OdiN's Photoshop Tutorials

[OdiN]

Okay...running into some issues rendering the video.

I was trying to use XviD to compress and make it smaller.

Well it's 1.24GB for one...what the heck?

Also it's got a bunch of video artifacts everywhere like it didn't compress well. I don't know why. Going to try uncompressed and then a different converter. Anyone know any good converters?

Edit:

Looks like I'm going to have to use WMV for this. Much faster rendering and should be smaller. Hopefully the quality is good. I wanted a raw video file that I could make into a DVD though =/

 

[PHiuR]

did you try divx?

 

[OdiN]

I didn't try divx.

WMV worked I think and it's about 450MB. I'm watching it now to see if there are compression problems.

I tried to put it in uncompressed AVI so I could make a DVD that would play in a set top box. After the first couple minutes the file size was over 9GB so I stopped that haha.

 

[Fardringle]

The downloaded file would not open with WinRAR, WinXP's built in archive utility, or WinZip 8.0 pro. I downloaded and installed the WinZip 11 demo (which very rudely wiped out my retail copy of 8.0 ) and I am watching the video now.

I might share some plot spoilers but I won't give away the surprise ending..



Edit: Just out of curiosity, I used the demo version of WinRAR to create a new archive of the video. On default settings, it compressed the file down to 328MB compared to 352MB for the WinZip 11 archive. It took just over 7 minutes to create the archive and about 40 seconds to decompress the file again using WinRAR. For comparison, it took nearly 20 minutes to decompress the WinZip 11 file on my mediocre older computer.

I'm not necessarily suggesting that you redo the whole thing now with WinRAR since it would be a pain to upload it again, but if you do any more of these you might want to give it a try since WinRAR is much faster than WinZip and also (usually) produces smaller file sizes.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Uggg... video encoding can be so confusing.

 

[ghostman]

I watched the B&W video. Excellent! Very informative. I've been looking for resources like this. But for the life of me, I can't seem to grab the entire retouch file. Firefox dropped the download twice, once after I only had a few MBs left to go :-(

I'll try again tomorrow. I hope the server can resume downloads. I'll try flashget or something (anyone recommend something else?).

 

[ghostman]

Oh no. The site seems down. Can anyone host the retouch video?

EDIT: Nevermind. Must be my stupid Earthlink/Time Warner connection flaking out again :-/
EDIT2: Ok, maybe there is an issue here. I got the file (twice) using FlashGet, but it doesn't decompress. Anyone have luck?

Winzip Error:
Use Path: yes Overlay Files: yes
skipping: Portrait Retouching.wmv unsupported compression method 98
error: no files were found - nothing to do

WinRAR error:
retouch.zip: Unknown method in Portrait Retouching.wmv
retouch.zip: No files to extract

EDIT3: Oops. Just read the updated OP. Will try to get WinZip 11 now.
EDIT4: Confirmed that WinZip 11 is able to unzip the retouch file. WinZip 8 could not.

 

[pennylane]

I've started to watch this (it's long, but the longer the better!) and it's really really useful! Thanks for doing this.

Plus, those fancy video effects are neat.

BTW, how much time do you spend doing some of those selections. Obviously you hurried up for the sake of the tutorial. I'm wondering how close to "perfect" you get. For example, when you were erasing the loose hair at the beginning (to the "original" layer), you partly erased the edges of her hair that you kept and it was a little whiter. Would you generally spend the time to make sure you didn't touch that?

Thanks!

 

[SKC]

Thank you very much! Will leave feedback once I've had a chance to look at it..

 

[OdiN]

Comments anyone? Hope it helped some people

Hopefully I can get a little Lightroom overview up soon.

 

[lucasorion]

I wonder if there is some kind of torrent network for distributing homemade videos like this for tutorials and the like, it would be really helpful.
I'm looking forward to checking these out soon - I love seeing how other people use photoshop (it's the best way to learn).

 

[OdiN]

You could always just make a torrent and get it out there. It would take a while to get popular enough to have any sort of decent streaming though.

 

[Aharami]

looks like the B&W link is down. sucks

 

[Krioni]

Originally posted by: lucasorion
I wonder if there is some kind of torrent network for distributing homemade videos like this for tutorials and the like, it would be really helpful.
I'm looking forward to checking these out soon - I love seeing how other people use photoshop (it's the best way to learn).

I wonder if this would be good/ok to post on youtube?

 

[OdiN]

Well the links should be fine.

I was switching web hosts for part of it. Part of it was probably the old host being crap.

Anyway...don't think youtube would like a 1.5 hour movie on their site. I'd rather not upload it to them either.

 

[Aharami]

DLed the black and white tutorial. was getting audio sync problems and spikes with WMP11, but works fine with VLC player. Your method is really a lot better than just desaturating. Thanks!

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Aharami
DLed the black and white tutorial. was getting audio sync problems and spikes with WMP11, but works fine with VLC player. Your method is really a lot better than just desaturating. Thanks!

No problem, glad you find it useful

Worked fine for me in WMP, but then I have the codec that compressed it....I don't think it's anything special, thought I used DivX/XviD on that one, but I could be wrong.

 

[Aharami]

DLed you portrait retouch vid but get an error while unzipping with winrar

retouch.zip: Unknown method in Portrait Retouching.wmv
retouch.zip: No files to extract

 

[OdiN]

Try WinZip 11

 

[OdiN]

Okay - so any other topics anyone would like to cover?

 

[Krioni]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Okay - so any other topics anyone would like to cover?

A tutorial on efficient/effective use of Adobe Lightroom v1.3 would be great!

Anyone else interested in this?