Photoshop noob

talk design
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Hi,

I have used Photoshop to create some buttons, resize images, etc.

I keep seeing these amazing intricate pics that must have at least a 100 layers. I just visited electrongeeks website. WOW on the artwork.

Would some one point me in the direction to a tute that walks you through blending several layers into a work of art.

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i dont know of any, but my advice to start out, is make a pic on one layer, then go to layer/duplicate layer
then mess around with blending options and opacity, then keep experimenting by addins more layers, with diff stuff

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well the pictures on electrongeek’s site are made in Cinema 4d …I think :-\ :slight_smile: Correct me if I’m wrong! :slight_smile:

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i havent even been there yet
so m not sure
im working on writing a tutorial for using layer blending and what not, just not sure what kinda pic to do it for

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Yeah, electrongeeks images are done in Cinema 4D and Photoshop I believe.

www.teamphotoshop.com has some tutorials on layer blending properties and such.

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I believe EG’s site was made with Swift 3d V.3…

I think anyway…

Rev

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http://teamphotoshop.com/photoshop/tutorials/techniques/blendmode_2/blendmodes_2.php
theres the explanation of all the blending things in ps7

edit–>spelling
also heres the othe utte
http://teamphotoshop.com/photoshop/tutorials/techniques/blendmode/blend.php

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I believe electrongeek used Cinema 4D and photoshop on his layout, but most of the stuff in his gallery was made with photoshop and illustrator.

Here are some of electrongeek’s favorite tutorial sites. =)


http://psd.zholman.com/subcats.php?start=0&category=6
http://www.lamtruongonline.com/~pixeleyes/tutorial.php?id=4
http://www.b-man.dk/tutorials.asp

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Wow man, how do you know so much about Electrongeek?

Have you met him in person?!

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if you want a good book, Down and Dirty Tricks and Tips for Photoshop or something along those lines.

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its Photoshop7, Down and Dirty

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yeah i got it in my closet, didnt feel like pulling it out. but i learned everything from it. it tells you like when to use a new layer, and eventually you just pick it up.

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*Originally posted by lostinbeta *
**Wow man, how do you know so much about Electrongeek?

Have you met him in person?! **

Yes Lost, I know him in person and he’s annoying, he follows me everywhere. He’s even right here right now while I’m typing this. :scream:

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Thanks for all the replies.

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Hmmm, yeah, I hate when people follow me everywhere.

No privacy man… seriously. :ub:

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my personal favorite for Photoshop tutorials is:

http://www.wastedyouth.org

it’s not up right now…but it’ll be back soon…

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wow elec http://psd.zholman.com/subcats.php?start=0&category=6 copied so much from Robouk…i think he was the one who originally made those tuts

http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/ps.php

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At least he gives credit where credit is due though.

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yea thats right, he probably got Robouk’s permission to post those…he posted the cool ones which is good as well :slight_smile: i’m glad he gave credit :slight_smile:

edit: one of my fav sites for PS is

http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm

and a cool layer blend tutorial is the

http://www.myjanee.com/tuts/grad/grad.htm

where gradients are blened using layers to create the most awsome new colors/gradients

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hahah the funny thing is that I’ve seen both of those sites and never realized that it was a different person, thought it was the same guy just with two different sites. :geek: