Manny Cav's Photoshop thread.

[Manny Cav]

I'm currently trying out Photoshop CS3 Extended V10.0. It's a whole different world from MS Paint, that's for sure. Now, I need to know something about this massive program: Is there a way to make animated GIFs with the program? Because I hear some say you can, others say you can't, but either way, the Help program isn't being very helpful.

[landbeforetimelover]

I am pretty good at photoshop, but I never use it to make gifs.  I use easy gif animator.  It's so easy

[action9000]

While Photoshop cannot make animations on its own, it's sister program, Imageready, is fully capable of producing animated GIFs.  As far as I know, Adobe includes ImageReady in its suite.

[Petrie.]

Beneton Movie GIF can make gifs, but you need to have the frames already set and in GIF format (won't work with jpegs).  And its free and does what I want.

[Manny Cav]

I have another image related question.

There's an image I want to rotate to "x" degree. However, I do not mean like traditional clockwise/counterclockwise rotation. I mean literally rotating the contents of an image to, instead of facing towards you, facing towards another angle. Is there a way I can do this?

And in the case that anyone asks about the GIF thing, I settled on a program called Spider for the specific purpose I had in mind. If you've never heard of it, then you're not missing out on anything particularly special. It was designed with a specific kind of GIF creation in mind that's quite complicated.

[Petrie.]

I think my post was eaten, but I had said that I believe Microsoft Digital Image Pro can do what you want.  Costs a pretty penny to get, but I'm guessing you don't want the typical four point rotation (in 90 degree steps).

[Manny Cav]

Correct. I require 45? rotation. I can do "traditional" rotation in any direction I want, but I do not seek "traditional" rotation" (if you get my drift).

[Petrie.]

Show me the picture and I can get you a 45 degree rotation.

[Manny Cav]

That being the case, I'm going to come out and say that there about a dozen pictures that I need to flip both 45? and 315? degrees, and mabey 90? and 270?, as well (though those two directions would probably wind up with a very slim profile images ).

[Petrie.]

Ok then send me one and we'll see if I can even do what you want.  This is no bother at all.

[Petrie.]

The images must be corrupted or something because they don't open properly...I get some weird dimensions 13789x110 like that.  Unfortunately, that's the only image editing program I have too.  I really don't get what's up...Windows Picture and Fax Viewer can show them fine.

[Nimrod]

Well, I have the new edition of Adobe Photoshop CS3, too. and if you ask me, I could need very much help. I don¥t want to steal Many Cav his thread, but could anyone explain me something over this program? I asked that several times before, but no one answered at my questions.

For an excample: How can I do backgrounds like hills or trees in Littlefoots Avatar for excample. Or how could I do better shadows like shiny skin or something like that, hope everyone know what I mean. If anyone want to take a look, I did one with shadows in the thread Lbt art by Nimrod, but it doesn¥t look quite right. So if anyone has an answer, please say me

How I said before, I am sorry that I stealed Many Cavs threak with this post. If you want I can do also an own thread about this. But I am so confused  

[Manny Cav]

The images must be corrupted or something because they don't open properly...I get some weird dimensions 13789x110 like that.  Unfortunately, that's the only image editing program I have too.   I really don't get what's up...Windows Picture and Fax Viewer can show them fine.

I personally downloaded the images myself, and the images work normally for me. I don't get it. I'll try to see if there's an anomaly in the images. All of the images dimensions are 175 x 110. The 110 pixel width is correct, but what's with the quadruple digit number for the height? :blink:

EDIT: I reuploaded the archive. Try it now.

[Petrie.]

Is that what you meant?

[Manny Cav]

No. I was actually shooting for something like this:

This is a lame attempt of me trying to do this in Paint.

[landbeforetimelover]

For an excample: How can I do backgrounds like hills or trees in Littlefoots Avatar for excample. Or how could I do better shadows like shiny skin or something like that, hope everyone know what I mean. If anyone want to take a look, I did one with shadows in the thread Lbt art by Nimrod, but it doesn¥t look quite right. So if anyone has an answer, please say me

Something like this?  You're not making much sense.




Perhaps this? :unsure:

[Nimrod]

No^^. I nearlier meant backgrounds drawings. Just take a look at Littlefoots avatar, than you know what I mean :^.^:

[Petrie.]

No. I was actually shooting for something like this:

This is a lame attempt of me trying to do this in Paint.

I'm not familiar with that.  Sorry.

[Manny Cav]

That's the type of rotation I was talking about. Is this doable in Photoshop?

[Nimrod]

Of cause you can do it. I explain you.

first you draw it with pencil, that it looks like this:

Than I drew it with a fineliner:

that is a fineliner. And now it looks so:

But you also can draw it at your computer^^

Well, than I scanned it at my computer, you also can do a photo and save the photo at your computer.

After this, I coloured it.
Than I did the shadows. I¥ll show you now.


So, how you can see now, there are darker and lighter shadows. The darker shadows I did with the burn tool and the lighter shadows with the light tool, don¥t know if the second name is correct^^.

To chose the size of the burn tool and the light tool, you do this:


I prefer only these one in the red box, cause the others are to hard. But it¥s your decide.
When you chose the option burn- or light tool, just do a rightclick at your mouse and this window appears.

Well, I think that was all you have to know, good luck.
Hope I could help :