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[Nacht]

Hello,

I am fairly new to photoshop. I have seen some pretty amazing stuff, but I am limited to things like cropping, blending and what not. I saw this and I was wondering how to do it. It almost looks like it is an inverted sprayer and then the text. I was hoping someone could tell me how to do it, or if it is even possible on photoshop. Thank you.

Edit: Also how do you crop a picture so that it has rounded edges? I know it has to have a transparent background, which I have, but I don't know how to round the corners.

P.S. I have more questions to ask as well.

[Andrea]

Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of photoshopping!

That image probably has had a multitude of different things done. Whether adding extra layers and playing with the inverted colors, desaturation, or other layer effects were done is hard to tell depending on what the original picture was.

However, I imagine, patterns have definitely been implemented. When you search for free photoshop patterns a ton of sites will come up with free resources for you to use.

When you find a pattern you like, copy it (right click > copy), or save it to your computer in a place you'll be able to find later. Open that image up in Photoshop and go to Edit > Define Pattern and give it a name.

Open up an image you would like to apply the pattern to and Create a New Layer. Find the Pattern Stamp Tool (which may be paired off with the Clone Stamp Tool), and find the pattern you just saved in the top menu bar. Apply that pattern to the image and then modify the layer opacity. There you go! Play around with those settings.

here is a more detailed tutorial on how to use patterns.

For the rounded corners, there is no way to "crop" it using the crop tool. This is the easiest tutorial I have found on learning how to create rounded corner images.

Good luck!

[Nacht]

Thank you so much! Could you answer a couple of other questions for me??
1. How do you make something fade out?
2. How do you add something that looks like pixie dust?
Both of these questions apply to the image below and by pixie dust I mean the yellow parts. The fade out is where the text is on the left side. I can't figure out how to do that.


Edit: I found the original picture for the image I asked about earlier. here

[Nacht]

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[bobdat]

1) I'm not entirely sure, but it may have something to do with a gradient brush, where the gradient goes from the solid colour to transparent. I dunno.
2) It'll be a 'pixie dust' brush, which if you don't already have will be downloadable from somewhere, any repository of PS brushes will probably have at least one.

Apologies, I'm a GIMP user, so I don't know exactly.

[Andrea]

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier.

1) You can make specific layers fade out using the Marquee tool. Select the square marquee and then at the top menu bar you should see something that says Feather: 0px. Change it to 10px. With a layer selected, select an area of the image you want faded and then hit delete, and see what happens.

2) Like bondat said, that would be used by a photoshop brush. If you do a simple google search for, for example, "pixel photoshop brush", you may come up with results you like.

[ourdoomsdayx]

For the first image, it looks like they have done some blending or over laying for the two photos, as well as some colorization and patterns or textures. For blending, there are many different methods. It takes some practice. I have worked with graphics for around 4 or 5 years now and I have just gotten good at it within the last two years. It takes a lot of trial and effort, and I still have some trouble with it.

For rounded corners, I use the pen tool. What I do is select the pen tool and hit the rounded rectangle tool and draw your rectangle. Then I go to Paths (if you do not see it, Windows > Paths) and right click on the path and hit make selection. Then I go to copy or cut and re-paste it in a new canvas that has a transparent background. That has been the easiest way for me though there are other ways to achieve rounded corners!

I agree with the others on the rest. Hope this helps