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CV23
Joined: 27 Oct 2009
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 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:40 am Post subject: Hand drawn logo and designs into photoshop |
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Hi im am new to this forum and to photoshop. I need help on many things that have to fo with photoshop.
I draw a lot and i have a lot of designs and logos that i want to put on photoshop to make em look clean, crisp and smooth like every other designs and logos on the internet and business'. I was wondering if anybody can help me or just give me a tutorial if there is one out there. I tried searching but im jus not getting what i need. If anyones willing to help that would be greatly appreciated. Sorry im just new to this whole photoshop business but i wanna continue learning more about it. Thanks to anyone who helps. |
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Captain42
Joined: 27 Oct 2009
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PS Version: CS3
OS: I'm a PC
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I purchased PS about 7 months ago and was in the same boat as you. I learned by playing and pushing buttons but you have to bring in an image to play with or type some text to play with. Try typing text and you will notice it creates a layer on the right side menu. Double click on that layer and go to bevel. That was the first thing I learned and was amazed at how cool you can make text look.
There are online tutorials that helped me with some techniques too. They are all over the place, just surf and you'll find good ones.
One thing I'm not good at is drawing freehand in PS. If you draw freehand allot and can afford to purchase Illustrator, you can take your freehand sketch and scan it into Illustrator. Then you can hit "Live Trace and it creates a vector image that you can insert back over to PS.
Here's a good example below. I drew an outline of that letter by hand. Then I scanned it with my printer and imported it into Illustrator. I hit "Live Trace" that traced over my line creating a computer generated vector image. Then I exported that line work into Photoshop and then gave it the colors & graphics, etc...
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bdbolin
Joined: 01 Jul 2009
Posts: 134
PS Version: CS3
OS: Mac OS X
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| Captain42 wrote: | I purchased PS about 7 months ago and was in the same boat as you. I learned by playing and pushing buttons but you have to bring in an image to play with or type some text to play with. Try typing text and you will notice it creates a layer on the right side menu. Double click on that layer and go to bevel. That was the first thing I learned and was amazed at how cool you can make text look.
There are online tutorials that helped me with some techniques too. They are all over the place, just surf and you'll find good ones.
One thing I'm not good at is drawing freehand in PS. If you draw freehand allot and can afford to purchase Illustrator, you can take your freehand sketch and scan it into Illustrator. Then you can hit "Live Trace and it creates a vector image that you can insert back over to PS.
Here's a good example below. I drew an outline of that letter by hand. Then I scanned it with my printer and imported it into Illustrator. I hit "Live Trace" that traced over my line creating a computer generated vector image. Then I exported that line work into Photoshop and then gave it the colors & graphics, etc...
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Nicely said. My only other thoughts would be to perhaps bring in your scanned drawing, increase the "blacks" in the levels panel so that you can later select the black and fill it in easier.
Also you can always add color to a drawing by painting overtop of your image and changing the layer style to "Overlay".
Hopefully that helped a little...
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CV23
Joined: 27 Oct 2009
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Thanks for the replies. should help me with what im doing. would any of u happend to kno what tutorial vids are out there? |
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bdbolin
Joined: 01 Jul 2009
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