LordMaul
Lifer
*slaps ruler*
SIDDOWN!
*glares around...server*
OK, time to get crackin'!
This is the newbie class mentioned in my other thread, in case you didn't figure that out. This class is using Photoshop 6.0, and if you have a different version, either "get" the newer one, or PM me on what doesn't follow and I'll see if I can help you. Or just post it here. Doesn't matter.
Hello, I'm LordMaul. I'll be teaching this class. I'm a part time graphics artist and I dribble, if you will, in web design as well. You will larn several new techniques in this course and hopefully become as proficient in it as I hope you all do!
So, on to the Basics! This part teaches the basic uses of the main tools in Photoshop 6.0.
Open up Photoshop. If you can't get this far, I'm sorry, but you need to exit this thread. 😀 Click "File", then click "New". A window should pop up asking you the size of picture, and some other options. Change the unit to "Pixels", and make it 800 pixels Wide, and set the Hight to 600. For those with <19" montitors, set it to 400x400, or whatever fits best.
Now we'll go over basic tool functions. Left Click on the first tool in your tool window. This is, more than likely, on the left part of the screen. The "first" tool is the little dashed square, in the upper-left corner of the box. Left click inside your new picture and, while holding down the button, make a square. Good? Good. Now, click on the little "Paintbrush". This is fourth from the top on the right side of the tool box. Now paint a little bit, just scribble, inside the selected square you made. After you scribbled a bit, left click inside your square and move it around. Only the square moves, right? The scribbles stay in place. Now, to actually MOVE the scribbling, click the little black arrow with the "+" sign next to it. It is the first tool on the top right side of the toolbox.
Now left click and hold, inside your circle. Move it around. The paint moves, right? Good.
Now de-select the paint by clicking somewhere outside of the selection. Click the "MAGIC WAND TOOL" by clicking the little stick the the start-looking thingie at the end, which is the second from the top on the right side of the toolbox.
Left click and release somwhere on your scribbling. Is selecting all/most of the paint, right? That is because what this tool does, is selects all the pixels of the same/similar color.
To further try this out, click on your COLOR PALETTE, which is the two overlapping squares near the bottom, past the tools, of your toolbox. Click on the one operlapping over the one other square. IE, your "foreground" color. Move the little circle by left clicking somewhere all the way to the left of the box till you get a light/mid gray. Now click "OK" to get out of the box, and you you have a gray color as your foreground color. Select the paint tool again, and make some gray scribbling, and re-select the magic wand tool. Re-select, if it is unselected, the black scribbling, and then right click somwehere on your image.
Now, click "SIMILAR". You may have to repeat this process a couple times, but it will select the gray area as well. This is helpful when you want not just ONE color on your image selected, but a few similar colors.
Now click the "airbrush tool". This is Fourth from the top on the left side of your toolbox. Now paint a line with the airbrush. It should look like an airbrush stroke, with the edges fanned out a bit. Now select the magic wand tool again and click the new airbrush stroke. It shouldn't have selected it all. Now, instead of rightclick>similar, try rightclick>GROW. Now, the selection will grow and take up most of the airbrushed stroke.
Now click on the "LASSO" tool. It is second from the top on the left of your toolbox. This is the "free" select and it lets you select whatever size and shape of a selection you want. Play with this a bit. Nothing really special about this one, though it is useful when you are editing photos to get certain items slected that te magic wand tool doesn't recognize.
Now, select one of your lines you made before. THen choose either the square tool or the lasso, and hold down the "ALT" key, then make a selection WITHIN your existing selection. This should TAKE AWAY a piece of your existing selection.
Now hold down "SHIFT" and do the same thing. This should ADD to your selection. You get it, punk? Adding, or subtracting graphics. Don't tell me I don't know my rithmatic.
The above tip is great for when the magic want tool selects ALMOST what you want, but goes a little bit bigger or small. Just adjust it with the ALT and SHIFT keys.
*INTERMISSION*
Phew, wasn't that fun?
Now click the "T" on your toolbox. Make a "selection". This is the typing tool in photoshop. Kind of like a mini-Word.
Make some letters. click the checkbox in the upper-middle part of the screen next to the red "X". Now choose the little waterdrop looking tool, which is the fifth tool from the bottom on the left. Click somewhere in your picture. THis will give you an error, telling you it can't do it unless you "RASTERIZE" the "Layer". Click "OK". Now left click and hold and wave over your letters. They should start to blur. Now right click on the Blur tool in the toolbox and there should be a little hand with the index finger sticking out, along with a triangle. Click the hand w/ finger(<^> 😉) and wipe it around on your text. This should kind of smudge it around.
Well, that's a lot of typing for me to do and it's getting kind of late. I know, it's a very basic lesson, but you need to know these simple things to get to the advanced lessons.
One last trick for you to play with.
You can use with with any of the selection tools, but lets do it with the circle selection. To get this, right click on the square slection tool and choose the ciricle, or Ellipticle Marquee. Make a circle selection in your picture. Now right click inside your selection and click "stroke". There are only two boxes you need to worry about now, and those are the color and size(pixels). Set it to 5 pixels and choose a color by clicking in the little "color" square inside this window.. Click "OK", and it should have painted a circle in your picture...no de-select, and there it is.
I will continue class tomorrow. Hope you had a fun time, and weren't too bored. Chop Class starts tomorrow as well.
Have fun!
Maul
SIDDOWN!
*glares around...server*
OK, time to get crackin'!
This is the newbie class mentioned in my other thread, in case you didn't figure that out. This class is using Photoshop 6.0, and if you have a different version, either "get" the newer one, or PM me on what doesn't follow and I'll see if I can help you. Or just post it here. Doesn't matter.
Hello, I'm LordMaul. I'll be teaching this class. I'm a part time graphics artist and I dribble, if you will, in web design as well. You will larn several new techniques in this course and hopefully become as proficient in it as I hope you all do!
So, on to the Basics! This part teaches the basic uses of the main tools in Photoshop 6.0.
Open up Photoshop. If you can't get this far, I'm sorry, but you need to exit this thread. 😀 Click "File", then click "New". A window should pop up asking you the size of picture, and some other options. Change the unit to "Pixels", and make it 800 pixels Wide, and set the Hight to 600. For those with <19" montitors, set it to 400x400, or whatever fits best.
Now we'll go over basic tool functions. Left Click on the first tool in your tool window. This is, more than likely, on the left part of the screen. The "first" tool is the little dashed square, in the upper-left corner of the box. Left click inside your new picture and, while holding down the button, make a square. Good? Good. Now, click on the little "Paintbrush". This is fourth from the top on the right side of the tool box. Now paint a little bit, just scribble, inside the selected square you made. After you scribbled a bit, left click inside your square and move it around. Only the square moves, right? The scribbles stay in place. Now, to actually MOVE the scribbling, click the little black arrow with the "+" sign next to it. It is the first tool on the top right side of the toolbox.
Now left click and hold, inside your circle. Move it around. The paint moves, right? Good.
Now de-select the paint by clicking somewhere outside of the selection. Click the "MAGIC WAND TOOL" by clicking the little stick the the start-looking thingie at the end, which is the second from the top on the right side of the toolbox.
Left click and release somwhere on your scribbling. Is selecting all/most of the paint, right? That is because what this tool does, is selects all the pixels of the same/similar color.
To further try this out, click on your COLOR PALETTE, which is the two overlapping squares near the bottom, past the tools, of your toolbox. Click on the one operlapping over the one other square. IE, your "foreground" color. Move the little circle by left clicking somewhere all the way to the left of the box till you get a light/mid gray. Now click "OK" to get out of the box, and you you have a gray color as your foreground color. Select the paint tool again, and make some gray scribbling, and re-select the magic wand tool. Re-select, if it is unselected, the black scribbling, and then right click somwehere on your image.
Now, click "SIMILAR". You may have to repeat this process a couple times, but it will select the gray area as well. This is helpful when you want not just ONE color on your image selected, but a few similar colors.
Now click the "airbrush tool". This is Fourth from the top on the left side of your toolbox. Now paint a line with the airbrush. It should look like an airbrush stroke, with the edges fanned out a bit. Now select the magic wand tool again and click the new airbrush stroke. It shouldn't have selected it all. Now, instead of rightclick>similar, try rightclick>GROW. Now, the selection will grow and take up most of the airbrushed stroke.
Now click on the "LASSO" tool. It is second from the top on the left of your toolbox. This is the "free" select and it lets you select whatever size and shape of a selection you want. Play with this a bit. Nothing really special about this one, though it is useful when you are editing photos to get certain items slected that te magic wand tool doesn't recognize.
Now, select one of your lines you made before. THen choose either the square tool or the lasso, and hold down the "ALT" key, then make a selection WITHIN your existing selection. This should TAKE AWAY a piece of your existing selection.
Now hold down "SHIFT" and do the same thing. This should ADD to your selection. You get it, punk? Adding, or subtracting graphics. Don't tell me I don't know my rithmatic.
The above tip is great for when the magic want tool selects ALMOST what you want, but goes a little bit bigger or small. Just adjust it with the ALT and SHIFT keys.
*INTERMISSION*
Phew, wasn't that fun?
Now click the "T" on your toolbox. Make a "selection". This is the typing tool in photoshop. Kind of like a mini-Word.
Make some letters. click the checkbox in the upper-middle part of the screen next to the red "X". Now choose the little waterdrop looking tool, which is the fifth tool from the bottom on the left. Click somewhere in your picture. THis will give you an error, telling you it can't do it unless you "RASTERIZE" the "Layer". Click "OK". Now left click and hold and wave over your letters. They should start to blur. Now right click on the Blur tool in the toolbox and there should be a little hand with the index finger sticking out, along with a triangle. Click the hand w/ finger(<^> 😉) and wipe it around on your text. This should kind of smudge it around.
Well, that's a lot of typing for me to do and it's getting kind of late. I know, it's a very basic lesson, but you need to know these simple things to get to the advanced lessons.
One last trick for you to play with.
You can use with with any of the selection tools, but lets do it with the circle selection. To get this, right click on the square slection tool and choose the ciricle, or Ellipticle Marquee. Make a circle selection in your picture. Now right click inside your selection and click "stroke". There are only two boxes you need to worry about now, and those are the color and size(pixels). Set it to 5 pixels and choose a color by clicking in the little "color" square inside this window.. Click "OK", and it should have painted a circle in your picture...no de-select, and there it is.
I will continue class tomorrow. Hope you had a fun time, and weren't too bored. Chop Class starts tomorrow as well.
Have fun!
Maul
