tutorial #2

[mesnica]

twinkletwilight asked me for a tutorial for this icon

Comments

[plingo_kat]

wow, that's beautiful. Definitely meming. How do you come up with this stuff, though? All these steps... 0_o

[mesnica]

Thanks :) Honestly, I either play around without any plan until it turns out nice looking, or I have a vague idea and play around until I get there. In this case, the idea was to bring out the pretty colors of the leaves.

[plingo_kat]

That's pretty spiffy. I usually just use curves and stuff though, not the who duplicating layering thing. I should probably learn how to do that. I only discovered I had PS7 a month or two ago, see. So I'm kind of beginner-ish.

[evenindeath]

This is beautiful! I'll defiantly give it a go and I've credited you in my resources in case I learn something ;D

[mesnica]

Thanks :))

[legolas_is_mine]

(I thought you were asleep!)

[mesnica]

Sleep's for losers :P

[legolas_is_mine]

:P

[music_fun]

This tutorial is truly amazing but with me everything just messed up when I got to step 4. When I taped the commands nothing happened :(

[mesnica]

Oh sorry. My fault. You need to select all first (Ctrl+A) or Photoshop doesn't know what you want to copy.

[stiffy_byng]

This really is beautiful. Can't wait to try it. Thanks so much! :D

[stiffy_byng]

It's not terribly important but I was wondering if anyone knew if Step #4 is the same as "stamping": CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + E? Sorry if that's an annoying question; I just wondered what difference there is, if any. :P

[mesnica]

Nope, it's the same. I'm just horrible at memorizing complicated key combinations, and I learned it the way I wrote it up in the tutorial. I have it as an action so it's a single step for me for years ;)

[stiffy_byng]

Okay, thanks so much for explaining that! *hugs* :) I'm relatively new to PS so I'm still learning the different "habits"...if I veer off of my own memory devices, I'm lost! lol :D