Friday, February 15, 2008

Photoshop

Last night, I had a very valuable tuition of photoshop session from my master guru.

And the sweat sweet harvest I gained is the banner I'm using in my blog. I had the three-hour (1am to 4am -.-") online class from him. And right now I'm here typing in my campus. I just had the mere two hours' sleep. I wonder if I can stand till the class of 6pm later.

Update: I'd removed the mentioned banner, so I put it here


Comment constructively please on my banner. I know the wording is not that nice, but I was too exhausted last night and didn't edit it further....

7 comments:

James2spooky said...

The words could have been more clear if there is black outline (about 1.5pt thick).

nostalgia.jesskang said...

sort of like making it 3D.. James do you photoshop?

Shane said...

He is correct... But I forgot how to do it already.. Haha..

James2spooky said...

No, not making it 3D. What I meant was just add a thin line surrounding the words.

I seldom use but I know a little bit of here and there of Photoshop. Only for Photoshop CS2, previous versions I don't know if they are the same.

To add the outlines, right click on the layer which the text belongs to. Then select "Blending Options", then tick the "Outer Glow". At the Outer Glow options, select "Normal" at the Blend Mode's drop-down menu. Select a colour, for your pic, black or dark pink should look nice. Then under the elements, set the spread to 50% or higher. Then click "OK" and da dang~

nostalgia.jesskang said...

James, how to save the pic so that the layers won't be flattened?

James2spooky said...

I don't get what you have typed. Do you mean save in a format so that when openned the picture will have layers that you created last time before you saved it?

In that case, you must save 1 copy under the .psd or .pdd extensions (as photoshop file) first. So the next time you want to edit it open the one with .psd or .pdd. If you save it in common image format like .jpg, .png and so on then you can't do anything cause it is saved as a whole.

nostalgia.jesskang said...

Thanks. You answered my question though you didn't get what I meant... haha