Monday, December 10, 2007

How to fill Pattern into your picture

Pattern is a Fill Layer group on Layer Palette can made difference to your picture. You can create a new Pattern witch yourself below.

Can I create a new Pattern.

1. Create a new document with 100*100 pixels and change Background Contents to Transparent.

New document and change background contents to Transparent

2. Click on Rectangular Marquee Tool and made selection on your document. fill color you want.

Fill Color

3. Choose menu Edit > Define Pattern for save your Pattern. Finnish! 

How to fill Pattern into my picture.

It’s easy to use your Pattern.

1. Open picture file your want.

smart guy

2. Choose Pattern Fill on Layer Palette.

Pattern Fill

On new dialog box choose your new Pattern from your cerated and adjust scale to 5%. Click on OK button.

Pattern Fill

3. On Layer Palette work on Pattern Fill layer change Opacity to 35%.

The Result

The Result.

If you have any question or doubt please let’s me know by comment this tutorial I’ll respond you quickly.

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Friday, December 7, 2007

Photoshop Hair Salon ^^

This is the final output. As you can see, there are two different colors on the hair-Green and Red.

                                         

Changing Hair Color-Final Output

1) Choose a good image

                                         

Good Hair Image


2) Choose the Pen Tool  to select a particular area of hair. After that press Ctrl + Enter to make selection. 
                                         

Pen Tool


3) Add a new layer (Ctl + Shift + N) and paste (Ctl + V) the copied area on the same place. 
                                          

Paste copied Hair on same place but New Layer Fig 1.A

                             

Paste copied Hair on same place but New Layer Fig 1.B


3) Go to the Image menu, choose > Adjustments > Variations > and choose any good color you want. Here I have choose green color. Now you will see that the edges will be very sharp, we need to merge it with the real hair. To do this, choose the eraser tool, reduce the opacity value to around 20 % and erase sharp edges.   

                                             

Erase sharp edges using eraser tool

4) Now our Green colored hair is perfect. Check out the image below:


                                             

Green Shade on hair


You can use the same method mentioned above to make a different shade. Check out the image below:
                                            

Brown Shade on top portion of hair

Thanks source from: CGSHELF.COM

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Create a Christmas Tree with Photoshop

With Christmas coming, I thought it would be cool to create a tree that has blinking lights on it. This will be a simple Christmas tree without a lot of texturing.

Begin by creating a new document 240 X 400 pixels. Next we will create a few new layers. Select Layer/New/Layer and name it "Trunk". Repeat this process creating a "Tree" Layer and one that is called "Blue Lights". Later we will also create layers for yellow and red lights, but we will duplicate the blue layer to save time. The layer order is important. At this point your layer stack should look like this.

Making sure that the Tree layer is highlighted, select the Custom Shape Tool (Hot key U). Then choose the triangle shape from the Custom Shape Picker. If you don't see a triangle, use the drop down menu and select "All".

Also make sure that your paths button is selected.

Now drag your mouse until you get a triangle with a Christmas tree looking shape to it. It is best to drag from the bottom left or right so that it is easier to center your tree on the document. Make sure to leave a little room on the bottom for the trunk.

On the layers window, click on the paths tab, then right click on the work path and choose Make Selection. Feather radius 0 pixels. Your triangle should now be a selection and have the dancing ants border.

Hit the Edit in Quick Mask Mode button (Hot key Q). You now should have a pink background indicating that you are in this mode. Select Filter/Brush Strokes/Sprayed Strokes. Set the stroke length and spray radius to 10. Set stroke direction to right diagonal. Hit the Q key to exit the quick mask mode. Select a shade of Christmas tree green for your foreground color tile. I used #009933. Select Edit/Fill/Foreground Color and click OK. Hit Ctrl+D to deselect. You should now have something like this.

Highlight the Trunk layer, and grab the Rectangular Marquee Tool (Hot key M).

Drag the mouse to create the trunk. Choose a color of brown for your foreground color tile, and fill the selection as we did with the tree. I used #663300. Hit Ctrl+D to deselect. You may need to move it a bit to center it.

Now we need to create some light balls. Making sure that the Blue Lights layer is now selected, grab the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make a small circle. Hold the shift key down while dragging the mouse to constrain the shape to a perfect circle. Select a shade of blue for the foreground color and fill the circle. Hit Ctrl+D to deselect. Remember we are trying to make lights here, so keep that in mind when you are making this ball as this will be the size of all the rest. I am going to add a little bevel and emboss to the ball to give it some depth. Select Layer/Layer Style/Blending Options to bring up the Blending Options window. Here are the settings I used for bevel and emboss.

Now select Layer/Duplicate Layer and name it Yellow Lights. Duplicate that layer and name it Red Lights. Now highlight the Yellow Lights layer, and move the ball somewhere else on the tree. Open the Blending Options window again. This time we are going to the Color Overlay area. Double click on the color tile, and choose a shade of yellow. Do the same thing for the Red Lights layer using a shade of red.


Now, going back to the blue layer, duplicate this 3 times. That will give us 4 blue lights total . Click on each layer and move the lights around the tree. Once you have them where you want them, you need to merge all these layers into one to keep things as simple as possible. Turn off all of the layers except the 4 blue light layers. Click on the little eyeball on each layer that you want to turn off. On the layers window, click on the flout menu arrow and select Merge Visible. Now all of your blue lights should be on one layer.

Repeat this process for the yellow lights, and again for the red lights. Rename each layer back to their original names, Blue Lights etc. You may want to create all of your light layers first so you have control over the placement of the lights. Once you merge a layer, all the lights on that layer will move together. With any luck at all you will have something like this.

Now we have to make the glowing frames of each color before we can create the blinking animation. Duplicate the blue lights layer, and name it Blue Bright. Making sure you have this new layer highlighted, open the blending options window. We are going to be using the outer glow section this time. On the color tile, select a shade of blue, and use the settings shown below. Repeat this process for the yellow and red lights using yellow and red on the outer glow section.

Now that we have all or our frames we will need for the animation, we need to jump over to Image Ready. Hit the jump to Image Ready button.

Once in Image Ready, if you don't see the animation window select Window/Animation. Now go to the layers palette, and turn off the layer Blue Bright, and Yellow Bright by clicking on the little eyeball on those layers. Leave all other layers on for now. You should see your first frame, and it should have the red lights looking bright.

From the flout menu in the animation window select New Frame.

Turn off the Red Bright layer, and turn on the Yellow Bright Layer. Now you should have a second frame showing the yellow lights looking bright. Add a new frame, turn off the Yellow Bright Layer, and turn on the Blue Bright layer. You should have 3 frames now, one with the red lights bright, one with the yellow lights bright, and one with the blue lights bright.

At this point you can hit the play button to view your animation. It will probably be a very quick crazy blinking action, which maybe you like. If you wish to slow it down, increase the time each frame stays on. At the bottom of each frame it shows a time. Mine says 0 sec as you can see in the picture above. Use the drop down menu and change the time. If you control click each frame, it will select all of them, and when you change the time on one, it will change the time for every frame. I liked mine better at .5 sec, and here is how it looks.

Now you will need to save your animation. It will need to be saved as a GIF file. Make sure your your Optimize window is open. To do this, select Window/Optimize. I set mine to GIF 128 Dithered as shown below.

Now select File/Save Optimized As. Choose your folder and a name for your file. Your new file is now ready for the internet. Remember, you can't view an animated GIF in Photoshop.

Thanks source from: ShowAndTell-Graphics.com

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Using Brush Tool to Sketch with Illustrator CS3

Illustrator CS3 brushes let you apply artwork to paths to decorate them with patterns, figures, textures, or angled strokes. You can modify the brushes provided with Illustrator, and you can create your own brushes. Brushes appear in the Brushes panel.

You apply brushes to paths using the Paintbrush tool or the drawing tools. To apply brushes using the Paintbrush tool, you choose a brush from the Brushes panel and draw in the artwork. The brush is applied directly to the paths as you draw. To apply brushes using a drawing tool, you draw in the artwork, select a path in the artwork, and then choose a brush in the Brushes panel. The brush is applied to the selected path.

You can change the color, size, and other features of a brush. You can also edit paths after brushes are applied.

In this tutorial, you'll learn to use Brush Tool to Sketch from this video.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Eye Candy, Adobe Photoshop Plug-in

Eye Candy is the top of photoshop plug-in, you can install after main program. Today i'll show you how to install Eye Candy plug-in.

How to install plug-in

  1. After double click install file you’ll see welcome screen.

    welcome-screen

    Click Next button.
  2. Read the license agreement and click Accept button.

    license-agreement
  3. Enter the Name and Product Registration Code in fill from.

    product-registration

    Click Next button.
  4. Browse the file list and open your directory plug-in folder (C:\Program File\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop\Plug-ins). Click OK button.

    select-destination-directory

    Waiting for installing.

    installing
  5. When installation has been completed. Click the Finish button to exit.

    inatallation-completed

How to use plug-in

When you want to use Eye Candy Plug-in, you can choose Filter and select Alien Skin Eye Candy from drop-drown menu.

How to used eye candy

You can download demo Alien Skin Eye Candy from: www.alienskin.com

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Sunday, July 1, 2007

Painting with gradients and patterns

In addition to process and spot colors, the Swatches panel can also contain pattern and gradient swatches. Adobe Illustrator CS3 provides sample swatches of each type in the default panel and lets you create your own patterns and gradients. Click on the buttons at the bottom of the panel to see all swatches or specific types of swatches.

Click on the buttons at the bottom of the panel to see

  1. Choose Window > Workspace > [Panel].
  2. Choose Select > Deselect.
  3. Choose Window > Gradient if your Gradient panel is not visible. Choose Show Options from the panel menu. Click once below the gradient slider at the bottom of the panel to make the color stops visible.

    The Gradient Ramp with a color stop at either end.

    The Gradient Ramp with a color stop at either end

    You can create your own gradient by activating the color stops on the gradient slider, or by dragging existing swatches directly on top of the existing gradient color stops.
  4. In the Swatches panel, click and hold down on the color Dark Orange, don't release. Then drag the swatch on top of the black color stop on the right side of the gradient slider. If you miss the color stop, another stop may appear below the gradient slider. Choose Edit > Undo Gradient and try again.
  5. Select the CMYK Yellow swatch and drag it onto the white color stop on the left side of the gradient slider.
  6. Choose Radial from the Type menu in the Gradient panel.

    Drag the swatch onto the color stop.

    Drag the swatch onto the color stop

    Change to radial.

    Change to radial
  7. Click on the New Swatch button at the bottom of the Swatches panel, and name this background gradient in the New Swatch dialog box. You could also drag the swatch from the Gradient panel (in the upper left corner of the panel) directly into the Swatches panel.
  8. Click the Layers panel tab to reveal the layers panel. Click in the Visibility column to the left of the Background layer to display the contents.
  9. With the Selection tool, click the stroke of the large rectangle in the background (it is larger than the artboard). Click the Fill color in the Control panel and choose your new background gradient. The gradient has been applied.
  10. Select one of the stars in the center of the artboard. Since these are part of a group, all become selected.
  11. Click on the Fill box in the Control panel, and apply the background gradient to the stars. Change the Stroke color in the Control panel to None. Now you will reverse the colors of the gradient, swapping the orange and the yellow.
  12. In the Gradient panel, Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) drag the left color stop (the yellow color) to the right until you are over the orange color stop on the right and release.

    The gradient ramp should reverse. If it doesn't reverse, choose Edit > Undo and try again. From the Swatches panel, try dragging a darker orange onto the orange swatch onto the orange color stop on the left of the gradient ramp.
  13. Select the Gradient tool and position the pointer in the center of the stars. Click and drag from the center of the artboard to the outer edge of the group of stars.

    Notice that the Gradient is now smoothly transitioned through all stars, as though they are one object.
  14. Choose Select > Deselect.
  15. Choose File > Save.

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Editing Live Paint regions

Once you've made a Live Paint group, each path remains fully editable. When you move or adjust a path's shape, the colors that had been previously applied don't just stay where they were, like they do in natural media paintings or image editing programs. Instead, Illustrator automatically reapplies them to the new regions that are formed by the edited paths.

To experience this feature further, create a blank new file on which you will create a simple illustration.

  1. Using File > New, create a new letter-sized document. Leave at the default settings, and choose OK.
  2. On the blank document, use the Ellipse tool to create a circle anywhere on the artboard. The size of the circle shape is not important.
  3. Using the Selection tool, hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key to clone the circle shape, drag it so the duplicated circle is overlapping the initial circle shape.
  4. Choose Select > All. Choose None from Fill in the Control panel, and then choose None from Stroke color in the Control panel.

    Create two overlapping circle shapes. Paint both the Fill and Stroke None.

    Create two overlapping circle shapes. Paint both the Fill and Stroke None
  5. Select the Live Paint Bucket tool, and cross over the center overlapping area; when it becomes highlighted, click once to activate the center shape as a Live Paint group.
  6. Select a color from the Swatches panel and click on the center Live Paint object to color it.
  7. Select a color. Then using the Live Paint Bucket tool, click the left Live Paint object and click inside of it. Repeat this with a different color for the right Live Paint object.

    Assign different colors to the Live Paint objects.

    Assign different colors to the Live Paint objects
  8. Choose Select > Deselect. Choose the Direct Selection tool. Select and reposition one of the circles, keeping some of the overlap. Notice that the intersecting area is dynamic. It changes the fill based upon the relationship of the two circles.

    You can use the different selection tools depending on what you want to select and affect in a Live Paint group. For instance, use the Live Paint Selection tool to apply different gradients across different faces in a Live Paint group, and use the Selection tool to apply the same gradient across the entire Live Paint group.
  9. Choose File > Close. Choose to not save the file.

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Applying the pattern in Illustrator CS3

  1. With the Selection tool, select the red rectangle beneath the "Aquo Life" text in the poster.

    You can assign the pattern using a number of different methods. In this instance you will use the Swatches panel to apply the pattern. You could also apply the pattern using the Fill color in the Control panel.
  2. Click on the Fill box in the Tools panel, then in the Swatches panel, click on the dots pattern swatch you created.

    The pattern is applied to the fill of the red rectangle.

    The pattern is applied to the fill of the red rectangle
  3. Select the rounded rectangle used to create the pattern (off the right edge of the artboard), and press Delete, as you will no longer need the original.
  4. Using the Selection tool, select the red rectangle and choose 2 pt from the Stroke Weight menu in the Control panel.
  5. Click the Stroke color in the Control panel and choose CMYK Red from the Swatches panel.
  6. Click the word Stroke in the Control panel and change the stroke to apply to the inside of the path.
  7. Choose File > Save.

    The result.

    The result applying patterns

Editing the pattern

Perhaps you have used a pattern several times in an illustration and want to update its contents. Not a problem, just follow these steps:

  1. Using the Selection tool, click and drag the dots pattern swatch you created from the Swatches panel to an empty location on the artboard. The rounded rectangle returns to your artboard.
  2. Choose Select > Deselect, and choose the Direct Selection tool ( ). Select the rounded rectangle.
  3. Click the Stroke color in the Control panel, and select CMYK Red for the rounded rectangle. You will create a tint of the CMYK Red using the Color panel.
  4. Choose Window > Color if the Color panel is not visible, and make sure the Stroke color is selected in the Color panel. With the rounded rectangle still selected, hold down the Shift key, and drag either the Yellow or Magenta slider to create a "tint" of this color. Notice that when you hold down the Shift key, the sliders move relative to each other. Use this method to create a lighter red color; an exact tint is not necessary.

    Color panel is not visible
  5. Using the Selection tool, select the rounded rectangle and hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key while dragging it back on top of the existing pattern Swatch called dots. The pattern is updated.

    Dragging it back on top of the existing pattern Swatch called dots
  6. Select the rounded rectangle that you edited to create the updated pattern and delete it.
  7. Choose File > Save.

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