Post: Donkey Kong | Speed Art With Photoshop CS4
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01-17-2012, 06:00 AM
#1
OnlineX420
Do a barrel roll!
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01-17-2012, 08:58 AM
#2
Renegdr
Do a barrel roll!
It's nothing spectacular but you do seem to have a good grasp of the program and know what it is you want out of it which is always a good thing. Just a few things I noticed during the video that will help you.
1) There's no need to double click on a layer to change its opacity. If you look to the top of the layer's palette you'll see a few boxes "Normal" and "Opacity" and "Fill" - "Normal" represents what layer blending style is currently active (such as multiply, soft light, overlay etc.) Opacity and Fill are often confused as the same thing, which to some extent they are but there is a key difference. Opacity, as you already know, will lower the opacity of the entire layer including any layer styles you've active. Fill will lower the opacity of the layer but leave the layer styles intact.
Even easier to hide a layer is to click the little eye icon on the left of each layer thumbnail. This will simply turn off the layer so it won't be viewable again until you turn on.
2) When resizing an image, hold the Shift key so that the aspect ratio stays the same. This is useful so that your images don't look out of proportion. You can also double click on the image after resizing it to avoid having to click the box saying you accept the transformation.
3) With renders it's best to save them to your hard drive before adding them to photoshop. Doing this will prevent the background of them turning to black from using copy / paste on them from the browser. Just save them to a folder and then drag them from a folder into photoshop. Depending on your settings though it may not appear full size on the current canvas, so if there is an issue drop the render onto the layer palette and it will open in a new canvas. Now just highlight it all (ctrl+a) and copy / paste it into the original canvas.
This is particularly important as using the quick select tool to get rid of the white / black background often leaves you with jagged edges whereas having a clean cut render to begin with won't.
1) There's no need to double click on a layer to change its opacity. If you look to the top of the layer's palette you'll see a few boxes "Normal" and "Opacity" and "Fill" - "Normal" represents what layer blending style is currently active (such as multiply, soft light, overlay etc.) Opacity and Fill are often confused as the same thing, which to some extent they are but there is a key difference. Opacity, as you already know, will lower the opacity of the entire layer including any layer styles you've active. Fill will lower the opacity of the layer but leave the layer styles intact.
Even easier to hide a layer is to click the little eye icon on the left of each layer thumbnail. This will simply turn off the layer so it won't be viewable again until you turn on.
2) When resizing an image, hold the Shift key so that the aspect ratio stays the same. This is useful so that your images don't look out of proportion. You can also double click on the image after resizing it to avoid having to click the box saying you accept the transformation.
3) With renders it's best to save them to your hard drive before adding them to photoshop. Doing this will prevent the background of them turning to black from using copy / paste on them from the browser. Just save them to a folder and then drag them from a folder into photoshop. Depending on your settings though it may not appear full size on the current canvas, so if there is an issue drop the render onto the layer palette and it will open in a new canvas. Now just highlight it all (ctrl+a) and copy / paste it into the original canvas.
This is particularly important as using the quick select tool to get rid of the white / black background often leaves you with jagged edges whereas having a clean cut render to begin with won't.
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