or how 'lighten' is my best friend
and should be your best friend too

Note: This is how I blend. It's the only way I blend. I can't get blending to work by having both layers set to normal and by erasing the parts I don't want. I think it looks weird and the blending isn't smooth. I don't know how other people blend and if I once knew another way to blend, I don't know it anymore. In other words: this tutorial isn't the be all and end all to blending.

Note: This isn't image heavy.



( ...billie piper banner blending and colouring tutorial... )

What's wrong? Always this error write off, every time you click on the Text tool. Help!
*gome... I don't speak english... very not ^^"*

I'm new to Photoshop - just got it (CS3), and was totally excited about working with it, but then it turned out I can't get my brushes to work properly. They show up all right where they're supposed to, but colour-wise they're messed up. No matter what I do, they're all transparent, and brushes that I download from DeviantArt look nothing like they do there.

Screenshot here. Example of a preset brush that came with the programme in the above picture, and a brush downloaded from DeviantArt in the one below. The DeviantArt brushes especially confuse me - why do they look like that? It's a santa hat like the ones I see in so many icons at the moment, why is this all screwed up?
Another problem is that on that image, I can't change the colour. As you can see, it's grey - and no matter what I do, it won't change. When I click on the colour square down at the left, it shows that I've chosen red (as seen in this screenshot), but it won't actually paint in that colour.

I'm sure the first problem at least has something to do with opacity, but I've used the Photoshop help and looked through old entries here, and I cannot for the life of me figure this out. Anyone? Bueller? Any help greatly appreciated!

(I did read this post from the archives, but I'm not sure if it's the same problem that I'm having since it's PSP, and I didn't really understand how to solve it.)

so im not sure if anyone here would know--but
i know how to make sigs with animations on them and animated pics on them. my question is, is there anyway to make a sig with both an animation and animated pictures? last time i tried, the time of the animated pics and animation went at the same time :/ so like when the time slowed down for the pics, it slowed down for the animation too.

Help?1 anyone :)

I want to make an animated GIF but the screencaps I have are of poor quality.
But when I change the coloring of one frame, I want it also to do the same to the other frames.
(I opened the frames as layers)
Is there a way to do that instead of coloring the caps one by one?
I use Adobe Photoshop CS3

Thanks in advance!

Alright, so I'm in Photoshop 7.0 working on an animation request for a different site. The animation is huge, at least 6 MB -and I have it all prepped and pretty. So, I go to Jump To > Image Ready 7.0, and I turn the layers into frame. I delete the frames with the background, border, text, and adjustments, leaving me just the animation part. Now, I want to make the background visible for the first frame. I click on the eye- And it doesn't become visible. Same with the border layer. However, the text and adjustments are allowed to toggle between visible and invisible. Is it because the file is freaking huge? Any thoughts, it's driving me mad?

Screenshot can be provided.

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Made in Photoshop 7
Translatable: No
Difficulty: Easy
PSD: Yes!

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**EDIT Wed Dec 9 00:28:16 UTC 2009 **

The notification system has been fixed in the new release... we are currently processing the queue, which is upwards of 12m jobs... please bear with us while our workers chew through this large queue and get your notification / emails out. Some may come more quickly than others due to weights on the notifications themselves, but we are hoping in the next 24 hours to have all the queues cleared and all notifications delivered that had been queued up over the past few days.

Again I apologize for this inconvenience, but we are almost out of the woods as soon as we are done clear cutting some of the forest ;)

Thanks,

** END EDIT**

Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

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How can you do something like this?

I see that it might be two images, with threshold applied to one of them. However, whenever I try threshold it never looks that nice. It always looks scratchy and it's never smooth. Can anyone direct me to a tutorial for this kind of effect?

This tutorial will learn you how you can enhance the coloring of your subject on your graphic without an explosion of colors.
Program: Adobe Photoshop CS4
Difficulty: easy (involves hue/saturation, selective coloring and curves)
Steps: 05
Featuring Robert Pattinson.

( tutorial is over here )

can anyone tell me how to make animations like this http://i50.tinypic.com/2jy4g3.jpg
and can anyone tell me if its a texture or a brush on this animated sig http://i47.tinypic.com/2nv5awx.jpg
thanks

If anyone knows, could you tell me who made this tutorial

(this pic was used for the tut)

thank you

Hi everyone, I used to have this "guide to color layers" memmed at my journal. Unfortunately, the journal has been deleted, and I was wondering if anyone saved the entire jpeg image?

( Here is part of the picture )

Or, if anyone has other guides that resemble this, it would be of tremendous help! THANK YOU!!

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Program: Photoshop CS3
Steps:
Involves: Fill layers, Curves, Levels, Color Balance, Gradient Map and dubilcated layers.
No PSD.

( Under here )

EDITED:

I'm tying to have a glow all around my image kind of like this. I tried layer > blending options > outerglow and it didn't work at all. was also told by a friend to do select > load selection > modify > expand and then copy the layer and set it to overlay. Then your supposed go to the blending options to do outer glow, but that's where I run into a problem. This doesn't give me the nice softness that my example pic has, it's more like a white marshmallow blob. Here's what I'm getting for reference.


Can anyone please tell me how to do this correctly in Photoshop? Or what options I need to be using to get that softness.