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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: colecampbell666 on September 15, 2007, 07:41:45 pm
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I am trying to create a new beam and want to know how to round edges in CS3. It is attached in Photoshop format and .PNG. As you can see it looks quite choppy.
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If you mean the light-to-dark gradient on the top and bottom, there's about 100 ways to do it, but one is to use the gradient tool (or hit the button for the paint bucket fill and hold it down to get the gradient option) Get your foreground set to the bright yellow, then the background color as a dark yellow.
It may take a number of attempts to get it right... there will be other more accurate ways (but they'll take longer to explain) :P
After getting the top and bottom more or less equal since the tool will take some 'eyeballing,' make a new layer and select a box in the middle, feather 5px and fill with white. Then go back to the gradient layer and mess around with brightness/contrast until it looks about right.
For instance:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v638/DiabloRojo/SPAM-BEAMZORZ_Rojo.gif)
Attached zip of the psd
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Or you could just use a blur filter and redo the typeing :P
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I didn't type it, I cut it out of a picture of a can of Spam.
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:wtf: seriously, how did you do THAT >_>
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Ctrl + X :p
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I dont actually have photoshop i use gimp, but if thats a photoshop only feature well then... torrent time :nervous:
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Try Paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net)... It looks to be a good Photoshop replacement. Someone who uses Photoshop tell me if it's good.
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I fear that this will only encourage spam.
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I fear that this will only encourage spam.
And?
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And it's a sure way to get the thread locked. End of.
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Try Paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net)... It looks to be a good Photoshop replacement. Someone who uses Photoshop tell me if it's good.
Tried it for the first time... they have made many of the same keyboard shortcuts do the same thing as the Photoshop counterpart and it seems like a very good (infinitely cheaper helps!) photoshop alternative. There seem to be quite a number of shortcomings when it comes to layer options though... if you're used to using 10^12 layers in PS like me, you'll probably go nuts. But, I did this with it in about a minute and a half. Not too shabby at all for a free editor.
(http://home.comcast.net/~strykeman/pics/PaintNetTestBeam.jpg)
I took the SPAM(B) text from an image as well, but here's a quick technique to make cut-out text (if you can't get the font itself) to look better in the end, and should work with most any image editing program. Since we'll all undoubtedly start using a fairly small image with text as the base, first blow it up. Increase the image size by a ton... and I mean something like, 5000x5000 pixels or more. Then increase contrast while decreasing brightness. Don't go TOO far, but increase it enough to separate it a good bit from the background. Then blur it, again be careful to keep the font intact (watch out for the holes in 'e's 'o's and 'a's), and repeat those two steps a few times. Finally select the text with the 'magic wand' or equivalent. When you paste and size it to acceptable proportions, you should end up with the text appearing much cleaner. Then hue/colorize/etc. Here's an example, using my welcome message at the top of the page:
(http://home.comcast.net/~strykeman/pics/SpamExample.gif)