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timepasses

Photoshop

Jan 05, 2007 16:36

I have photoshop 7 and although I cannot create art/wallpapers etc as it is too difficult for me, I do make icons. Well I have only recently start practicing extra hard. Apart from the color balance, curves and brightness/contrast, is there any other way to colourize icons differently? I see so many icons around with lovely colours but I can't do ( Read more... )

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londonesque January 5 2007, 16:53:51 UTC

You can colour icons with Gradients as well. You can either use the Gradients included with Photoshop, or you can just create a new layer, then play with opacity, colour curn, soft light etc....

As for making the border; trace around the image with the polygonal lasso tool, go to the little f at the bottom right hand side of the screen, (it's at the bottom of the last box that has Layers, Channels and Paths) select Stroke, then select the width you want the outline to be, 1px being the smallest. You can also select which colour you want it to be.

I hope that helps.

timepasses January 5 2007, 17:03:51 UTC

yay!! Thankyou sooo much! You're the best for explaining that to me!

londonesque January 5 2007, 17:14:16 UTC

No problem, let me know if you need more help, I'm pretty bad at explaining things :)

timepasses January 5 2007, 17:19:39 UTC

I thought you were good at explaining. Can I ask you about gradients?
If you have a pattern or gradient, and you put it over the icon picture, how do you make the picture show through, but the pic be a different colour?
If you don't know what I mean, I'll try and explain better!

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somersaulter January 5 2007, 16:59:05 UTC

There's also selective coloring, which I use most often. It can produce some really nice coloring.

timepasses January 5 2007, 17:05:05 UTC

Thanks! Now for a really dumb question....is selective colouring where you select a certain part of the image (not all of it) and just colourize that? Or am I completely wrong? lol

somersaulter January 5 2007, 17:22:04 UTC

Nah, don't worry, it's not a dumb question.

Yeah, something like that. It's normally used to draw attention to certain objects in a photo by leaving that object colored while the background is changed to gray scale. But most graphics makers like to play around with the settings with the image in full color by manipulating each color. It can produce some really nice stuff.

wantingtobreak January 6 2007, 18:02:56 UTC

Also does anyone know how to put the coloured edge around pictures...like in this picture, for example?

You can either just use a small brush and do it per hand or cut out the picture and create a border around it. :)