Photoshop request thread

Ok, I didnt see anything like that, (IE) but I saved it to my photobucket, when I try to use the link in the option 1 space, it says remote file too big. I managed to use the link and post if directly in my sig and it works, but now when you click on it it takes you to my photobucket, not my build.

 

In your signature box in your control panel, single click on the image (or highlight photobucket link) and then click the little globe icon in the tools above. In the little window that pops up, insert your build page link and click enter. It should link to your build page after that.

Matt

 

That just puts the link in the sig, but as a link form, if you click the picture it still goes to photobucket.

 

Try saving the image from your photobucket and then re-upload to TW gallery, then try the new link? Unless you've tried that already.

Matt

 

Now if you click it, it just takes you to my gallery.

 

Nevermind. I figured it out. I didnt know I had to highlight the picture before inserting the link. Im a dummy.

 

I've had that happen to me before on my sigs. Try and click the globe icon again and re-insert your build link. Sometimes it takes two times of pasting the link in the hyperlink tool for some reason.

Matt

 

There is no detail on the badge. So, it's jibberish up close. JPEG compression artifacts on top of being too small.

 

That's ok, it was just a iPhone pic anyway, thank you so much, very nice work.
I like it, I'll have to ask her what she thinks.

 

This sig pic took about 10-15 minutes. I assume you're familiar with PS as I've seen you contribute quite a while here so I won't bother with a step by step on how to do each step, but I'll give you an overview of the steps I took.

I create all my sigs in a large format and resize when completed; this gives me room to work and details easier to see. I also create all my work as .PNGs to enable transparency. This allows the shadows and dithering to "play nice" with whatever color background the forum places it in. (see how it maintains transparency on the main post and in the quoted reference?)

Ok, so here we go.

New image at 3x resolution.

Import source image.

Isolate truck, move to new layer. (then hide)

Clone out truck in imported layer.

Rectangular selection around desired area of image and delete the rest.

Duplicate background. Free transform vertical flip. Motion blur. Add gradient mask and adjust opacity.

Add shadow between background layer and background reflection layer. Motion blur horizontal for fading.

Show truck layer. Defringe by 1 or 2 pixels (depending on size of source image). Select wheels and move to new layer. Transform vertical flip and add gradient mask after moving into proper location.

Add shadows between truck and wheel reflection layer...oval selection filled with black and motion blurred...adjust opacity. Do the same thing with the body/frame shadow. I usually reference the source image for this so it's "realistic."

Burn tool set to "shadow" to darken the blacks in desired area.

Merge all but the white background layer.

Delete the white background layer.

Resize to desired size. Save as .PNG.

Is that good enough for you? If you need any other explanation or I didn't cover what you wanted to know, ask away.

I was "head graphics guru" at the Mustang Forum I was active on when I owned the stallion...at that point I actually had a series of YouTube screencasts on how to do some of this stuff. If this is something people here might be interested in, I could look into doing it again.

 

Glad you got it sorted!

 

I'd like to see some videos. I'm all self taught in photoshop so I'm sure I don't know half the stuff that's on there but I get by lol I still said "wut" to most of that LOL

Cause those sigs are super awesome! Want...

 

Done and done!

 

That looks awesome! I've been wanting a new sig pic sort of like that where the truck is cut out from a pic I'll have to request one soon after I get lifted

 

Hmm, think you could make me a sig with these?

 

I'm self-taught, too. Actually, a friend of mine just authored a book he's getting a lot of press for about learning to do things on your own (which I'm a big proponent of). You should check it out! I'm not sure I'm allowed to post direct links, so check out "The First 20 Hours" on Amazon if it sounds like something you'd be into.

I'll see about recording a few screencasts and posting them up. Are there any topics you'd like to see covered?

 

Sweet ill check it out. A video of how to do those sig pics would be cool. I might have to give you the full version of my photo for you to edit haha. Do you have an album of your work? I can't think of anything I'd like to learn offhand but if I scan a gallery I may find something.

 

Thank you sir, looks great jus like the last one you did for me!

 

I don't have most of my stuff uploaded as it's literally hundreds of files and I don't like to host that much at once. You can see a couple galleries at my photobucket account though...

http://s176.photobucket.com/user/thetupper/library/Chops

http://s176.photobucket.com/user/thetupper/library/Sigs