Vectors and cleaning edges advice please

[fotojunkie]

PS

i also did another un install of PS cs4

used clean tool after that , rebooted reinstalled

But only bridge and cs4 this time

[fotojunkie]

Hi m8

now step 4 complete

i admit i got b n w way too dark , but i followed his settings

his screens look lighter n better

other than that ?

[jerryb]

hi,
ok it looks like your getting the idea.. although the sequence of the layers is
different..like they seem reverse but i'll look at that again tomorrow......

as far as how dark your temples are.... ok you may need to readjust the curves
that should lighten them or adjust the black and white layer.....

[jerryb]

hi,
again, first again.. on the lightness/brightness compared to the authur..
keep in mind that those exact values he has you put applies to his monitor
.. your monitor may tend to look darker or brighter hence you mayneed
to use different values for your curves and black and white layers!!

ok.. i have inserted a capture of what my pallet and picture looks like
the only major difference is that i don't have a black and white layer..
because my cs cs1 doesn't have that... but everyting else will familiar...
note: in place of the black and white layer... what i did was to do some desaturation
to give me the results I needed...

[fotojunkie]

wow your es looks nice

[jerryb]

hi
your getting there....
now remember on the curve and black and white layer
and setting in the tutorial
for him they worked out... but for you... that just a good
base line numbers to start from... you'll be modifying the
numbers a little to get the results you want....to match his
results..!

wow your es looks nice

[fotojunkie]

Thanks many times over

It appears i have the technical aspects pretty well down pat

Now the rest is up to me as an individual , artistic eye and

expression

In all the frustration of trying to figure this one out

i forgot what ideas this picture inspired for another work

i wanted to do LOL After all i dont just want to copy others work

i want to learn from them 2 create my own

Oh well maybe some rest will jog my memory

im working on another pic here , sotr of a halloween theme

it involves a character beaten up if u will , stitched and bleeding

rotting skin ....BooooooooooooooBoooooooooooo

id like to tap your experience some more in a few days as i

progress on this task , i hope i may ?

It involves textures/layers , blending a lower layer ( in this case a piece of raw meat )

onto upper layer ( characters skin ) Blablabla

Anyhow thanks so much for your patience and knowledge

Theres still so much more to learn , im still open to more advice on this

thread as well

Cheers

[jerryb]

hi,

great you got the tutorial down... yes you can tap me more if you want and I'll
help as much as i can....
note: by helping this is another meathod i use to learn....
just remember
I am a novice like you but at the moment al ittle more experience but
but i think soon you be much better.. it all depends on how much time
you invest in photoshop... !!! for me photoshop is just one item i get involved in
there many other things i do that uses up my time and distracts me..lol.
like, making video's,
anaimated ecards, digitizing my lp's and cassetts, etc etc...lol ...

holloween... that reminds me i got a couple animate ecards to work on...smile
i just recently pickup some nice old looking mansions and castles ... what i do is
is I first a little photoshop editing give the structur a hunting look maybe add
a couple of dead trees.... and after that then i bring it into my ecard program
add the the animated clips and text and music ... voila.. anice ecard i can
send out to my friends...!! that one way i use photoshop in conjuction with
other things i do ... and video's, photoshop come into play either when making
opening scene or cleaning up family pictures etc.....

a couple of tips......
1. i suggest making a photoshop folder in your browser to hold specifically
those tutorials or places where they have a lot of tutorials that fits your interests
and you made need to make sub folders ie; one video tutorials or one that
hold the various ways to mask things... etc....
2. also may want to make a photoshop tutorial folder on the hard drive...
for those special tutotorials you find on the net and you want to save...
i generaly save those in mht format .. but the very least save them in
"complete html" that way you save the images that in the tutorial..

3. on videos tutorials... if there any you like to save.... now some sites
will allow your to save the video to your hard drive.... but most don't
and there 2 meathod i use to save...
a. if the site is using flv format.. generally you can download the flv video
either by using a site that does it for you and which case you may need
a converter program to convert the flv to mpg.....
b. there are some program that will download and convert a flv....
c. another meathod i use,, where the format is not in flv is that I
use a screen recorder program...... that captures everyting that displayed
on the screen, comes in real handy ....
on blending..... a lot of times it a matter of which one looks best!!
and clicking one at a time with the mouse to determine which is better
is time consuming.... there a shortcut......
I'll see if i can find it, i lost it (and forgotten it..lol), but there short cut where you can cycle
thru the various blending modes...

Thanks many times over

It appears i have the technical aspects pretty well down pat

Now the rest is up to me as an individual , artistic eye and

expression

In all the frustration of trying to figure this one out

i forgot what ideas this picture inspired for another work

i wanted to do LOL After all i dont just want to copy others work

i want to learn from them 2 create my own

Oh well maybe some rest will jog my memory

im working on another pic here , sotr of a halloween theme

it involves a character beaten up if u will , stitched and bleeding

rotting skin ....BooooooooooooooBoooooooooooo

id like to tap your experience some more in a few days as i

progress on this task , i hope i may ?

It involves textures/layers , blending a lower layer ( in this case a piece of raw meat )

onto upper layer ( characters skin ) Blablabla

Anyhow thanks so much for your patience and knowledge

Theres still so much more to learn , im still open to more advice on this

thread as well

Cheers

[fotojunkie]

Hi

Wow making vids too

Do you use premiere or ?

So u digitize your vinyl , what do you use ?

i have a room full of vinyl i need to digitize

some day , a few years ago i did about 10 lps

then didnt have time anymore

i used a friends turntable to cassette method

then plugged the cassette player into my pc , and

i think i used some Roxio program , the pain was having to stop for each

track to make gaps

I read about this increduble turntable that uses

a laser to read vinyl LPs

between 10 and 14 thousand dollars owch !!!!!

im still intrigued , but i wonder if its for real ?

It hit my browser in a pop up one night

http://www.elpj.com/

is that what you use , its also on wikipedia


i used a program a while ago to capture video from my browser

it worked real well , then i lost it in a HDD reformat , and now

i forget its name , so i got anew one ,Sothink Web Video Downloader Stand-alone

its not very reliable tho , it often just captures that 1st several

seconds of ads before the video starts , the other prog worked real

well , i just recall its name , it also seems some sites can block

you from capturing the video , but this other prog i had never had

a problem .

Thanks thats some good tips for PS organinition

About tutorials heres the link for the halloween one

im working on http://www.rnel.net/tutorial/Photoshop/12819

It seems very simple and well written , only 2 thinhs tho

imo there is no way to select and transform-roate a brush once

you apply it , its directly on the foto , selecting around that

causes a mess

The next thing is i cand blend for poop like he does , blending the

meat layer to the skin . Mine looks like holes in the layer Grrr

He speaks of a chalk brush tho , maybe thats the difference , but i

cant see a chalk brush in CS4 , nor do i ever recall PS having one ?

i thought maybe the spray brush would do a gentle application

of meat layer to skinn , but it didnt

Look how nice and burned the skin looks in the tutorial , damn

i cant see how he did that so well

If i figure this out im gonna do one of myself and send it to some friends

as a halloween joke ....

Thanks again mate

[jerryb]

hi,
no I don't use premier, a little expensive for my taste
however my heavy duty program is Ulead's video editor
it is very capable....... another choice thati almost went for
was pro show gold. but at the time (4 years ago..lol) it didn't have
a feature i was looking for but ulead did... but recently been looking
at it and it seems they did some improvment with pro show gold...

lp's... a laser turntable... 10 grand... definitely not in tax level...lol
i use a component system... and i use audacity, it free, and has lots of bell
and whistels....

for screen recorder i use cam studio... it free also.. and it does what I need
although sometime have a little issue with sound....

Now i went to that link you posted about the holloween tutorial but there wasn't
nothing there... i din't see anyting resembling that.. do you have another link for that?
or name or something...?

it hard to suggest what to do since i can't see the tutorial... but what you might try
is to creat a new layer above that and then paint .. you can then if desired select just
the paint part and rotate or whatever you want to do with that...

realy don't want to suggest anyting else untill i see it.... it would be all gues work...

Hi

Wow making vids too

Do you use premiere or ?

So u digitize your vinyl , what do you use ?

i have a room full of vinyl i need to digitize

some day , a few years ago i did about 10 lps

then didnt have time anymore

i used a friends turntable to cassette method

then plugged the cassette player into my pc , and

i think i used some Roxio program , the pain was having to stop for each

track to make gaps

I read about this increduble turntable that uses

a laser to read vinyl LPs

between 10 and 14 thousand dollars owch !!!!!

im still intrigued , but i wonder if its for real ?

It hit my browser in a pop up one night

http://www.elpj.com/

is that what you use , its also on wikipedia


i used a program a while ago to capture video from my browser

it worked real well , then i lost it in a HDD reformat , and now

i forget its name , so i got anew one ,Sothink Web Video Downloader Stand-alone

its not very reliable tho , it often just captures that 1st several

seconds of ads before the video starts , the other prog worked real

well , i just recall its name , it also seems some sites can block

you from capturing the video , but this other prog i had never had

a problem .

Thanks thats some good tips for PS organinition

About tutorials heres the link for the halloween one

im working on http://www.rnel.net/tutorial/Photoshop/12819

It seems very simple and well written , only 2 thinhs tho

imo there is no way to select and transform-roate a brush once

you apply it , its directly on the foto , selecting around that

causes a mess

The next thing is i cand blend for poop like he does , blending the

meat layer to the skin . Mine looks like holes in the layer Grrr

He speaks of a chalk brush tho , maybe thats the difference , but i

cant see a chalk brush in CS4 , nor do i ever recall PS having one ?

i thought maybe the spray brush would do a gentle application

of meat layer to skinn , but it didnt

Look how nice and burned the skin looks in the tutorial , damn

i cant see how he did that so well

If i figure this out im gonna do one of myself and send it to some friends

as a halloween joke ....

Thanks again mate