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TUTORIAL INFO
program; photoshop 7.0
includes; sharpening, curves, textures, and selective coloring
disclaimer; requires significant knowledge of the photoshop program. results may very.

( the only thing we'll share in the same sky )

Program:Photoshop CS
Difficulty? Simple
Translatable? yes
PSD?over here

( easy easy easy )

Today I finally decided I was going to buy PS after putting it off for so long. I even got it home, found out I didn't have the right kind of disc driver for it and went out and bought an external one just so I didn't have to return it. So after all this money spend and time waste, I get it home and I'm pumped. I honestly was really looking forward to being able to mess around with selective colouring adjustments and the such. Except I bought Elements and didn't know that Elements didn't allow you to do so. I saw an old post here saying something about a plug in you could download for it. I tried the link out but it was a reaaaaally old post and the link didn't work anymore. I tried googling somethings and nothing came up.

Does anyone use PS Elements and found a plug in for selective colouring? I've looked all over and can't find a thing. I'd appreciate if anyone could help or leave some feedback or links or anything!

Everytime I try to open some pictures, I get this message.



It's not any certain picture, but just randomly that'll come up. I've tried restarting the program, but this continues to happen. The files are .PNG and .JPG so, yeah... Help?

Title: Story Time
Rated: K
Summary: Ed and Al can't sleep. Set in the 'restitution universe. Part 1 of 2.
Link: http://randomcheeses.livejournal.com/10154.html#cutid1

Okay, so, recently i got my own copy of Photoshop (2) and i wanted to try making some icons. I found some very nice magazine scans that i wanted to use, but i can never crop the area i wanted into 100 by 100.

I read through a few pages from this comm on cropping, and i tried all the ways, but still could not crop it.

i tried using the crop tool, setting it to 100px by 100px and cropping it, after i press enter (or the tick button) it turned into a very very small square.

I tried the marquee tool and select the area i want and pressed the Image>Crop button, it work, but it's not 100x100 so i had to resize it. I cliked Image>Image Size and made the 'Pixel Diamension' to 100 by 100 and the column below to 72 resolution. (Am i suppose to do that?) and it turned into that very very small square. I can hardly see the picture/faces that i wanted.

What should i do?

(I know nuts about photoshop and making an icon, so please kindly guide me along!)

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Program: Photoshop Elements 2
Translatable: Yes.

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program: PSCS2
translatable: yes
psd: yes

( love me, hate me. )

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone could tell me what to do.

When I try to import videos into Photoshop, I keep getting this error:


I installed Quicktime, and I'm still getting the error. I've restarted my computer, I've put Quicktime running in the background, nothing is really working. I keep getting this error.

Anyone know how I could fix it? I used Photoshop CS3, and I download videos with Any Video Converter.

I swear I saw a tutorial like this somewhere either here or on another Photoshop tutorial website, but I can seem to unearth it. So I'll ask you fellow people...

I am trying to take this image and cut it out in Photoshop CS4. In the background I am using ( making a DVD cover... ), I can NOT set it in Lighten or Screen. I checked through the memories and tags and couldn't find a tutorial that really answers my problem. :(

ANY help is appreciated.

Here is a screenshot of what's going on.

Nothing is wrong with PS or anything, it's just I want to know how to achieve this...
( and I don't know how to tag this; first poster, so don't eat me )

And I have seen this tutorial, but PSCS4 doesn't include the "Filter > Extract" option, so that's unusable.

EDIT: With the image I am using there isn't contrast; so when I use a tutorial like this it will come to no good due to the fact the hair merges with the background, since it's dark. Help?

Hi. =)

I was wondering if anyone had a tutorial to do this:


I did find this one, but I'm looking for one that allows you to to work with an image (or brush, or whatever), rather than text.

Much appreciated!!

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Program: Photoshop CS2

( you be saying no no no no no when its really yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah... )>

Sometimes the sharpening tool on Photoshop just doesn't cut it. I don't always sharpen icons, but sometimes they need it. I accidentally stumbled upon a tutorial directing people how to use high pass to sharpen images. I thought it was amazing and knew I had to share it with you all!

So, from this: you have this: rather than this:

I exaggerated the bad sharpening on purpose.

Program: Photoshop Elements 4
Steps: Two? Three?
Difficulty: Easy peasy.
Translatable: I think so. All you need is overlay and high pass.
PSD: Nope


( It's pure magic! )

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( tutorial )

I'm not very good at explaining my reasoning, mainly because when I color icons I just fiddle around until it looks right. I'll usually add steps out of order, and so when I write a tutorial for it it's not at all in the order I made the icon. But I hope this helps. :) (plus it was a nice distraction from studying for finals!)

+ Do not copy tutorials directly, please use this as a guide.
+ Please comment here if you have any questions/problems/etc.
+ You can find the .psd here at the original post if you're having trouble.

Title: Before the Storm
Author: rockeandroll
Rating: G
Genre: Gen, Character study
Chapter: one-shot
Summary: Nagato Yuki waited for five hundred and ninety seven years for this day to arrive. She finally has what she was waiting for, but it's strange and scary and Kyon doesn't understand. Getting what she waited for isn't enough.
Comments: Spoilers for Endless Eight. This is a companion piece to After the Calm, but you don't have to read that to understand this one.
The passage Nagato quotes is from page 330 of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, published in the USA by Bantam in 1990.

Actual Fic: Link to my journal.