[Southern Comfort]

QUOTE (GunWrath @ Thursday, Jul 5 2012, 20:39)

@Yossar; Love that sig, bro. Narics; I have abit of help or advice. When I use the Magic wand to cut-out most objects or images.. it cuts them out precisely, but I seem to always have a small white border around most of the image and/or text. I was curious if there was a way to rid of that, or do I have to go in manually and erase it? I'll post something to show an example. (Unless it's because most of the images I use have a white or bright background and the wand only comes within so close of edges, not so sure. Any advice is welcome. Image of a cut-out that I made which shows border; Is it possibly due to the tolerance that I have my wand set at? I have no clue.

I'm not sure about the wand tool, but once you learn how to use the pen tool you'll hardly ever go back (unless you get lazy like me ).

[GunWrath]

Pen tool confuses me, which I've only watched like 2 tuts on it.

When I make renders without the wand or anything, I do it in the most time consuming way, eraser, LMAO.

[Southern Comfort]

QUOTE (GunWrath @ Thursday, Jul 5 2012, 21:12)

Pen tool confuses me, which I've only watched like 2 tuts on it. When I make renders without the wand or anything, I do it in the most time consuming way, eraser, LMAO.

I actually made a pen tool tutorial video a long time ago, but I deleted it since it wasn't as serious as it should have been. Made myself sound like Mr. T with a voice editor and everyone was so confused haha.

I can link you to a good tut if you want, I just learned it last year and it's awesome.

[UNRATED69]

QUOTE (GunWrath @ Thursday, Jul 5 2012, 21:39)

@Yossar; Love that sig, bro. Narics; I have abit of help or advice. When I use the Magic wand to cut-out most objects or images.. it cuts them out precisely, but I seem to always have a small white border around most of the image and/or text. I was curious if there was a way to rid of that, or do I have to go in manually and erase it? I'll post something to show an example. (Unless it's because most of the images I use have a white or bright background and the wand only comes within so close of edges, not so sure. Any advice is welcome. Image of a cut-out that I made which shows border; Is it possibly due to the tolerance that I have my wand set at? I have no clue.

There are a few ways you could get rid of it. The easiest would be to add in an inner stroke to cover up the fringes.



Or you could go to the Layer menu, and under Matting there's a Defringe option. Though this will give you mixed results, depending on the size and color of your picture.



As you can see, it kind of messed up the edges, and didn't remove all the fringes. But, like I said, it doesn't always work very well.

Of course it is possible that you could adjust the tolerance of the magic wand to get rid of them along with the background. It all depends on the picture.

[GunWrath]

Inner stroke would work well in alot of the work I do it seems.. Good looking, Unrated.

@SoCo, any vids would be great man. I use Good-Tutorials.com alot, but it's mainly 'how to's' on different effects and stuff, but I rely on youtube alot as well when I get to a point that I'm unsure of.

I've only been using PS for about a month or just a hair over..

[Narcis_speed6]

QUOTE (GunWrath @ Friday, Jul 6 2012, 02:39)

Narics; I have abit of help or advice. When I use the Magic wand to cut-out most objects or images.. it cuts them out precisely, but I seem to always have a small white border around most of the image and/or text. I was curious if there was a way to rid of that, or do I have to go in manually and erase it? I'll post something to show an example. (Unless it's because most of the images I use have a white or bright background and the wand only comes within so close of edges, not so sure. Any advice is welcome.

I would personally recommend making another layer and mask it on top of it, and fill it with the colors needed to mask out the edges.

CODE

http://i.imgur.com/WpIU1.png

[Double L.]

I made this work before a few minute. Wallpaper is good but logo is not fit.

[XTREME0235]

I like the logo Double L, very simple yet somewhat powerful.
I made a custom Vice City logo also.

[Eagles]

Edit: sorry, I was two pages late.

Just to fill it up, nice work guys.
Double L, try to make your edges softer. You can still see some squared curves there.
Xtreme, very cool, dude. You got that VC feel very well on this one.

This post has been edited by Eagles on Friday, Jul 6 2012, 14:32

[GunWrath]

QUOTE (Narcis_speed6 @ Friday, Jul 6 2012, 07:34)

QUOTE (GunWrath @ Friday, Jul 6 2012, 02:39) Narics; I have abit of help or advice. When I use the Magic wand to cut-out most objects or images.. it cuts them out precisely, but I seem to always have a small white border around most of the image and/or text. I was curious if there was a way to rid of that, or do I have to go in manually and erase it? I'll post something to show an example. (Unless it's because most of the images I use have a white or bright background and the wand only comes within so close of edges, not so sure. Any advice is welcome. I would personally recommend making another layer and mask it on top of it, and fill it with the colors needed to mask out the edges. CODE http://i.imgur.com/WpIU1.png

@Narcis; Sounds like a plan.. next time I get in that predicament, I'll try that out.
@Xtreme; Looks nice.. very Vice City'ish. Well done.

[KaRzY6]

Does anyone have Cinema 4D? And good at using it?

[blitz]

QUOTE (KaRzY6 @ Sunday, Jul 15 2012, 05:26)

Does anyone have Cinema 4D? And good at using it?

I got the program, and if anyone on the forums knows how to handle it, it's ska.

[Eagles]

QUOTE (KaRzY6 @ Sunday, Jul 15 2012, 07:26)

Does anyone have Cinema 4D? And good at using it?

I got it, what do you want from there?

[KaRzY6]

@blitz
Thanks, I might give him a PM.

@Eagles
I want a youtube intro. I couldn't make one if my life depended on it.

[Dystopia]

QUOTE (KaRzY6 @ Monday, Jul 16 2012, 00:56)

@blitz Thanks, I might give him a PM. @Eagles I want a youtube intro. I couldn't make one if my life depended on it.

Look into After Effects aswell.

3D programs and After Effects can work amazingly well together for titles and intro purposes. Check out videocopilot for more information.

[ElMafias]

QUOTE (XTREME0235 @ Friday, Jul 6 2012, 08:55)

I like the logo Double L, very simple yet somewhat powerful. I made a custom Vice City logo also.

Is there any tutorial here on how to make that?? it looks amazing. nice work!

[Method]

QUOTE (ElMafias @ Monday, Jul 16 2012, 13:09)

QUOTE (XTREME0235 @ Friday, Jul 6 2012, 08:55) I like the logo Double L, very simple yet somewhat powerful. I made a custom Vice City logo also. Is there any tutorial here on how to make that?? it looks amazing. nice work!

I'd guess no.

Thats just Xtremes 's art style. I'm sure he'd teach you how to make a similar logo, though.

Anyone know where I can get Battlefield 3 brushes? i.e.; The orange/yellow light streaks?

[ElMafias]

QUOTE (Method @ Monday, Jul 16 2012, 15:42)

I'd guess no. Thats just Xtremes 's art style. I'm sure he'd teach you how to make a similar logo, though. Anyone know where I can get Battlefield 3 brushes? i.e.; The orange/yellow light streaks?

well ya thats what i meant! its just so awesome!!

[XTREME0235]

Sure I can help you out...by providing you with the same tutorial Narcis gave me a while ago.

First type a normal text.



Create a 2 px white outer stroke.
I personally use a 1 px white stroke on most fonts so it doesn't look so fat.



Go to Layer->Layer Style->Create Layer, this way you will separate the stroke from the text
Click on the text layer while holding Ctrl, your text layer will be selected, it should look like this:



Now select the white outer stroke and delete it, after this process you will have the border from the text...



Now select the text border and add a 2 px color or gradient, for this tutorial I choose a light blue color.



Again go to Layer->Layer Style->Create Layer, to separate blue stroke from the white text.

Duplicate the blue outline, select the blue stroke that is under all (at the bottom of other layers)
then go to Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur... (for my tutorial I choose 4,4)



Now play with effects, select the blue outline that is not blured and add blend mode to:

Vivid light.



or Overlay.



Put some stars on it.



Final product:



This is how the layer window should look in the end.

[ElMafias]

QUOTE (XTREME0235 @ Monday, Jul 16 2012, 16:34)

Sure I can help you out...by providing you with the same tutorial Narcis gave me a while ago.

Wow! Thank you!! but how do you add stars?