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Posted on 27/05/10 03:12:11 AM |
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Carl Wilson
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TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
ok, I'm really new to Photoshop, so what do I do? Run out and buy Steve Caplan's book 100% Photoshop. I am in the middle of doing some of the techniques and I've run into a problem I hope someone can help me with... On page 14 "Creating the ring" I do ok with steps 1 thru 5, with the exception of step 2 says " without deselecting press Q to enter quickMask mode. This will show the selected area highlighted as shown" Mine does the opposite it leaves the ellipse gray and turns the rest of the canvas pink! I am using CS3, and when I started a "new" drawing I set my canvas size to 8.5 x 11. At any rate, I did get the ring finished to this point. Next it says "use ctrl A to select all". I do this and it selects the whole page, not the ring I just created. When I nudge the pixels up for a perspective the "selected lines" at the bottom of the page go up not the ring. anyone have any suggestions? OH, I did make a new layer at step 1 Thanks, Carl |
Posted on 27/05/10 08:31:44 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
Carl, If you check out the section on QuickMask on page 5, it explains about how it works. The default behaviour for QuickMask is to highlight masked - that is unselected - areas. I find it much better to work the other way around, and explain how to switch the way it behaves. As to your second point: when you use Select All, are you sure you're not still in QuickMask mode? And are you absolutely sure you made the ring on a new layer??? Welcome to the forum! Steve |
Posted on 27/05/10 9:59:51 PM |
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Andrew Wilson
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
Thanks Steve for the reply. As I stated, I am very new to Photoshop. Well.......I've had CS3 since it first came out, I've just now decided to do something with it. I use to do product design work with Unigraphics drafting software, and since I no longer am in that line of work I decided to get into the graphics. I bought your book at a local book store here (Barnes and Noble) and I have found it interesting to say the least. Now I just have quite a learning curve. The second question I had I found the answer in another post. It said to hold shift key and click on layer in the layer pallette worked great. I still havent gotten to the point where it looks three dimensional though. I am going to work on it tonight. I tried to sign in under the name I set the account up in and it wouldn't let me (said I entered the wrong name or password) so I thought I'd re-register with the same name and password and the login stated that that name was already taken......go figure. So I registered in another name. Ok, on to playing with your book.... Thanks, Carl |
Posted on 27/05/10 11:47:22 PM |
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Andrew Wilson
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
OK, Step by step.... This is the drawing in Perspective tutorial. Step 1. make a new layer and draw the elliptical, fill in with gray. "This works ok." Step 2. without deselecting press Q to enter quickmask. This will show the selected area highlighted as shown. (red) "My ellipse is still gray, the rest of the picture turns pink" Step 3. CTRL T, to enter free transform mode. " I do this and resize the ellipse, the red "highlighted" ellipse (stated above) seems to be under the gray one" Step 4. Hold "alt" to scale towards center " This works ok, except the gray ellipse is the one the sizing is working on. (which seems to be on top) Step 5. press Q again to leave quick mask and the red ellipse will turn into a selection. All you have to do now is delete the selection to make the ellipse into a perspective ring. " I hit Q, and the ellipse goes back to a full gray ellipse I started with, only now it has the resized ellipse (the floating, as selected entities ring in it) I hit the delete key and I now have a hole in my ellipse. (that part is right)I hit ctrl D to deselect? Step 6. CTRL A to select all. I old crtl and left click by mouse on new layer to select all, otherwise it will select the whole page. alt, arrow up, to nudge the selected items up one pixel at a time. "This works ok" ctrl J to make selection into a new layer. " I do this and it deselects the "nudging up" I just did and the ellipse goes back to the way it looked before I "nudged it up" looks nothing like the book." Step 7. Hide the new layer (2nd new layer, Im assuming) and return to the extruded layer (1st new layer, again assuming) and use the dodge and burn tools. " I have no extruded looking piece on either layer" Step 8. Revel the top ring layer (isn't that layer 1?, that I'm already in now?) or something else? this is where I'm at now and can't seem to get it to work right. Sorry for the long reply, just going nuts here.....lol Thanks, Carl |
Posted on 28/05/10 09:53:46 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
Carl, Sorry you've had trouble logging in! And sorry you've had trouble with this tutorial. To answer your questions: 2. As I explained in my earlier post, and in the book, you need to double-click the QuickMask icon at the bottom of the Toolbar to set its behaviour to show Selected Areas, rather than Masked Areas. 3. The highlighted ellipse appears 'under' the grey one because you didn't reverse the behaviour first. 6. In order to 'extrude' the ring, it needs to be selected: Select All is the easiest way to do this. It needs to be selected in order for the nudging operation to work. Does this help? |
Posted on 30/05/10 03:29:32 AM |
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Andrew Wilson
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
Yes Steve, It did. I appreciate your help, and on I go into your book.  |
Posted on 02/06/10 03:18:01 AM |
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Andrew Wilson
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
OK, now another question (I really hope you guys and gals don't get tired of me asking them.... "Drawing Horns" I made the bottom shape of the horn, used the burn and dodge tool ok, duplicated the layer, didn't move it, and free transformed and moved the ellipse up, rotated, and scaled. Hit enter to apply, ok, #4 says choose edit>transform>transform again, (or use the shortcut keys. not ok. When I do this the second part of the horn doesn't duplicate, it moves upwards. The only way I can get it to duplicate, is to duplicate the layer each time , then do the transform again. This leaves me with quite a few layers. Is this correct, or am I missing something? Sorry to be a bother, but I am a real newbe... Thanks, Carl |
Posted on 02/06/10 08:17:16 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
Choosing Transform Again will repeat the previous transformation, but won't make a copy of it. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl Shift T. If you want to make a copy of it while transforming, you need to hold the Alt key as well. This key always makes a copy of selections, whether you're dragging them or moving whole layers. So if you press Alt Ctrl Shift T it will repeat the transformation, this time making a copy. Sorry, this seems to be a mistake in the book - I'll amend the keyboard shortcut for future printings. Thanks for pointing it out! And please, do keep posting any queries here. For a newbie, you're jumping in at the deep end with this book, so I'm particularly interested in how you're getting on, and the problems you're facing. |
Posted on 02/06/10 10:20:09 AM |
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laddition
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
I had the same problem!!!  _________________ Mais je me connais, je lâcherais pas l'affaire.... Je vais piquer de grève comme on pique une colère... Plus têtue que tous les vieil homme et la mer... Pour que continue le combat ordinaire! |
Posted on 02/06/10 11:03:46 PM |
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Andrew Wilson
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
Thanks Steve, and I must say your quite patient and I appreciate it. Yes I have jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire so to speak. I have been trying for quite some time to find someone to help me with the basics, and there is a university here! It will come one of these days. Laddition.........I'm glad it helped you as well! Carl |
Posted on 02/06/10 11:24:52 PM |
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Andrew Wilson
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
OK, I did this and I noticed that everytime I did the "transform again" it added another copy to layer 1 in the layers pallette. Is this correct? Thanks, carl |
Posted on 03/06/10 08:32:44 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: TROUBLE IN STEVE'S BOOK 100% PHOTOSHOP
If you start by transforming a whole layer, then yes, Transform Again will duplicate that layer as it transforms it. You end up with a lot of layers this way. There are two solutions: 1. Don't worry about all the extra layers - just flatten them all together when you're done 2. Rather than transforming the whole layer, load up the horn section as a selection and then transform just the selection. This will make all the transformations within a single layer. And Carl, really, no problem! Ask all the questions you like! That's what the forum is here for. |