I been looking for stuff like this, Thanks!
I been looking for stuff like this, Thanks!
eww...rarely would something behind text or a detail that you want removed is a solid color....thats what the healing brush is for! back in the older versions of photoshop, the clone stamp tool was the only option, and in some cases its still perfect for what it does. The clone stamp is a kind of brush that duplicates another part of the same image as it paints, and you can specify where to take the texture from. Keep in mind though, that as you move the stamp, its duplicating source target moves as well, so if you dont keep changing the source after every few strokes, then you're just gonna end up with an exact copy of the side you set for the source. It sounds kinda confusing, but its the sort of thing you just have to experiment with for yourself. Now the healing brush, on the other hand, not only duplicates the texture like the stamp tool, but it matches the hues, saturation, and brightness with the surface you are painting on, to make it a much smoother blend. let me show you an example......Originally posted by: DraGunZer0
well normally i would use the eye dropper tool to get a color near the text and then use the paintbrush took to cover over it, but since naruto screen shots have slightly diff shades in each pixel it would make the pic look really weird so i suggest maybe copying a chunk somewhere close by the text and then pasting it over the text, that might not turn out well too... i'll mess around and see what i come up with
::Edit:: I tried, can't do it. too much text to get rid of to make the pic look natural. I can get rid of it but left over where the text would be is a single shade of one color which really craps the pic. Honestly, I saw your post requesting a sig and I was about to attempt to do it but after seeing that first pic (the one you posted) I gave up immediately. Too advanced to work with my knowledge =/ But I do have a suggestion, if you can find pics of them in a similar pose you can probably copy and paste the parts which are covered over by the text. but then again the coloring might be off =/
here i took some random picture off the internet and will remove the soccer ball from the pic. The clone stamp tool is perfectly fine for this, since its just grass and a soccor ball. Grass is noisy enough to be able to clone stamp without anybody noticing repeats in the pattern, as long as you at least try to mix it up a little. however i also added a black gradient on the left side, thus making the clone stamp tool practically useless. (i would need to pretty much set the source for the tool to be on the same horizontal level, as you can see that the grass details appear smaller the higher up in the image you go. And since the right side of the image is much lighter than the left side, then it would be hard to find a pattern that matches.
so.......thats where the healing brush comes into play
it took me literally less than 5 seconds to erase the soccer ball. With the healing brush, i just copy the grass texture as if both sides of the image were the same brightness, and it automatically darkens the texture to match the rest of the scene!
wasnt that easy?
edit: oh i forgot to mention, as useful as this is, it isnt a miracle worker. If the details behind what you want to remove are unique to just that area, then you wont have a reference to designate as the source texture. With the pic of naruto, sasuke, and sakura...the text simply covers up too much to be removed easily.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
yea, this thing took like an hour and a half because of all the little things that had to be tweaked. there was alot of healing brush and blur tool involved. the text had that black outer glow, making it so i had to recolor parts of it and reblend some shadows and stuff. i should do a little work on naruto's pockets once i finish doing some yard work. it seems i erased part of the shadows and stuff and forgot to redo it.
i changed it a little. http://jeffp.no-ip.org/sigs/nar1.bmp i think i am done with this for now. hope it helps
Yet I learn new things everything.. ::writes down HeaLing BruSH::
also a good way to get caps without credits and stuff is to take a frame series in virtual dub, often in openings and endings their are scenes that would be impossible to capture with like a screenshot taker like bs player, but with virtual dub you can progress it frame by frame until you have exactly what you need. And on stuff that always has credits on it if the credits change but the pic stays the same you can take caps of all the credits over layed and then each will fill in different blanks and from there you can fill in the blanks much more aestetically.
Also wanted to say good tutorial but you shouldnt rely on outside cg images for you sigs, make your own visual effects, look up tutorials, play with filters, itll lead to an overall higher skill with PS.
which reminds me, ive been wanting to learn how to do those abstract cg designs so if anyone has a tutorial link or whatever please post it, i cant seem to find any of the stuff i want on the internet.
try 3dbuzz.com
im taking some free online courses in 3d studio there, although its too late to sign up for it, but you can still at least obtain lots of tutorials for 3d stuff
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Thats why i statedOriginally posted by: AlbinoFury
also a good way to get caps without credits and stuff is to take a frame series in virtual dub, often in openings and endings their are scenes that would be impossible to capture with like a screenshot taker like bs player, but with virtual dub you can progress it frame by frame until you have exactly what you need. And on stuff that always has credits on it if the credits change but the pic stays the same you can take caps of all the credits over layed and then each will fill in different blanks and from there you can fill in the blanks much more aestetically.
Also wanted to say good tutorial but you shouldnt rely on outside cg images for you sigs, make your own visual effects, look up tutorials, play with filters, itll lead to an overall higher skill with PS.
"- You really need to experiment on your own and play around with the tools. So far I have shown you how to basically compile pics together. But advanced choppers and create their own effects and do crazy things all with photoshop. Also for 3d designs just use 3d studio max... photoshop is mainly for 2d although experts can create 3d designs on it. (Or you can just follow some online tutorials ^_^)"
As you see, I still am a beginner at PS....
Yeah I know. I've done PS for 3-4 weeks now. Still lack some skills but overall I'm kina a good.
I'm pretty good with bg. Now I just need some cool fonts. Where can I get that?
Darkflare: pretty good job on the pic
vvv Thanks
do a search function of this forum of the word font or something awhile back someone posted a bigass file with fonts in it, its a good start. I have a couple hundred on mine its just something u gotta search out and find over time.Originally posted by: Uzumaki Naruto # 1
Yeah I know. I've done PS for 3-4 weeks now. Still lack some skills but overall I'm kina a good.
I'm pretty good with bg. Now I just need some cool fonts. Where can I get that?
Darkflare: pretty good job on the pic
one question, how do I do I get the picture on the background?
Ive tried it and it doesnt work
R.I.P Captain America.
Errr..... paste? did you copy the picture? if you did then you should be able to paste it...
Hey Dragunzero,
I used your guide , as well as a couple of tutorials online, and (the DAY after i acquired photoshop), managed to come up with the sig i've got @ the moment...not bad a for a complete beginner huh?
Better than me i guess, first day i got photoshop i was lost with the layers so i went back to paint ^_^... until I got used to the terms and tools
Also: your sig dimensions is too big, use 400x80
anyone using PS CS?? i am usin it and the part where Assertn Failure mention about
'there's different ways of doing it, but if you want to get in the habit of doing it the PROFESSIONAL way, then i suggest using the path tool. (its the pen shaped tool near the text one) before you start, make sure in the options window (the horizontal one at the top) has the second option, which is the pen shape in front of a box, enabled. Now you just click to place points and a path is created to connect them. If you click and drag, you can create "bezier" curves, which is definitely a beautiful thing. Once the path is made and connected back to the start, then in bottom of the paths window click the 3rd button (it looks like a dotted circle line) and it will turn the path into a selection, then you can hit ctrl+shift+i to inverse selection and del to delete it.'
i am lost there. can anoyone translate into CS term?? pls bare with me i am complete PS noob
.........wtf............. just tried it and i find that "professional way" too much of a hassle. Instead of doing all that:
- use Magnetic lasso tool
- go around the character or thing u wanna cut out (just like above in creating points)
- end it at the start point
- If you accidentally missed something go back and hold shift and cut that thing u missed to add it in (say a point in their hair, hold shift and cut that to put it back in with your selection.)
- if you want to take out something (lets say some background from the space inbetween their arms or something) go back hold alt and cut that out
- copy whatever you selected and paste it on your project. OR do what he did and right click, select inverse then press delete to get rid of the background.
I dont use that "professional" way because its hard to get in the tiny corners without zooming in, and after each click it adds another point in your history (which is either a good or bad thing to go back and undo a mistake in selecting, but that can be done with mag. lasso by taking out or adding in with alt or shift)
Also magnetic lasso only takes up one point in your histories and the bezier curves might help but you probably wont need it with enough experiece chopping round parts.
::Edit:: To assertnfailure, i tried that healing brush thingy thing and it does patch things up well. and i think im getting the hand of it so thanx for telling us bout that.
Wow , this trick pwns
DraGunZer0, you can zoom in on your picture and still use the path tool.....in fact if you want to get the nicest results then you should do that anyway. At the studio i was at, they would have the image zoomed in and taking up the entire screen on one of the monitors (their second monitor would hold all the little window things) and then use the path tool and whatnot...
All you gotta do, is zoom in on the image, without worrying about if its all on the screen or not, then as you lay the path down and need more room, hold the space bar and your cursor will temporarily change to a hand that lets you drag the zoomed portion around. Then you can release the space bar and continue dropping the path.
When you get the feel of it, you can lay down bezier curves just by guessing and usually manage a full path with only a few sparse adjustments to make later. Even if you decide you need more or less points, you can change the pen tool to the "add anchor point tool" or "remove anchor point tool"
And to adjust individual anchor points, change the black arrow tool above it to the white arrow tool.
also, its best to make these adjustments after completing the path
glad to be of any help [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
Hmm..perhaps i'll experiment with that again later
thanks a million guys. i manage to make myself a decent sig. cheers for the lesson on how to make screenshot pic brighter AssertnFailure.
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