My First Photoshop Tutorial

landbeforetimelover · **on:** June 18, 2009, 05:11:32 AM

I've decided to make a short Photoshop tutorial on using the clone stamp tool. It's a rather simple tutorial. I simply modify the image I have in my signature so that there's more grass. Let me show you what I mean. This was the original image:

If you'd like to download this video tutorial, you may download it here:

http://lbtserver.2myip.net/UniversalUpload...hoptutorial.avi

I will never have the ability to stream these tutorials because you really need to be able to see them full screen.

Paradise Bird · **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2009, 08:17:57 AM

How do you place multiple links in a sig at different points?
Err if you could do you know how to animate a sig?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2009, 04:14:47 PM

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How do you place multiple links in a sig at different points?

Well first you have to create the six different images, which requires math and the selection tool (and a lot of time and patience). You have to choose dimensions that are divisible by 3 lengthwise and 2 widthwise. Then you have to put text on them.

After that you have to arrange them in your signature using A LOT of bbcode and some HTML. This is my signature code:

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[IMG]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/tlordame/signature/top.jpg[/IMG] [URL=http://www.landbeforetime.co.nr][IMG]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/tlordame/signature/1.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://www.lbtserver.2myip.net/lbtarchive][IMG]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/tlordame/signature/2.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://www.lbtserver.2myip.net][IMG]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/tlordame/signature/3.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.freewebs.com/landbeforetimelover/apps/photos/][IMG]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/tlordame/signature/4.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://www.freewebs.com/landbeforetimelover/tvseriesbeta.htm][IMG]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/tlordame/signature/5.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://www.lbtserver.2myip.net/silverlineproductions/website][IMG]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa146/tlordame/signature/6.jpg[/IMG][/URL] <a href="http://lbtserver.2myip.net/Stream/pages/awards.html" target="_blank">View My Awards</a>

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Err if you could do you know how to animate a sig?

Yeah, you have to create an animated GIF. To do that, you need to have some frames, which you can easily re-size or even create from scratch in Photoshop. Then you can put them together and compress them. You can put them together in a program called Easy GIF Animator (not free). Then GIF compression is a bit more tricky. I have an illegal portable version of Photoshop CS2 because back in the days of CS2 there was a nifty little program called Image Ready. It's not included in the modern photoshops, but that thing can compress GIF's like you wouldn't believe.

Paradise Bird · **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2009, 07:28:55 PM

That sounds creative is there no way to just make a GIF through photoshop?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2009, 08:04:20 PM

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That sounds creative is there no way to just make a GIF through photoshop?

Not that I know of. That's what Image Ready was for. But perhaps since they stopped releasing a new version of Image Ready with each version of Photoshop, some or all of the features of Image Ready are now integrated into the newer Photoshop versions. I'm not sure. I just do what works and portable Image Ready CS2 works for me.

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2009, 08:13:23 PM

Nice! Might come in handy for my ever improving LBT website design.

Paradise Bird · **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2009, 12:15:43 AM

I really wish to animate my sigs.