Hey all. Was working on a wee thing today and thought it would make a nice quick tip tutorial. I’ve not done one in ages, I hope it is worth the wait.*
* It wont be.
Posts Tagged ‘photoshop’
Superhero!
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Today I watched an amazing movie. It is called Defendor. Rough jist is that it’s about a guy, played by Woody Harrelson, who has a learning disability and has taken it upon himself to clean up the prostitution problem in his home town. It is a really dark comedy. Harrelson plays it to a tee. This wouldn’t have been the movie it was if not for him. Absolutely bitchin’ soundtrack too. Watch the trailer below:
You may or may not be aware that there is another similar type movie coming out soon called ‘Kick Ass‘. The movie has been getting rave reviews so far, but I have a hard time imagining it being any better than Defendor.
Anyway, on the back of this movie, I was watching the new trailer for Kick Ass and noticed a really nice text effect going on in it. Thought I would try and recreate the effect myself. Here is the result using a mixture of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop:
Didn’t take long to do. I might do a tut on it if anyone is interested?
Photoshop Tip: Crop to Selection of Specific Size
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
OK. I’ve been working with Photoshop for over a decade and today I discovered something for the first time that I WISH I had figured out years ago.
So. Imagine this. You have a big, multi-layered PSD. Only a specific part is of interest. You want to use this area for an image but want to retain the layer structure. Only way to do this is to Crop the image then Save As to create a new PSD. The PROBLEM with this is that the crop tool (C) is a totally visual tool. If you, for example, wanted to crop the image to a specific size you’ll be in bother. You’d have to create an new image of a desired size and then copy all the layers to the new document.
Today I discovered a solution to this.
Fixed Size
What to do is: Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M). In the Toolbar you’ll see an option that says ‘Style’. Select: ‘Fixed Size’, and input your desired size for the image after the Crop. Add the selection around the area of interest.
Now here is the cool part that I never realised. Instead of going to your Crop tool, go to the Toolbar, select Image > Crop with your previous selection still active. Hey Presto. You have a new image of a specific size and your layers are still intact.
Cinema 4d and Photoshop CS4
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Purchased Cinema 4d and Photoshop CS4 this week as part of Lucid Studio. I’ve been mucking about with some of the features and before I knew it I had something quite funky. Thought I would post it to let you all see.
Created with Cinema 4d and CS4
Love the layout to CS4. So much more organised and intuitive. Lucid Studio is going to reap the benifits from the increased productivity. Cinema 4d seems nice too. Need to have more of a playabout with it!
Excellent
Sunday, February 15th, 2009Wanted to share this with you all. Didn’t know about this technique, I had been doing this the long way it seems. I can image a similar thing being done on movies where they are waning to show empty cityscapes. Impressed.
http://www.jnack.com/adobe/photoshop/fountain/
