Anyone a Beast with Photoshop?

[Hassan Darkside]

Re: Anyone a Beast with Photoshop?

For cuts the best method by far is to use the Pen tool. It'll take a while to cut, but what you need to do is zoom in about 400x. Then take the pen tool and use it like the magnetic lasso. The thing about the pen tool is that if you screw up you can just click and drag your point to where you want it. You can also curve lines too, so it's the most precise method.

[wwharton]

Re: Anyone a Beast with Photoshop?

I need to get better with the pen tool.

You guys shouldn't forget the stepchild of Adobe (now that they've taken over Macromedia), Fireworks. It does a lot of what Photoshop does (it was Macromedia's only answer a while ago) but it excels at working with vectors. I haven't jumped fully into Illustrator or Image Ready but I thought Fireworks would surely disappear once Adobe took over but they hung onto it and improved it b/c of how well it works with vectors and how easy it is to do some things that are a bit of a chore in Photoshop.

[Stumbleweed]

Re: Anyone a Beast with Photoshop?

I use the quick select tool to extract things from images. Just trace around it, if it selects something that you don't want, just ATL + click and fix it. Then you can invert selection if you want to chop out everything but what you selected. I mostly use PS to do lineup pictures for my 2K8 leagues, so I'm usually either extracting the player from the shot and putting on top of another background or modifying the background via filter to make the player stand out. Like this:



I basically just started using PS about 2 weeks ago, but I've always found the quick selection tool (or the Magic Wand in some cases) to be the easiest/fastest way to select parts of an image.

I'm really interested in learning how to better make Standings pages and the like -- stuff like this seems impossible to me right now with what I know (anyone who has suggestions or has a good tutorial PM me please!):

[CMH]

Re: Anyone a Beast with Photoshop?

For cuts the best method by far is to use the Pen tool. It'll take a while to cut, but what you need to do is zoom in about 400x. Then take the pen tool and use it like the magnetic lasso. The thing about the pen tool is that if you screw up you can just click and drag your point to where you want it. You can also curve lines too, so it's the most precise method.

Agreed. That is what I do on Illustrator. But, for some reason, when I tried it on Photoshop, it didn't work the same way. Not sure why, either.

[CMH]

Re: Anyone a Beast with Photoshop?

Something like that standings page above, I'd use Illustrator to design. Photoshop would be my main source to getting the logos to come out how I want them. Maybe mess with a few colors, pull out more red or yellow, whatever it may be. Then once in Illustrator, I'm designing that entire chart and adding new effects to the logos so they have some shadow and glow (which the above shows they have.

But there's lots of people that seems to do the same with Photoshop so work at it.