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s brave people wondering the same thing do it for them it also helps me ok it s 5am and i m fried have fun with it posted by jody at 5 34 am no comments monday september 30 2013 random thoughts and comments hey i just took a look at my visitor list i m totally amazed at all the countries you come from i had no idea that there were so many different countries but thanks for checking out my blog sad news in the world of photoshop i know this is old news from the spring but i thought that i would mention it here the new extended versions of photoshop will only be released through subscription you can no longer buy new versions in the box here s a link with some more info http shadowhousecreations blogspot ca then for the rest of us peasants is the new photoshop elements 12 at least we still have some options elements has always served me well so i will stay with my elements 11 if you are totally broke then there s always good old gimp which you can download here for free http www gimp org also sumo paint remains free but if you want it on your desktop then you can buy it for 20 http www sumopaint com app these are all in my links list on the right hand column speaking of links i just went through and deleted pages and sites that are no longer with us a moment of silence for all the dead blogs please i fixed all the broken links some of the banners have been deleted once again a moment of silence i will be adding some new links in the near future i did add a link to weebly which is totally free website host i searched long and hard for a free website host that offers a store option at no cost and weebly fit the bill it offers an easy drag and drop store builder if your blog was deleted or if your badge was deleted please send me a link to your badge with code and i ll put it back up if you have any ideas for great links post it here and i ll check it out most of my links here are for photoshop other than that i have 2 requirements for links 1 that it s free or at a nominal cost 2 that it works well nobody likes crap that doesn t work even if it is free i ve added a link to shabby blogs which features some great blog eye candy for free that s about it for now i just wanted to update everyone on what s going on here keep creating because every famous artist started somewhere so keep doing what you love posted by jody at 2 00 am no comments saturday july 27 2013 adding patterns hi here s a simple way to add a pattern fill to something using the colour pop photo courtesy of retro cafe art once you have your photo up you can select the quick selection tool elements 6 users this is in your magic wand flyout selection elements 11 you ll find this at the bottom left side below your workspace make friends with this area we ll be using it a lot here s a better pic of it notice that the quick selection tool is chosen after choosing the quick selection tool you ll notice your cursor turns into a circle start at the top of the area you want to fill and drag down to the bottom and release there should be marching ants around your selection it s probably not perfect if it doesn t go out to the edges you can drag the marching ant line out i like to increase the size of the photo when i m dragging the line out even if you don t need new glasses you ll find resizing helpful at this point you may of dragged the marching ant line way out of your selection area don t stress out you can fix this hold down the option alt key for pcs key and it will now be able to pull the line back inside the border then click on your paint bucket tool above picture at the bottom of your screen will be all your options for the paint bucket tool at the far left you have 2 different boxes the plain box is plain colour okay dump in some plain colour if it makes you happy now you can remove the plain colour by hitting command z the second box has diagonal lines it selects patterns next to it is the pattern i ve selected go to layer new fill layer pattern okay now dump the pattern into the selected area marching ants mine looks like this so tragic i agree it doesn t look that great take a moment to look at the sliders in the above picture in this tragic picture the mode is normal the tolerance is at max the opacity is at 100 click on your new fill layer layer on the right hand side of your page where your layers pallet lives you can adjust your mode try using multiply or linear burn adjust your opacity to around 75 your fill should look like this note if you added colour go to the mode pull down menu and second from the bottom is color the jacket should fit then linear burn at 75 opacity for most people this is the last step however the jacket is really dark multiply often is in this case go to the top and under enhance pull down the menu and go to adjust lighting and levels you can adjust the lighting without the fade that you would get from the opacity slider i used this method and about a zillion more changes to make this notice the jacket thanks to fruebel for the balloon and jinxmim for the colourful bird posted by jody at 3 09 pm no comments monday february 25 2013 everyone loves a freebie here s a few freebie backgrounds show me what you ve done and i ll post it here 300 dpi 8 x 10 300 dpi 4 x 4 300 dpi 8 x 10 300 dpi 2 50 x 3 50 300 dpi 2 50 x 3 50 posted by jody at 12 10 pm 1 comment sunday january 20 2013 f k the preset manager as mentioned earlier i just got pse 11 for years i collected brushes abr and patterns pat i have hundreds of them my greatest fear in moving from pse6 to pse 11 is losing them i had the worst time adding them in the first place i watched youtube videos and searched the forums and groups it didn t matter what i tried trying to add them drove me crazy sometimes i got lucky after hours of trying suffice to say i paid for those brushes with hours of anguish now i have to move those hundreds of items into pse 11 i ve been there before and it was ugly so i ve avoided doing it after repeating my earlier mistakes and getting frustrated again i thought there has got to be an easier way i m here to tell you there is all you have to do is go to your old photoshop program and double click on the icon then click on presets next you can click on brushes you will see a whole folder of abr files brush files brush file to make the next steps easier you can change from icon view to list view select all the brushes cut open up your pse program and head to the brush section there paste into pse 11 s brush folder and that s it you re done there will be doubles and you will be asked if you want to replace the brushes that are doubles just say no your patterns styles and textures can probably all be done in the same way posted by jody at 5 47 pm no comments friday december 21 2012 easy peasy colour replacement okay it s been awhile since my last post but i haven t forgotton you i m happy to say that i ve had 20 000 views on my blog since i started this blog according to google i ve just jumped from using pse 6 to using pse 11 this is one upgrade that s actually worth the money if you wish you could use actions pse has finally included that option if the tools look different it s because i m doing this tutorial using the elements 11 work space so i ve just found a super easy way to change colour you don t need pse 11 to do this first click on the element you want to highlight i add each element flower on a new layer if you do that too then you can just click on the layer you want to colour otherwise you can probably select with the selection tool once the part you want to colour is selected then you can go to your enhance menu and drag down adjust colour then adjust hue saturation now here s where it gets interesting a window will open that looks like the one below there is a pull down menu button called master you ll notice that when you pull down the menu master will now be at the top of the menu instead of being a button master is the one you choose if you want to change the colour of the entire picture instead choose a colour like blue in this instance then start to play with the sliders you will notice that anything blue in the flower you selected will start to change colour as you slide back and forth this is a way to isolate one colour only and change it without changing any of the other colours in your picture unfortunately i m not that well organized tonight i don t have a psd of this picture i ll have to use another picture to show you some samples this is the original composition i did i clicked on the red poppy layer to highlight them then i pulled down the the menu on hue saturation then i chose red i then adjusted the sliders until i got a green colour and played around with the saturation slider and the lightness slider on the dragonfly i went through the same steps one thing to remember is that the colour will mix with the original colour like poster paint remember your colour mixing red and blue make purple so if you have red drag the slider to blue to make purple have fun and keep creating if you have any questions then make a comment so we can all see the answer if you re thinking it there are probably a lot of others wondering as well posted by jody at 3 11 am no comments tuesday august 7 2012 photoshop for the terrified tonight a facebook friend asked me how to get started on photoshop i ve been there i opened the program and it just sat there staring blankly at me i m not ashamed to say that i gave up a few times so here s some info about how to get started double click on your photoshop icon when your program is open there will be panels to the right that look like this below the coloured boxes are full quick and guided choose full below that are your panes the first is the content pane then the effects pane below the effects pane is the navigator pane open it by clicking on the triangle these triangles are for opening and closing the panes when you open it there won t be much there also your layers pane and your favourites pane will drop down to the bottom of the panel that s alright now we will open a new blank file here s a screenshot go to the filr menu and click to pull down click on new and there will be a fly out window to the right select blank file remember the triangles are for opening and closing first name your document preset is the size of paper you can select u s paper for a standard paper size or photo size whatever you want if you want a specific size then select custom from that same menu below are the width and height boxes to the right are pull down menus where you can choose the type of measurement you are comfortable with below those is the resolution i use 300 pixels inch it s standard below that is the colour mode rgb colour is fine that means it will print out the colour that you see you picture on the computer screen below that is background contents that is the colour of the background the best choice is transparent that s because later when you use the eraser a background colour will appear if you erase on a red background when you erase the red will show with transparent you have a clear background so when you erase what you are trying to erase will gone this will save you endless amounts of misery later on when you want to make a png in the bottom right of this box the image size will appear now you re ready to click ok your page will appear and to your right your navigator will have a thumbnail of your page this is what it should look like above your thumbnail where the pointer is will tell you the of the larger image you are viewing to the right of the pointer is a scale where you can zoom in or out on that page by moving the slider so play with it and adjust it until the whole page shows up on your main screen you ll notice the page will have a checkered background that indicates your background is transparent if it is white then you have a white background which means you need to close the file and open a blank file now we are cooking notice below your navigator pane there is a layers pane or pallette click on it to open it up here s what you ll see you will notice 2 things your navigator pane gets smaller and there are a bunch of scary looking things at the top of your layers pane first we ll deal with making the navigator pane larger where my pointer is there is a handle that you can grab onto if you slowly move your pointer the pointer will change press down on your mouse that will enable you to slide the pane up and down making the panes larger or smaller i like to give more space to the layers pallette because as you add more layers you ll need more space i find with the navigator pane i mostly use the slider now let s check out the navigator pane top left will be left on normal it has a pull down menu and when we get a graphic on the page you can try the others next is opacity leave it at 100 for now don t skip over this okay this is a good time to talk about what the layers pallette is all about this pane is the basics of how photoshop works grab a few sheets of coloured paper put one piece of paper on your desk this is your background remember the transparent background we made next put another sheet on top or better still if you have a sticker or other graphic lay it on top this is your second layer if you do any kind of collage this will start to be familiar next element this is layer three so what you are doing is building a picture from the ground up you can move these layers up and down and add adjustment layers with effects below are icons the first one is to add a layer go ahead and add a layer by clicking on the icon notice that your first layer is called layer 2 add another layer this is layer 3 you can change the order of layers by dragging them to the top or the bottom to the right of those thumbnails are names layer 1 layer 2 etc double click on that name and you can change the name of the layer hit return on your keyboard done you just named your layer next is the circle icon that s to add the adjustment layer i was talking about go ahead and click on it holy crap what happened don t panic here s what you will see notice where my pointer is there are 2 squares the top one is red the one in the background is white the red one is foreground colour and the white one is the background colour remember when we chose the background colour if the colour of the background was turquoise that s what you d be looking at when you open your page so if you re wondering why your new file is was turquoise now you know just click cancel to get rid of the colour if you clicked ok on the colour box you ll be happy to hear our next icon is to delete a layer simply click on the coloured layer and hit the delete icon one last note about the layers pallette you have probably noticed the eyes next to the boxes if you add a layer and then aren t sure you want to keep it then click on the eye to make that layer invisible layers can be manipulated and worked on using transparency or 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