BTS : Avatar Creations

reply to post by dollukka


Put some wings on and it would be angelic. Very well done! Impressive.

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NewAgeMan

mOjOm
reply to post by Zarniwoop

 

Ok, I was afraid of something like that. Thanx for the heads up!!

It didn't turn out to be a problem at all..

aww man...that looks really, really good. Me gusta, mucho mucho gusta!

reply to post by cody599


Photoshop doesn't sell on the shelves anymore. You buy a "cloud" license for their product, give them your CC info, and pay $20/mo.

I have to do that with InDesign at work.

reply to post by Ektar

What is the best free download for these projects & one that will help with web design?
I will have to learn everything from scratch but I'm into it. I'm doing the online wed design
classes at the moment & I thought doing something here on ATS would go along with it & be fun.
Thanks for everyone's input here as you are all great at what you do!

Some of us use GIMP --free -- which is a spin off of Photo Shop

Here is a thread that Druid started for help/tips with GIMP:

The Collaborative Gimp tutorial for ATS members

It's good enough to get started


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ETA: Image scale----200x440---is most common size

OpinionatedB
reply to post by cody599

 

You don't have photoshop?

Dude, where have you been?

I hope you get it for Christmas, I use photoshop for work all the time,( I even created all the Banners at work in photoshop) and my husband has the program on his side of the computer at home so I can use that for stuff for ATS from time to time. (although I don't go on his side without permission because I think that is essentially like going through someone's wallet)

I really do like it a lot! You will too once you learn it, there is a lot to learn though, I am STILL learning it!

edit on 13-12-2013 by OpinionatedB because: (no reason given)

I would give my left thumb to be able to figure out the pen tool.

bigfatfurrytexan

Im a Marty
reply to post by dollukka

 

Yes I just learned the Batching, as well as Variables.... Last week I output 1078 cards...

Here's an example of the first set of 49 cards... total of 22 sets later...

Affirmation Cards by Marty

Curious...is that your business?

I have thought about ways to leverage, in the future, the graphics skills I am teaching myself to make me indepedant (or, at least have secondary revenue streams).

Its not actually, its a project I did for the company thats on the site...

My business revolves around webhosting, webdesign, graphics etc....

I do e-book covers as well, there's a good 'action script' that you can buy for PS so that you can create amazing covers for cd's, dvd's, books, etc.... i'll show an example in a minute...

Cheers
Marty

Here's an example of the PSD Action Scripts... over 50 different types...

reply to post by snarky412

I am so ever grateful for your help!
I had seen it mentioned somewhere but I was not
sure if it would benefit me. Thank you again & I will
download & work on it! I am always truly thankful for any help.

Cheers
Ektar

Ektar
reply to post by snarky412

 

I am so ever grateful for your help!
I had seen it mentioned somewhere but I was not
sure if it would benefit me. Thank you again & I will
download & work on it! I am always truly thankful for any help.

Cheers
Ektar

Any time

Agarta got me hooked on it last year, and yes, the user face/menu can be intimidating at first.
But you get used to it
I've still got a bunch to learn
It's been fun tinkering around with it however

I'm still not near as good as many of my fellow ATSers here, but one day, maybe
I know enough to get by tho

Ektar
reply to post by snarky412

 

I am so ever grateful for your help!
I had seen it mentioned somewhere but I was not
sure if it would benefit me. Thank you again & I will
download & work on it! I am always truly thankful for any help.

Cheers
Ektar

********ATTENTION**********

I downloaded gimp from that link and spent an hour chasing malware around my p.c. I'm sure it wasn't intentional but it was there.

It's a programme called snap.do and it hijacks your browsers.

Just be VERY careful where you download gimp from. Even though I downloaded it from what I thought was the official site I got the malware.

Just a heads up
In case you need it this is how to remove snap.do from your computer.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Cody

ETA Link to snap.do removal post

reply to post by dollukka


Santa came early

Massive thanks to the sender

Cody

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan

reply to post by cody599


Merry Early Christmas! lol... glad you got what you were wanting!

reply to post by pheonix358


Lol thank you, my stature is more like pixie who make tricks.. not very angelic

reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan


When you draw path points you can edit points whenever you like, you don´t have to wait when path is finished. Just keep cntrl button down and you can select and drag a points and adjust them. To select last point (corner points ) and continuing the path after adjusting other points keep alt button down when selecting the last point. You can delete points by having cursor over the point and hit delete key.

OpinionatedB
reply to post by cody599

 

Merry Early Christmas! lol... glad you got what you were wanting!

I went sorta



You should have seen the smile on my face, Mrs C said the last time I smiled like that was when I climbed out of this bad boy.


Cody

reply to post by dollukka


i've tried a few tutorials. The movements of the paths when laying them down doesn't feel natural. The curves are the hardest to understand....but it is just the button usage.

I do most photoshopping on my personal laptop. I don't use a mouse on it (i use my mousepad) as long as I am not working in excel (where I either must have an external mouse, or an intellipoint mouse in the middle of the keyboard like a Thinkpad has). Perhaps if i tried on my work laptop instead, or just plugged my mouse in, it could become more intuitive.

One thing is for certain: i don't "get it" because I haven't tried hard enough yet. Now to find the time for focus.....i know I have some of that around here some where.......

reply to post by cody599


Your fonts should load up automatically in photoshop.

The brushes, styles, patterns, etc....what you have for GIMP should work in photoshop if you put it in the right place Let me know if you want me to share what I have with you.

Good day Ladies and Gentlemen of the Avatar Ninja Arts,

Would any of you be inclined to resize this for use as an Avatar without the aspect ratio getting all screwy?

I would be eternally grateful.

reply to post by watchitburn


Dude .. that Dude doesn´t fit completely
I give you something to select tho




.. oops

reply to post by dollukka


Thank you,

Damnit though, you gave me more options. I think I'm going to have to be Scrooge.

You folks here always exceed expectations, thanks again.