Photoshop Help Thread

[Zeph]

Post your photoshop questions and answers:


I'm working on a photoshop project and I've found something I cant fix. Normally when I use the brush tool, there is a preview of the brush. Right now, I'm using a simple circle bruh, but there's just a crosshair. Help anyone?

[jahrain]

I'm working on a photoshop project and I've found something I cant fix. Normally when I use the brush tool, there is a preview of the brush. Right now, I'm using a simple circle bruh, but there's just a crosshair. Help anyone?

Turn off caps lock.

Or check the preferences for display and cursors and make sure the painting cursor is set to "brush size".

[Amit]

Excellent timing for this thread. I was working on something recently and I couldn't seem to find the box that defines how many sides you can have on the elliptical marquee tool. I've done it before but I can't seem to find it again.

[dg]

Anyone know how to center an object on a blank document perfectly?

[jahrain]

Anyone know how to center an object on a blank document perfectly?
Go to Edit -> Free Transform. In the top tool bar underneath the File/Edit menu, where is says x: put what half the document width is (in pixels) and in y: put what half the document height is. Hit enter.

Now your object should be placed perfectly center in the document.

[Amit]

Excellent timing for this thread. I was working on something recently and I couldn't seem to find the box that defines how many sides you can have on the elliptical marquee tool. I've done it before but I can't seem to find it again.

Bump.

[jahrain]

Excellent timing for this thread. I was working on something recently and I couldn't seem to find the box that defines how many sides you can have on the elliptical marquee tool. I've done it before but I can't seem to find it again.
The elliptical marquee tool creates an ellipse, which is round therefore has no "sides". I don't understand what you are asking for as it doesn't make sense.

[Con]

If you want to select a polygonal shape, I'd use the create shape tool to make that shape on a separate layer, then ctrl+clicking that layer icon to select the area it covers.

[Amit]

If you want to select a polygonal shape, I'd use the create shape tool to make that shape on a separate layer, then ctrl+clicking that layer icon to select the area it covers.

Nvm, it turns out i was using the wrong button the whole time lol, i wa using the marquee tool instead of the actual shape tool.

[DaneO'Roo]

Good thread, don't be shy youngin's, thar be help yonder.

[Kalub]

Good thread, don't be shy youngin's, thar be help yonder.

www.google.com, works for me :D


(lol)

[Archon23]

Good thread, don't be shy youngin's, thar be help yonder.

Mkay in that case I want a detailed 10 page explanation on how you texture so awesomely. GET TO IT! :-3

In reality anyone have any idea I can get a rusty border around a sig I'm doing as a request?

[Limited]

Anyone know how to center an object on a blank document perfectly?Ctrl + A (Select all) on the background layer (so the whole document is selected) then go to your layer with the thing you want centered on and then press V (move tool) and use the middle align tools at the top where brush settings usually is.

[DaneO'Roo]

No limited that sucks. You do what jahrain said and enter in the mid point coords from a free transform and it centers it perfectly.

Also, the rusty border thing:

Just select all, make a new layer and do a brown and orange/gold render clouds on it, then do a sponge filter on it, go brush strokes and go spatter filter. Then, use the marqee tool and select all the middle of it and remove it either manually or more precisely by making a new layer of the original dimensions, covering it white or watever, scaling it down and selecting it, then switching to the filtered layer and clearing it. Then of course you wouldn't need that white layer anymore. Then, now that the rusty look layer is a border thing, go either right click > blending options > inner glow and adjusting the noise, or filter > other > high pass if that works with cut layers I forget. Then, go to Image > adjustments > Replace Colour and you should be able to figure that part out.

Thats a fairly nooby crappy way to do it. If I was doing it I'd freehand scratches and rust marks just painting with the brush tool. Painting by hand is allways better than what any filter can do.

[PlasbianX]

How exactly do you go about making an animated image? I have this image i made:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a31/plasbianx/SIG-1.jpg

I wanna animate the gray background but i cant seem to figure out how to actually make an animated gif.

[Chewy Gumball]

if you want it to translate, scale, or rotate, its not too hard. Take a look at image ready if you have cs2. If you want it to do something else, its gonna be harder.

[Limited]

It sucks? How does that suck, it works doesnt it? :O

[jahrain]

How exactly do you go about making an animated image? I have this image i made:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a31/plasbianx/SIG-1.jpg

I wanna animate the gray background but i cant seem to figure out how to actually make an animated gif.

File -> Jump to -> ImageReady

In image ready, which has a UI just like photoshop, you will notice the animation panel. There you can add frames. In each frame you can adjust layer properties, effects, and positions for each frame. Then you can check out the gif compression options in the optimization panel. When your done you can export optimized as a gif animation.