Seen April 20th, 2011
Posted October 19th, 2009
976 posts
16 Years
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
Age 30
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Ontario
Seen January 21st, 2013
Posted March 13th, 2011
981 posts
15.1 Years
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.





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

/Circa

a face in the clouds.

Male
Melbourne, Victoria
Seen August 11th, 2018
Posted July 29th, 2010
881 posts
15.5 Years
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:
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Seen April 20th, 2011
Posted October 19th, 2009
976 posts
16 Years
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.


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



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. ^^
once upon a time there was a boy named kisa.
Age 28
England
Seen October 7th, 2010
Posted October 3rd, 2010
191 posts
16.7 Years
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~
I am back after a long hiatus from here, please if you have the time check out my forums and website, the links are above.

Twinx

s o m e t h i n g M O R E

Age 33
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Seen July 7th, 2013
Posted December 6th, 2009
1,802 posts
16.5 Years
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 ^^

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?
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Twinx

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Age 33
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Seen July 7th, 2013
Posted December 6th, 2009
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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 ^^
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Seen April 20th, 2011
Posted October 19th, 2009
976 posts
16 Years
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. ^^;
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Twinx

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Seen July 7th, 2013
Posted December 6th, 2009
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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?
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Ontario
Seen January 21st, 2013
Posted March 13th, 2011
981 posts
15.1 Years
? 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

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Posted December 6th, 2009
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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 ^^
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Seen April 20th, 2011
Posted October 19th, 2009
976 posts
16 Years
I suck..


ORIGINAL
Hey that's pretty good! Do you see a difference in that? =D
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 ^^
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. ^^;
once upon a time there was a boy named kisa.