Hey there kids, we here in the big red bubble floating high above the city’s spires have this irrepressible itch to make some kind of adv…
Hey there kids, we here in the big red bubble floating high above the city’s spires have this irrepressible itch to make some kind of advert, a video, a short film if you will, to emphasise and explain all the magical things that redbubble can do for people, trouble is we’re up in a big red bubble floating high above the city spires and it would be completely impossible to make it up here, there’s no power sockets or even a flat surface, just bubble, lots of it. So we need your help. We want to hear ideas for a short clip, from spoof documentary to public acts of insanity, via ridiculous comedy and professional corporate clarity, it just has to grab it’s unsuspecting audience and fling them a brighter world, without giving them an awful lot of other options. At this stage in the proceedings we don’t wish to impose too many guidelines on length/style/timeframe etc. and don’t start making yet, it would be a tragedy to go and film yourself having our logo tattooed on your forehead and then find out we weren’t happy with the camera angle, we just want to hear the colourful concepts nestling within your neurons. However here are a couple of equations to ponder over while you scribble furiously: -More dangerous = Higher chance of court case = Less likely. / -Lavish three part, 9 hour sagas = One year of shooting time = More expensive = Less likely. Other than that go crazy, pitch your treatments to us and maybe, just maybe, you’ll be assisting in the making of the finest advert since that one about the fish. Oh and you might get some cash, yup cash, ahhh now you’re interested. AND when you do come up with some gems, stick them in here in the forums for a better discussion. onetonshadow
Go to an image that you want to display in a journal post and right-click on it, then select “Copy image location”- !http://images-2.r…
Go to an image that you want to display in a journal post and right-click on it, then select “Copy image location”- Now go and open a journal entry (or forum post or whatever) and paste the link in there. It will look something like this: Now, just add an exclamation mark before and after the image and you are done adding an image. Now you can add text and other images and save the work and your image will show up. For Internet Explorer users: 1. Right-click on the image and go to properties. Then: 2. highlight and copy all of that text and then paste it into your journal entry or forum post. 3. Add the exclamation mark before and after the link as shown above. 4. Add other text and images and you should be able to save and see your pictures! —-—-—-—-—-——- Trying to do this using Safari: Here is an image I loaded. I right-clicked and chose “Copy Image Address”. Let’s see if this works:
A very big thanks to all the people for the sale cards from my artworks. / For the much comments, viewings and adding to the watchlist i s…
A very big thanks to all the people for the sale cards from my artworks. / For the much comments, viewings and adding to the watchlist i say thank you, too. / I like to send everyone an bubblemail but it was to much, sorry about this. Excuse the bad english. Kurt / Headcrime
I have been asked how to get the images on my profile, I hope the following helps. A few people have written about how to get images o…
I have been asked how to get the images on my profile, I hope the following helps. A few people have written about how to get images onto your home page. This is a link for some help link This how to get the image of the card: Navigate to the location of the card public profile then click the picture of the photograph you want, next click buy preview. This page should then show your photograph as a card. Using the mouse pointer, point to the photograph and then right click. A box should open which has a number of options, select property’s and click. Now look under the heading location there should be an address such as http:// etc copy this entire location into the about me section in your profile and insert an exclamation mark at the front and back of this address. To make this a clickable link insert a colon after the last exclamation mark : Then if you want image to link to your buy page for example, copy the page address from the address bar in your browser and insert this after the colon you just placed in the code in your about me section. it should appear like this !Card address!:Page address This works with ANY photograph, to post the framed photograph navigate to the framed version then copy the location and put between two exclamation marks in the about me section or journal entry or add photo section or description box etc.then to link to a web page colon then page address. Note make sure there are no spaces in the code you type! I hope this makes sense. Paul
Only a few from a wedding I did today… didn’t get home until quarter to 2AM. It’s 5.30AM and I’m not tired yet, hence this post. Sti…
Only a few from a wedding I did today… didn’t get home until quarter to 2AM. It’s 5.30AM and I’m not tired yet, hence this post. Still editing all the pics but here are a few I’ve quickly played around with before I go to bed.
For some strange reason you’ve found yourself with a B&W image that you want to add some colour back into. Perhaps the bride holding the…
For some strange reason you’ve found yourself with a B&W image that you want to add some colour back into. Perhaps the bride holding the bouquet would look really nice if the roses were red and the stems were green but the rest of the image was left in B&W. There are several ways that you can go about this in Photoshop but what we’re looking for is the most flexible, one that we can edit later without having to bin a couple of layers because the colours weren’t quite right. You know the scene, spend a few precious hours doing the roses in the bouquet and then you find out that the darn things were pink, not red …... arghh! The question is, is there something within Photoshop that can help us ….. indeed there is. Anyone who has restored some old photos will know all about hand colouring and basically, that is what we are going to do. Open a B&W image, or just desat a colour one, or convert to grayscale (not that you would normally do that) but we’re just going to have a play and we don’t want any colour in the image, we don’t want it in RGB mode. So what adjustment would give us the most flexibilty to change the colour if we chose too. You guessed didn’t you :-) We’re going to be working with a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and we’re going to check the colorize box. At this point the whole image is going to be whatever colour you choose, that’s okay, we’re going to fix that. Choose a colour with the Hue slider – Adjust the Saturation slider and the Lightness slider until you are happy with the colour. Now you’ve got this great big mess but we’re gonna fix it. Go down to the little mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette and click on it. You will now have a white box next to the hu/sat adjustment layer – and you’ll notice that you image still looks awful. So lets fix it. Click on the mask (white box) to make sure that it is active and press ctrl i on the keyboard (cmd i for the Mac) The mask should now have turned black, and the image should look exactly like it did when we first started. Grab your brush, and making sure that the f/ground colour is set to white (cos on a black mask, white reveals) and simply paint the area that you want the colour to show through. Change the layer blend mode to soft light, or if you don’t like that try overlay or one of the other blend modes. Don’t forget that you can also use the opacity slider to take down the intensity of the colour. So yeah! how am I going to change the red roses to pink ? – double click on the hue/sat adjustment layer (not the layer mask), and the hue/sat dialogue box will appear. Change the hue/sat/lightness sliders till you get a whole other colour …. magic, you don’t have to trash layers and with them all you’re hard work. You can do this as often as is needed to add various colours back into the image. Do a red adjustment layer for the roses and then a green one for the stems and leaves (example). Heck, do various shades of red and green if you want. It’s flexible and relatively simple to master. Do gradients as well if you like and have that effect on a single rose and another gradient effect on a different rose. Make sure your f/ground and b/ground colours are set to what colours you want to use in your gradient. Click the little adjustment icon at the bottom of the layers palette and click gradient. From the dialogue box pick your f/ground b/ground gradient choose linear (or one of the other gradients available) click okay, add a layer mask, invert the layer mask, grab the brush tool, making sure that it is set to white – and paint in your gradient. This is limited to a certain degree but you can get some really nice effects going on and best of all it is editable. Here are a couple of sample shots. I’m not a flower photographer, so this is about the only image with a flower in it, but it will give you an idea of what you can do. Disclaimer – All spelling mistakes are deliberate :-)
You may want to add some atmosphere to an image in the form of fog/mist and we can do this quite easily in Photoshop. First I’d like t…
You may want to add some atmosphere to an image in the form of fog/mist and we can do this quite easily in Photoshop. First I’d like to thank MARK GERMAN for letting me use his Silence Lane image in this tutorial. If you don’t have an image to try this tutorial out on, you will have to contact Mark to ask his permission to use it. Here is our start image Our image with one application of fog/mist And I added another layer of fo/mist because I wanted to cover the bottom right of the image a little more. A larger view of the finished image is available HERE So lets get started. Open your image, duplicate and close the original. I want you to click on the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette, or you can go to the top menu bar and go Layer>New>Layer, or press Ctrl+Shift+n. Making sure the new layer is active and that your foreground/background colours are set to the default of black/white (press d on the keyboard if they aren’t, or if white is the f/ground and black the b/ground, press x on the keyboard) go to the filter menu in the top tool bar and choose Render>Clouds. In this tutorial I have applied Render>Clouds once, if you would like some variation on this press Ctrl+f on the keyboard to repeat but you will also notice that the clouds appear differently each time. To get some rather different effects, instead of pressing Ctrl+f – press Ctrl+Alt+f ....... try it and see :-) So now we’re going to give the clouds a little blur. Go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur and you can set the same amounts as I have in the image below. Most of what you do from now on will vary according to each image, and what it is you are trying to achieve. At the bottom of the layers palette you will see a little icon with FX on it, 2nd from left, I want you to click on that and choose Blending Options from the menu – alternatively you can go to the top menu bar and choose Layer>LayerStyle>Blending Options – and a dialogue box will appear like the one in the image below, I’ve highlighted the part of the dialogue box that we will be using next – ‘Blend If’ Make sure that ‘Blend If’ in the highlighted red area is set to gray. You’ll notice that the sliders have a triangle at each end (black and white) we will be concentrating on the black end, so don’t worry about the white slider. You’ll also notice that the triangle shape has a small white area in the middle of the slider, this is so that we can split the slider, which we are going to do now. Hold down the alt key (option for mac) and put your cursor to the right of the white area then click and drag the slider, it should now have split into a half triangle. Looking at the image below, move this half of the traingle to 125, then come back and move the left part of the half triangle to 25. When you’ve done that, click ok. Now I want you to press Ctrl+t on the keyboard to bring up the Transform tool, or you can go to Edit>Transform>Scale – you will have to decide at this point where you want the fog/mist to be and bring the top down accordingly, as I’ve done in the next image. What you will have to do next is throw in a gradient to take away the harsh transition. Making sure your f/ground and b/ground are set to the default, select the gradient tool and on the top menu bar make sure that black to transparent is selected. You need to do the gradient from the top to the bottom, BUT not from the top of the image, from above the harsh line of the clouds layer. You may have to do this more than once, just keep trying until you get a nice transition. In the image below I did the gradient 4 times till I got it how I wanted it. I then took the opacity of the layer down to 70%. I then duplicated the clouds layer by dragging it to the create a new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and with that layer selected I grabbed my move tool from the side menu bar and moved it up until it was were I wanted it. Now I have a harsh transition at the bottom of this clouds layer, so do the same as above except start at the bottom of the harsh line and work upwards with your gradient. A bit of practice will make this a very simple task. I changed the opacity of this clouds layer to 60%. The image below shows the final work, which btw is different from the image at the top of this tutorial because I couldn’t remember what I had done LOL :-) And the larger image HERE Remember that all of these steps can be used in various ways on different images, not just to create fog/mist and they can be adapted to create the type of fog/mist you want – it is the process that is important.
I am not sure if someone else has already posted a tutorial on this, so I thought I would have a go at it. I read “this (How to add a Po…
I am not sure if someone else has already posted a tutorial on this, so I thought I would have a go at it. I read this very insightful tutorial by admin Xavier Shay about posting a Portfolio into an email signature. I was toying around with the code, and discovered how to place the code on your Red Bubble profile page. I have noticed that some people have already figured out how to do this, so there are some who probably already know about this. I, however, did not know this until I toyed around with it and, so, I am sure that there others out there who might find this of value. I would first recommend that you read Xavier’s post and the comments that follow, as they were a very big help in learning how to do this. (1) The first step is to use the image location link that was provided in the forum tutorial: http://redbubble.com/people/username/recipe:banner;back_color:ffffff;orientation:horizontal;limit:4/username_banner.jpg (2) Next, paste this image location link somewhere in your “About Me” section between exclamation points, like this: !place the image location link here! (3) Now, notice the bold areas of the above link. You must insert your Red Bubble username (not your real name) where it says username (there are two spots in the link where you have to do this). So, my link would like like this: http://redbubble.com/people/bchrisdesigns/recipe:banner;back_color:ffffff;limit:4_;orientation:_horizontal;/bchrsidesigns_banner.jpg Can you tell where I have replaced “username” with “bchrisdesigns”? (4) Finally, if you take note of the italicized text in the image location link directly above, you will notice that the values of “back_color”, “orientation”, and “limit” are all italicized. These values are yours to control and manipulate to get the proper look and feel that you would like on your page. back_color: is the image’s background color, which you can change to any color using the standard HTML Color Code. Note, that you do not need to use the # (pound sign) that normally precedes HTML Color Code (i.e. ”#ffffff”) – you just need the code (i.e. “fffffff”). #ffffff is the color code for “white”. limit: is the number of thumbnails that will be seen in your banner. I have experimented with this in my blog and have discovered that the most you can set it to is “6”. On your Red Bubble profile page, the most you can really set it to is “4” for horizontal images and “6” for vertical images orientation: is the way your portfolio will be seen. This can be changed to either “horizontal” (from side-to-side) or “vertical” (up and down). And, that is it. Once you have decided how you want your image to look, just save your profile and presto! You’ve got a nifty banner on your page. BUT… If you would like your banner to be click-able, you need to add a link code to it, such as: ”! image location here ! ( link description here )” : hyperlink here You can copy and paste this example into your “About Me” section and then fill in the blanks with your information (make sure you delete any and all spaces). In the above example, replace the underlined text as follows: image location here: replace this text with the finalized image location link that we worked on in steps 1-4 above. link description here: replace this text with a description of what you would like people to see when they hover over your banner. (Mine says “View My Red Bubble Gallery”.) hyperlink here: replace this text with the actual hyperlink that you would like your image to link to (i.e. a specific Red Bubble section or your profile page; you can also link to your blog/website/etc.). Once you replace the text as indicated, simply save your edited profile and check out your radical awesomeness! Here is an example of mine (with hyperlink): I hope this helps everyone! Cheers! P.S. I am adding this to all of my groups in the hopes that everyone can use this tool to display their beautiful works of art (from Atmospheric Optics to Zoophoria). Much love!
I have started work on my new bubblesite as most people are doing the same I thought it maybe a good idea to put a quick link to your bub…
I have started work on my new bubblesite as most people are doing the same I thought it maybe a good idea to put a quick link to your bubblesite on your profile for people to easily follow. The steps are pretty simple: Navigate to edit your profile and in the About you box below any writing you have done enter the following code (star) which makes the text bold / then the words Quick link to my Bubblesite / space / then a “(speech mark) / then the word here / followed by a *(star) and a “(speech mark) then a :(colon) next the tricky bit navigate to your bubblesite and copy the address from the address bar at the top of your browser eg mine is http://spottydog06.redbubble.com/ and insert after the :(colon) without a space! Then click Save Changes please note do not enter spaces where I have not told you to! It should now look like this…..... Quick link to my Bubblesite here* Oh if you have followed the steps above and it works, take a look at my site and leave feedback on anything you like. Hope this has helped. Paul ps I hope the code I entered dosnt totally screw up this journal entry lol ok the star didnt quite work, glad I wrote the word star :) ps the star symbol is on your mumber pad and used as the multiply symbol ;)
Once you have signed in to Redbubble you will follow these steps to add and display your work on the side of your comment page… 1…
Once you have signed in to Redbubble you will follow these steps to add and display your work on the side of your comment page… 1. Click on Art (the one of yours listed between account and clothing) / 2. Now you should see the words My Art on the next page that pops up / 3. This page displays all of your works that you have uploaded / 4. Now from here lets choose edit right beside one of your image icons / 5. Now we are on our edit page / 6. From this page we will add those pretty little display images to the side of our / comment page. / 7. To do this we start by clicking on Buy/Preview / 8. Now you will see at the top all of the choices that you can choose from such / as Card, Matted Print, Laminated Print etc…. / 9. Click on the one that you wish to display on the side of your page / 10. Ex… I am going to choose laminated print / 11. So I simply click on Laminated Print / 12. Now you should be seeing your laminated print of your image in white / 13. you can choose to simply leave the border white or you may change it by / going over to the right side of the page and changing it in the border’s box. / 14.Once you have chosen which way you want the image either in white or black / 15. Lets now Right click on top of the image / 16. Left click properties / 17. another box will pop up / 18. Look where you see the Address Url and you will see the url beside this. / 19. We want to highlight this whole url by simply / 20. Hold down your left mouse and start at the beginning of the url at the http / while holding down the left mouse we will scroll all the way to the right and then / bring your hand down making sure that you pick up the whole url. (it will all / turn blue) / 21. Once highlighted we will let go of our left mouse and we will Right click and then / on copy and ok. / 22. Now we will click on the back button until we get back to our edit page. / 23. Once we have gotten back to our edit page we are now ready to add that image / 24. Simply go to the Description Box / 25. Type an exclamation mark / 26. ! / 27. directly behind this exclamation mark we will right click our mouse and the paste / 28. then directly behind this url we will add another exclamation mark. *DO NOT / SPACE BETWEEN, THIS SHOULD ALL BE IN ONE / 29. Then scroll to the bottom of this page and click on Save this entry / 30. your work is add / 31. if you choose to display more on the side just simply do the same steps but / chosse a different one to use. / 32. Now I know that you don’t see those pretty little image yet on this page so to see / them we can go to the right side of the page click where it says show public view / of this work / 33. This will brin up your comment page and you will see those display images to / the right of the page.
This tutorial will show you how to add the title thumbnail images to your profile page and to link them to the image comment page. 1. ...
This tutorial will show you how to add the title thumbnail images to your profile page and to link them to the image comment page. 1. Login To Redbubble / 2. Click on your art the one in between account and clothing / 3. This will bring you up to your page called My Art / 4. You will see all of your art that you have uploaded to Redbubble / 5. On the left side you will see all of the small thumbnails of your images / 5. Now we want to add these to our profile page / 6. Go to the top of this page and minimize this page and open up another one so that / you will sign into Redbubble again.(It helps with editing when you have two pages / of Redbubble pulled up). / 7. Now on this page you will go to account and then edit my profile / 8. Now we will go back to the other page that we minimized which is My Art page / 9. You will follow these directions for as many of the thumbnails you wish to add to / your profile page. / 10. Take your mouse and right click on top of the tumbnail / 11. Click properties / 12. Left click and hold down mouse and highlight the address url starting with the / http, be sure to go all the way to the right and down capturing all of this url. / 13. Right click blue highlighted area and then left click copy and ok / 14. Now we will go back to the Edit my Profile Page and go down to the About Me Box / 15. Type an exclamation mark and then right click directly behind the ! and then click / paste, then we will want to add another exclamation mark directly behind this url / please remember no spaces at all… / 16. Now we want to add a link so that members can view this image larger and / comment on this work / 17. So we will simply add a : directly behind the ! / 18. Now lets go back and open up our other page / 19. We now want to click on Show public View, this will open up the comment page / and a larger view of your image. / 20. Once this page is open / 21. Now we will want to go to the top of the page where we see the address bar / 22. We will put our mouse into the address bar and right click and then left click copy / 23. Now we want to open up our other page on our edit profile page / 24. Directly behind the : you will right click and then left click paste / 25. And then we will save changes at the bottom of this page / 26. Follow these steps and add as many thumbnails to your profile page
*I recently had several requests for instructions on how to add buttons like the ones in my profile...
I recently had several requests for instructions on how to add buttons like the ones in my profile. Rather than send individual bubblemail messages, I’m posting it in my journal in case someone else would like to add buttons to their RB profile. BUTTON INSTRUCTIONS Tip: print out this page and put it beside the computer before you start. You can make your own buttons or you can use a site called ButtonGenerator. If you decide to use this site and not to pay for a membership, you will need to add a link back to the site. I made all of mine 125X26 to give you some idea of the size of the ones on my page. This size allowed 3 buttons side-by-side. Make all your buttons and then save them in a folder on your computer. Then you will need to upload each button to your RB image gallery and use the “Hide” feature so that no one sees them but you. Once you have them uploaded you will need to right-click on each one to get the url address html code in the properties box. Example: http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/1407403-1-autumn-button.jpg Then go to “Edit Your Profile” to copy the image html code AND the tag html code – it will look like this (without the spaces): ! http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/1407403-1-autumn-button.jpg ! : http://www.redbubble.com/people/patmonty/art/everything/tags/autumn [REMEMBER NO SPACES. I had to add spaces so you could see the html code. If I had not added spaces, the button would have appeared in the journal instead of the code.] The last word in the html code is the “tag” word. In the example above it is autumn. You will need to put one space between each set of button html code. If you have a lot of buttons the language is long and wraps around forever. But with one space between each button html code, the buttons will sit next to other and then wrap to the next line. Now you will need to add the tag word to each of your images that will correspond to the buttons. Happy Button Making! UPDATE: Cool Text Graphics Generator is another good site for buttons. This tutorial was featured by the group, Tutorials on January 28, 2009. CLICK HERE FOR ALL TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA / Add Buttons To Your Profile Page / How to make a calendar / Downsizing those example images on your profile page / Adding Examples (Card, Laminated, Matted, etc) To Your Profile / Add photos to your profile description / Adding emphasis to your text / Plus more tutorials!
_I recommend printing these instructions so that you have them handy for reference. It is easier than switching back and forth to this s…
I recommend printing these instructions so that you have them handy for reference. It is easier than switching back and forth to this screen. Click on “my bubble”. Click on “art” (on the 2nd row of links – not the top one). You should see “My Art” page – this is the page where you can edit your pics. Choose your photo and click on “Show Public View”. Click “Buy/Preview”. (Note: You won’t actually be buying, only previewing) Choose the card or frame of your choice. Make your mat or color selections, etc. When the image of your framed photo appears on the screen, right click on the photo. A pop-up box will appear. Right click on the photo. In the pop-up box, click on “properties” (at the bottom). The “Properties” box will pop up – highlight the address (URL) . {Click & drag will highlight the entire address} IMPORTANT: Be sure to highlight the entire address – only two lines will be visible, but if a third line of the address hidden, be sure you drag down to highlight all lines of the address. Next copy the URL address. Press Ctrl-C (press the control key and the “C” key at the same time). You won’t see anything happen on the screen, but that is fine. Click OK to close the “Properties” box. Go to “Edit Your Profile” and scroll down to the “About You” box. Click in the box where you want this example to be shown. Now press Ctrl-V (press control key and the “V” key at the same time). You should see the URL address. Put an exclamation point ( ! ) in front of the URL address and another one at the end of the URL address. It should be similar to this example, but without the spaces: ! http://images-0.redbubble.com/img/art/cropped/size:xsmall/view:main/993259-1-yellowstone-in-winter.jpg ! Remember, NO SPACES before or after the exclamation point (!) – the beginning of the URL should look like this: !http:// The end of the URL address should look like this: winter.jpg! NOTE: These will be full-size copies of the images. If you would like to have smaller images (see my profile for examples) that don’t take up so much room, see my other tutorial on how to resize the images. Have a blessed day! / Patricia CLICK HERE FOR ALL TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA
This tutorial is mainly for the bubblers that are new to navigating the RB site. The calendars are quite easy to create. The most i…
This tutorial is mainly for the bubblers that are new to navigating the RB site. The calendars are quite easy to create. The most important thing to remember is that all images must meet the following requirements. Even one pixel below these numbers and it won’t work. 2182 by 1906 pixels for the main pages / 3271 by 2874 pixels for the cover page Click on “my bubble” Click on “calendars” (in the 2nd row of menu items) Click on “Add a new calendar” (right-hand side of screen) Add a title and description (optional, but recommended) Add your cover image (When you click on the little down arrow, it will bring up a list of titles of all the images in your gallery, even the ones that may be “hidden” or “not for sale”.) Then just start adding images, one for each of the twelve months. If you aren’t quite finished but want to save it, use the “Hide” feature at the bottom of the page. Then you can make changes without anyone seeing it. When you are ready to publish, then change to “Allow Anyone to View This Work”. I hope this is helpful. If you run into problems or still have questions, please don’t hesitate to let me know. Have a blessed day! / Patricia CLICK HERE FOR ALL TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA / Add Buttons To Your Profile Page / How to make a calendar / Downsizing those example images on your profile page / Adding Examples (Card, Laminated, Matted, etc) To Your Profile / Add photos to your profile description / Adding emphasis to your text / Plus more tutorials!
I am becoming aware as the days go by that I am not getting notification of new works by some people on my watchlist. As I am discovering…
I am becoming aware as the days go by that I am not getting notification of new works by some people on my watchlist. As I am discovering who, I am removing them from my watchlist and then re adding. So I am sorry to those and hopefully that will solve the problem, and I shall be notified in future.
Did you know that is very simple on Redbubble to add emphasis to your text with bold or italics or underline ? BOLD: If you wa…
Did you know that is very simple on Redbubble to add emphasis to your text with bold or italics or underline ? BOLD: If you want to make your text bold, then it must be surrounded by asterisks * with no spaces before or after the symbols. Example: * text * (no spaces!) = text ITALIC: If you want to make your text italic, then it must be surrounded by the underscore symbol _ with no spaces before or after the symbols. Example: _ text _ (no spaces!) = text UNDERLINED: If you want to make your text underlined, then it must be surrounded by the plus sign + with no spaces before or after the symbols. Example: + text + (no spaces!) = text SMALLER: If you want to make your text upper and smaller, then it must be surrounded by this symbol ^ [Shift 6] with no spaces before or after the symbols. Example: ^ text ^ (no spaces!) = text SMALLER: If you want to make your text lower and smaller, then it must be surrounded by this symbol ~ [tilde] with no spaces before or after the symbols. Example: ~ text ~ (not spaces!) = text LIGHT GREY: If you want to make your text light grey, then it must be surrounded by this symbol – (hyphen) with no spaces before or after the symbols. Example: – text – (no spaces! = text On most all RB pages where you will type text, look for the link (blue underlined words) “Show text formatting help:” and it will give you instructions, including how to make a link. If you have questions or need further help, don’t hesitate to let me know. Patricia CLICK HERE FOR ALL TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA Add Buttons To Your Profile Page How to make a calendar Downsizing those example images on your profile page Adding Examples (Card, Laminated, Matted, etc) To Your Profile Add photos to your profile description Adding emphasis to your text
I just found out (thanks to Alecia Scott ) that my “Bubble Boy” picture is being used on …
I just found out (thanks to Alecia Scott ) that my “Bubble Boy” picture is being used on the Canon Australia Home page to advertise the Photo5 competition. How cool is that! I hope this means I might have a good chance at getting in the top10 for the bubble section!! Fingers crossed =-) www.canon.com.au
To add a calendar to your bubblesite is not in the bubble site set-up or the mange gallery as of yet. I look forward to when this will be…
To add a calendar to your bubblesite is not in the bubble site set-up or the mange gallery as of yet. I look forward to when this will be incorporated into the Manage Gallery section for our bubblesites. / So the only way to advertise our Calendars is to give them a link to the right direction to view our calendars. / There are many ways to do this on redbubble / You may simply add the calendar covers to your bubblesite home page Here is one from my collection to get the image url it is the same process as used before. / If you missed it before Click Here for How-to Click “My Bubble” then “Calendars” or Click Here / Next Right click the cover image and copy the image url / Then just place the image in you description with a link to the buy/previw page To get the link without the comments etc. Right click the Buy/preview button then select (In FireFox) “copy the link location” with Internet Explorer select “Copy Shortcut” paste it right after your image location / Example for the image above I used the below / !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/calendars/page:0/product:calendar/size:small/view:preview/1709263-5-d-r-moore.jpg!:http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/5781572 / Pages: To select a different page change the number in bold above / Like this /page:1/ will display the first page of your calendar and so on. / Sizes: Change the size by changing size:small to size:medium Another option would be to make a slide show using your calendar images I’ve created three different sizes For my tutorial on Adding a slide show to redbubble See Here Happy Bubbling / Dan / Get the Firefox and Internet Explorer Tool bar for Redbubble Here / See more info See all my How-to’s Here Includes “Framed image on Bubblesite home page”, “Adding Calendars to your bubblesite”, “feedjit Live Traffic Feed”, “Using tags on Redbubble”, “Add a visitor counter to your bubblesite or profile page” and More © D R Moore This written work cannot be reproduced or posted on the web without my written permission
When you get your (preferably clean) hands on a spanking new redbubble tee you also get a rather fetching tag with a bit of string and ...
When you get your (preferably clean) hands on a spanking new redbubble tee you also get a rather fetching tag with a bit of string and a little clothes peg. They make a great bookmark. / / As you can also see they are Darth Vader Star Wars Lego approved. Which is the real point of this journal entry – LOOK AT MY NEW SUPERFRIGGIN COOL LEGO !
Just a quickie for now guys. Several people have asked me how I did the following shot of my son Lee and the one of me (if you can remem…
Just a quickie for now guys. Several people have asked me how I did the following shot of my son Lee and the one of me (if you can remember) as the six amigos (now taken off the bubble) It was originally just for a bit of fun as I wanted to try out a technique I’d seen in a photo magazine and to be honest, it is fairly easy really and you should be able to do it with two or more shots. For example; a landscape shot of rolling hills and add a photo of you in front of them. I used Photoshop Elements 7 for this. This shot is a combination of several shots I took of Lee in our back garden, * LOL The hardest part is working out the continuity and the scenes have to be spot on even though in my shot if you look really close you will see discrepancies. However, it was just for a bit of fun and in this shot it was only the third time I have tried it. It helps if you have a tripod to stop the camera from moving and it is YOUR subject which moves to different positions NOT the camera. The camera stays in the same position always, fixed on the tripod. So think of the final shot you want to achieve first and then work backwards taking several shots of what you feel you can use even if you don’t use them all. I think I took 12 or 15 shots and just used the five you see here. In Photoshop open one of the shots, preferably a copy. Now open another one from the sequence you want to use. It helps if you do the background ones first, you’ll see why as you go along. Go to Layers Duplicate Layer then OK Then go to Lasso Tool and drawer around what you want, ie, YOU. I am saying YOU as an example to make it easier as we go along, in my case it was LEE. Go to Edit and then Copy which copies YOU to the clipboard. Then Paste onto the first photo – the YOU clip you copied will be placed anywhere on the photo when it is pasted so to move it into place click onto the move tool. You will be able to slide the clip of you into place now. Go to Layers Flatten Layers Go to Layers again Duplicate Layer then OK Now close the photo you copied YOU from and open another one and go through the same process as you did before. It helps when you do the photo shoot especially if it is outside if you can do the photos all at the same time frame to keep the sky, lighting, shadows etc the same in each shot. After you have copied all the shots of you and saved it as one photo, you will want to check; Any discrepancies in the shot and tweak it if needed, then go to; Layers for a bit of extra Contrast if needed. Then Huh and Saturation. Flatten Layers. Save as usual and there you have it *A fantastic work of art Even if you never use the combined shots (which would be a shame) it really is a lot of fun. And it may seem hard here as I have explained it (and there may be other ways of doing it) but give it a go you’ll see your creativeness go up a notch. Thanks for reading and good luck and most of all remember, HAVE FUN.
Good news for Element users. As you know you can’t directly create and use layer masks in elements – but now you can.. I just disco…
Good news for Element users. As you know you can’t directly create and use layer masks in elements – but now you can.. I just discovered this from a website http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pselements/qt/layermasks.htm They also create a one click function which does the following automatically but its very similar Here’s how you do it: If the layer you want to mask is the background, first convert it to a regular layer, by double-clicking the background layer in the layers palette. Type a name for the layer and click OK, this unlocks it. Or simply duplicate the layer . keeping the background as spare until you’ve done what you want. Add a solid color adjustment layer using any color as the fill. / Drag the color fill layer below the layer you want to mask. in the layer’s palette, select the layer above that you want to mask, and press Ctrl-G to group it with the color fill layer. Now the color fill layer will act as a mask on the layer above. / Paint or fill with black on the mask to erase on the layer mask, white to reveal or any shade of gray to reveal just some of the layer.
While we patiently wait for new t-shirt previews (discussed, in pipeline, jostling for position with lots of other things) I thought I’d …
While we patiently wait for new t-shirt previews (discussed, in pipeline, jostling for position with lots of other things) I thought I’d show people how to post a detail in your description field so that your designs have a little more impact when someone clicks on them. If you’re not sure what I mean, take a look at these works from rubyred, scott robinson and onetonshadow. Detailed thumbnails allow your viewers to see all that glorious detail and hard work you’ve put into your designs. / / / / / / Just for info: The previews on RedBubble are deliberately adjusted to look as close to the t-shirt print quality as possible. The appearance of the colours on a back lit screen will be different to how they will appear when printed on fabric so the previews try to take this into consideration. This is so your customers won’t be disappointed when they get your tees and the colours don’t ‘pop’ as much as they do on a backlit screen. You can read all about it here. So keep in mind that when you post your detail image it will be slightly brighter than the design on the tee. Step One: Create a detail image Once you’ve created your tee and saved the file as a png, switch to ‘view actual size’ or equivalent. Crop the image to show the area of detail you want to focus on and save as a new file in jpg format. You can do this with more than one area but keep in mind that your viewer will have to scroll down to see multiple images. One or two will probably do the trick. Step Two: Host your image somewhere You’ll need to link to the image url in order to post the detail in your description so this means you need to upload it somewhere online in order to create the link. I use my RedBubble art tab but make sure to keep the work hidden when I upload it. Then I just bump it down to the bottom using the arrow keys so it’s out of the way. Other people use websites like flickr or photobucket. Step Three: Linking to your image Once you’ve hosted your image somewhere, you’ll need to create your link. As with all image links on RB, you need to use the image url which has a .jpg on the end. If you right click on the image (Mac users need to press ctrl and click), you’ll either see ‘copy image url’ or ‘copy link location’, depending on what browser you’re using. PC users may have to right click, select properties and look for it there. Then you paste the link into your description field in between two exclamation marks like this (but without the space) ... ! http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/4033442-2-untitled.jpg! That’s it. Let us know if you have any questions!
Right click on the banner/ image you want to add…Highlight the image URL (address) and copy / !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/siz…
Right click on the banner/ image you want to add…Highlight the image URL (address) and copy / Go to the reply box/bubblemail reply/ etc and right click-copy. The URL should be there. Add a ! at either end of the URL without any spaces. / This will work for any images.:)) / Good Luck!!
The aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions on how to add clouds to an image which has an otherwise blan…
The aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions on how to add clouds to an image which has an otherwise blank sky, without the necessity of being a Photoshop guru to achieve it. Many stunning images on RB are in fact composites, with clouds being brought in from another image to add impact. (Sometimes you can’t easily tell!) It works very well and can transform an image. I have only uploaded to RB one artwork which is a composite of two shots, one being clouds: The original image of the building was clear sky – not a cloud in sight – and was thus a bit bland and boring and a perfect candidate for some cosmetic surgery. This tutorial was prompted by a request to explain how I did it. I still call myself “new to Photoshop” and I have found a lot of on-line Photoshop tutorials, including some others on RB, assume a much higher level of knowledge than I have and are not very intuitive. So, I try to explain the steps in easy to understand terms (hopefully!) and, importantly, describe what each step should look like after it’s done. So if you are not seeing the result of each step replicated on your screen, you know you have to stop and try again. If this happens, go to the top toolbar, select Edit then Undo [whatever it is you’ve just done] from the drop-down menu and try again. (Many many tutorials lose me when they fail to include this vital “check back”.) This tutorial is my longest one yet, given the patience I apply, but once you get the hang of the actions, you will find the process rather quick to do. If you have already read and followed my Orton Effect tutorial (now updated and expanded to include thumbnails), you’ll know what I mean, hopefully, so don’t be put off by this one. I explain the steps based on using Photoshop Elements 7, but users of more advanced Photoshop programs will be able to follow the same steps. I also have Photoshop CS2 (v9.0), for example, and there’s only one slight difference from the PE 7 interface from what I can tell, which I will point out where it’s relevant. If you want to refer back to this tutorial at leisure, feel free to favourite it as I never delete my tutorials. (After all, they’re more popular than my images!) In writing this tutorial I just want to point out a few things. First, I have not read a single tutorial by someone else on this particular process, and the words are all mine. I wish to also acknowledge that Tatiana originally showed me this process. She’s so patient dealing with my impatience! And, finally, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and there is more than one way to achieve what I describe. I’m just relating the method shown to me. Another popular method involves masking. There are LOTS of tutorials on masking. If I have the time and the inclination I will update this tutorial later to include the steps for masking as an alternate process – it’s a completely different path to take to achieve the same result. Lastly, please excuse the standard of screenshots. They’re my first ever attempt at including graphics in a tutorial, or anything for that matter! OK, here we go. Ready? Step One Clouds. You need some cloud photos. Beg, borrow or steal some, or better still, shoot some. I have a folder of nothing but cloud photos. Any day the sky puts on a show I will try and shoot the clouds, just to save them for later use. If you shoot some clouds in JPEG, make sure you shoot them in colour – you can always desaturate to B&W if the image you want to use them in is also in B&W, but if you shoot them in B&W in JPEG you won’t be able to convert to colour to match a colour image. Just another reason to shoot in RAW, really. For this tutorial, however, I am going to use a colour image needing a sky and a B&W sky shot. In theory, this will look weird, and it does, but I will also show you how you can then gradually desaturate the colour image after inserting the B&W sky and achieve quite a startling effect when you leave just a touch of colour. For best results, try to have nothing else in the frame of your cloud shot but sky. No trees or power lines! (If that’s not possible then crop the crap out. But note that creates a potential problem because now your cloud shot will be a different size than the image you want to drop the sky into. That can be fixed, but let’s just worry about equally-sized images for now.) Another advantage of having a “clean” cloud shot is that you can rotate it to horizontal or vertical, depending on the aspect of the image you want to use the sky in. Here’s a little cloud photo I prepared earlier: Step Two Your main image. The one without any clouds. The one you want to insert some action into, some drama. Try to select an image with a completely blank sky. It makes it so much easier for the Magic Wand (I’ll explain later) to figure out the portion of the sky you want to replace, ie all of it. Try to also select an image with straight lines, like a building or, even better, a straight uninterrupted horizon of a landscape or seascape. If you’ve got stuff popping up into the sky, like trees, the method I describe is just made soooo much harder and you may as well stop reading now and go watch TV or a movie. (At this point, the Photoshop gurus are shaking their heads and groaning, because THEY know another method to get around this when doing composites, but we’ll leave THEM on their lofty perches, ok?) Here’s a little image I prepared earlier. You may recognise the building: Cool, but be aware of one important thing: perspective. Unless you are trying to be rather obvious in creating your composite, the perspective of your main image needs to be the same as that used to capture your chosen cloud image. The images I am using for this tutorial were shot from the same perspective, or in other words, with the lens at roughly the same angle for both shots – looking up, at around 70 degrees relative to the ground. If I was to choose instead as my main image a landscape with a horizon, the cloud image I have chosen will not be suitable unless you actually want that abstract feel. Have I explained that well? Tell me if I haven’t. Now, let’s commence cooking our composite. I will refer to my two images in this tutorial as Clouds and Building, just for ease of reference. Step Three You’ve got Photoshop Elements (“PE”) open. Now select File from the top toolbar and select Open from the drop-down menu. Choose your Building shot and open it. Ok, now look across to the right of the screen. See the Layers palette? It should be showing a thumbnail of the Building image, together with the label Background, like so: Now, once again, select File from the top toolbar and select Open from the drop-down menu. Choose your Cloud shot and open it. Look back across to the Layers palette. You should now see a thumbnail of the Cloud image, together with the label Background, like so: Now, left click and hold down the mouse on the Cloud image, and drag it to the side, just enough to show some of the sky of your Building shot. Release the mouse button. Move the mouse over to the Layers palette. Left click and hold over the thumbnail of the Cloud, and drag it over to the sky – anywhere in the sky. Release the mouse button. A copy of the Cloud image should now be “superimposed” over the Building image. Don’t worry if it doesn’t fit. Look back over to the Layers palette. You should now be seeing two thumbnails – the top one called Layer 1 which is the “front” image, and the bottom thumbnail called Background, which is your Building image, like so: Now, ignoring the Layers palette, left click on the Cloud image sitting behind the “superimposed” image. Close it. Step Four Look over to the Layers palette again. See that group of little icons just above the top thumbnail? Hover your mouse slowly over them and their functions should come up, eg the 3rd icon from the left looks like a trash can and when you hover the mouse over it a little word bar comes up saying Delete layer. Well we don’t want to do that. Instead, hover the mouse over the icon on the far left, the one that is a square with an upturned corner. It should say Create new layer. Just remember where that icon is for now. (If you are using Photoshop CS2 or CS3 or CS4, the group of icons is at the bottom of the Layers palette. Hover the mouse over the icons until you find the one that says Create new layer. Remember it.) Now, left click and hold down the mouse over the bottom thumbnail in the Layers palette – it’s the thumbnail of the Building that’s labelled Background – and drag it over to the Create new layer icon. Release the mouse. You should now see three thumbnails in the Layers palette, labelled, from top to bottom: Layer 1, Background copy, and Background, like so: Step Five This is a slightly tricky step. Another click and drag, but best done smoothly and slowly. Left click and hold down the mouse over the Background copy thumbnail in the Layers palette and drag it to just over the top of the Layer 1 thumbnail. Release the mouse. All we are doing here is reversing the order of the top and middle thumbnails, so now your Layers palette should still show three thumbnails, but now in order from top to bottom: Background copy, Layer 1, and Background, like so: Step Six Ok, now the meaty stuff starts. Look over to the left toolbar now (or palette, whatever you want to call it). Hover your mouse until you find the icon labelled Magic Wand. It looks like, um, a magic wand, but don’t confuse it with the Quick selection tool immediately below it. This is the Magic Wand icon: Click on the Magic Wand icon. Your mouse pointer should now have the distinct look of a, um, magic wand. Look up at the little toolbar immediately above the image (which, incidentally, should be of the Building). Make sure the box marked Contiguous is ticked, like so: Now left click once on the sky in the Building image. You should now see marching ants completely around the sky and along the exterior part of the building which protrudes into the sky, like so: (Believe it or not, the technical term for marching ants is …. marching ants.) Step Seven Look closely at the marching ants where they meet the edge of the building. Are there any gaps where you can see the sky? This is important, because if you don’t shift the path of the ants so that they align to the edge of the building, your new sky won’t cover that gap. Enlarge the image if you are not sure. If you see a gap, it is easily fixed. First, press and hold Shift on your keyboard. Second, left click once on the mouse on a gap. Let go the Shift key. You should immediately see those obedient ants form up against the building across the image, like so: Cool, eh? Now, go to the top horizontal toolbar and select Edit. From the drop-down menu select Delete. This will delete your bland boring sky and replace it with your new dramatic sky !!! How cool is that?! Epic. Step Eight Now we have to send the ants home. Go again to the top toolbar and select Select. From the drop-down menu now select Deselect (ha! ha! I love a good alliteration!). Your marching ants should be no more, gone in fact. Does your image look something like this? How cool is that? Step Nine Nearly done! At this juncture, you have two options. You can finish now with the image you’ve got or you can adjust the look of the Building alone and/or the Clouds alone and then finalise the image. To finish now, right click and hold the mouse over the top thumbnail in the Layers palette. Select Flatten image from the drop-down menu – it’s the last menu option: The thumbnails should have collapsed into one thumbnail, called Background, like so: You can now save your image, you’re all done! To work further on the Building alone and/or the Clouds alone, simply left click once on either the Background copy thumbnail and/or the Layer 1 thumbnail and make your adjustments as you would normally do with an image, and then flatten your image and save it. Which is what I did with this image. I simply increased the contrast on the building and desaturated it to the level where there is just a hint of colour. To alter contrast, select Enhance from the top horizontal toolbar, then select Adjust Lighting from the drop-down menu, then select Brightness/Contrast from the second drop-down menu. A separate window will open and there is your contrast slider: To desaturate, select Enhance again from the top horizontal toolbar, then select Adjust Colour from the drop-down menu, then select Adjust Hue/Saturation from the second drop-down menu. A separate window will open and there is your saturation slider: So, how does it look? Epic or what?! Cheers and happy clouding – time to get freaky !!!
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