I got few emails and msn messages from some of my friends, who wants me to put up tutorials on "Incomplete Rames". Here you go guys. Spent sometimes finding back one of archive photoshop work to share with ya all. (one of my personal fav!) More here : http://www.ramesstudio.com/magazine/v1/
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Download the photo here or you can even use your very own photo.
Step 1 Open the photo in any drawing software (you can use Photoshop, Flash or Illustrator) because we need to trace the outline of the leg. In this tutorial, I'm using flash (I use pencil tool to trace).
Step 2 Now open the photo in Photoshop and remove the faded part of the leg.
Step 3 Right after removing the leg, import the outline into Photoshop and place it on top of the photo.
Step 4 Make another copy of the photo, then go to Layer Style. Choose the Color Overlay option and select black color (#000000)
Step 5 Next, go to Edit> Transform> Distort. Distort the photo just like above using the edge points of the transform tool.
Step 6 Now go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur. Set the slider to 5.0 pixels and click OK
Step 7 Adjust the Opacity to 30%.
Step 8 Finally, you need to erase the highlighted part of the shadow so that it looks like as if its coming out of the surface!
That's all folks! Easy? Indeed! Now give it a try and post your link here for me and others to see ya! :)
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Step 1 Open Adobe Flash and go to File> Import> Import to stage. Locate the saved car photo and click OK.
Step 2 We need to make the photo look transparent for easier tracing later on. To do this, click on the photo and press F8. Choose the graphic option and click OK.
Step 3 Select the photo and on the properties bar (Ctrl-F3), change the Color bar to Alpha. Set the opacity to 38% - 50%.
Step 4 You can now use the pencil or pen tool to start draw the outline of the car. You might want to set the "Smoothing" to 60 and the option part (below the tools) to "Smooth" for better tracing :)
Step 5 Once you've done with the outline, it's time to color the car. Use the paint bucket tool to fill in the color you prefer. You can even use the gradient colors!
Step 6 Remove the photo layer and you're done! Try export the image to JPG or any other format for various usage.
Today's tutorial is about Photoshop Action. I'm sure some of you already know how to use this but for those who don't, here's the simple way to get it done. I've selected 3 different actions (my personal favorite!) to share with you guys!
PS: Photos from my personal photography collection.
Here's the sample
Step 1 Download the photoshop action to your PC (see below for the download links). Next, open Photoshop and go to Window> Actions. You'll see a small popup like above. Click on the small arrow and select "Load Actions". Locate the Photoshop actions that you've downloaded.
Step 2 Select any numbers (each numbers has its own actions) and click on the "Play".
You're done!
Now, let's see some of the Photoshop Actions from Deviantart.com which I've selected for you guys to play around. Simply click on the download links to get the photoshop actions!
This is my first ever tutorial on Adobe Flash! Hope you'll like it. I assume you've already use Flash before follow my steps. Even if you're not, I made it simple to follow. Do try!
We're going to learn how to make interactive flash file which is known as "Rollover Effect". To compare 2 different photos (before and after). Sample below.
First of all download these 2 photos. We going to use these photos in the tutorial.
Step 1 Open new flash document and click on the "Settings" on the properties bar. If you can't find it, go to Windows> Properties> Properties.
Step 2 On the popup, set the width, height and frame rate like above.
Step 3 Go to File> Import> Import to Stage and place the "After" photo right in the middle of the document. Next click on the photo, and go to Modify> Convert to Symbol. On the popup, add name and select the type. Click OK once you've done that.
Step 4 Now, click on that same photo again and go to Modify> Convert to Symbol again. We need to convert it to "Movie Clip" type and give it a name "movie". Click OK.
Step 5 Make sure the photo is still selected and then go to properties box and type "movie" just like above.
Step 6 On the timeline, add a new layer. Right click the first frame and select "Actions".
Step 7 On the Action popup, add the action "stop();"
Step 8 Add a new layer in between these 2 layers. Go to the "Rectangle Tool" on the toolbar and make a box on the photo (any color will do). This is done to create the button map.
Step 9 Select the box and go to Modify> Convert to Symbol. Choose type "button" and give it a name "button".
Step 10 Double click on the box and you'll see a small mini timeline (indicator no.1). Move the black box on the timeline from "Up" to "Hit". This is to make the box look invisible. Once you've done that, click on the "Scene 1"(shown above with the indicator no.2)
Step 11 You should see the document is now look just like above.
Step 12 Click on the middle button layer. We need to hide it, temporarily. How to hide it? Click on the small black dot on the "eye icon" row, see above. After that, double click on the photo layer.
Step 13 On the first layer, create 3 keyframes. How to do this? very easy! Click on the "15" frame and press "F6" on your keyboard. Another one at frame "30", press "F6". Your timeline now should look like above.
Step 14 Right click on the first frame and the "15" to add "Create Motion Tween". After that, stay at frame "15" and click on the main photo.
Step 15 On the properties bar, choose "Alpha" at the color bar and set the Opacity slider to "0%"
Step 16 Now go to the timeline and create a layer below the photo. Then go to File> Import> Import to Stage and locate the "Before" photo. Place it in the middle of the document.
Step 17 Add one more layer at the top most. We need to add some codes. Make 3 keyframes like above. Follow exactly like Step 13.
Step 18 Right click on the frame 1, 15, 30 and add the actions above. Next, click on the "Scene 1" tab. We're almost done! Just 1 more step!
Step 19 Unhide the button layer (Just click back on the black dot to unhide the layer). Click on the button, right click and add the code just like above. Now, go to Control> Test Movie (ctrl + ENTER) to test out the movie!
Can you see now? There you have a very cool interactive comparison file!
If you want to add the file into your blog or site, upload it first to any server. Copy the embed code below and change the path of the "swf". That's it!
