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Can somebody help me? I dont noe whats happend... My font i set on 70px but i cannot see this (its very big size though) so i set it on 1296 pkt but nothing is so small. I tried close Photoshop but still nothing. I dont noe what i did.

EDIT: Problem solved.

I swear my laptop is starting to hate me.

It was working fine for me the other day, and then I download these clips from everglow and KMPlayer decides to act up.
I know someone else posted the same question over here and didn't really get an answer.

I've also been getting this error:
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Hopefully someone can help? Please?

Thanks in advance!

ETA: SOLVED

I really love the effect of icons with a person in front of a blank, colored background like these:



My question is: Are the backgrounds just solid colors, textures, or from the actual photo that was taken of the person?

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Please and thank you!

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This is pretty easy. No selective coloring, just curves. I use PSCS.

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How do you make a darkening effect using photoshop like in the icon below. Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone,
Here's 2 tutorials, i wanted to post.
Both of these tutorial i have for you all should work
in ps and psp

tutorial #001 ft. JB
*VERY LONG TUTORIAL*
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tutorial #002 ft. Jensen Ackles & Jared Padaleki
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Difficulty: Easy
Program: Photoshop CS3
Traslatable: Yes (I guess ^^;)

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Involves selective colors and curves.
Made with Photoshop CS.

That's a litlle older tutorial which I already wrote in German.
You'll learn how to achieve this:



You can download the PSD of the coloring part here.

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Okay, so I'm having a problem. I looked in the mems. but couldn't find anything. : (

Is there any way I can keep the quality and minimize the .gif to 40KB?



Oh, and I'm using PSP9 and Jasc Animation Shop.
I know they're old, don't tease me! : )

We're going to go from this boring image: to this: .
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You can find the .psd HERE @ omg_resource.

I have some problems with Photoshop ...
When I try to use the ''erease'' tool, the ''brush'' tool or anything ... I can't!
There's a white hand but not the tool cursor ...

I don't know if I'm clear ... but please help me :(

Greetings all! This tutorial is for you to achieve the same results I did on this kylie header/banner. Feel free to comment with results and of course, your welcome to add my lj account if you wish! :) . This is the first banner I have made in over a year, so I hope you enjoy.

This is the bannar in question:
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[[ I FORGOT TO MENTION, THE TEXTURE I USED ISN'T MADE BY ME, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHO IS WAS MADE BY, BUT IF YOU DO USE IT YOU WILL HAVE TO RESIZE THE WIDTH TO 500 PIXELS THEN CONTINUE ON WITH THE BANNER FROM POINT 6! :) ]]

Requested by cyanidebullets and saline_queen.

How to go from to or with Photoshop. Uses texture dropping and Color Balance, so it should be translatable.


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From to this using photoshop (has selective coloring).
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How can i have this kind of a signature...?

yep ... another question :)

do you know a similar coloring ?

any suggestion is appreciated :) thanks !

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Other results:  


Program used: Photoshop CS2
Steps: 3
PSD included
Tutorial text availble to download.
Comments are appreciated.
Credit carvelur.livejournal.com if using.

Please, comment here in my journal.
For my other tuts. click here.
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