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Hazuki April 14th, 2008 5:15 PM

W E L C O M E

Students (Let me know if you are a new student by posting here and doing the first assignment):
-Motsuko Live
-Kyon.
-Ooka
-DarkChild
-Sawaa
-CheesePeow
-Pikachu Trainer~
-clade.
-Perfectionist
-Michii
-Rena
-Decephyr

About my style:
My style is mostly based on being a flatist. Now don't freak out if you don't know what that means, it just means I don't use brushes or smudging that often. I mostly use textures, hue/saturation, and selective coloring. But don't panic! I'll teach you all how to do that. ^^;

Assignments:
1. First assignment! Ok this is probably going to be the most easiest assignment you'll ever receive... I want you to post the best banner you think you have. It doesn't matter what it is as long as you think it's the best banner you have made, this way I will know where you are at. And I also want one more thing, I want you all to tell me which Photoshop version you have, this way I can think about doing animation assigments.
2. Make a dashed border for any banner you like, if you don't know how to make a dashed border, the tutorial can be found here.
3. Make a layer style banner, this is just a heads-up for harder assignments dealing with hue/saturation and selective coloring, in other words, this is a warm-up for future assignments. The tutorial can be found here.
4. Get to know your Hue/Saturation feature! This will help a lot in avatar making. The tutorial can be found here.
5. Learn how to use textures, very useful for your graphics. The tutorial can be found here.
6. Obviously nobody saw this one. Blend two images or textures, the tutorial can be found here.
7. Ok, I finally thought of something and hopefully this will help. Out of all the five assignments you have done in the past, I want you to make a banner, avatar, or whatever using what you have learned. So, this is how it's going to work. Make your banner, have at least three things you have learned from my assignments and tell me which one they are (i.e. I used #2. Dashed border #4 Hue/Saturation #5 Textures ), and an image I will provide for you. After that the rest is up to you, including text, style, and color. Image. Good luck!

Students that have accomplished the assigments:
Motsuko Live - 1, 2, 3, 4,
Kyon.- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ooka
DarkChild - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Sawaa - 1
CheesePeow - 1, 2, 3
Pikachu Trainer~ - 1, 2
clade- 1, 2, 4
Perfectionist- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Michii-1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Rena-1, 2, 3, 4
Decephyr- 1, 2, 3

Wish April 14th, 2008 5:27 PM

Ok Hazuki! ^^

The best banner I have is my current signature.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa184/x_Wish_x/Konokacopy.png

I liked it because I had to step out of my old Graphics style and do something else for once.

I have Photoshop CS3 Extended

Twinx April 14th, 2008 8:31 PM

This is as good as it gets for me =)
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj19/DarkkChildd/sotw-dc.png

I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Thanks for being our teacher Hazuki ^^

Bianca Paragon April 14th, 2008 9:00 PM

Teach me, teach me!
I've got CS3 ^^ I know my way around it, in that I know a very select *few* techniques to abuse over and over, but I'm super keen to know more~
http://www.adisc.org/forum/image.php?u=14&type=sigpic&dateline=1205872576
and
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/384/sawaasignature4iof5.png
Are both demonstrations of how I just overuse the same style :3
So please bestow upon me your knowledgeness!

Motsuko Live April 15th, 2008 1:24 AM

Yay! Hazuki is our teacher! XD

Anyways, I couldn't decide on my favorite best banner, so here's two of them. They're pretty much both the same style, but hopefully we'll learn some new styles in this class.

http://www.snapdrive.net/files/539368/GuitarSig.png

http://www.snapdrive.net/files/539368/ReturnLove.png

And I'm using Photoshop CS. Is this version too old? :/

/Circa April 15th, 2008 3:31 AM

Id like to become a student, because i'm a bit bad :l.
I use Photoshop 7.0, because I cant afford to buy any.

This is probably the best I can do:
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj26/CheesePeow/Signatures/6v2psd.png

BerserkPaladin April 15th, 2008 5:17 AM

Never Mind Everything is ok.

Pikachu Trainer~ April 15th, 2008 6:02 AM

This is the best banner of mine (there are two I can't decide):

http://www.pokemonvalley.eeveeshq.com/main/Objection.png
http://www.pokemonvalley.eeveeshq.com/main/RoxasS.png

Thanks
Pikachu Trainer~

Hazuki April 15th, 2008 6:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BerserkPaladin (Post 3500978)
Um... do GIMPers count as well? I've used Photoshop too but it is way too expensive to buy. So this is the next best thing to it.

Anyway I would become a student as i am... well not good at making sigs.

Note: I actually took my time in doing this one, so here it is.
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3600/berserkpaladiakj5.png

I understand my way around GIMP, so i should understand Photoshop.

Sorry, I don't think they do... But I am not sure, ask Loki if that's ok.
Quote:

Originally Posted by Pikachu Trainer~ (Post 3501058)
This is the best banner of mine (there are two I can't decide):

http://www.pokemonvalley.eeveeshq.com/main/Objection.png
http://www.pokemonvalley.eeveeshq.com/main/RoxasS.png
Thanks
Pikachu Trainer~

Tell me which Photoshop version you use, make sure you read the assignments thoroughly.
I'll have next assignment ready soon, if you want to start on it first, then go ahead, you have plenty of time. ^^

Pikachu Trainer~ April 15th, 2008 7:28 AM

I use Photoshop Version CS3.
Oh by the way I had a name change and used to be called PikachuTrainer1994, and on the students list it has both usernames.

Thanks
Pikachu Trainer~

Twinx April 15th, 2008 7:41 AM

Quote:

Students that have accomplished the assigments:
Motsuko Live - 1
PikachuTrainer1994
Kyon.- 1
Ooka
DarkChild - 1
Sawaa - 1
CheesePeow - 1
Pikachu Trainer~ - 1
Hazuki, Pikachu Trainer~ and PikachuTrainer1994 are the same person ^^

Quote:

2. Make a dashed border for any banner you like, if you don't know how to make a dashed border, the tutorial can be found here. Due by April 25/26
Hazuki, I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but isn't that too simple for an intermediate class?

THIRTY-SIX April 15th, 2008 7:43 AM

I thought the same for assignment two as well ^^;

Hazuki April 15th, 2008 7:53 AM

So you are saying you all know how to do that? Alright then, but just do that assignment for me ok? I'll make an alternate assignment for this one too.

Twinx April 15th, 2008 8:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hazuki (Post 3501156)
So you are saying you all know how to do that? Alright then, but just do that assignment for me ok? I'll make an alternate assignment for this one too.

ok, as you wish ^^
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj19/DarkkChildd/dashed.png

Pikachu Trainer~ April 15th, 2008 8:39 AM

Here's mine (i've only just finished it XD):

http://www.pokemonvalley.eeveeshq.com/main/Sora.png

Thanks
Pikachu Trainer~

Motsuko Live April 15th, 2008 11:31 AM

Wow, I feel embarrassed asking this, but for the double border tutorial, how do we make a selection with a 1 pixel margin? Thanks.

Azonic April 15th, 2008 2:49 PM

Loki put me in your class, :DD

The best one is in my signature. I'm using CS3.

Dotted Border:
http://imageknight.com/images/1208299698.png

Hazuki April 16th, 2008 6:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Motsuko Live (Post 3501529)
Wow, I feel embarrassed asking this, but for the double border tutorial, how do we make a selection with a 1 pixel margin? Thanks.

? If you look closely at the close-up banner, there are pixels that look like... pixels? XDDD;;;

I don't know if that's what you are asking... ><;;;

Make sure you guys do assignment 3 too. ^^;

Twinx April 17th, 2008 7:33 AM

Quote:

3. Make a layer style banner, this is just a heads-up for harder assignments dealing with hue/saturation and selective coloring, in other words, this is a warm-up for future assignments. The tutorial can be found here. Due by April 18/19.
Should I start a banner from scratch or just use this technique on a stock?

Hazuki April 17th, 2008 7:36 AM

It's up to you really, I just want to see if you understand the layer placements. ^^;

Twinx April 17th, 2008 9:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hazuki (Post 3506626)
It's up to you really, I just want to see if you understand the layer placements. ^^;

I suck..
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/8468/dchsglt0.png

ORIGINAL
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7203/originalou4.jpg

Motsuko Live April 17th, 2008 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hazuki (Post 3505594)
? If you look closely at the close-up banner, there are pixels that look like... pixels? XDDD;;;

I don't know if that's what you are asking... ><;;;

Make sure you guys do assignment 3 too. ^^;

Thanks, but umm....I don't know how to explain it XDD;

How would you make a 1 pixel margin. I know to select all you press CTRL+A, but how do you select all but one border?

Twinx April 17th, 2008 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Motsuko Live (Post 3506944)
Thanks, but umm....I don't know how to explain it XDD;

How would you make a 1 pixel margin. I know to select all you press CTRL+A, but how do you select all but one border?

Hazuki, I hope you don't mind me answering this.

I think I understand what you mean...
Here's what you need to do:

-Press CTRL+A to select all.
-Go to Select -> Contract -> 1 pixel

The next step would be Select -> Inverse, but that's mentioned in the tutorial.

Hope that helped ^^

Wish April 17th, 2008 1:02 PM

I can't access the site which showed me how to make the dashed borders.

Never mind, I fixed it. I made the banner

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa184/x_Wish_x/Misabancopy.png

EDIT: Didn't like the border too much on that one

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa184/x_Wish_x/Misaban2copy.png

Hazuki April 17th, 2008 2:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkChild (Post 3506763)

Hey that's pretty good! Do you see a difference in that? =D
Quote:

Originally Posted by Motsuko Live (Post 3506944)
Thanks, but umm....I don't know how to explain it XDD;

How would you make a 1 pixel margin. I know to select all you press CTRL+A, but how do you select all but one border?

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkChild (Post 3507002)
Hazuki, I hope you don't mind me answering this.

I think I understand what you mean...
Here's what you need to do:

-Press CTRL+A to select all.
-Go to Select -> Contract -> 1 pixel

The next step would be Select -> Inverse, but that's mentioned in the tutorial.

Hope that helped ^^

Yeah he pretty much explained it all. ^^;

Guys one last time, remember to do Assignment 3. DarkChild already did it and make sure you remember that it's due Friday/Satuday. ^^;


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