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New to Photoshop(my works so far)

Epiyon

By Epiyon,
Posted on: 2007-01-04 02:25 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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HI, I am new to photoshop and I like a few opinions on what I made so far.

BlizzardAngel waiting This one was my first, I made it uses my sister toon

NeoSaturn: Rising Destiny my Main toon
Big Bad Wolf watching.....TV (WIP) I making this one for an SG mate of mine at Fox Force Five

Are there any guide that could help me learn more from Photoshop? I look to scan in a drawing I made for a sword but I don't really know how to paint it or shading.

NeoSaturn-L50 Kat/Regen Scrapper

Paragon Family Swift
NeoSaturn's Deviations

 

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Check out www.photoshopsupport.com/ for starters. I've got a whole bunch of others too, but I'm at work and don't remember them off the top of my head. When I get home I'll see about adding a couple more.

 

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Those aren't bad, nice cutouts and use of layering

The best friend you have when using photoshop to do screenshot manips is the smudge brush.. set it to really low strength (less than ten%) and a small brush (less than 5) and smudge down the edges of your characters to take away the pixely edges.

Also, practice using the dodge and burn brush to create highlighs and shading. Also you can use the image adjustments for brightness, hue adjustment, etc on just a section of your piece by using the lasso tool

I'd write more, but there's a ton of good tutorials out there by just googling 'photoshop tutorial' and I am still just waking up, heh.

All the images in my DA were made with just screenshots and photoshop. If you have any questions on how I did any of them, just ask

 

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Also, practice using the dodge and burn brush to create highlighs and shading.

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So that what they Do, I will have to try out. Also I like you work very very nice.

NeoSaturn-L50 Kat/Regen Scrapper

Paragon Family Swift
NeoSaturn's Deviations

 

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In a nutshell, yes, that's what they do. *MASTERING* the use of the dodge and burn tools like much of the other tools in Photoshop is where the "art" comes in to play. Both tools (dodge and burn) come from actual photography and for examples of the kind of mastery I'm referring to, take a look at the work of Ansel Adams.

Here is an example.

This one is a personal favorite.

 

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Yes, dodge and burn take a whole lot of finesse. I never use them on intensity higher than 6 or so. and make lots of passes

 

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No idea how to use photoshop but those came out pretty cool though!!

 

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No idea how to use photoshop but those came out pretty cool though!!

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Thanks that means alot. I used Paint and other photo editors for awhile but the limitations got old fast so I stop using them.

Also, I maybe a Photoshop noob, However, I am not Adobe one. I have been using Premiere for years. So the interface was easy to get.

NeoSaturn-L50 Kat/Regen Scrapper

Paragon Family Swift
NeoSaturn's Deviations

 

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It is without a doubt my all time favorite program. If you already familar with the inteface, all you need is the lowdown on what the tools do. You could obviously Google that info, but I would seriously suggest you consider something like this . I used to teach people how to use computer applications and this is the series of books we used. I still refer back to that book after several years.