PhotoShop CS3

[minendrews68]

Well it finally got the best of me... I broke down and bought Photoshop, now all I've got to do is learn how to use it lol. Anyone with any pointers, I'm listening.
Carl

[ZVT]

oh where to begin.lol welcome to your new addiction.

I'd say just start with simple things if your not that fimiliar with CS3 there are a few thigns that are differnt than the regualr PS versions but easier to get the hang of.'

vist adobe studio exchange for some tutorials or if you going to do renderings/chops vist digimods photshop bible or see the sticky in the mutemedia forum for tutorials or just ask any one of us we can point you in teh right direction

Zee

[bucks69]

Hey Carl you should have said something I would have gave you mine....LOL I cant do **** with it, and Steph got me the expensive one, but good luck and I hope you learn to use it well then I will be seeing you regularly...lol

BTW it was great meeting you and your family this past weekend... I will catch you this coming weekend if you are around.

[minendrews68]

Zee, thanks for the help, I will try those site out. I'm not expecting to do any work (as business) with it I just want to play. My background is mechanical engineering, I was using Unigraphics for drafting. That was one sweet program, left hand was using a space ball, right was using the mouse. 3D at it's finest. And rendering wow!. The only thing, at $27k per seat it was just a little out of my range. I did buy TurboCad Pro ver.15 though and I use it some at my countertop business.
Jay,
Good to finally meet you too. Although the car show wasn't last weekend huh? lol!! We'll have to try again this coming weekend. Man, your car sounds like it's going to be nice. I've got a while to go....see you this weekend maybe.
Carl

[sharpie]

Just start with some tutorials. Go to google and type "photoshop tutorials." Follow a few, get the hang of the tools and techniques, then move on to filters. What I did was I'd take a picture into Photoshop, then just click any artistic filter. It will bring up another window, and you can play around with different filters. Learn those and some basic techniques and you can do a whole ton of stuff.

[jackfrost]

Go to google and type "photoshop tutorials."

what he said.

also check out http://psdtuts.com

post if you have any specific questions.

[ZVT]

Zee, thanks for the help, I will try those site out. I'm not expecting to do any work (as business) with it I just want to play. My background is mechanical engineering, I was using Unigraphics for drafting. That was one sweet program, left hand was using a space ball, right was using the mouse. 3D at it's finest. And rendering wow!. The only thing, at $27k per seat it was just a little out of my range. I did buy TurboCad Pro ver.15 though and I use it some at my countertop business.
Jay,
Good to finally meet you too. Although the car show wasn't last weekend huh? lol!! We'll have to try again this coming weekend. Man, your car sounds like it's going to be nice. I've got a while to go....see you this weekend maybe.
Carl

If you worked with those programs CS3 will be like working in windows paint for you.LOL
most of the graphics software are pretty uniform as far as buttons etc go so it really should be pretty easy for you to get the hang of it quickly.

[minendrews68]

I was doing one of the tutorials and it said to use the elipse tool, but in the tool menu I can't find the elipse, line, or much of any of the drawing tools any ideas?

[minendrews68]

.....I found it.

[minendrews68]

Hey Zee,
I got a picture of a '68 Camaro off the web, I brought it into PS and I've tried to change the color of it, haven't done it yet. Can you give me a few pointers as to what tools and steps? I promise I won't bug you forever on helping...lol

[Young Gun]

this is a pretty good tutorial:

http://digimods.co.uk/tutorials/tutorials.htm

[ZVT]

Hey Zee,
I got a picture of a '68 Camaro off the web, I brought it into PS and I've tried to change the color of it, haven't done it yet. Can you give me a few pointers as to what tools and steps? I promise I won't bug you forever on helping...lol

The link Colin posted and this one should give you all you need for chopping etc...If you run into snags just PM me or post it up

http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/

I dont really use the polygon lasso tool much but the pen tool becasue it gives you more control with curves etc...
Just remmber to zoom in tight so you can get around the curves.

[minendrews68]

Thanks guys,

So, here we go to school...lol

[minendrews68]

The link Colin posted and this one should give you all you need for chopping etc...If you run into snags just PM me or post it up

http://www.photoshopchop.com/tutorials/

I dont really use the polygon lasso tool much but the pen tool becasue it gives you more control with curves etc...
Just remmber to zoom in tight so you can get around the curves.

When I zoom in really close the pic is very jagged. I believe this is due to the picture itself being of not very good quality. The one I got off the Inet probably wasn't the best. Man i wish I had more time to do this, work really gets in my way.....

[minendrews68]

Can you capture the color in one photo, and use it as a color to choose from when doing a chop of the car your working on? For example, If I saw a car, and brought it into PS, can I capture the color of that car to use on the Camaro I want to change the color on, or are you limited to choose only the colors in the program?

Thanks,

[Memphis]

You use the lil eye dropper thing

[DVierstra]

Open up both images in PS. Select the color in the first Photo (using the eye dropper tool), and then create a layer in the second photo outlining the cars body (minus the windows, mirrors, trim, etc.) Once you have done that, make a selection of the body (moving dotted lines-or what they call marching ants) fill that selection with the color from the first car.

Now de-select (ctrl+delete). You may want an extra layer under your new body color that is desaturated (image, adjust, desaturate).
Using your layers pallete, got to pull down menu where it lists "normal."
Go to "multiply" or "overlay" and you may have to adjust the opacity in layers pallete. Let us know how this works for you.

-DV

[minendrews68]

Open up both images in PS. Select the color in the first Photo (using the eye dropper tool), and then create a layer in the second photo outlining the cars body (minus the windows, mirrors, trim, etc.) Once you have done that, make a selection of the body (moving dotted lines-or what they call marching ants) fill that selection with the color from the first car.

Now de-select (ctrl+delete). You may want an extra layer under your new body color that is desaturated (image, adjust, desaturate).
Using your layers pallete, got to pull down menu where it lists "normal."
Go to "multiply" or "overlay" and you may have to adjust the opacity in layers pallete. Let us know how this works for you.
-DV

WOW, that was mouthfull! I'll let you guys know how it goes, I'm thinking that layers are kind of like "levels" in most drafting software, where you might put the main part you've drawn on level 1, dimensions on level 2, notes or annotation on level 3 and so on.
Thanks....again!
Carl

[sharpie]

kind of. I like to think of it as something like how South Park used to be made - with paper cutouts. Cartman's hat had to cover his head which had to cover his body which had to cover the couch he was sitting on. So we see it like this in Photoshop:
Layer 4: hat
Layer 3: head
Layer 2: body
Layer 1: couch

Everything put on a layer above any others will be "on top" of the picture under it.

[minendrews68]

OK, I've done it now! I've got the program to where if I decide to move the window two of my pallets stay where they are. For example I had a window up (1/2 screen) of Pro touring so I could read the tutorials. The other 1/2 had PS up then I closed the Pro Touring window and moved the PS window to the middle of the desktop. Two of the Palettes (sp) stayed where they were! One was the history and actions, and the other was the layers, paths, channels. Any idea as to what I've done?

Thanks,
Carl