__PhotoShop Questions__

[mouse]

Hey Slomo I downloaded Adobe PhotoShop last night and I have no idea what 90% of those Icons do, I was using a real easy generic photoshop before.


You have any advice? where do I click to make a cool Gif?

anyone else have any photoshop questions?

Thanks

[ZStomp]

go to sleep mouse...

[Slomo]

Tell me which version you have.

In photoshop you do the drawing/creation/manipulation of the image, in ImageReady (part of the Photoshop package) you do the animation.

[mouse]

Zstomp I sleep from 10 am till 3pm

I downloaded 7.0 last night , and I am now downloading the Creative Suite version.

maybe you can type me a step by step short cut on how I can make a cool animation, Or do I need to download another program, I am using eDonkey and they seem to have all kinds of programs, tell me a program you wish you had and I will do a search on the site,

[Sense]

I got Adobe Photoshop CS2 and I have no clue what to do with it...

[mouse]

how much did you pay? That crap looks like you need a GED to use it, I might be way over my head this time.

[Slomo]

CS rocks! It is a little more complicated tho.

I've said it numerous times if you want to get into it, you just need to put some time into it. There's a lot of good FREE tutorials on the web just google for them. It's only scary at the beginning. And don't worry about the version the tutorials are for - the same command exists in all consequent versions.

Mouse: Version 7 is already very good. Do you also have ImageReady (it's on the original Photoshop CD)? With the combination of these two you can already start doing nice animations. For complex animations you need to pick up software that is designed for it like Flash or Adobe AfterEffects (for 3D Maya or 3D Studio Max).

I was actually cleaning up my album from last/this year and I have decided to put my photoshoped file into one album it's available here: http://www.cikava.com/gallery/view_a...madness&page=3

If any of you would like to have your photoshop work displayed online let me know and I'll set up a gallery for it on my server.

[mouse]

Ok let me get this straight. You just played with the program day after day until you got good on your own? Was you sober durring all this?

how long did it take you to make that killer sig you had durring the finals?

[Fonzie]

You all come up with some cool stuff.

[mouse]

Meet me at Arnolds later and I will show you some more

Hey Slomo you know how to put TV fotaged on the www? CrazyOne has a cool TV card in his Pc , I want to put that cop car going through that building just a minute ago into my sig.

[Ginofan]

Mouse, try this site for some good tutorials with photoshop.

Good-Tutorials.com

[Slomo]

Mouse

Well I started playing with photoshop and similar software many years ago (22 yrs ago). So I basically learned as the software/technology developed. I was sober like most of the time

The sigs I made during playoffs were made using 4 different programmes: 3D Studio Max, After Effects, Photoshop and ImageReady. The first two are really broadcasting type software for animation and I would recommend to anybody interested to take some classes - photoshop is much easier (it only looks complicated) but obviously you wouldn't be able to make 3D animations - which is not where you should start anyway. The most powerful features in Photoshop are picture manipulation and compositing (to make funny combinations like S y's pic in the mirror or Rasho's tatoos) and that's a good place to start - once you master pictures manipulation then you move on to more complicated stuff.

If you have an .avi file of the cop car video you just open that file in ImageReady, optimize it and save the optimized version as a .gif - that's all (trust me try it it's easy).

Also playing with all those software is too much - I can do it since it is an important part of my job and I also have access to those software at very special conditions. You need a lot of time and money, so if you're not getting paid for it it's a waste.

I'll do a tutorial on S y's voodoo doll (the one without the head and with the eyes blinking) since I only used Photoshop and ImageReady for it, that should be a good start.

[mouse]

Mouse, try this site for some good tutorials with photoshop.

Good-Tutorials.com

Thanks for the link, hey are you a Female?

[mouse]

Mouse

Well I started playing with photoshop and similar software many years ago (22 yrs ago). So I basically learned as the software/technology developed. I was sober like most of the time

Come on bro are you serious? most of he PCs back in 1982 didn't use hard Drives, and the ones that did have them, had only 2 Gigs, how the you pull it off? If you knew about PCs back then you should have bought stock in MicroSoft, Damm I forget you Russians are ahead of us back in the 80s

The sigs I made during playoffs were made using 4 different programmes: 3D Studio Max, After Effects, Photoshop and ImageReady. The first two are really broadcasting type software for animation and I would recommend to anybody interested to take some classes - photoshop is much easier (it only looks complicated) but obviously you wouldn't be able to make 3D animations - which is not where you should start anyway. The most powerful features in Photoshop are picture manipulation and compositing (to make funny combinations like S y's pic in the mirror or Rasho's tatoos) and that's a good place to start - once you master pictures manipulation then you move on to more complicated stuff.

Looks like I will need more beer than I have in the fridge.

[quote] If you have an .avi file of the cop car video you just open that file in ImageReady, optimize it and save the optimized version as a .gif - that's all (trust me try it it's easy).[/img]

I want to jack with the GIF so that it's Sequ's car that is in the chase,
Is that going to be hard to do?

Also playing with all those software is too much - I can do it since it is an important part of my job and I also have access to those software at very special conditions. You need a lot of time and money, so if you're not getting paid for it it's a waste.

well I get the programs free from eDonkey and since I have no job I have time to kill.

I'll do a tutorial on S y's voodoo doll (the one without the head and with the eyes blinking) since I only used Photoshop and ImageReady for it, that should be a good start.

Thanks , next time you come to San Antonio have a 2 hour class we will all pay 20 bucks each and if 5 of us come to kori's for the class you can make 80 bucks.

what type of job do you have that you have to use PhotoShop?

and how long would it take to make my Avatar EYE look like its getting red from smoking a bong?

[Slomo]

Come on bro are you serious? most of he PCs back in 1982 didn't use hard Drives, and the ones that did have them, had only 2 Gigs, how the you pull it off? If you knew about PCs back then you should have bought stock in MicroSoft, Damm I forget you Russians are ahead of us back in the 80s

That's all true but we did not do complicated or hires stuff that you now do on any computer. I actually wrote code on a Commodore64 to generate icons that we then used in primitive computer games (damn this makes me look even older than S y). There is a little truth in you statement since things were very hard to come by in Yugoslavia (compared to you lucky bas s) we had to be more creative - so sometimes we came by with really cool solutions.
The first 3D animation I was a part of was made on a 286 PC with a special Targa video card and it was able to generate one frame at the time and to render it onto a very expensive hard disk that had barely space for the software and one frame! We then recorded that one frame onto a 1"C video tape, erased the disk and started again. The whole process (for one frame) took approx. 30 minutes. That was in 1987 or 1988.

I want to jack with the GIF so that it's Sequ's car that is in the chase,
Is that going to be hard to do?

Not really only bare in mind that there is a certain number of picture for each seconds so you'll have to tweak/modify each picture/frame - it's a lengthy process.

what type of job do you have that you have to use PhotoShop?

I design and - more importantly - sell broadcast systems and TV stations. Part of our services is operator training and in today's TV there's tons of graphics. Photoshop is often used as the programme for generating the graphics that other devices then use in the broadcast chain.

and how long would it take to make my Avatar EYE look like its getting red from smoking a bong?

5 minutes

[Slomo]

[mouse]

That's all true but we did not do complicated or hires stuff that you now do on any computer. I actually wrote code on a Commodore64 to generate icons that we then used in primitive computer games (damn this makes me look even older than S y). There is a little truth in you statement since things were very hard to come by in Yugoslavia (compared to you lucky bas s) we had to be more creative - so sometimes we came by with really cool solutions.

who knew they had Geeks in the USSR?

You must be one of the original Geeks from your country.

The only person I know who had a Pc when they had no hard drives is Robinator and Crazyone.



The first 3D animation I was a part of was made on a 286 PC with a special Targa video card and it was able to generate one frame at the time and to render it onto a very expensive hard disk that had barely space for the software and one frame! We then recorded that one frame onto a 1"C video tape, erased the disk and started again. The whole process (for one frame) took approx. 30 minutes. That was in 1987 or 1988.

Not really only bare in mind that there is a certain number of picture for each seconds so you'll have to tweak/modify each picture/frame - it's a lengthy process.

I design and - more importantly - sell broadcast systems and TV stations. Part of our services is operator training and in today's TV there's tons of graphics. Photoshop is often used as the programme for generating the graphics that other devices then use in the broadcast chain.

and you can't get me a job sweeping the floors? I can sell a ketchup popcicle to lady wearing white Gloves.

[mouse]

I was looking for something that had red viens in the white area.

go to the bottom of this page and load the bong look at the eyes


http://virtual.bonghit.net/

[Slomo]

I was looking for something that had red viens in the white area.

go to the bottom of this page and load the bong look at the eyes


http://virtual.bonghit.net/

I get it now, I'll play with it a little later.

[Slomo]

who knew they had Geeks in the USSR?

You must be one of the original Geeks from your country.

[mouse]

Your posts say geek, your picture says KGB

[Slomo]

[mouse]

^Rack

[mouse]

Slomo last question for the day. do I need any of these?

Adobe go live 6.0
BYCE 5
KPT6
Adobe Illustrator 10
CoreDraw 10
pro Creat painter 7

should I download any of these? thanks

[cmc$purs]

where did the pics go i only see red x i want to see the eye damnit!!