Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Gold Chrome Tutorial

Step1:Type your text. Put a selection around your text.
Step2:Go under the select menu and choose save selection. Click OK. Deselect your text. Delete yor type layer.

Painting Away Color Qz


Painting Away Color




Step1:Open the image you would like to work on. Apple+J.

Step2:Click on the brush tool. In the options bar. Swicth the blend mode to color. Change your ground color to black.

Step3:From the brushes palette, choose a medium sized, soft-edged(0% hardness) brush.

Step4:Start painting. As you paint, the color will disappear leaving your image in grayscale.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Shadow In Motion Tutorial


Step1- ta[ the letter "d" to change your foreground color to black. Hold down the options key and tap the delete key. Type your text using a medium gray color (#666666).

Step2- Duplicate your type layer by using the Apple+J short cut. Rasterize your layer.

Step3-Go under the filter menu, under pixelate, choose fragment. Run this filter two more times by using the apple+F shortcut.

Step4-Press Apple+T. In the options bar change the width + height to 130%

Step%-Click on your original type layer and rasterize it. Click on the top layer and press apple+E to merge the 2 layers.

Step6-To colorize your type, press apple+ u to bring up Hue/Saturation. Click the colorize check box and move the hue slider to the color you,d like.

Photoshop Shortcuts

Photoshop Shortcuts

Apple+U-Hue and sasturation

Apple+T-Free Transform

Option+Delete-changes color of image to your foreground color

Apple+J-Duplicate layer

Apple+E-Merge

Apple+F-run the last filter

Apple+V-Paste

Apple+Z-Undo

Apple+X-Select

Apple+C-Copy

Apple + Click Layer_selection around text

Ctrl+click layer- Rasterize

Apple+A-select all

Apple+S-Save

Apple+N-New Document

Apple+D-Deselect

X-swaps

T-Type tool

B-Brush tool

D-Set swacthes to black and white