Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / Jason Hoppe’s Photoshop Master Course

Jason Hoppe is in the middle of his 6-month series of comprehensive courses on Adobe Photoshop CS4! This January Jason moves into a 5-week series of classes on Photoshop Retouching, followed by a wrap-up series covering a fun range of topics. If you’ve never been to a Jason Hoppe Photoshop class, you’re missing out. Sign up and invite a friend to join you!

http://creativetechs.com/training/photoshop-course/

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / Cleaning Lineart and Scans

tutorial with screenshots:

Link to somewhere

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / Cleaning Lineart and Scans

Cleaning Lineart & Scans with Adobe® Photoshop®
So you’ve just drawn and inked an awesome pirate or robot or whatnot and now want to color or manipulate it in photoshop. Yet, your plans are foiled by the scan looking dirty and muddled and the dratted lines sticking rigidly to the background so you desperately and in great effort try to paint over or around it but keep on messing up the lines? Worry not, you can be helped.

Let’s start out by scanning in a drawing, for this tutorial I’ve expertly drawn an angry quasi pirate version of Daffy Duck, or something along those lines.

If you look at it now it doesn’t look like much, the lines aren’t very crisp and the scan itself is very dirty. What we need to do first is to clean this ruddy mess up abit.

Begin by setting your image mode to Grayscale. To do this follow this route Image->Mode-> Check Grayscale-> Don’t Flatten

Now we’ll play with the levels abit, goto Image->Adjustments->Levels and a slider box should appear. Play with the settings abit by using the sliders, ideally you want the background the be a perfect white and all the lines a crisp sharp black, check out the screenshots for a setting that usually accomplishes this.

Tada! Now your drawing should be clean and crisp just sitting there laughing at you wanting to be colored! But wait, first we will need to separate the lines from the background and put them on their own layer!

Start by opening the channels window. If the channel window isn’t open goto Window -> Channels.

Now create a duplicate of the already existing channel, which is named “Gray” on default, by right-clicking it and pressing duplicate. Name the new channel “Invert” for reasons we’ll explore now.

Select the new channel you just made and invert it Image->Adjustments-> invert or press Ctrl + I. Don’t be scared that your drawing flips colors now, it doesn’t actually.

Go back to your layer window and click your only existing layer which should be named “Background” by default. When you click it the colors should return back to normal.

Now create a new empty layer by going to Layer->New Layer and name it “Lines” for reference and select it once it’s created.

The next step is to get only the lines of the drawing selected and having them put on the new layer you just created. To do this, goto Select->Load Selection and a new window should appear. Use the screenshot for reference. Now check the Channel Dropdown menu and select the “Invert” channel that you created and press ok.

You should now see that only your lines have been selected, if they are then there should be the “Marching Ants” all over then.

Nextly, we need to fill that selection in with some color, because at the moment they technically still are on the background. Make sure you do not deselect your lines and be certain that you are working on the “Lines” layer that you created and that your foreground color is black.

Now goto Edit->Fill and a new window should appear. Make sure the settings are set to 100% opacity, blending mode: normal and that under Contents in the dropdown menu “Foreground Color” is selected. Now press ok.

The lines should have been filled in now with black on your lines layer. Select your “Background” Layer now and clear everything off it by filling it with white.

Voila! You should now have your drawing sitting happily on its layer, clean and crisp and ready to be hampered with further!

I hope you found this tutorial helpful and will make me proud by posting 100s of beautiful, clean lineart in the gallery. Enjoy!

- Zeroe

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / CHANGING SKIES IN COMPLEX LANDSCAPES: A Photoshop Tutorial

Here is the LINK

I have written this tutorial in Photoshop CS4, but it will work in earlier versions too.

How many times have you been out with your camera, found a beautiful landscape, but the sky was uniform, dull or flat? It has happened to me more times than I can remember!

As with everything in Photoshop, there are so many different ways to remove skies from a landscape. It is very simple to do this in Landscapes which have straight edges into the sky, like cutting around buildings etc. But it is much harder to cut out skies when there is a lot of foliage around. The normal lasso tools, the quick select tools and the ‘magic’ tools do not work too well.

But there is an easy way. The length of time it will take will depend on how many colours are in your existing sky. This tutorial will show the steps needed to go from this image…

to this…

If any of you do use it, please let me know how you get on.

xx
Anna

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / Working with layers - The Basics

Working with layers – The Basics

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / How do I reset Photoshop patterns please?

ooh are you using the “pattern stamp” tool (it’s on the same tool bar icon as the clone tool, hold down on the clone tool icon and it will bring you up the two choices… now choose Clone Tool instead of pattern one and then you will not get a silly pattern when cloning… ?

does this help?

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / How do I reset Photoshop patterns please?

hey can’t think at the moment what that is?
have you got it set to “Sample: All layers” by mistake?
or have you got it set to some patterned brush instead of normal brush?

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / How do I reset Photoshop patterns please?

Hi am fairly new to photoshop. Whenever I try & use the clone tool a pattern comes up on the image no matter what I do it’s still there ô¿ô

Could anyone explain please how to set it back to a normal brush. I have tried default workspace that just sets the view back.

Thank you, Tai

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / Useful to some

Just looking at this page many months later. I have not created any new picture for a while, having seen only one print sold
since joining RB in august 2008. Same problem happened while cleaning some document on PS today. Yes !!! it was
the bloody caps lock key on ! Such simple remedy to such pain in the neck, thank you Alison

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / Webinar: Free 6-Month Photoshop Course!

Jason Hoppe’s first 10-Week Photoshop course was the success that kicked off our “free training” experiment. This time we’re taking things to a whole new level.

So what does a 6-Month Photoshop Course cover? Here is the tentative schedule. We’ve built this as an ongoing series of 5-week courses, building from basic fundamentals, up to some fairly advanced techniques. With a fun side-trip around the holidays for digital scrapbooking topics.

CreativeTechs

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

Hope you all can get some use from them….. have fun! :D

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

Thanks i’ve just copied the granite looking texture reminds me of the sea so i’ll play around with it over the weekend and let you know if anything comes of it,Thanks Rosemary Scott

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / Orton Effect tutorial

This link to the Orton Effect tutorial didn’t seem to work has anyone got another please,Bev

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

well done, absolutely spiffy and generous,... wow and that’s how it’s done!

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

Thank you, Rosemary. I intend to make use of your generosity.

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

Thank you!

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

I have just recently started adding textures to my images and like finding new ones. Thank you, Rosemary :-)

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

thank you :-) I love using them too.

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

Thanks Rosemary, some nice textures with the blue one very nice. . .

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

Thank you so much, Rosemary. I think many artists across a wide range of mediums will thank you for your generosity.

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / freebie textures

I’ve become so fond of using textures in my work, that I often spend more time out & about shooting textures than anything else…..
So I have decided to release a selection of my textures free for use as you wish.
There’s not a lot available at the moment, but I’ll be adding more daily….. it’s a time thing!

A Thank-you would be nice if you use them, though not mandatory…..

You’ll find them in my Texture blog

enjoy :D

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / I'm New But Have A Photoshop Tutorial Share

Thanks so much—so excited to get involved! =)

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / I'm New But Have A Photoshop Tutorial Share

Welcome, and thanks!

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / I'm New But Have A Photoshop Tutorial Share

Thanks for the heads up.

Topic: PhotoShop Tips and Tutorials / I'm New But Have A Photoshop Tutorial Share

I just joined the group and wanted to start out by sharing a link to our (ISBubble is a team effort of two artists: Liz Ness and Jackie Wood) Vimeo channel.

The following links to a variety of videos—including a collection of Photoshop tutorials:
http://vimeo.com/channels/illustratingstories

Hope you find them helpful and that they bring you some creative joy!

Happy creating,

Liz

PS: We have a blog that might of use to some, too: http://www.illustratingstories.com/