Photoshopping Traditional Art

Posted Aug 7, 2006, 7:22:33 PM UTC

Okay, well, I actually made this for Megara who just got PS7 and asked how to use the background eraser. Being that I'm nuts, I just made her a tutorial because I ment to make one anyways and she's an awesome friend. ^_^

Now, I did this on only a about 2 hours. So, if there's something really, badly wrong, that's why.

I only have Photoshop 7, I don't know how to use it very well so, if anything is miss-termed that's why for that.

And, last but not least, I hope you guys can use this for some reason or another! ^_^

Comments

shadowdragonsphinx
Aug 7, 2006, 2:55:03 PM UTC
wow this looks very helpfull...to bad I don't have photoshop, or I would be using it....I might talk my mom into getting it for me for christmas though...so I might use this then. ^_^
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- themusicdied
  Aug 7, 2006, 9:27:51 PM UTC
  Thank you!!
  
  lol Yep! Without photoshop it's not much use. XD
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ArkillianDragon
Aug 7, 2006, 1:57:43 PM UTC
Small crit for this- if you want to lower the colours to black and white, threshold is beter than saving as a gif. Thresold converts to pure black and white rather than decreasing the colours.

Secondly, if you made the picture 256 colour (like with a gif file) PNG format is FAR superiour than GIF, and is supported on this site. It's algerithm means that the way it compresses it is lossless- like a gif, but as small as a JPEG. It also alowes for transparencys and layers. One day it'll totally get rid of GIF. Till then- I suggest using it. I do all my digetal pics in gif. I hated the bleeding
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- themusicdied
  Aug 7, 2006, 9:27:15 PM UTC
  Thank you so much for the help, Arkillian!! I really appreciate it. :nod:
  
  I'm no good at digital work but some of my friends from SheezyART keep asking about it. XD
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  ArkillianDragon
  Aug 7, 2006, 10:08:36 PM UTC
  It's funny- I get the opposite. I give out so much advice that people rarely ask it. I've been using PNG for a while now. My brother introduced it to me when I complained about saving stuff as a jpeg bleeding the buggery out of my pics. He origanlly suggested gif, then when I got into proper Digital colouring where cutting the colours destroyed the pic, he suggested png. Nowdays, I only save as a jpeg if it doesn't matter or if it's a pencil drawing. Never as a gif. It's outdated ^^
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  themusicdied
  Aug 9, 2006, 6:28:21 AM UTC
  lol See, I never give advice unless I'm very close friends with the artist. I've seen so many helpful people get flamed for trying to help someone get a little better that I just shy away.
  
  Trust me, I appreciate it!
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