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Dervish
01-31-2009, 02:58 PM
Introduction

This is my first tutorial so don't be too harsh ;)...

This will give you some tips and tricks in PhotoShop which I learnt.


I) HyperSpace effect.


Create a new Document, any size.

Get your colors like this :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Colors.jpg

Or anything approximate.

Create a new layer.

Apply some clouds :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Clouds.jpg

Result :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Result1.jpg

Approximately.

Now, pixelate them, go into :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Mezzotint.jpg

And choose :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Mediumlines.jpg

Result :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Result2.jpg

Now, you're almost done, go into :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/RadialBlur.jpg

And take these settings :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/RadialSettings.jpg

You'll end up with this :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/FinalResult.jpg


II)Flowers

Create a new document, any size.

Create a new layer and apply a black and white gradient from top to bottom :

(Tip : hold shift while drawing the layer to make it straight down.)

Result :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Result1-1.jpg

Apply some waves, go to :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/LocationWave.jpg

And choose (approx) these settings :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Wavesettings.jpg

You should get something close to this :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/ResultWaves.jpg

Last steps !
Apply some polar coordinates :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/LocPC.jpg

Click OK and you should get something similar to this :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/ResultPC.jpg

To get different results, play around with wave settings ;).


III) Pen Tool

Pen tool is one of the most important tools in PhotoShop you may find it here :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Pentoolloc.jpg

To use this trick, you'll need to have this setting :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/PenToolsettings.jpg

Once you have these settings, lets begin.

Create a new file, with any dimensions.

Color your background (unless you have another background) in anything but white (chose black here).

Create a new layer and choose pen tool.

Click anywhere on the canvas, you should get this :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Result1-2.jpg

Click Somewhere else on the canvas and while holding down clicked, move the mouse around a bit, you should get a curved line :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Result2-1.jpg

Keep going (clicking somewhere on canvas and draging) until you get something satisfying, something curvy and nice ;).

Example :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Result3.jpg

Now, choose your brush tool located here :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Brushtoolloc.jpg

And get these settings :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/BrushSettings.jpg

(Smoother 5 pixel brush if you can't see).

Get a white color.

Choose your pen tool again and right click on the path (grey line on canvas) and choose this option :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Option.jpg

Take these settings :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/StrokePathSettings.jpg

Click OK and right click on the path (again) and choose this option :

http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp281/Purevil_X/Options2.jpg

With my curve, I got a smooth curve ;).

Experience with different curves, colors, brushes !!! There are many possibilities !


I'll post more soon ;).

Baked0420
01-31-2009, 03:12 PM
woah nice effect, you learn that on your own from messing around or someone show you that? I would try it, but my new computer doesn't have photoshop :(.

Dervish
01-31-2009, 03:14 PM
woah nice effect, you learn that on your own from messing around or someone show you that? I would try it, but my new computer doesn't have photoshop :(.

Learnt it on my own, I love messing around, you bought Photoshop by download or CD ?

Baked0420
01-31-2009, 03:48 PM
I don't know, my mom used to use my old computer before me, then a long time ago she gave it to me with Photoshop 6 and 7 on it and I just used it to mess around a little bit, I don't know how she bought it. All I know is I don't have it anymore :(, so for now whenever I crop my rs screenshots I gotta draw a box around it in paint, then ctrl+c, file>new, ctrl+v, it's so annoying. I wish I had photoshop on this computer.

Dervish
01-31-2009, 03:49 PM
Torrents are your best bet... But I would buy it.

Pika chew
01-31-2009, 03:53 PM
Lol that is awesome I love screwing around with it too but that is pretty cool. I just set one of them as my background :)

Dervish
01-31-2009, 05:04 PM
Added "Flower" and fixed up some stuff.

Dervish
01-31-2009, 07:49 PM
Sorry for double post :

Added Pen Tool trick.

ian.
01-31-2009, 07:52 PM
:D THANKS DERVISH! <3

helped so much..

before I was just using the side bar controls :p

Dervish
01-31-2009, 08:07 PM
Glad you liked it, do you have any suggestions ?

ian.
01-31-2009, 08:12 PM
well.. nothing wrong is with your tut..

but my photo shop was on gray scale so I couldn't do the blue thing :p

Dervish
01-31-2009, 08:13 PM
well.. nothing wrong is with your tut..

but my photo shop was on gray scale so I couldn't do the blue thing :p

Change it :p Then you'll be able to ;).

New document : color settings.

MasterKill
02-01-2009, 12:43 PM
:) Thanks man I always wanted to know how to do that magic line :p

Now I've finally got it! <3

Dervish
02-01-2009, 12:50 PM
:) Thanks man I always wanted to know how to do that magic line :p

Now I've finally got it! <3

Happy you found out.

Just remember : do a new layer for the "magic lines" as you say ;), else you won't have the "stroke path" option.