hey everybody, i would like to learn how to get this effect
any idea?
( this is fact not fiction )


i use photoshop cs3
thankss

I've made a gif, and every time I save it, the result is so grainy and looks terrible. I'm using PS CS4.

( Gif under the cut. )

Anyone have any recommendations on how I can go about doing something like this? I know that I could just put the text down in the specific areas that I needed, but I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on a less time-consuming way? :]

NaNoJouMo- Union
Originally uploaded by lessherger.

I did this image for union. I used it as a technique video as well, you can find it on youtube. I started by putting a THICK layer of white acrylic paint on the background. I scratched into it to write. I used a mask to keep the center area white while I built up layers of color and grunge around it. I then pulled the mask off and added a layer of clear gesso, I could have used white but the clear left the little bits of color that made their way under the mask. I drew the face of the sheep in with soft pencil and white acrylic paint. I then added the original queen of merde image with a dragon from a bacardi ad wrapped around her head. I'm very happy with how this turned out.

Program: Photoshop CS
Difficulty:easy
Translatable:no
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Tags: colouring: saturation, colouring: selective colouring, tutorial: colouring

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The Tunes in my Head: WOELV

The problem:
I know how to make animated icons and never had any problems with that,but I've never done animations from cinema scenes,you know,like this one,so I've found this outstanding tutorial.
It says wordy this:
"Now that you have your images capped, open up Photoshop and FILE>SCRIPTS>LOAD FILES INTO STACK"

I've found this option in my Photoshop CS3 extended,but when I click on this function, Photoshop just failed down!! I've tried that 8 times,and every time it's just failed,without any error message.
So,any thoughts what's that and how to solve that problem?

Tags: program error: photoshop, program: photoshop

I've had this problem for several weeks now and I'm getting really pissed. My photoshop (elements 5) puts HUGE spaces between everyletter like this instead of . So everytime I'm adding some text I have to move every letter by hand to make it look smart. I've tryed to reinstall it several times.

Ideas?

Hi, I'm using CS3 and I have problem when trying to save round connor icon like the one I use here but it saved as square icon with a little white at the connor that should be transparent.

Any idea? Thanks.

Tags: basics: cropping

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Deja Vu:
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Grinding Teeth:
http://ehh-soso.livejournal.com/338429.html

They Will Burn Down Your House:
http://ehh-soso.livejournal.com/344643.html

I'm Not Really Sure:
http://ehh-soso.livejournal.com/356659.html

Sticks and Stones:
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#10:
http://ehh-soso.livejournal.com/377652.html

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This Took Forever, No?:
http://ehh-soso.livejournal.com/434740.html

Hi. I had to restore my computer a little over a month ago - I reinstalled Corel Paint Shop Pro XI which I had used all the time before and this never used to happen. I think it mostly happens when I drag a picture onto the program, but I think it has came up at other times while I was using the program. It comes up and freezes up Paint Shop and I can't do anything with it. It says:

Runtime Error!
Program: ...|Paint Shop Pro Photo XI\Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo.exe
R6025
- pure virtual function call

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Tags: program error: paint shop pro

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( Week 244 marks our 1000th post in the icontest!! )
You have until Friday, November 13th, 8PM EST, to submit your icons. Remember to include an image (<*img src* link) AND an URL:

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Tags: submission posts

nanojoumo- purity
Originally uploaded by lessherger.

I get a kick out of all the online "purity" groups. SO when the word purity came up for nanojoumo day 2 I had to lampoon it. The purity "logo" was put online as a purity card for a church gorup. It looks far cooler here than it did on the card. I pulled the card in to MS Publisher, reversed it and resized it to be about 8x10, i then printed it off onto a sheet of transparency film. I put it on the right side of the film this time and used a great deal of matte medium to transfer it to the pages.I had to cut it into 2 pieces to get it on, and I'll tell you the fold was a beast. the original logo was clearly going for a "urban and graf" feel. So the tendency of the transfer to peel and not go completely was a perfect medium to really take it there. I then outlined the letters with my pentouch pen, pressed down to get dribbles and runs. While that dried I looked at hundreds of images of scantily clad women bent over various objects, and quite frankly there are things that can't be unseen. Just the very act of attempting to find the image for the right corner has left my brain irreparably damaged. The things I do for art. I found the perfect picture, of a woman, scantily clad washing a car. I wanted the legs to frame the corner, so I first drew the leg for the right most side in soft pencil, added the crotch area and then the left leg. Next was to mix up some white person flesh tone and layer it over the drawing. I added her thong and it's all set. I blocked in some green coloring to set off the legs. Then I mixed up some gesso really thin and used a liner brush to spatter it on the page...

Maybe not the most pure purity page, but it's exactly what popped into my head when I first saw the word as the prompt.

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Tags: voting

Hi,
  I was wondering if I could get an overlay effect like this header: http://www.fanning-love.org/
For instance, how did they do the blue stripes as well as the "shadow" of Elle behind the main image?  And what about the blurry white fade out at the bottom? I use GIMP 2.6.7. Thank you. :)

I'm curious to know how many of you work in your journals on a daily basis. I would love to get into the habbit of working in my journal daily.

Tags: questions & suggestions

How would I make two gif files play at the same time in Adobe CS3? An example is made in this icon by oum_boojae. Thanks!

Tags: animation: animated gifs

(The updates after this one will probably be shorter, since this pretty much catches up to where I am currently writing.)( Part Four )

Teasers:



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Tags: icons

Title: Summer
Pairing: Tibbett x Crope, Glinda x Elphaba
Rating: PG-13
Note: Intended as bookverse.



( Here. )

This is a tutorial on how to make animated rain drops requested by wunderkind_lucy. The tut is a combination of the wonderful tutorials by alexia47 and awmp - thank you for providing the ideas and techniques!


The tutorial was done with PS7 and ImageReady

( Oh God, it's raining but I'm not complaining )

Tags: animation: animated gifs, program: photoshop, tutorial: animation
How I'm Feelin': happy

( Morning came far too quickly for Elphaba's liking, the light filtering in from the crack in the curtains. )

uhmm.... i need help with my Imageready. I use Photoshop CS2 and the Imageready that comes with it.
When I'm making my gif it looks nice but when I save it it comes out all nasty and different. it didn't do this before so I don't know whats happened! D;


How its supposed to look:


How it came out:


see how the text has become fuzzy, brown and ugly instead of red and sharp? I looked in my options and played around with a bunch of things but nothing works!! please help...

Tags: program error: imageready
How I'm Feelin': worried

Download them here @ bluerose30

Tags: imagepack, ps

Hi, guys!

I have Photoshop CS3 and I use it to make animations from videos. I had CS2 before and I haven't done many gifs on CS3 so far. When I save the image (from Save for Web & Devices) the maximum quality which I can get is 256 colors but the animation still looks grainy.

( cut for a rather big .gif )

Tags: animation: animated gifs, program: photoshop

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Tags: imagepack, ps

See part 1 for story information.

 

( Part Two )

Title: Miss Elphaba
Rating: Eventually NC-17
Pairing: Glinda/Elphaba
Author: Lexus Grey

( Part One )

 

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We are extending this week, as we only have 5 submissions this week. Let's try to get a few more before Sunday, Nov 8th, 8 PM EST. Thanks!

Tags: update

( I'm genie for you boy... )

Others with the same effect:

Tags: tutorial: colouring

NEVER posted before on here soooo...
I just made it roughly 4 days ago for the Journal Trades.. live_writing


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This lovely little journal will be given away to one lucky person...
I LOVE making things.. guess you could say I'm one crafty person..

Program: Photoshop CS3
Translatable: No. There's one selective coloring layer but it can be left out.
Includes: Curves, Levels, Box Blur, Selective Coloring
Difficulty: Medium

Another icon made with the same technique:


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Tags: colouring: curves, colouring: selective colouring, program: photoshop, tutorial: colouring

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Okay, so I searched through the memories and entries. I even googled it. But I can't seem to find any tutorials that show how to make animated rain drops like this image.



There was a tutorial for this image, but it was for an older version of PSP and was very confusing. If any one could direct me to a better tutorial, that would be wonderful. I use PSP X, PSE 6, and GIMP.



^^Btw, I am not looking for this type of rain (in the above icon). I already know how to do that.^^

Tags: animation: animated gifs, animation: miscellaneous, program: gimp, program: paint shop pro, program: photoshop
Current Location: London
How I'm Feelin': aggravated
The Tunes in my Head: London by Brandon Heath

Going from to

Program: PhotoImpact 12.
Translatable: Yes.
Includes: Levels, several layers, saturation.
Difficulty: Medium, I guess.

( Hands up I love you... )

Tags: colouring: saturation, graphic effects: textures, tutorial: colouring

( Golden light flared around Glinda, flowing up the ropes and onto her forehead, concentrating on the H shaped lipstick mark. )

23 Glee
23 The Proposal
55 ASAP / Sarah Geronimo (Filipino)
12 Animated RENT



Find the rest HERE!

From to or

Made with Photoshop, think it's not translatable.
There's 9 steps. One of them is optional.

( Tengaku - Kagamine Rin )

Tags: anime & manga: colouring, colouring: channel mixer, colouring: curves, colouring: selective colouring
How I'm Feelin': amused
The Tunes in my Head: Taste your stuff - m-flo

Does anyone know how to achieve this effect in Photoshop?

Tags: photoshop: tools

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I was reading fandom secrets today and on one of the secrets was this coloring technique I would love to learn.



Anybody know how to reproduce this look or know of a tutorial? I use Photoshop CS4.

Tags: program: photoshop

23 Glee
23 The Proposal
55 ASAP / Sarah Geronimo (Filipino)
12 Animated RENT



Find the rest HERE!

Tags: icons

It's just ONE picture, but since we haven't seen her in soooo long, let alone when she actually looked like herself (not that pregnancy isn't beautiful!)...

Idina & Taye finally ventured out of the house - without Walker - to catch a movie at The Grove in LA last night. FINALLY. Click her for HQ.



Did Taye get dressed in Idina's closet that morning? lol

Tags: pics, taye

Title: A Very Bad Idea (Part 1)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Gelphie with hints at others
World: Bookverse
Notes: This was written very tightly, with both of us only posting a few lines at a time in a round robin style. It began as a 'post five lines meme' and started out as a short fic, however it decided to take on a life of its own. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: We do not own Wicked or it's characters


( The sun-drenched lawns of Shiz university were the background for most of the students' days, particularly those of one Miss Glinda Arduenna )

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

Hi, guys! Geof here.

So I finally got around to working on an art journal, and I'm filling a nice, large journal at the moment. (I think it's like, 12''x8''? I dunno, it's a guesstimate.) I have a lot of decent magazine clippings, but here's the problem: I can't seem to find the right quotes/lyrics/etc. to post onto the pages to go alongside them.
Help?

I'd love it if you could reply to this with some of your favorite sayings: random song lyrics, excerpts from your all-time favorite books, quotes from movies you've seen that hits home. I don't have any standards: they can be happy or sad, powerful or easy, inspirational or depressing. Hit me with 'em!

Thanks, lovelies. Hopefully I'll be able to post some piccies, whenever I get around to buying myself a camera with birthday money.

<3.

Tags: questions & suggestions
How I'm Feelin': creative
The Tunes in my Head: "You Don't Know Me" by Ben Folds (+ Regina Spektor).

there’s an interesting idea where if you think of a diary entry…we talk about songs being diary entries and all the rest… I love this idea that violence is loud and peace is quiet. And you break it down to the simplicity of a diary entry, and you go to yourself, “You know, on the happy days, I never wrote. On the happy days, there was no music. And on the happy days, there was no diary entry.”

-glen hansard

as writers and artists, do you feel this to be true? do you find yourself to be more creative when you're depressed? do you turn your sorrow into something? do you do what you do when you're at your happiest?

and pengiun-magpies, so it's not text only ^_^