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Welcome to the first Graphics & Photography Tutorials thread. Here you can post tutorials on those hard to make banners for your forum signature, cool animations that you just have to show everyone, or that cool effect you made with the picture of your little French poodle.
Rules:
-You must follow the PokeCommunity Graphics & Photography rules, as well as the general rules.
-Posted tutorials can be text, text with pictures showing examples, or a link to a site that contains the tutorial.
-Your posts must contain either a tutorial, and example that was made using one of the above tutorials, or comments/criticism towards a tutorial.
-Do not post tutorials that you have not made, or do not belong to you.
Please follow these rules.
Thread approved by Sorano and Xenocrates. (Thanks!)
There is a form required for posting tutorials:
Rules:
-You must follow the PokeCommunity Graphics & Photography rules, as well as the general rules.
-Posted tutorials can be text, text with pictures showing examples, or a link to a site that contains the tutorial.
-Your posts must contain either a tutorial, and example that was made using one of the above tutorials, or comments/criticism towards a tutorial.
-Do not post tutorials that you have not made, or do not belong to you.
Please follow these rules.
Thread approved by Sorano and Xenocrates. (Thanks!)
There is a form required for posting tutorials:
Code:
Program Used:
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Skill Level:To start things off I'll show my tutorial as an example.
Program Used: Adobe Photoshop
Required: Adobe Photoshop, a set of grunge brushes found online, I specifically use deviantArt, and an image that you would like to put in your banner. The image would be better being rendered.
Skill Level: Easy
I usually start off with a simple background such as Filter > Render > Clouds, then Filter > Render > Difference Clouds. Now, Image > Adjustments > Inverse. Then click Image > Adjustments > Levels, and dragging the middle arrow to the far right. OR just duplicating the render a lot, then adding a Filter > Blur > Motion Blur at 45º, then again at -45º, then a 2 pixel Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.
That's the base for your background.
I create a new layer then do some brushing with grunge brushes that can be downloaded from deviantArt. I do the brushes, on the new layer, black or white depending on how I want the banner to look. I set the brush opacity at about 60% and click 2-3 times per brush. Set the brush layer to a nice Overlay or whatever makes it look good over top of the base background.
That's basically your full background.
Over that I put the render in and position it properly. Then go to Edit > Transform > Scale and then grab a box in the top left, top right, bottom left, or bottom right and hold shift, then drag it to get the right size. When you have it click the Rectangular Marquee tool, then Apply. Then duplicate it and set the effect to Hard Light, gives a good effect.
To get an overall matching color, make sure your at the up most layer and go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance. Then just play around with the Midtones, Highlights and Shadows to get a nice color, don't go overboard though.
For the text you can add a Drop Shadow and/or Outer Glow to make it stand out, but change the colors of the Outer Glow if you are to use it, make it match.
Now use the Rectangular Marquee tool and select the banner and go to Edit > Stroke. Change the color to black and set it to 1 or 2 pixels, inside. Voila!
And example that I have used this tutorial on is this:
The render of Ed has a little effect to it. I took the Lasso Tool, and selected close to the edges, inside the render and set the feather to 15 pixels. Hit Ctrl+Shift+I and it will select everything outside of what you selected, then press Delete. Gives a nice effect!
Let's get these tutorials going! Questions? Ask away!
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