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    ...anyone got any favourites.

    Particularly fond of this one....

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    Looks good mate, any paticular sites you used to learn that?

    Im planning on throughly learning photoshop once my new PC arrives.


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    No sites in particular - saw the effect done by someone else and thought... hell I'll give that a go.

    The secret to this one is a bit of time and patience and the magnetic lasso tool.

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    Also there's a bit extra involved to this than I've already mentioned. Just desaturating the image and converting it to greyscale didn't produce and B&W background that I was happy with.

    A much better method is this.

    1. Create an adjustment layer - hue/saturation - and change the overlay method from Normal to Color.
    2. Next create another adjustment layer - hue/saturation - in this one set saturation to 0. Leave the overlay method as Normal
    3. Now go back to the first hue/saturation adjustement layer and open up the dialog box, play around with the hue til you get an effect you like.

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    The key to photoshop is understanding layers - if you can get your head round that you're laughing

    take a look at www.good-tutorials.com if you want lots of tutorials on manipulating your pics - really good resource
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    There is a 9CD Total Training Guide on SN at the moment. I have seen a Total Training guide before and they are excellent.

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    For anyone with a digicam I can also recommend the Photoshop for Photographers guide on SN.

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    Another method for creating better B&W is to use the Channel Mixer as it allows more control.

    1. Open your image.
    2. Select Image > Adjustments > Channel Mixer.
    3. Check the Monochrome box.
    4. Play around with the RGB sliders until you achieve a pleasing result.

    Ideally you want the sliders to still total 100%. Eg. Red 50%, Green 50%, Blue 0%.

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    photoshop is a hard program to grasp but once you have grasped it their endless fun i especially like playing with the blood brushes, the main way to learn photoshop and do something creative is to create a dvdcover for a movie which aint in cinema or something this will push your skills to the limit you have to make it profesional but still add your own effect 1 man that does this well is

    http://www.incomplete.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/covers.html

    if u can do taht their nothing you cant do i got the photoshop videos but they are extensively borring for a person that already knows their way around photoshop but if your new give the videos a go after 1hour of just playing with the program learn basics like merge layere flatten image etc.
    llearn layers i know how it feels when ur trying to edit a image finding out you aint selected the right layer this is a big mistake made by everyone at one point name your layerers :thumbs

    good luck

    http://www.incomplete.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/covers.html

    the blood brush details are on http://www.angryblue.com/ dont ask for were they go my CS harddrive is unplugged so i cant say hopefully you just search brush and phtoosop folder will appear put it in their open photoshop CS, whatever click brush tool right click on the image and click that little arrow angry 1 and angry 2 will be their chooose one and choose red and splash the little preview screens loook nothing like blood but it is dont be fooled!

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