''The Official Photoshop 101 Thread''

[Frenchie]

A combined skills and how to thread from all our creative dubbers on the forum to share and pass their knowledge on.

*First post will be updated regularly with quick reference links*

First question from Nath_mk6

How to add a border around picture.

[SUGA]

Quick easy way to make a border around an entire image.

1. Create new Layer.

2. Select all > Command A

3. Edit > Stroke...

4 Select the width of the stroke and colour

5. OK

[nath_mk6]

Thx Suga, Frenchie helped in the other forum, o and I see your a Mac Head, lol Command button..... :)

[Frenchie]

Good tip for me though as I have just switched over to Mac !

[Frenchie]

Awesome tips and info John - you are a maestro !

[nath_mk6]

Thx John, have to watch the vids and give it a go this weekend :)

[Frenchie]

Old but new to some of us :)

Sounds like a plan John.

[nath_mk6]

Okay how do you ps new wheels into an existing drawing? Is it simply having the righ perspective of the car and wheels and then weaving the black magic to bring them together?

O and with the clone stamp is it just trial error and patience to getting it right or is there a trick to deleting features?

Need some pics to play with I guess.

Feel like I'm doing all the asking so I'll quiet down now :)

[zz2]

i love this thread! anyone know when PS5 is coming out? i have PS4 on my work computer but im not sure how it will run at home with my new 64bit PC running windows 7

[JohnnyG]

i love this thread! anyone know when PS5 is coming out? i have PS4 on my work computer but im not sure how it will run at home with my new 64bit PC running windows 7

I'm running Adobe CS4 suite on Windows 7 x64 all good, actually PS is the only true x64 app in the suite
Before they release PS5 they need to fix issues within the CS4 suite namely Adobe Premier not liking AVCHD files

[10d]

John, you are the master!
I actually don't know how powerful these Photoshop software til you showed me what you can do with it.
Beauty.

[Justin Fox]

Photoshop is super powerful. I love playing with it. Here's some of my Photoshop art:


Sorry if the below image gets you fired:

http://www.zunie.net/gallery/albums/LaetitiaCasta/Laetitia_Casta_141.jpg
Before

http://www.justinfox.com.au/photostack/galleries//justinfox_fembot1.jpg
After

Some more:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2684/4385595555_256287f778.jpg
Before

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2867874594_c28198e33c_o.jpg
After

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/164107370_a28ec0d88c.jpg
Before

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2867876010_6a77a11949_o.jpg
After.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2867040889_1e5124a7f8_o.jpg

[elisiX]

Jeez Justin.. still such an amateur. :D

[nath_mk6]

hmm does that mean you really are hard wired there Justin? :)

Nice work there.

[Justin Fox]

Hey cheers guys, much appreciated. It's old stuff though. I rarely get in the zone these days.

[zz2]

Hey cheers guys, much appreciated. It's old stuff though. I rarely get in the zone these days.

your work is awesome Justin!

when im not image editing i use my photoshopping powers in other ways ...


http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk63/zz2_gti/5001render_TitleLogo-NOPOOL.jpg

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk63/zz2_gti/607031_MP01_REV1_A3.jpg

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk63/zz2_gti/RowethorpeILUreduced.jpg

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk63/zz2_gti/elevations1.jpg

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk63/zz2_gti/fview5.jpg

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk63/zz2_gti/newbuildingssiteoverview.jpg

[zz2]

Very clean. So how does it work? Is the line art all done digitally now days. I'm guessing so. Do you export it from a CAD type system and colourise it in PS?

cheers! unfortunately im generally restricted with how abstract i can get so most of my stuff is boring. then again its what my bosses get me to do :(

one of the drawing was a scan of a hand drawing.. sometimes the client (in this case an aged care facilitly) prefered a softer more traditional feel that wouldnt scare off the oldies. all the other drawings are just PDF exported from CAD or Revit and then imported into photoshop. it can also be merged with images etc

[Justin Fox]

Nice!

[10d]

Justin, you are such an arty farty. :-)

[Pharkus]

Ok biggest noob question coming up...which version of Photoshop should I be buying? Running Windows 7

[Frenchie]

I think CS3 OR CS4 should be more than sufficient P - give me your address and I'll send you my disc, should work no problems.

[SUGA]

Content Aware Fill - Amazing tool to come in CS5


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

[Frenchie]

Oh man that is amazing - how is does he make it look !! I want I want.

[stevie]

Wow that is some really powerful stuff. I want too!

[nath_mk6]

Wow

[benough]

I've wanted to be able to do that for years but didn't know what to ask for!

[kaoticice]

haxor tool...

[VR53KS]

What. The. Fudgestick :eek:


I too, want that!

[schoona]

That is amazing!

[nath_mk6]

What. The. Fudgestick :eek:


I too, want that!

If you have a spare $1500 then go ahead, preorders open now >D

[MasterKevin]

oh wow content aware fill FTW !

[funkymonkey]

lol half our design team was shitting bricks after seeing that vid. CS5 will make em unemployed :D

Pharkus, depends on your budget, for basic stuff you can get away with just CS3 and still be able to dabble with vector based designs and stuff. if you want bleeding edge stuff like content aware fill then you'll need CS5. If however you're just after playing with photos and so on, try The GIMP or Paint.NET, both are free, support photoshop formats, layers etc and also fairly well supported.

We should do Digital art battles like the old days on deviantart.

[MasterKevin]

Just installed CS5 and man its fun :D lol

[funkymonkey]

too true. and deadlines. FFFUUU.

actually... the biggest downer: Scope Creep. This single part of the process makes me want to take a dump in their cornflakes.

[zz2]

Just installed CS5 and man its fun :D lol

ive had it for almost a month now. LOVE IT! >D

[nath_mk6]

Wow John, that was amazing to watch, you've definately found your calling there!

thanks for the 101, no doubt when I give it a go myself I will have a heap of questions to ask :)