The "How Do I Do This" Thread

I didnt want to get my ass flamed for asking this so i figured id make a thread (sticky?) with like questions on how to do certain things to pics adn stuff. Its like a community help thread.




I wanna know how i can make a pic, look like the guy on this cd cover




Thanks to whoever helps!

Last edited by Rip32 on Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:13 am, edited 1 time in total.

Desaturate, then adjust the levels till you get that effect... you have to get the gray and the white level sliders near each other for it to work..... just work with it till it comes out the way you want. It's really easy.

Or a more noobish way (how I'd do it), Desaturate then go to Brightness/Contrast and put the Contrast slider at 100 (maybe 90 if you want to keep a little more detail) and play around with the Brightness slider.

Threshold or contrast than play with the settings/blending mode.
If you want it blended when you do threshhold; set it to linear dodge or overlay.

anyone know how to make those thin diagonal lines that are on aot of those userbar things?

my suggestion would be to make a vertical line pattern...fill the image with the pattern. free transform and change the perspective to make it diagonal...and maybe delete with feathers to make it fade.

thanks, i just found out how to do it from a tutorial, the problem was i didnt knw they were called "scanlines" so it was tough to search for them.

I won't sticky this just yet, wait and see if it gets popular and people actually use it. I'd suggest making the thread title more obvious because I thought it was just you asking a question, I didn't realise what the thread was actually for until I opened it.

I've always wanted to know how to create these kind of effects, anyone know how btw I'm talking about the effect on the actual person not in the background

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1772/jayzqi8.jpg
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/5766 ... estyx4.jpg

Those are vector images... This tutorial could help you, it's made on a car image but I think it's pretty much the same with people's images.

Yeah, that's the same effect. I think Colin made a tutorial some time back too.

Nice thread. Only thing I worry about is it getting so big that most of what is discussed in here may potentially get lost. Ah well, time will tell.

To the first guy, just use the 'threshold' command. Image --> Adjustments --> Threshold, then mess with the bar.

To the scanlines guy, I guess you figured it out, but using the same technique you can do all kinds of patterns. Squares, grids, various lines, etc. Having something like that very faint can look great.

How do you make a border with both black and white (ie. Anthony15s sig)

Hmm, I'm pretty sure you make a 2px white border than the next layer make a 1px black border?

Or 2pc black border with a stroke inside(white).

My q: where can i get ps for free?

Ctrl+A, 2px white stroke, (don't deselect) then 1 px black stroke. You might want to put them on seperate layers if you want to apply a certain blending to one of them/both.

thanks Joe for the help

My q: where can i get ps for free?

You press alt + F4

You press alt + F4

That's classic.

Two questions

Is it really any easier to make a vector in Illustrator?

Does anyone here know how to make a vector using Flash?

The thing about using Illustrator to make a vector is that it's actually a vector. The definition of a vector is an image that can be infinitely scaled without loosing quality. What you make in Photoshop is the same difficulty, but it is simply a vector-styled image that is a raster (ie. loses quality when made bigger.)

And I have no Flash experience.

You press alt + F4

That's classic.

That's my joke.

Anyone know how to rotate brushes?

Rotate the canvas, apply brush then rotate canvas to original.

good idea, thanks for that

Oh great...two minutes after making this post I found out how to do the thing I wanted to. Sorry for that...