D-Boy's PP 01 - Making a Sign

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D-Boy's Photoshop Playtime 01 - Making a Sign[/font]

Oke ... specialy for Starr but also for everyone how wants to learn

Open Photoshop then: File --> New --> Width=350 pixels, Height is=150 pixels.

Go to Clouds (thats a filter and the best way to make a sign at least that's my opinion) by doing this: Render-> Cloud.

oke it should look like this right now: img167.echo.cx/img167/869/tut18jx.jpg

Now we need to download the brushes we'll use so i'm going to give you a link to the brushes i used on my first sign.
Nightsky: www.deviantart.com/deviation/11639383/
AbstractTieskevo: www.deviantart.com/deviation/13757258/
Rust ’n Grunge: www.deviantart.com/deviation/12075057/
Now save those brushes somewhere and remember where you saved them.

Choose the brush tool and well i'l show you what to do afther that: img212.echo.cx/img212/6475/tut20hj.jpg then just go to the place where you saved your brushes and load them .

Now do this: img294.echo.cx/img294/1781/tut45vf.jpg
Oke now we can start choose a nice brush (exapt one from the Nightsky i like to save that one for the finishing thuts) you can choose a brush by going to window --> brushes ( img212.echo.cx/img212/7496/tut38ij.jpg as you can see i have mine as a short cut at the top right you can do that by clicking window --> brushes and the pulling the screen that just opened to the righttop it's very handy also i'll choose brush Rust’n Grunge nr 294). Now that you have your brush make the colour white or black and click a few times on the sign then do the same but this time change the colour (note: we only want whitre and black but not to muts white or black try to even it out like this: img294.echo.cx/img294/6420/tut58ji.jpg ). Now do the same but this time white a different brush ... i sugest the Abstract Tieskevo to make it look a little like this: img119.echo.cx/img119/3006/tut78dt.jpg then finally use a nightsky tool and just click once or twice on the sign but make sure the colour is white ... i choose this: img119.echo.cx/img119/1994/tut88ie.jpg and by doing that i got this: img119.echo.cx/img119/2123/tut99ti.jpg nice huh?

Oke now are you happy? Then let's move on if your not happy you can press and hold ctrl + alt then klik on Z just once to make the last thing you did undone and so you can continue to make everything undone and added again untill your happy .

Now let's ad a pic. Fined a pic that you want and open it in Photoshop. Oke this is a bit tricky and not fun to do ... use the normal brush tool and go around the part that you want to have in your sign but use this time a colour that's not in your pic ... make the hole pic that colour (exapt the part you want in your sign) the take the magic wand tool and click one the colour you made your pic (if you've done it right you should see aferything selected exapt the part you want in you sign if not go over the part that havent been selected with the brush tool again but you need to deselect it first you can do that by clicking on the selected part again with teh magic wand tool) oke click on teh selected part again to deselect it ... now go to layer --> duplicate layer and click oke. Now select the colour with the magic wand tool again and press delete (nothing happend right? well it did just trust me) and now select it again and click delete again (still the same? well soon change that). Now click the Rectangular tool and make a Rectangul around the part you want in your sign, press ctrl + C to copie and go to your sign there press ctrl + V to paste it in your sign, make sure it fits in the sign (you can added the size of the pic by doing: Image --> Image size but you have to use the undo button and added your pic not your sign) ... now use the move tool (right next to the Rectangular tool) and move your pic to where you want in your sign.

Ahh Hell that was hard ... finally where done but it gets even more complecated now. Go to Image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation.
Set Saturation on –100 like this: img119.echo.cx/img119/650/tut104gm.jpg.
Oke now that the Lasso tool (under the rectangular tool) and try to copy this: img115.echo.cx/img115/4272/tut126lh.jpg.

Now pay good attention. Go to: Select --> Feather and fill in 20 pixels oke it looks like nothing changed but it did just go to: Layer --> Add Layer Mask --> Reveal Selection. Nice huh? This is what it's suposed to look like: img219.echo.cx/img219/3576/tut139dc.jpg

Now go to: Layer --> Merge Visible ... jep you guessed it () its time for the colour. here you go: Image --> Adjustments --> Color Balance. This is what i did: img219.echo.cx/img219/1033/tut112wf.jpg.

Almost done ... just the letters now ... go to www.1001freefonts.com/. and download one that you like and i presoom you know how to place them in your fronts folder so let's move on to photoshop ... just click the Tekst tool? (don't know if it's called that in engelish) and click above on the type of front you want and size then click in the sign and typ your tekst then finally use the move tool and move the tekst to where you want it.

Oke now save your sign and plz post them here so that i can see what you've done and sorry about the spelling faults and critisesem is welcome just don't call me names or something also if your having a hard time you can post your question here and i'll try to help and if not maybe someone else will GOOD LUCK!!!

Credits of the pictures go to Seto from Anime wolken forum.

next time on D-Boy's Photoshop Playtime ... how to make your sign move!!![/font]