Adobe Photoshop Tutorials (Question & Answer)

ladyarakune · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject:

um hey! hope this counts as a valid photoshop question, and not just spam, but where can i download photoshop? im reluctant to go and buy it because it costs too much (for a lowly computer serf such as me anyways... *sigh*) anyway. is there a place where i can download it? or might i just have to make some very powerful friends...
just any help you can give me plaease, is appreciated....
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TeH · Conscript Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 199

hmm...well I think youre gonna have some trouble finding PS withouth buying it. You can get a free trial of it from adobe's website, but that only lasts a week. Other than that your best bet would be to try and find it on a P2P network Like kazaa or limewire. of course it would take a while to DL, and then you would have the problem of getting a working serial code...I think PS uses those...I remember trying to DL it once to no avail.

Basically you just have to suck it up and take a hit to the pocketbook I think. Or you know what you could do? I dont know if you're in HS or College...but in some college art classes, and HS even, you get student copies of PS because there are assignments you have to use it for, you could try that.

Other than that I could offer a less expensive alternative. You can pick up Corel PsPX from target for like 74 dollars, which is less than PS CS2. and PsPX has almost all of the same feature, and unless you want to go professional it will be fine for anything you need. It's what I use most often ^_^

or you could use the link on the page before this, lol.

meganekko · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:09 am Post subject:

jiashore · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:35 am Post subject:

thanks for the tips yuguys... but just another wuestion regarding vectors, any tips on how to use it and why is it so effective???

and the extraction thing.... isn't just selection then cutting / copying onto another layer. unless there is the need to use colour chooser... and thanks for the colour chooser tip... its been really useful...

cheers,

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ladyarakune · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:18 am Post subject:

loverdollx · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:17 am Post subject:

meganekko · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject:

Here's a tip, increase the Contrast so that the image's colors will stand out, then use the Magic Wand.

But if you're extracting an image from a very "noisy" background, use the Plogyon Lasso tool from a zoomed in perspective.

The Magnetic Lasso is also good but I recommend the Magic Wand as it is much easier but quite a hassle if a part of your picture is the same color as your background. Confused

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Takasan · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject:

Yes I've been playing with the Magic Wand for a while now but my sketches are kind of light and have many wandering lines in them so it's kind of hard to get it right.

Still trying to figure out this extracting thing....all I got was that I draw the lines with that green thing and then erase the places that I don't want. Then the problem is the Inverting. What is inverting? I can't seem to do it.

btw: how do you get a screen cap? I forgot how to. Is it Ctrl+Window+P?
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gallen0 · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

jiashore · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject:

i think what he meant is what does inverting do, i wanna know to Razz

cheers,

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loverdollx · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:53 am Post subject:

meganekko · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:36 am Post subject:

Invertion? Hmm... is it about the Selection Tool? If it is, I use it a lot! Very Happy

Inverting a selection means, if you select an area, and then use Invertion (CTRL + SHIFT + I), you will select the area you have not selected.

Hmm... this is difficult to describe, so here's a screenshot:

Before Invertion:
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After Invertion:
[img:150:150:64664b1117]http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8711/invertion26kr.jpg[/img:64664b1117]

So in the first caption, the white BG was in selection. After inverting it, the gray shaded area will now be selected. There. Hope it makes things clear now~ Laughing

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Takasan · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject:

Well if that's what you guys meant then I think I know now Very Happy

I just found out something cool with Photosho. I can use the watermark affect Very Happy

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loverdollx · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject:

where do i get some photo filter i cant find it on my Adobe PS07
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