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try selecting the background color of the image as the primary color and the text as the secondary color. then select the area exactly around the text and prees backspace. create a new layer, press X to switch primary and secondary colors, and then type the text in and place on the image. The text looks sort of like bold italic arial with underline, though here is a website that finds fonts in images.

try moving each image to a different layer, and then changing the opacity of each of the top 3 layers. hope this helps!

here, try this tutorial. It shows the basics of colorizing black and white photos using the overlay blending mode, and by making the irises black and white, you could color the eyes using the method outlined in the tutorial.

My reccomendation would be just making a new layer,and using the line tool over the various parts that you want to be on the t-shirt. The blurred line could be made with a blur effect on a line, and a rugged line could be created by using the jitter plugin (search plugins if you don't have it) on a preexisting line. You might want to fade your original picture a bit before you start work on you design, though, so you can more clearly see what you are doing. hope this helps

alternatively, you could try this tutorial on faking an airbrush here hope this helps

try going to effects->blurs->gaussian blur (or any other blur for that matter. Experiment and see which is best!) nubs are the little glowy dots that you get when drawing a line or gradient. It's used like a handle, controlling where parts of an element go. for instance, with gradients, the nubs are where the gradient starts and ends. pressing F1 will get you a web page full of neat little factoids like this. They're full of useful information, especially to a beginning user (I know they were helpful to me!) hope this helps.

Perhaps you could copy the shape you want the gradient to be, turn the copied shape black, put it on a white background, gaussian blur it on a high setting, and use gradient mapping. hope this helps

bumping is posting more than one time in a row for the sole purpose of attracting attention to your thread. On this forum, a bump is only allowed once, after 24 hours. :wink: The rules have all sorts of handy factoids like that that will help threads from getting locked. As for your scan lines, I would suggest rotating your picture positive or negative 45 degrees before running scan lines to achieve a diagonal effect. After running scan lines, just rotate you picture back and you're set! hope this helps.

Thanks! and now that I look at it, the faces are inproportionate. :?

my vote goes to LFC4EVER

thanks! Gamer_world:I loved that movie as a kid! wellll..... This was for an English assignment, but I'm quite proud of the posture I managed to convey. I've never quite been happy with a posture in one of my drawings before. So here we go. 100% PDN a side note: the assignment was to annotate and illustrate a poem. Here is mine,if you are interested/want to know what the poem is illustrating. also, here is my new signature avatar duo: I'm working on two pieces, one is the tree, the other is a submission to my school's arts magazine. The submission is top priority right now, since I only have until Friday to submit it.

is the picture already cropped into an oval, and do you want the background to be transparent? If it is cropped into an oval and you want a colored background: (plugins needed:outline object) 1. make a new layer, a) if your picture is already an oval: select the magic wand tool, and with that click on the part(s) of the picture surrounding the oval. if your picture is not an oval, use the elipse select tool to select the area you want to be your picture. Include the parts of your picture you want to be faded. invert the selection. (ctrl-I) (at this point, if your oval meets the edges of your picture, you will want to use the eyedropper tool to find the color of your background, and right click to set that color to your secondary color. Then go to image->canvas size, and increase the size of your image by 2 pixels vertically and horizontally. Under 'anchor' place the icon in the center box. hit OK. Now your image should not meet the edges of the canvas. You will want to repeat step 1.) 2. make a new layer, set the secondary color to be the background color you want, and press backspace. This should fill your selected areas with your intended background color. 3.go to effects>object>outline object, set the width to half the fading width you want, and the color to secondary. Hit OK. 4. Go to effects>blur>gaussian blur, and enter the fading width you want. 5. flatten (ctrl-shift-F) If you want a transparent background: (plugins needed:outline object and alpha mask) 1. make a new layer, a) if your picture is already an oval: select the magic wand tool, and with that click on the part(s) of the picture surrounding the oval. if your picture is not an oval, use the elipse select tool to select the area you want to be your picture. Include the parts of your picture you want to be faded. invert the selection. (ctrl-I) (at this point, if your oval meets the edges of your picture, go to image->canvas size, and increase the size of your image by 2 pixels vertically and horizontally. Under 'anchor' place the icon in the center box. hit OK. Now your image should not meet the edges of the canvas. You will want to repeat step 1.) 2. make a new layer, set the secondary color to black, and press backspace. This should fill your selected areas with black. 3.go to effects>object>outline object, set the width to half the fading width you want, and the color to secondary. Hit OK. 4. Go to effects>blur>gaussian blur, and enter the fading width you want. 5. create a layer below the faded layer, and fill it with white. Select the faded layer again, and hit merge down. :MergeDown: 6. select all (ctrl-A) on the merged layer and copy. (ctrl-C) make a new picture (ctrl-N) and paste (ctrl-V) the merged layer onto the canvas. Save as yourpicturesnamehere_mask.png 7. go back to your original picture and go to effects>Alpha Mask. hit browse and select yourpicturesnamehere_mask.png. say OK. hope this helps

jacobdude: I like it! very nice use of brushes, to accent the main element of visual interest. Down:I like the second signature better, as the color of the ball adds some additional visual interest to the signature! I really need to stop talking like I'm in art class...

not that I know of, but if you're looking to fit an image around something round, try shape3D. With it, you can map the image to a sphere, which would be a good starting point for a bald head. hope this helps.

@vista: @zooey:welcome to the forums! @ja8m 1e 6s:I like the way you used the glowy lines, effective and...glowy! @Donoravis: Very nice fanart! almost has a comic-booky feel to it! to insert images, just type [img=image url here]

perhaps a stylize->outline(1 thickness, 100 intensity) used on a duplicate of the crystalized layer? Then to get the white outline, you could invert the colors, up the contrast to make the edges lighter. Then run curves + on advanced, with luminosity input and alpha output, and use a top left to bottom right "curve" to erase the black. Then you could go to adjustments->brightness/contrast and set brightness and contrast to maximum. That should give you an outline. this wouldn't make the lines between crystals of the same color I'm afraid, though. Thoughts? EDIT: if you don't have it, curves + is here.

CoreKelly: I like it! The sunset could be a bit more orangy, and the beach could have a more definitive end, but I really like the palm fronds!

I think you most recent work resembles glass blocks, the upper left especially. 8) (wait....glass!)

I'm fairly certain they do.

it's less than halfway done. I could still try, though.

I'll probably not make the deadline, then. I'll still work on it, though.

Liquefy is sort of like the smudge tool, but it has its own interface and has more options/ways to distort the picture than just the smudge tool.

Very nice work! I can see you like the shape3D plugin- and you put it to good use!

Like the second one. The glowy text-effect goes well with the rest of the sig.

Just one suggestion: instead of little balls with stars in them, have Paint.NET icons.