Are you having any difficulties with your photoshopping??
Post it here, and see any of our photoshop experts can help you.
BTW, I'm not the experts, so I have to rely on the experts on our board with the help posts.

The talented experts of our board... help us, please!!!



Thanks to Asu-san, resources posted on Photoshop/gimp Tutorials And Resources thread:
Video tutorials for different effects/techniques
Tutorials
Using Photoshop filters/plugins in GIMP
Flock (Quick explanations on "Flock" below..)




(I'm opening this thread as per reaquest, and as an experiment.. if we don't get many responses I may close the thread later. ^^)

Does Photoshopping period count? ^^;

Good idea, Tombow-sama...
It's a good place for PS-illiterates like me to get help...

Good idea, I'm still a little new to photoshop, so I can come here for help.

I'm willing to help and I have a question of my own.

Does anyone have any techniques that work well for text in banners? I can usually manage text in avatars, but I have problems blending it when I make banners. Any help, fonts, techniques or such that you all could offer would be great =D

Well, to get text for banners and such, i normally play around with blending options on the layers. You can add drop shadow, outer glow, change transparency and add gradient overlays.... embossing and beveling.... there's also plenty of styles all over the place you can dl or buy that you can apply to text.

Hope that helps...

Whoa! We have a Photoshop help thread now! Yay! I was wondering if people can share their cell-shading techniques.

BTW, I also watched the documentary of how the FMA movie was made. There was a part wherein there were so many people on PCs using Photoshop (not exactly sure but it looked it Photoshop, they can be using Macs though) and they painted the frames for the movie really quick! 1 picture full of line art looked like it will take them only 30 seconds to color it. They were just filling up sections of the image.

They probably have tons of presets for coloring the line art and they should... because thousands of line art have to be colored.

This is a wonderful idea Tombow! I generally use Photoshop for photograph enhancement, but I would really love to learn some advanced layering techniques and colouring techniques.

Ratzen: I saw that as well, and believe that the animators were using Photoshop CS2. (Which I want with all my heart and soul, but don't have the money for)

That isn't a very difficult thing to do. Merely use the magic wand tool, expand by a pixel, right-click->fill with foreground color. And I'm sure it was a huge image, so the little corners would be filled in as well. Oh, and it would all have to be set on multiply with the lineart in the foreground. And the cel-shading wouldn't take very long either. Though 30 seconds sure is a short time. But, hey, they're professionals who have been doing many a cel-shade. And, yes, of course there are color presets. Wouldn't want Ed's hair changing color throughout. *rambles on*

Thanks to Nil-chan for answering my question XD

Now I have another one! Um. I use GIMP, so...I was trying to make an animated GIF, and it's worked perfectly fine before, but now after I select which frames I want to extract from the movie, it thinks and then...nothing happens. I don't really NEED this part of GIMP, but I would like to know what's wrong with it...it works just fine with everything else, just when I try to get the extracted frames, it doesn't do anything.

@ Ailuro

Cel-shading a single image would probably take me at least 45 minutes to 1 hour to complete. LOL. Gah. Pros... XD They do it in 30 seconds...

But tracing the scanned drawing and turning it into clean line art is usually what takes me long to do.

BTW, thanks for the tips! But I don't use the fill function for cel-shading. I use a brush set to 100% opacity. Usually 20-30 pixels in size.

I don't count myself as anywhere near an expert, but I can help!

Personally, for lineart, I use Adobe Illustrator, it makes it so much more easier and cleaner...

This is the girl who taught me how to do nice clean line art.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/218147...h+age_scale%3A5
It's really easy to understand and just detailed enough to point out the basics.

That's probably why it takes you so long. Trust Aily, the magic wand tool is the way to go. You can also use the pen tool to make a selection around the section you want to color and then fill it. It takes a little longer, but you don't have to worry about going back and getting the tiny nooks and cranny's. But the magic wand is a lifesaver if your trying to get done fast.

This sounds like a great Idea. =D
The only sad thing is: I don't have Photoshop. I almost don't dare asking if anyone knows where to dl it.
I really want to improve in drawing on pc, and in adding effects and such. I only got paint and it takes houres, no days to colour in my scanned pictures. T^T
So can anyone -please- help me?

^Well, regardless of who has done it and who hasn't, the point is, it shouldn't be here on the forums.

Midkipblader-It's quite expensive, but you can get Photoshop at the Adobe Store. You can also look for it slightly cheeper in places like eBay and the Academic Superstore.

Oh please quit being a loser.

Here, a nice free alternative to Photoshop, GIMP. It's freeware yay.

Click here

Nice and non-controversial.

If anyone needs help, you can ask here or pm me, I can handle this software pretty good by now XD

Hey, I taught myself how to use GIMP over the process of...oh, half a year? About that much. XD If anyone needs help relating to mostly ANYTHING about this software, I can probably offer some advice. It's a great piece of freeware; it's got a lot of options and is just as good as Photoshop if you can get used to it.

Sorry, Tombow for beating you XD

Thank you for help. =D
I really appreciate it, I really do.
I'm checking out that GIMP, and it has a lot of features. So it took you a half a year to get all of it he? Then it'll take me a year. T^T
But I'll try, and it's something. I really love you all. =D

Just one thing: how do you draw lines from one point to another. Like in Paint the curved line.

If you're talking about paths in GIMP, I have no idea how to use them XD

Stop whining and searching for loopholes; just use PM.

@Mudkipblader - For painting and drawing tips, you can ask on Drawing technique Q&A thread, which is a sister thread of this, and in Fanart subforum.

Oh, and, if GIMP is too vast and intimidating for now, and if you like little more simpler program, you can try Serif PhotoPlus 6.0.
It's free and you can Google it to get many sites to download it from.
It's a limited program, but it's like a little step up from Paint (but you can do much more with it than Paint) and if you are used to the Paint, this one is probably easy to learn how to use it.

One question...

How to make gif images [Images that moves, like my avie]?

You make GIFs in ImageReady, not Photoshop. ^^

Or for all the GIMP users, you have to download a special video editor for GIMP...which I forget the name of, but it shouldn't be too hard to find.

Anyone who needs help for that can PM me =O

OOOH... thanks...
Lucky I doesn't bin my Image Ready... ^.^

Here's a quick little tutorial I wrote up for Hyo last year on how to make GIFs.

First grab this nifty program so you can take screenshots which can be found here:

http://paul.glagla.free.fr/imagegrab_en.htm - Click on the purple button

You'll find out that there's no need to install it and you can "uninstall" it by just simply deleting it.

Now to use ImageGrab, browse and find a file you want to take screencaps of. Play it, get it to the part you want, pause it for a sec and click the little alarm clock thingie. Pull on the drop down boxes and change to a snapshot every 3 frames and click the little switch to start and end your little photoshoot. You're pictures will be saved in My Pictures by default so get them out of there and start cropping, etc etc. Do what you want to the pictures. I find it easier if you just layer them on top of each other in the way the animation is supposed to go and crop, resize from there. When you're content, switch modes over to ImageReady

If your animation palette isn't showing go to Windows animation palette. Then take your photoshop file with all the layers and create as many frames as you have on the palette and set them all to .1 seconds unless it's text which is then preferably showing for at least a second or so.

On each layer of the animation, click on the eyeballs on your layers palette to show or not show a different frame each time, don't forget to go in order! It's a stupid mistake but I did it a few times when I wasn't paying attention.

When you think you're done, preview it by clicking the play button on your animation palette. If something isn't right, fix it and view it again.

Finally, if you're content, go to file ---> Save OPTIMIZED As. It's important it's optimized or it won't even work as a GIF image. Upload onto Photobucket or whatever you use for forums, etc.

Hope that was understandable and happy avatar making!

Wow, thank you soooo much. I always wondered how to make Gif avies. ^^

@Blitz - Thanks for the tutorial!! Appreciated!!

How do u get a signature, please help me

@Soiltary_alchemist14 - If you want someone to make your signature, we have a a list of sig makers on our board.. Go down the list, and check out the kind of sigs each sig makers made, and pick one sig maker whose style you like, then post on the sig shop thread of that sig maker and ask him/ner to make a sig for you. If you have some picture you want to be used for your sig, include in your post, and tell as much details on how you like it made. maybe you can read posts of other poaple making sig request, so that you know how to make request post also.
Hope you'll get a nice sig made for you!!

For some nice FMA pics you might get some inspiration by visiting our FMA Image Gallery.

If you need to know how to add signature to your post, that's explained on 2nd post on this page ..scroll down to "How do I add pic(s) to my signature?"

And, if you get more questions, you can post on Question thread, or since you are still a newcomer, you can go back to Newcomers thread and ask our "welcome" hosts also.

I just bought Adobe photoshop CS 8.0, and I am trying to preform an Idea that I had in mind, putting the Japanese character 鬼 in a dark background, I searched for the information I needed on the internet, all that is left now is, how can I insert a background with an image of my choice?

I'm want to know something...I really like to edit original screenshots/doing Anime-cross-overs, but I used to the cutting and pasting in Paint. As most of you know, removing every pixel takes [literally] ages.
Can anyone help me to find an easier way?

I'm having a bit of trouble at the moment...I need to put text on a signature that I'm doing for someone on another board...but once I click for the text layer, and type out the name and what not, it won't show up...the layer is on top of all the other layers, set to Normal, white text on dark backgrounds...the content of the text will show up in the layers palette, but it's not showing up on the sig, and I can't think of anything else that might be wrong with it ><;

I'm not sure what's wrong with it, but check your layer visibility and opacity and the tool settings for the text tool. You might have accidentally messed with something and not realized it O_o

Well, I did check all of those. I looked forever, and had like 4 different people try to see what was wrong with it. I finally relented, print screened it then edited it and saved it . The quality wasn't diminished, so I was happy all the same.
Thanks for replying , though! ^^

Anyone here know where I can get some Photoshop brushes?

You can always check deviantArt
Just type brushes into the search box. Just remember to credit them when using others brushes.
I've downloaded some from some graphics sites. Just Google them and see what you might like.

http://www.fullmetal-alchemist.com/forums/...st&p=544503
Just read that post. it should have a web with more than 100+ brushes

Alright, Thanks guys ^^

I want to know something...I really like to edit original screenshots/doing Anime-cross-overs, but I used to the cutting and pasting in Paint. As most of you know, removing every pixel takes [literally] ages.
Can anyone help me to find an easier way?

Magic Wand tool?

Do you have that in paint?

I don't think so...

No, Paint program doesn't have Magic Wand tool. You have to do the old fashioned way.

I thought so, coz Mudkip was asking for an easier way to do it in pain =\ I really don't know an easy way for pain, photoshop is was easier for that.

Umm, how do you edit text out of a picture?
Do you use the select tool to select the color and go over it?

That character in your avatar and siggie looks HOT, Kal...

On topic side,
How to make my Photoshop support foreign language apart from English/alphabets??

@Nekokitty- Well, you might be able to use the healing brush tool, or the spot healing brush. Or maybe replace color, even...

@Kal: Thanks, I'll try that.

@Neko Sure thing! It seems like we've done something similar to that in my graphic arts class...^^;

Sorry for the confusion, but I was asking for a way to do it in Photoshop.
I know the magic wandtool is build for jobs like that, but I want to know how to select the part of a pic you want. Do you have to delete the complete background first or is there a way to select something with many different colours and such?