I just installed photoshop and I had a few questions on where to start. I played with he different filters and there fun but I was wondering what other things I should try to get a feel of the program. I'm not sure how hard this would be but I know I've seen it. What would I have to do to take this picture and only see the red? Image Unavailable, Please Login
To only have the red, what I do is duplicate the layer [CTRL+J], desaturate the top layer [CTRL+SHFT+U], and erase the section(s) I want to be in color. After that you can adjust levels and curves to get the desired effects with those tools. Darker darks, brighter brights, etc.
Cool that was easy kinda I erased a few little parts I didn't want. I guess that one really doesn't make a big difference anyway. I'll try some other pictures I have. Thanks for the fast response. Any other things you think I should try out. Image Unavailable, Please Login
If I erase a part that I don't want is my new picture is there a tool to put that little bit back to desaturated color. Lets say I colored outside the line but I dont want to undo the parts I wanted, just the overspray. Image Unavailable, Please Login
10 second photoshop of your picture.... http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1213/cauley20tech20session20cx1.jpg For the type of editing you want to do it seems like this should be right for you. go to image/adjustments and there are some neat tools in there. ask more questions if you need too.
Did you do that the same way that aero400 suggested? Is there a difference between desaturate [CTRL+SHFT+U] and black and white [ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+B]?
Yes its the same thing, it just gets rid of any color and makes everything black/white. BTW i don't use photoshop by CTRL,ATL etc.. i use photoshop by mouse. I know the shortcut keys but i never seem to use them.
duplicate the original image twice, so you have three layers. then next to the layer in the layer controls pallete, theres a box where you can click and eyeball, and when the eyeball is not visible, the layer becomes hidden. this way, if you make a mistake, you can always just turn the original layer back on and start fresh. Try and play around with the layer opacity and the layer style. in the transparency pallete you can choose different layer styles. You can get very cool effects if you duplicate a layer, and then add a layer style to the top layer. AND LEARN THE PEN TOOL! its awesome
Thanks guys I'm having allot of with this program. The layer thing is really cool. I read a tutorial online and made an Andy Warhol style pic. It doesn't look half bad I dont think but the thing took me 2 hours to make
Three things to focus on: 1. Selections!!!! You can't do anything until you learn to isolate parts of an image. The pen tool and quickmask are your friends. 2. Layer masks 3. Levels, curves, hue/saturation, and all the other image adjustment doodads Three things not to focus on: 1. Lens flares 2. Bubbly looking beveled text 3. Cheesy filters -R
The photo you took has a lot of potential. . .I played around with it in photoshop for a half hour. To get rid of the highlight on the headlight glass, I isolated the headlight and turned the blending mode (in the transparency palette) to linear burn. I also added a gradient in the background and changed the blending mode to multiply. It's very simple to make a picture more dynamic Image Unavailable, Please Login
I picked up adobe photo shop for digital photographers by scott kelby, it seems like a great book so far, but in 55 pages in and haven't got past adobe bridge. I sure hope photo shop comes up in this book somewhere
I went to iTunes and subscribed to the photoshop ser tv podcast. I have a question about camera RAW. I dondt shoot in RAW format, my camera Canon s5is will not so it. Now my one friend told me that camera raw won't do to much for jpeg files, but in the podcast they talk about using it on jpegs, soo do you guys use camera raw with your jpeg files? also how much of a difference does it make to shoot in RAW format?
