GDD: Official Tips Thread

[Anselm]

Thanks elpef, added.

[Rezistik]

Tip Name:Hope it hasnt been done yet :\ Focal
Program:[/bPSP/PS/GIMP
Skill Level: Beginner
Tip:A great Way to make a great focal is to lightly blur the outer effects

Tip Name:Another hope it hasnt been done yet one Smudging
Program:Photoshop
Skill Level:Intermediate
Tip:A good way to make a sig is to take a wallpaper and use a had mid scatter round brush and a wallpaper duplicate the wallpaper layer and smudge then flip it around erase and set to thyings like dodge lighten or darken see what happens.

Tip Name:Image Flipping
Program:Most
Skill Level: Beginner
Tip:When you finish a sig make a new layer apply image and then flip it horizontally you wouldnt think it could make any differance but it really does a sig can look totally differant when flipped.

Tip Name:been done before but wasnt said correctly..clipping masks
Program:ps cs2
Skill Level: Advanced
Tip:okay now a clipping mask is hard to explaing think of it like this you make a circle and you want to shade it but youre a little messy and you brush somewhere where the circle isnt make the brushing layer a clipping mask and it will only appear over the circle.

so basically a clipping mask will only appear on the layer its on top of

[Anselm]

I tidied some of those tips up for you, and I placed them where I thought best.

Thanks.

[Rezistik]

Yeah i didnt explain them very well lol

[Rekkin]

Tip Name: C4D Lookalike / Flame Filter
Program: GIMP
Skill Level: Intermediate
Tip: If you don't like C4Ds, or just don't want to bother with finding one, there is a filter in GIMP that produces something of the sort. First, go to Filter>Render>Nature>Flame. A dialog box will be brought up with many options. The only one that you really need to worry about is the "Brightness" option under the "Rendering" tab. Next, go to the "Camera" tab, and play around with horizontal and vertical placement, as well as the "Zoom" option (all this does is increase or decrease the size of the flame). The last thing to do is hit the "edit" button at the top of the dialog box, and play around with that. Choose one of the options from the "Variation" Drop down box, and click on the boxes under "Directions" to create what you want.

After this, you can color it, play around with levels, etc.

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Hope that wasn't too long...

[Anselm]

That'll be fine. Thanks

[dude]

Just so you know you put that last GIMP tutorial in the photoshop section And my explanation was much better than urs lol ironman.

[Anselm]

Yeah, I didn't change the explanation about clipping masks. Thanks for telling me about that btw.

[endless22]

transfermktforum said:

I'll have a think about that one, not sure myself whether it's a tip or not.

I think it should be, cuz when I was a noob I'd just take a normal pic, stretch it wide, and add text

[Rezistik]

it wasnt really an explanation about clipping masks dude. :\ yours ws atechnique i was trying to explain them

[dude]

That's not really very helpful as a tip - with a tip you want to know how it's done and not what clipping masks are. I also didn't really have a clue about what you were on about when I read urs in fairness.