Right, i'll probably get flamed for this and have people repeating noob to me for the rest of my life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How can i colour an abstract, this abstract actually. I've just done a tutorial but it didn't have a guide to colouring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes flame, call me a noob, or answer my question if you're nice

I would use a combonation of color ballance and curves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Color ballance can be gotten to by pressing Ctrl+B, and curves, I forgot the actual keyboard shortcut, but go to Image > adjustments > curves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

how they work:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Color ballance is fairly easy to use, you move the sliders to more or less get the perfect ballance of color you want between the midetones, darks and lights. Curves is a bit tougher to explain, but its more of a fine tune tweaking to your image. If anything you can click the "auto" on it. :)

create a new layer choose 2 colours go to the graident tool and use that and set the layer to overlay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

go to layers new adustment layer and colourbalnce layer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

looks quite nice aswell.

Thanks very much. Yay you didn't call me a noob. Does this work on elements 3 though?

i found out I did the image a bit too bright so I had a darker shade of red. Only the gradient works with photoshop elements but it's good enough. Thanks a lot to both of you.

Finished the abstract, what do you think?

 

 

 

And another one. Going to get more brushes and add characters to them now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

not bad, id make the line a little less brihgt lol, it hurts my eyes lol. looks good in green bar still to bright

Don't use anti-alias on pixel fonts, it makes them look terrible, and the text is too bright, especially on the green version. The text is the only thing I can see that really needs work.

Anti aliasing?

Well, that's what it's called in Fireworks, but I'm not sure about Photoshop. It just blurs the edges of fonts, basically.