Singe creating on Adobe

[Apolo]

Hi there not sure if this is the right area for a thread like this one,my apologies if iv put it in the wrong place.I was wondering if any of you here could give me any advice/guidence on how to create my own singe on Adobe photo shop cs2 i recently got it and its working fine but i have very little experience and i was hoping someone one here could help me out.

[Madge]

I have photoshop cs 2, but I don't know what singe is.

[Apolo]

umm lol it like a picture with your name on it but it looks relly good lol,hard for me to explaine sorry.

[NODorGDI5]

Do you mean a cool looking banner with your nickname to go in your signature? :chin: (Aren't emoticons so awesome?)

[Apolo]

yes that is exacaly it,thank you lol that what i would like to nkow how to do get existing pictures from cnc3 and create my own banner.

[NODorGDI5]

yes that is exacaly it,thank you lol that what i would like to nkow how to do get existing pictures from cnc3 and create my own banner.

I don't have C&C3 yet, but If you don't know how to take a screenshot, the
sure fire way is to find the button (usually on the top row) "PrtSc" (I think
it's short for print screen...). When you want to take a screen shot, just
push that button once. It will be placed in your clipboard. So to use it,
make a new bitmap image and open it with whatever. Then hold Ctrl and V
to paste the screen shot into the new bitmap image. AND THEN SAVE IT!

But you can skip all of that If you look up in the instruction, how to take a
screen shot. It will usually ave the screenshot in the folder that the game's
files are installed.

By the way, I'm not sure if this forum allows you to put any pictures, other
than emoticons, in your signature.

[Apolo]

yhe its ok its not for this forum lol,and i all ready know how to do a screen shot in game lol.i just want to be able to make a picture with a couple of relly nice images with some where on it Aqua.A banner for example could have a mamoth tank from cnc 3 with some GDI zonetroppers in the backgrond with perhaps some Nod units getting killed in the proces,i wanted to do this on Adobe photoshop cs2 but im finding it very difficult to do.

[nuker7735]

Hi there not sure if this is the right area for a thread like this one,my apologies if iv put it in the wrong place.I was wondering if any of you here could give me any advice/guidence on how to create my own singe on Adobe photo shop cs2 i recently got it and its working fine but i have very little experience and i was hoping someone one here could help me out.

i know its not a bad thing, but u did put this in the wrong place. this really has nothing to do with modding/editing CNC games. topics like this might be better under the section "general discussions" but its not that big of a problem, just wanted to point that out for future reference.

[Apolo]

Yhe chers for telling me mate next time if i ever come across this problem ill be sure to put it in there,and again sorry.But on the good side managed to do what i want on the programe lol. This is what i managed to do,and i think for a novice this is a prety good start lol.:)


http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/9519/creationcopyxm5.jpg

[NODorGDI5]

Not a bad job I guess. Especially considering
that you just got the program. Photoshop can take a
long time to get used to, and a long time more to
learn all the features, and EVEN LONGER to get good
with. I'll tell you what right now. There's two things
in Photoshop that will be your best friends: one,
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Z]. The other: saving copies as you
go along. (Banner 001, Banner 002, Banner 003,
etc..) By the way, I'm currently in my second year
of vocational school in a "Graphic Communications"
class. Basically, It means Graphic Arts. But it
focuses on being "visually literate". I'm taking the
class (and getting an average of 92 from the start
of the first year) because I'm going to train to
become a game designer. (Hopefully both in the
graphically and programming aspects.)


Ok, lets have a vote right now. Do I overuse
parenthesis? :looklive: :hmm:

[Apolo]

wow thats cool so im guesing you must be a wizz with Adobe photoshop cs2.Btw if you have a man on a bacground and you want to remove him form that background is there any easier way to do that then deleting the background around him with the erasser ?

[nuker7735]

Ok, lets have a vote right now. Do I overuse
parenthesis? :looklive: :hmm:

Yes, alot :p

[Madge]

Ahhh, you wanted to make a signature banner. I've made a ton of them on another website. What do you want it to look like? Here's this one I just made.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Majmun/aquacopy.png

[NODorGDI5]

Disclaimer
Due to my overuse of parenthesis, it may be difficult to read what I'm saying.

I figured that I probably do use parenthesis too much, but I can't seem to help it... I'm pretty sure that I'm the one guy on earth that thinks he's insane and actually is... But that's life! (I talk AND think to myself all the time, so that was one reason I think I'm crazy..) :nuts:
wow thats cool so im guesing you must be a wizz with Adobe photoshop cs2.Btw if you have a man on a bacground and you want to remove him form that background is there any easier way to do that then deleting the background around him with the erasser ?
I'm not sure what your asking exactly, but if it's what I think your asking, you want to know if there's an easier way to copy a person from the background of an image into a new layer. The answer is: "Ummm...".
Ok, if you use the polygon selection tool (Hold your mouse button down on an icon in the tool bar with a little arrow head thingy in the corner, and a bunch of similar tools will appear via a "sideways" drop down menu sprouting from the icon you clicked on. In the case of the polygon selection tool, you hold your mouse down on the lasso selection tool.) you can select (in great detail I might add) a particular part of an image without it having to be a rectangle. (If you want to partially select the pixels along the edge, make sure that the option "anti-aliased" is checked off for that tool, otherwise, you will have a sharper looking edge (because the contrast between the image you cut out will be great, due to the fact you only selected entire pixels.)) When you use the polygon selection tool, you can actually take your hand off the mouse in the middle of selecting something because your clicking on many point along the edge of what you want selected. When you reach all the way around the part you want selected, just click on the point where you started, and the selection process should be complete (finally). When you are done selecting it, you can go to the layer window and create a new layer. Now you have the choice of using the paint bucket tool (found in the gradient tool's drop down menu, and vise versa) to fill in an area of solid color (it doesn't matter what color usually) in the before-said new layer, if you do this, you effectively have that selection area saved (so you don't have to go through the whole selection process again if you mess something up), or (look way back at this run-on sentence to see where I said "Now you have the choice of using the paint bucket tool") you can simply copy and paste (make a new layer first) the part of the image you selected into a new layer. (Along with over use of parenthesis, I have an inability to give a short explanation. (Seriously!))
Before, where I said you now effectively have saved your area of selection so you don't have to go back and reselect it, I meant that you could use the "wand tool" to select the area of solid color in that separate new layer.
By the way, the two file formats that I know of in photoshop that you can save layers, is the photoshop image format, and the .tiff format. If you just going to be looking at and editing the images on a computer (or other electronic device) I would use the photoshop format to edit the image until you are at the final stage where you save it as a gif, jpeg, bmp, or png. format for viewing on the internet. (Note: bmp images are typically not used on the internet, infact, I don't think you can even use them on the web... I just named that file type because it's the most accurate file type to store an image as (you can't save separate layers though) and view them without photoshop. That's only because the bmp (short for bitmap) image type doesn't use any compression at all, unless you have a program that lets you compress it via a pallet. But I won't go into that right now. :sleep:)
In conclusion, the polygon select tool is good for people that have a slightly shaky hand, or a sudden need to do something else in the middle of working.
Hmm.. Maybe I should save this post and turn it into the english teacher for an extra credit essay... Minus the emoticons of course. :chin::)

[Apolo]

AHH that cool thanks lol.Madge that looks relly good lol,sorry i havent been on the den ina while internet went for a while lol.AndNodorGDI5 thanks you been a real good help.

[NODorGDI5]

AHH that cool thanks lol.Madge that looks relly good lol,sorry i havent been on the den ina while internet went for a while lol.AndNodorGDI5 thanks you been a real good help.

No problem..

By the way, I seem to have another inability. That is -- to stop from explaining myself for everything I do... Is that normal... Ack! Another thing that wrong with me, I have to tell everyone that I have problems... And I use periods too much... I also seem to think too much... And talk too much... And don't know when to stop!!!... I have one question: am I sane, mentally stable, and able to communicate effectively, or am I on the verge of a mental break down? :\ Why am I asking people these things for?!.. :wtf: