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ruseone In reply to infamousCraze [2004-07-10 05:10:52 +0000 UTC]

well, thank you

The base image was actually drawn in my blackbook with prismacolor markers, pencil, and colored pencil. The piece was technically finished, but it still had that unfinished look, so I shot a photo of it with my digital camera and loaded it into photoshop.

first thing I did was clean up any hard edge lines, and touched up the notebook paper in the upper left. for that I just used the polygon lasso tool (click on the lasso tool and hold down, and the polygon lasso will show up - click on it). after I made any selection, I clicked the selection menu, and feathered in by 1 pixel, sometimes two.


The next part was the hardest. I traced all the three d letters using the pen tool. I made a path for each color, and then turned each path into a selection (and feather each selection by 1 pixel), and colored that section using mostly just the paintbrush at various pressures and opacity - best you can do experiment with it and see what it does. I did this section by section, letter by letter. is there a faster way? probably, but that's the way I work

Next, I went over all the black parts with paintbrush and or pencil tool, just to clean up, and the same for the white. then I made a mask around all the 3d letters - as to not keep them from being being painted - and I used the paintbrush tool - alternating between black and white with a larger, soft paintbrush - completing all the soft blends and bubbles. I then unmasked the letters and freehanded just a little bit of hightlights and shadows into the letters. I also used the dodge and burn tools to make shadows and highlights on the letters.

That's really about it - mostly basic tool functions, and just photoshop. nothing fancy really. it did take a little while to complete though be patient, and experiment. with photoshopt, theres probably 20 different ways to do one thing. if you can learn just two or three ways, there's not much you can't do with it.

hope that helps, and thanks a ton for the comment, I really appreciate it. take care

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infamousCraze In reply to ruseone [2004-07-10 15:02:07 +0000 UTC]

thanks very much.... check my gallery in a coulpe of weeks and i will try and rep you for showin me exatly what to do... and thanks again...

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ruseone In reply to infamousCraze [2004-07-12 08:27:41 +0000 UTC]

hey, not a problem - glad I could maybe help I'll be checking

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ruseone In reply to cranial-bore [2004-06-20 19:32:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for taking the time man

I agree in a way, it is a tad soft, and I tend towards harder edged work. but to finish this I had to compromise with time and effort, because I have not the time I'd like to devote to this. the black book part that this is a painted over - the 3 dee was very 'transluscent'... I suppose this is just an excuse to cover my lacksidazical disposition.

Thanks again, sincerely appreciated,

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ruseone In reply to traseone [2004-06-12 13:42:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks bro, means a ton - considering the source,

!

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ruseone In reply to MrFlurry [2004-06-10 03:47:05 +0000 UTC]

hey mate!

well, i expect some of those styles will dropped in not too distant future, if I can keep my life under control, and actually *force* myself to draw a little!

Thanks, and I'll see you around !

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ruseone In reply to marzgfx [2004-06-10 03:57:09 +0000 UTC]

Cant wait to see what you come up with!

yea, I should be around for a while, not nightly but at least regularly. Keep in touch,

oh, and thanks!

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ruseone In reply to BlueHalios [2004-06-10 03:53:03 +0000 UTC]

actually, it messes with mine too abit, a strange cross between sharp and blurry, but never really either extreme...... happy accident i suppose !

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BlueHalios In reply to ruseone [2004-06-10 04:31:35 +0000 UTC]

yeah, and for real your graffiti art is way friggin cool, when i was a little younger i really wanted to do it so i practiced every day and copied stuff, but i gave up when kids 4 years younger then me where better at it. and nothing i did was all that great so ive kept to other 'traditional' arts.... anyways i really respect, and am impressed by your stuff.

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ruseone In reply to dj-hack [2004-06-10 03:54:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, very much appreciated!

(crazy gallery you got, btw) !

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ruseone In reply to joey-poey [2004-06-10 03:50:54 +0000 UTC]

hey thank you so much!

c'mon, a's and h's are almost the same letters! but, I knowwhatyamean, I have my times with N, U, G, and well, about half the alfabet really....

!

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ruseone In reply to GeorgeMercado [2004-06-10 03:49:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man, it's rough getting back in the groove after a leave of abscense of sorts. Like a cross between "use it or lose it" and "it's just like riding a bicycle"

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ruseone In reply to loidz [2004-06-10 03:49:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much, i've wanted to finish this off for quite some time....

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