textures

[syfyfan]

Thanks, sy.

You're welcome.

New art, using one of Mr's textures.

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j452/ladygris4700/Gimped%20Images/Lorne/th_LorneLeadershipWallie.jpg

Lovely, lg!

Those are beautiful Sy

Thank you Graceful.

Thanks, everyone.
I love your Lorne art, lg.
I needed a new sig, so I decided to use sy's tut.

Here's what I came up with:
http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/...beckettsig.jpg

Cool! I love it Rocket!

Found an interesting tut online that I'd like to share. It's for fading out by pixels. I used it on Amanda's pic. Text is Ornamental Versals and Callie Hand.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j55/Nolamom/Sanctuary/th_NMTappingwp.jpg

Very nice wallie Nola!

Lovely wallie!

Hope you like my new look, here's the avi for reference.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...richtonavi.jpg

I had to change the space between letters in a few places, the Farscape font is a bit uneven that way.

I like it maneth!

Loved Rocket's textures so much I used them

2 different versions - 1 had one of the textures, the other used 2

1 texture:

http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l547/OCD_32/Artwork/th_HCa.jpg

2 textures:

http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l547/OCD_32/Artwork/th_HC.jpg

Same thing different colours

Definitely not the Castle/Beckett thing I set out to do this morning!

Beautiful wallies, Mr!

[Jumble]

This tut was made by Jann (Starlover) some time ago...............

Martin wp, made in PS.



1. Grab 5 (HQ) or so pictures and crop them and put them in an empty new file. Mine was 1280x800. I cropped them in their original files and finished them in the new file. I did the cropping in it with the rectangular tool.



After you’re done with this you make a stamp of it(shift+ctrl+alt+e) and then turn this a bit with the rotate tool and because it won’t fit anymore make it bigger. The quality of the pics won’t go down a lot if your pictures were already from good quality. After this copy the layer. Put a noise on it(filter -noise - reduce noise) and delete the eyes and other parts that you want to have really sharp.



2. After this just the coloring is left. I put a few gradient layers on it, selective coloring and a curve layer. Adding the PSD file so you can see the coloring.

In the end, I stamped it again, sharpened it and VOILA you have a Martin Wood wp.

[ladygris]

Thanks, everyone, for liking the Lorne wp.

Gosh, you've all been busy with those textures!

Rocket, beautiful textures *snurches*, awesome sig

lg - love the sig and the wp - any chance of a tut for the wp?

*waves to Oma* Lovely sig

Nola - love what you've done with that tut!

Mane, your new look is gorgeous

And well done with those wps Mr - brilliant use of Rocket's textures

Sure. It's pretty easy, so I should be able to get it typed up this afternoon.

[ladygris]

Okay, here's that tutorial that Jumble asked for.

How to make this: in GIMP.

Spoiler:

You will need four pictures of your favorite actor/character, one that will enlarge well, one that's landscape, and two that are portrait. You'll also need this texture by Mr

Open your canvas to the size of your screen resolution. I use 1366x768.

Add in texture by Mr. Enlarge so that it fits your canvas. Set layer mode to Difference.

Open up your main picture that will enlarge. I suggest using a close-up with the shoulders. Erase background around the image, using Layer Masks if necessary to fade any sharp edges into the background.

Desaturate image. Set layer mode to Soft Light. Duplicate the image.

Open up the first of your smaller images. For this, I simply lowered the opacity (while keeping layer mode to Normal), scaled down, and positioned the image over the “frame” I wanted it in. Then, I put the image behind the mask texture and erased what I didn't want to show through.

Do this for each of your two remaining pictures.

Add text. For this one, I used Bright Young Things.

And you're done. Hope this made sense.

[maneth]

Yup. In addition, it's always a good idea to save textures as png because that file format is vector rather than pixel based so it shouldn't go fuzzy when you enlarge it. Another advantage of png is that it retains transparency.

[Rocket_Scientist]

Loved Rocket's textures so much I used them

2 different versions - 1 had one of the textures, the other used 2

1 texture:

http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l547/OCD_32/Artwork/th_HCa.jpg

2 textures:

http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l547/OCD_32/Artwork/th_HC.jpg

Same thing different colours


Definitely not the Castle/Beckett thing I set out to do this morning!

MR, those are gorgeous.

Gosh, you've all been busy with those textures!

Rocket, beautiful textures *snurches*, awesome sig

lg - love the sig and the wp - any chance of a tut for the wp?

*waves to Oma* Lovely sig

Nola - love what you've done with that tut!

Mane, your new look is gorgeous

And well done with those wps Mr - brilliant use of Rocket's textures

You're welcome.


Lovely, lg!


Thank you Graceful.


Cool! I love it Rocket!


Very nice wallie Nola!


I like it maneth!


Beautiful wallies, Mr!

Thanks guys!

[Nolamom]

Yup. In addition, it's always a good idea to save textures as png because that file format is vector rather than pixel based so it shouldn't go fuzzy when you enlarge it. Another advantage of png is that it retains transparency.

Thanks for the tip - I hadn't thought about those factors, I just always saved them as jpgs.

[scifan]

Just a quick fly by and then I'll come back later to respond to everyones' art properly.

Just wanted to show what I made with MR's tut. It's my first one.

[Jumble]

Thanks for the tut lg