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07/19/2007 10:09:35 AM · #801 |
Day 19 |
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07/19/2007 10:13:44 AM · #802 |
  
3 days, been lagging...will do some serious comment catchin' up this weekend. |
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07/19/2007 10:56:57 AM · #803 |
Day 19
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07/19/2007 11:06:32 AM · #804 |
Day 18
I'm behind again... |
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07/19/2007 11:53:48 AM · #805 |
plod plod |
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07/19/2007 12:11:36 PM · #806 |
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07/19/2007 01:37:06 PM · #807 |
Trying to catch up on shots; comments will have to wait another day or so while I continue to nurse Shane. He's not doing well after his chemo shot yesterday :-(
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07/19/2007 01:40:01 PM · #808 |
Originally posted by ephln:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by ephln:
I have tried to find tutorials or "How did they do that?" both at DPC and on the web for doing triptichs. Don't know where to start. Probably elemental for most of you...but...I'd like to try it and learn how to do it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks :) |
Process your 3 images separately. Flatten images. Create a new document with BG color of your choice and MUCH larger than it needs to be, but at the same DPI resolution as your images. Get image 1 on top in the window, grab the BG layer and drag it to the blank canvas. Do this for each image in turn. Close the original images. Make each image layer in the new composite active in turn and use the arrow tool to move the respective images into alignment. A guide helps here.
You can use layers styles in the palette to stroke each image and/or put a drop-shadow on it.
Finally, use the crop tool to crop the excess off your canvas.
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Thank you Bear... |
I give up!!!! Can't seem to get it right!
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07/19/2007 01:52:19 PM · #809 |
Originally posted by ephln:
Originally posted by ephln:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by ephln:
I have tried to find tutorials or "How did they do that?" both at DPC and on the web for doing triptichs. Don't know where to start. Probably elemental for most of you...but...I'd like to try it and learn how to do it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks :) |
Process your 3 images separately. Flatten images. Create a new document with BG color of your choice and MUCH larger than it needs to be, but at the same DPI resolution as your images. Get image 1 on top in the window, grab the BG layer and drag it to the blank canvas. Do this for each image in turn. Close the original images. Make each image layer in the new composite active in turn and use the arrow tool to move the respective images into alignment. A guide helps here.
You can use layers styles in the palette to stroke each image and/or put a drop-shadow on it.
Finally, use the crop tool to crop the excess off your canvas.
R. |
Thank you Bear... |
I give up!!!! Can't seem to get it right! |
NOOOOO!!!!! NEVER GIVE UP! :) |
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07/19/2007 03:03:35 PM · #810 |
Day N..N..N..Nineteen!
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07/19/2007 03:05:59 PM · #811 |
Day 19:
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07/19/2007 03:35:35 PM · #812 |
 Day 19
Edit because I don't know what day it is!
Message edited by author 2007-07-19 15:36:11. |
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07/19/2007 03:49:13 PM · #813 |
Day 19 Asiatic Lily
Ruby
Message edited by author 2007-07-19 18:27:10. |
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07/19/2007 04:24:19 PM · #814 |
I finally figured out how to add a plain black or white border in CS2 by expanding the canvas size! I've been doing them by hand in Paint.net using the paintbrush...which has been a royal PIB and time comsuming...not to mention trying to get the borders even!
Message edited by author 2007-07-19 16:25:37.
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07/19/2007 06:29:54 PM · #815 |
Day 19 and the textured version
 
Message edited by author 2007-07-20 23:33:19. |
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07/19/2007 07:10:48 PM · #816 |
Originally posted by ephln:
I finally figured out how to add a plain black or white border in CS2 by expanding the canvas size! I've been doing them by hand in Paint.net using the paintbrush...which has been a royal PIB and time comsuming...not to mention trying to get the borders even! |
If you got that figured out, you can do a triptych. Figure out how to Show Rulers & then to create Guides. Snap to Guides is a default & makes things snap into alignment. Saves eyestrain.
Get 3 images you want to put in your triptych. Do something easy like 3 8x10 images at 260ppi resolution. Do all your editing on each individual image. Make each one of the 3 images the same size 8x10 & the same resolution 260ppi. You don't have to, but it makes this explanation easier.
Figure out your BG size. If you want a 1-inch border around each one, that's two 1-inch borders in the middle, and one on either end, a total of four 1-inch borders or 4 inches. Your images are 8 in. wide. There are 3 of them. 3x8=24. Add 4 in. Your BG needs to be 28 in wide and 12 in tall. Open a new document 28x12 in at 260ppi.
Set up your vertical guides at 1in, 9in, 10in, 18in, 19in, 27 in for each vertical edge of your 3 images. Set up horizontal guides a 1in, 11in for the horizontal edges.
Then insert or drag each one of your 3 images in on 3 separate layers. For each one Ctrl+A to select all, Ctr+T to put handles on in so you can move it, & click'n'drag it to the guides you want. It will snap right into place. Do all 3. Then flatten. Then resize for the web.
This isn't 'the right way' to do it. It's just the way I do it. Once your mind gets a grip on how you arrange them w/the right amount of BG space between them, you will figure out your own way. If you cut out 4 piece of paper to push around on the table top, it might help you get a feel for it.
Hope this helps!
Message edited by author 2007-07-19 19:12:21. |
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07/19/2007 07:11:30 PM · #817 |
Day 19
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07/19/2007 07:22:43 PM · #818 |
Day 19 Those Wild Rose Buds
OK, time to face reality. I may take a few days off. I am fighting a sinus infection and right now I feel like living hell (just returned from physical therapy) with the entire lower half of my body throbbing.
I'll catch up on shots and more importantly on my commenting soon. Right now bed and an ice pack are calling.
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07/19/2007 09:43:05 PM · #819 |
Welllllllll...I got this far at least. Not ideal but it's a start...
Used a combination of instructions from Pixelpig and Ursula :)
Message edited by author 2007-07-19 22:02:48.
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07/19/2007 09:49:13 PM · #820 |
Day 14
Day 15
Day 16
Day 17
Day 18
Day 19 (a bit early)
Okay all caught up on shots now I just gotta catch up on comments.
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07/19/2007 10:18:03 PM · #821 |
Originally posted by ephln:
Welllllllll...I got this far at least. Not ideal but it's a start...
Used a combination of instructions from Pixelpig and Ursula :) |
Hey, you did buy the PS for Dummies!!!! (just teasing).
Way to go, you managed your first row of stitches, now go make scarves and mitts for all of us. |
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07/19/2007 10:23:13 PM · #822 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by ephln:
Welllllllll...I got this far at least. Not ideal but it's a start...
Used a combination of instructions from Pixelpig and Ursula :) |
Hey, you did buy the PS for Dummies!!!! (just teasing).
Way to go, you managed your first row of stitches, now go make scarves and mitts for all of us. |
Replaced it with the one that I got lined up properly...lol..hopefully before too many saw the original.
THANKS Ursula & Pixelpig...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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07/19/2007 10:38:20 PM · #823 |
Originally posted by ephln:
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by ephln:
Welllllllll...I got this far at least. Not ideal but it's a start...
Used a combination of instructions from Pixelpig and Ursula :) |
Hey, you did buy the PS for Dummies!!!! (just teasing).
Way to go, you managed your first row of stitches, now go make scarves and mitts for all of us. |
Replaced it with the one that I got lined up properly...lol..hopefully before too many saw the original.
THANKS Ursula & Pixelpig...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
He, he, now, if I were really picky I'd say, "the spaces in between the picts (inside borders) are not the same, and the outside border also looks irregular." But, since this is your first one, I won't say that.
[BIG GRIN] |
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07/19/2007 11:07:55 PM · #824 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by ephln:
Originally posted by ursula:
Originally posted by ephln:
Welllllllll...I got this far at least. Not ideal but it's a start...
Used a combination of instructions from Pixelpig and Ursula :) |
Hey, you did buy the PS for Dummies!!!! (just teasing).
Way to go, you managed your first row of stitches, now go make scarves and mitts for all of us. |
Replaced it with the one that I got lined up properly...lol..hopefully before too many saw the original.
THANKS Ursula & Pixelpig...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
He, he, now, if I were really picky I'd say, "the spaces in between the picts (inside borders) are not the same, and the outside border also looks irregular." But, since this is your first one, I won't say that.
[BIG GRIN] |
DAMN!!!! back to the drawing board...:) hehehe - Next I will work on the snap to grids...lol
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07/19/2007 11:09:15 PM · #825 |
Day 19
Well it finally happened...
I was crawling around in some boulevard flower bed (between street and sidewalk) and some nice young man came up to me all concerned...
What was I taking pictures of and what was I going to do with them?
Apparently last time he ran into someone snapping photos in the bushes it was a man shooting strangers children. We had a nice chat and I showed hem my previews, and he went away happy.
This is what I was dreading cause I don't have my own garden and roam my slightly disreputable neighborhood steeling flower images (& perhaps their souls) from strangers.
3 blocks dowm an old man comes out to talk to me. Why was I taking photos of his neighbors yard? Am I a professional photographer? Have I taken any photos of his yard? (NO) How much woould I charge for shots of his retaining wall? Turns out the retaining wallis new and he wants to send shots to his Brothers and cousins. I said I'de get back to him.
Fun strange evening. |
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