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post #91 of 149
7/17/06 at 8:32pm
I am addicted now....can anyone make a sig from the siggy request?? Because I wouldn't mind giving it a try with other people's cats!
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post #92 of 149
7/17/06 at 8:55pm
Why yes Alaynna! The puropse of the siggy shower is to let people play around with their software, get siggys, and entertain themselves!
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post #93 of 149
7/17/06 at 9:17pm
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Originally Posted by Alaynna
I am addicted now....can anyone make a sig from the siggy request?? Because I wouldn't mind giving it a try with other people's cats!
That is a very cute siggy. I like the background. You can go to the siggy shower - requests page and get people's photos of their cats and have a ball!!
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post #94 of 149
7/18/06 at 4:08am
Ok, thanks I will have some fun when I get home from work!!

Oh and thank you this is one of my first attempts on a siggy below!!
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post #95 of 149
7/19/06 at 1:09pm
What is a good website to get props for the signatures?
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post #96 of 149
7/19/06 at 2:58pm
Are you guys able to edit text? I mean like paint a colour over text? With Photo Shop Elements? Does it come with all of these awesome backgrounds that I am seeing? If not were are you downloading them from?

I think you guys have me sold on buying Photo Shop-dang as many of use that have bought Photo Shop because of TCS, they should be our sponser and give us discounts, LOL!
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post #97 of 149
7/19/06 at 3:31pm
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Originally Posted by KatKisses
Are you guys able to edit text? I mean like paint a colour over text? With Photo Shop Elements? Does it come with all of these awesome backgrounds that I am seeing? If not were are you downloading them from?

I think you guys have me sold on buying Photo Shop-dang as many of use that have bought Photo Shop because of TCS, they should be our sponser and give us discounts, LOL!

I use Photoshop elements:


Yes you are able to edit text and download text/backgrounds.

The sig I have was made by the program.


If you look at the first page of this thread there are some links for the fonts and backgrounds.
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post #98 of 149
7/24/06 at 3:24pm
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Originally Posted by HopeHacker
If you're talking about Fonts. Chances are, when you download a font, it will be in a zip file. If you don't have winzip, you need to download it, because that's the way to install your new fonts that you download. What I do, is create a folder on my D drive called "Fonts Downloaded", that way you will be able to find the fonts you download. Then I click on the fonts zip file, and Winzip will open up, and ask you what you want to do. Well what you want to do, is unzip the file, and then you want to install it in the C drive: Windows-Fonts. That's all there is to it. It's so simple, it could be hard, because it's so simple. Once you've installed your new fonts, you can use them in any program you have. I'm a font-aholic. The cool thing about fonts, is that not only do they have text fonts, but they have Dingbat fonts, and Dingbats, are graphic fonts. You can use those to create a lot of cool backgrounds and effects. In Photoshop, you can colourize the and/or paint the Dingbats, and make them into lovely pictures, and add ons to your backgrounds you create.
Hi Hope,
Thanks to this brilliant explanation I can now download and use fonts. If you have time could you please explain in the same easy to understand terms how to download brushes. All the instructions I have found are too complicated for a simple soul like me to understand
Anne
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post #99 of 149
7/24/06 at 4:23pm
Thread Starter 
I will try the brushes

Again, you will probably need winzip as often (depending on the source) they are compressed for easy downloading.
So unzip the file to a folder called 'my new brushes' or whatever you want to call it.

Now copy and paste the unzipped files to your brush folder in whatever program you use:

In Photoshop: (I assume PS Elements will be similar)
C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Photoshop CS\\Presets\\Brushes

To make life easy on myself when I found the brush file I right clicked and told it to save a shortcut to the desktop so I just move the files there.

In PSP it will be something like:
C:\\Program Files\\Jasc Software Inc\\Paint Shop Pro 9\\Brushes

If you find a brush (and I am not sure if this works in PSP) while working on a file and don't want to restart photoshop, just save the file to your 'my new brushes' folder and in photoshop

Click on the edit menu, then click preset manager make sure it says brushes in the preset type menu and click load and it will open the usual window for finding a file just click on it and it will add it to your brushes.

and I download most of mine from www.deviantart.com (look under photoshop/paintshop resources)
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post #100 of 149
7/27/06 at 11:27pm
I have a question on color. How do you change the color of a cat's eyes, for example? When I select the eye and try to adjust the color it looks really stupid. There must be something I'm missing!
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post #101 of 149
7/28/06 at 5:02am
Thread Starter 
I tend to cut the eye out and make a new layer (leaving the original layer in the original pic as well), change the layer type to hue and then adjust the colour but you have to be fairly neat about the edges on the cut out
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post #102 of 149
7/28/06 at 8:32am
I have another way that I change the cats eye colour. It's probably not the proper way to do it, but it's easier for me. I take my lasso, and outline the eye, then I adjust colour balance or Hue and saturation or both. It seems easier than making a new layer. I try to make sure that the black pupil of the eye is not outlined, so that the colour change only occurs on what is outlined. However, if I'm working with more than the eye, like when I add Kiss Make up to people I make a new layer and make one layer black and white, then I put the new layer on top of the coloured layer and cut out the eyes and lips on the black and white layer, so that the coloured layer shows through, then I usually enhance the lips on the coloured layer, so that they're redder. That's also the way I make a black and white picture of a cat, with coloured eyes. I just cut out the black and white eyes, so the coloured eyes show through. Then I flatten it.
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post #103 of 149
7/28/06 at 8:36am
Thread Starter 
I just paste to a new layer in case I change my mind after - its easier to delete a new layer than change the eyes back if I decide they aren't what I like
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post #104 of 149
7/28/06 at 8:44am
Here's an example of my putting Kiss make up on people.

1st Johnny Depp in Paul Stanley's Starchild Make up



Next Johnny Depp in Gene Simmons Demon Make Up



I probably do these more like Icklemiss does it. Most things I just do the way it's easier for me to do them, and not the way that is the proper way, if you know what I mean.
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post #105 of 149
7/28/06 at 8:48am
Thread Starter 
I don't think there is a 'proper' way in photoshop - its art, its all about preferences, me... I will change my mind 10 times before finishing a sig so I like to make them undo-able
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post #106 of 149
7/28/06 at 8:53am
Ah, I see what I was doing - I didn't make a new layer, which I probably should have done. Also using the hue is a good idea. I was trying to make my daughter's eyes blue in a photo, and she ended up looking like a demon!
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post #107 of 149
7/28/06 at 9:15am
I expect most of you know this but I have just found it and thought I'd share.
When it is hard to see the cat from the background if you invert it, it shows up clearer.
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post #108 of 149
7/29/06 at 7:53am
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Originally Posted by Anakat
I expect most of you know this but I have just found it and thought I'd share.
When it is hard to see the cat from the background if you invert it, it shows up clearer.
i did not know that. thanks!
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post #109 of 149
7/29/06 at 10:48am
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Originally Posted by Yarra
i did not know that. thanks!
Oh. I get it. Then AFTER you are done cutting out the cat you can invert it AGAIN!! (Sorry, blonde moment, or...um, life, LOL!)
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post #110 of 149
8/1/06 at 9:28am
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Originally Posted by HopeHacker
I'm glad Ms Dutchy likes it. That siggy took more time to do that just about any I've done. It was worth it though. Did yo notice how I corrected her eye on the right on that close up picture? I noticed in the original photo that the flash seemed to make her entire pupil disappear. So I cut out the pupil from the eye on the left, and pasted a copy of it on the right. I wasn't sure if it would work, but I think it did.
Very nice - it looks very realisic! Hope, does PhotoShop have red-eye correction? What settings do you use? I like the darkness of the pupil - I have trouble getting mine to look as 3-D as you do.

I'm trying to move over from Paint Shop Pro, but I just know the menus so much better in PSP...
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post #111 of 149
8/1/06 at 11:09am
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Originally Posted by kluchetta
Very nice - it looks very realisic! Hope, does PhotoShop have red-eye correction? What settings do you use? I like the darkness of the pupil - I have trouble getting mine to look as 3-D as you do.

I'm trying to move over from Paint Shop Pro, but I just know the menus so much better in PSP...

I'm sure it does. I am just used to using the "burn" tool to burn in a whited out red pupil, and that's how I do it. I just burn the pupil until it's black.
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post #112 of 149
8/1/06 at 11:18am
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Originally Posted by HopeHacker
I'm glad Ms Dutchy likes it. That siggy took more time to do that just about any I've done. It was worth it though. Did yo notice how I corrected her eye on the right on that close up picture? I noticed in the original photo that the flash seemed to make her entire pupil disappear. So I cut out the pupil from the eye on the left, and pasted a copy of it on the right. I wasn't sure if it would work, but I think it did.
It worked really well, Hope! I remember that picture, and that pupil was not only whited out, but almost looked like her eye was torn. You did a fantastic job on that sig!
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post #113 of 149
8/2/06 at 10:42am
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Originally Posted by kluchetta
Kelly, did you burn the eyes like Hope does? I really like that look!
No, I don't know how to do that. I just use a brush tool to pain them in. What really helps when you do this is to put the white dot on there where the "light" would be "reflected". It makes a huge difference when you're painting over "flash-eye". On the alliread sig, I painted all of their eyes.
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post #114 of 149
8/2/06 at 1:40pm
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Originally Posted by icklemiss21
It's ok, I thought Peanut was a he too until I was told otherwise That sig is a rip off of a graphic I did of Maxie a while back, unfortunately, she turned out looking like a devil with a long chin and spiky ears the signature hides all that, I was practising playing with fur

I definitely prefer working with 1-2 cats, it just allows so much more creativity and you are notforced to use a certain order because of orientation of photos etc.

Hope, you did an amazing job of the last two siggies!

As for the eyes, it depends what is wrong with them, sometimes I will cut the eye out and make a copy of the other eye and flip it over to fit if its completely washed out. Depending on the colour, burning can sometimes turn it devil red and sometimes I will paint it on with a feathered brush so the edges don't look 'wonky'
Thanks, I appreciate the compliment.

I've been known to do the same thing with the eyes. I did it for Scamperfarms Dutchy. Cut out one pupil rotated it and put it on the burned out eye. I've been known to add a little black here and there when the burning turns the pupil a wonky colour, as well.
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post #115 of 149
9/26/06 at 3:28am
Hi,
Does anyone know if Photoshop has a snap to grid thing like publisher? I sometimes have troube getting the text to go exactly where I want it, it seems to jump a little bit. If it has does anyone know how to turn it off?
Thanks Anne
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post #116 of 149
9/26/06 at 8:38am
PSP does, it is under the "View" menu. To turn it off, all you do is select it. It's a toggle. Selecting it will turn it the opposite of what it currently is set to.

I hope PShop is the same!
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post #117 of 149
9/26/06 at 11:23am
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Originally Posted by Yarra View Post
PSP does, it is under the "View" menu. To turn it off, all you do is select it. It's a toggle. Selecting it will turn it the opposite of what it currently is set to.

I hope PShop is the same!
Thanks, why is is always so obvious when some-one tells you and all the times I have zoomed in and out I hadn't seen it. I get the same thing in supermarkets I'll look for something for ages and when I give in and ask a staff member they there Madam and point behind me
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post #118 of 149
9/26/06 at 1:48pm
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Originally Posted by HopeHacker View Post
I'm sure it does. I am just used to using the "burn" tool to burn in a whited out red pupil, and that's how I do it. I just burn the pupil until it's black.
I am going to have to try that. I use the gama corection tool, over and over, until the pupil turns black. It works somewhat, but it does leave a tinge of the underlying color, IE: if the pupil was a washed out blue, the gama corected eye tends to be A REALLLLLY DARK blue.

I will have to try it your way Hope! I think it will work better!
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post #119 of 149
9/26/06 at 1:55pm
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Originally Posted by Yarra View Post
I am going to have to try that. I use the gama corection tool, over and over, until the pupil turns black. It works somewhat, but it does leave a tinge of the underlying color, IE: if the pupil was a washed out blue, the gama corected eye tends to be A REALLLLLY DARK blue.

I will have to try it your way Hope! I think it will work better!
I did one that way today in my puppy thread. It worked quite well - don't forget to use the paintbrush to put a little white sparkle back in their eye!
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post #120 of 149
9/26/06 at 8:21pm
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Originally Posted by HopeHacker View Post
I have another way that I change the cats eye colour. It's probably not the proper way to do it, but it's easier for me. I take my lasso, and outline the eye, then I adjust colour balance or Hue and saturation or both. It seems easier than making a new layer. I try to make sure that the black pupil of the eye is not outlined, so that the colour change only occurs on what is outlined. However, if I'm working with more than the eye, like when I add Kiss Make up to people I make a new layer and make one layer black and white, then I put the new layer on top of the coloured layer and cut out the eyes and lips on the black and white layer, so that the coloured layer shows through, then I usually enhance the lips on the coloured layer, so that they're redder. That's also the way I make a black and white picture of a cat, with coloured eyes. I just cut out the black and white eyes, so the coloured eyes show through. Then I flatten it.
wow, thanks for that tip! I've just started experimenting with changing cats eyecolor, and it wasn't always working well, and i was thinking dangit, how come i cant get it to look how i want.. the lasso tool works great!
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