lemonfish Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 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. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zettz Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonfish Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 Thanks very much. Yay you didn't call me a noob. Does this work on elements 3 though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonfish Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonfish Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 Finished the abstract, what do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonfish Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 And another one. Going to get more brushes and add characters to them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zettz Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 not bad, id make the line a little less brihgt lol, it hurts my eyes lol. looks good in green bar still to bright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
np_tyler Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 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. - Np Tyler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemonfish Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 Anti aliasing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
np_tyler Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Well, that's what it's called in Fireworks, but I'm not sure about Photoshop. It just blurs the edges of fonts, basically. - Np Tyler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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