Photoshop Tennis

adama14 · Post by **adama14** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:47 pm

Seems like it's me or OnThinIce, but I did do the Tony Blair one and it's nearly time for beddy-byes...

Dynamite-Dan · Post by **Dynamite-Dan** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:46 pm

you want zombies?

OK, heres MY zombie photoshops......

michaelarby · Post by **michaelarby** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:05 am

leeray666 wrote:
These pictures really are composed by some simple techniques hence the speed in which they were done.

There are many other techniques that I have used in these two pictures, for example,

wow- ive learned some new stuff already. cheers. but would you mind sharing a few more secrets with me?
1- the displacement filter requires a displacement map- what is that?
2- how did you create the wavy lines in the first picture? was that a brush you created? and if so:
3- how does one create a new brush preset?

cheers.

leeray666 · Post by **leeray666** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:13 am

Nice. You say you are a Graphic Designer. I'm an artist myself, but I have a degree in Graphic Design. At the moment I am doing a few jobs, some large spray paintings, some mixed media canvases, some band promotional material and some t-shirt designs. All along side a part-time job but I do hope to get enough regular design jobs in so I can leave that one. Do you work for a company? Or are you freelance? Do you get much work?

Dynamite-Dan · Post by **Dynamite-Dan** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:23 am

is that to me leeray?

leeray666 · Post by **leeray666** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:30 am

michaelarby wrote:wow- ive learned some new stuff already. cheers. but would you mind sharing a few more secrets with me?
1- the displacement filter requires a displacement map- what is that?
2- how did you create the wavy lines in the first picture? was that a brush you created? and if so:
3- how does one create a new brush preset?

1. Yes you need a displacement map. Which is basically another picture, in which to displace it with. I used a picture of a splash. But initially I duplicated the layer I wanted to displace before using the filter. This way once the filter had done its work I could carefully rub out parts I didn't need leaving some bits of the image looking crisp while the cap etc. looked like paint splashes.

2. I again used Illustrator for this. I drew two wavy lines a bit different from each other, and then I used the blend tool which gave me the option of setting how many lines I wanted in between the two I had created. It then creates a nice uniform blend between lines. You can also have the lines a different colour from each other and the blend will create a transition from one colour to the other as well. It's quite a nice tool.
When taking things from Illustrator to Photoshop now it is best to copy and paste and select pixels as the end result. If you drag and drop now, a vector workgroup is created in photoshop and the appearance is a quite a bit poorer.

3. To create a brush preset you go to the brush editor which is on the toolbar at the top, it's second left of where it says workspace. You have to have brush selected as a tool for this to come up though I think.
You can then create a new brush or edit one that already exists, then at the side drop down menu you can save that brush.

Maybe I should put some images up and you can use them to try out the things like displace etc.

This could become a very interesting thread.

leeray666 · Post by **leeray666** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:33 am

Dynamite-Dan wrote:is that to me leeray?

Yes.

Dynamite-Dan · Post by **Dynamite-Dan** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:47 pm

Well, im an Aerospace engineer for my Full time job. But i like to do design as a little side earner.

I mainly do Flyer's and Posters for nightclubs, but have done a few wedding invites, menus, price lists.. and so on.

I probably get 1 job a month which isnt much i know but its a bit of beer money for me.
Id like to get into it, to get more work (website, proper pricing structure and so on) but just don't have the enthusiasm at the moment due to stress at work.

OnThinIce · Post by **OnThinIce** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:10 pm

Im not at my house at the moment so cant gain acsess to my computer, so I cant take part until the weekend

Someone feel free to take my go

adama14 · Post by **adama14** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:54 pm

I stole his turn sorry.
I decided to darken the image and add a strange guy in a bad zombie outfit and the Resi crosshair.

Also, any chance you could explain how we know who's turn it is next and an example because I'm stupid. Thanks.

leeray666 · Post by **leeray666** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:38 pm

Yeah, I have no idea. Is there an order? Just go with the flow.
I'm sure we could do a lot more to this picture but it is getting a bit busy now so I suggest we move on to a different one soon.

adama14 · Post by **adama14** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:02 pm

Sure leeray, and since it's basically your thread and you're the genius at this stuff
...You could find a good base picture,non?

leeray666 · Post by **leeray666** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:09 pm

It's not my thread...

adama14 · Post by **adama14** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:12 pm

leeray666 wrote:It's not my thread...

Oh yeah..well I just thought you'd made the most significant additions and those helpful tips, I just assumed....
(I should really take the extra 10 seconds to find who's threads these are...)

leeray666 · Post by **leeray666** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:35 pm

You gotta show some respect to the thread starter...

... I mean, If I was going to just start sorting out the matches in the SWOS thread instead of Ginja where would we be then?...

... Organised, is where we'd be I'll tell ya.

...Probably not really, Ginja does a fine job.

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