Fun with Photoshop...

ZenBudha · Post by **ZenBudha** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:24 am

A little something I did just a little while ago. Playing around with some things I learned from a tutorial I found.

What'cha think?

Spyrewolf · Post by **Spyrewolf** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:49 am

That's real good Zen,

your photoshopping is getting good with each picture your posting, is this made up of composits or is it 100% original, Either way it looks cool! nice lighting ect. if it's 100% original that's outstanding!!

ZenBudha · Post by **ZenBudha** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:30 am

Everything was done 100% in photoshop except for the circuit board overlay on the eye.

Yet everything else was photoshop. No special brushes either. Most is simply using custom gradients on an otherwise plain white shape.

The grundge effect was done by a gradient overlay with some noise, and a couple of tan colors.

Here's another version thumbnailed with more details, 1 special brush (radiation symbol).

I call it the I-Blade... Might find a way to integrate it into my website to spruce things up.

The saw part was the biggest pain. Basically I used the lasso to grab the shape, and fill it with white. Then I copied it, rotated it 20 degree's and placed it by hand over and over again untill they went all the way around. Dropped them all down to a single layer, and applied a gradient.

steven8 · Post by **steven8** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:06 am

So. Where do I find this tutorial? I have tried and tried and tried, but I can not conjure up items that look photrealistic like that.

Most excellent, Mr. Budha.

ZenBudha · Post by **ZenBudha** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:17 am

http://www.digital-industry.net/forum/i ... topic=3192

Here's a direct link to the tutorial. Warning though if your on dial-up this is a high graphics forum so it may take awhile to load.

I'm Zen_Budha there as well so you can see my progression because I posted my first outcome somewhat following the tutorial and then the I-Blade as I call it was what I did the next day just out of my own ideas.

Teaches some great techniques though.

steven8 · Post by **steven8** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:24 am

Oh boy! What a great tutorial. You darn near equaled the teacher on your first try. Most awesome, Zen. Thanks for the link.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:36 pm

looks good zen. a tip that may help (or not) for stuff like the saw blades is if you had used 22.5 degrees instead of 20. dupe your first blade then rotate it 180 and position it. flatten the two, dupe, rotate 90 and position. dupe/rotate the 4 at 45 degrees. flatten. now you only have one more rotation to do at 22.5. you'd end up with a different number of blades though and you're locked at a 90 degree look.

if you have it, illustrator's really good for non-90 degrees and you can bring illustrator files into ps. draw a circle and your first blade positioned to the circle. use the rotate tool on your first blade but ctrl+click (i think it'd be ctrl - i'm on a mac!) with the cursor centered on the circle you're rotating around. this should bring up the rotate dialoug. enter 20 degrees and click the copy button (not the ok button or enter). this will give you one copy rotated 20 degrees. now all you have to do is duplicate (ctrl+d?) and illustrator will rotate all the dupes 20 degrees around center. be careful (use guides) when you center your cursor on the first dupe or the dupes won't align correctly.

anyway... just more longwinded useless bits of shtuff in my head...

ZenBudha · Post by **ZenBudha** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:04 pm

Good info there.

My latest distraction, and bane is sig making. It's really opening up photoshop for me a lot though. Yet I can't seem to stop thinking about how to make a better one. lol

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:02 am

Wow your diffenatly good!

I hope I will some day be able to do something half that good!

ZenBudha · Post by **ZenBudha** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:33 am

Thanks for the comments. I think the key to any art program whether it's Photoshop, Gimp, or a 3D Modelling package is to learn the toolset.

Then you switch over from "How do I do that?" to "What do I want to do?"

Then and only then can you start to bring whats in your head to life.

SithMaster · Post by **SithMaster** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:34 pm

I like the saws but that second sig is outstanding.

Post by **AndyCR** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:45 pm

WOW. LOVE the seond sig. Also love the saw with the biohazard symbol - use a head with the biohazard symbol on top and we have the perfect new rfeditpro icon/logo!!!

ZenBudha · Post by **ZenBudha** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:19 am

Amazing simply amazing. I loved the second sig too and was shocked when I actually came to that result. Suprised myself but when I posted it on one of those sig forums for comments I got none good.

Yeah it would be cool to spruce up some logo's around here a bit. I could put the head in there, and maybe lose the saw blades or something.

Edit: Hehe Head needs work.

GD1 · Post by **GD1** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:56 pm

I think we should just lose the head (no pun intended) and use the second saw-blade as the new RFEditPro Logo for the next build. Besides, the head is used in numerous programs and is floating around the whole internet. I think it would be nice to have our own unique logo.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:30 pm

Yea the head looks cool but I wish we could have a unique logo. Maybe we should do a contest, and have all the members vote on the best one.