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A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby Nyxia » 09/08/2015 1:21 PM

Can anyone tell me how to make a gradient for markings and bodies in photoshop? I swore there was a guild somewhere around here, but I can't locate it now... :oops:

Edit: Okay so after seeing Krypto & Ari's pups in the nursery, I want to find out how to make the markings have that pop to them. Like this:

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I tried messing with the blur tool for it, but that just ended in a massive mess of the PSD.


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Re: A little photoshop help?

Postby zapdragon555 » 09/09/2015 12:48 AM

Hello! I'm going to assume that most photoshops work similarly to others, so here's how I do it:

I assume you know how to apply basic colors to the markings and main body. You do the exact same thing you do for those, except instead of going to the Color Overlay tab, you go to the Gradient Overlay tab.

If, in fact, you use some other method for coloring, please say so and I'll include pictures (using Color Overlay is really the way you're supposed to color the markings).



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Re: A little photoshop help?

Postby Moofius » 09/09/2015 2:09 AM

Just as an extra,  cause I do this all the time,  be sure to unchecked the colour overlay option aswell. If you have both the gradient overlay turned on, and the colour overlay, basically the gradient will always exist Under the colour overlay.
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Re: A little photoshop help?

Postby Nyxia » 09/13/2015 10:50 AM

Ah I had the right button but as Moofius just pointed out I did it wrong. :oops:   Thank you both so much for the help.

One more question, though I will have to wait for the weekend to mess with it more. I know in the past Baal has allowed us to buy lucains with part of a marking "hidden" like the chest skull on the reaper marking. Is there a fairly easy way to do that?


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Re: A little photoshop help?

Postby zapdragon555 » 09/13/2015 11:19 AM

Yep! For each marking there should be something called a Layer Mask attached to each marking. It should be a tiny square next to the marking layer and should look black with only the marking in white. To erase part of the marking, click the square and have #000000 as your color, then paint the areas you want to hide with black (alternatively, painting with white makes more appear).



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Re: A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby Nyxia » 10/16/2015 1:27 PM

New question, since I seem to be full of them this week.


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Re: A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby zapdragon555 » 10/16/2015 1:38 PM

Not fulllly sure what you're asking; do you want to know how to do glowing markings? Because I believe that's all that's happening there with that Dweller marking.



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Re: A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby Nyxia » 10/16/2015 2:59 PM

What I want to try to do is the outline of the dweller, on another marking. I've tried about four of the blurs to get the outline; all they do is either over ride the colors of the marking, or don't show up at all.


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Re: A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby crow » 10/16/2015 8:50 PM

Pretty sure that's just a wider glow effect, with the glow being set to a different color than the marking itself. Someone more photoshop-savvy would have to explain to you how exactly to do that though, if you're not familiar with glows already; I don't really know much myself
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Re: A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby Nyxia » 10/17/2015 2:49 AM

So glow is not the same as blur? Now I'm confused...


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Re: A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby Kyrit » 10/17/2015 2:55 AM

Glow and blur are, essentially, the same in this case. I personally create them a bit differently than the tutorial we have up does, but it all leads to the same thing. Here is the tutorial with how to create a glow, which uses a blur. So the dweller marking is black, and it has a red glow around it.
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Re: A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby crow » 10/17/2015 3:05 AM

Ohhh, okay, I think I might've misunderstood your question. Anyhow, I fiddled around with Photoshop and the glow tutorial that's already been uploaded (I'm assuming you're familiar with this).

Basically what you have to do is drag the original marking over top of the glow layer. With the glow tutorial, the copy of the original marking is the one that becomes the 'glow', and you have to put the original non-glow marking on top of the 'glow' copy, just like how you'd drag the files around to get, say, Arach to show up on top of Celestial.

I'm assuming this is what you're encountering right now (note how 'Arach copy' is on top)

But after dragging the original marking on top, it looks like this, which I think is the effect you wanted? I have the body and the Arach set to more or less the same color just to make the green glow pop, but you can totally assign a different color to the body and markings. If I've got it wrong again, my bad. P: That's the best I can come up with.
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Re: A little photoshop help? [Reused]

Postby Nyxia » 10/17/2015 6:38 PM

Yes that's what I've been trying to do! Your first example is what normally happens, which is why I thought maybe it was a totally different setting/tool thing than glow. Yay, now I can go off and create more things that will hurt my wallet.


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