Comments: 23
senafoxx [2019-01-20 22:10:53 +0000 UTC]
Superb Danny...!! 🦊
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
WildWanderinGirl [2019-01-20 21:11:52 +0000 UTC]
I agree with Jim—well done, my friend! Glad to see that you’re dabbling in M3d again. Just as I am doing. I have plans for certain parameters but zero time to spend working with them, at present.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
quasihedron In reply to WildWanderinGirl [2019-01-28 05:44:19 +0000 UTC]
OK, there are two concepts with Layers. One is the Layer, and the other is the Data on the Layer along Selections from a Layer. You will see this information on the [Layer] Tab. Thinks of a painting, with the Layers of (1) sky, (2) distant mountains, (3) middle ground, (4) foreground and (5) objects in the foreground. Layers can be renamed is you double click on the name of the Layer. I do since the thumbnails are still too small even when they are largest. Content-aware right clicks will be your friend in Photoshop too. When in doubt of what can be done, right click on an object, item, list, etc.
Do you understand transparency as the "alpha" channel? In Photoshop, 100% black (R=0;G=0;B=0) is opaque and 100% white (R=255;G=255;B=255) is transparent on a grayscale layer. Those are stored under the "[Channel] Tab. The image data displayed in color if found in the RGB channel is the composite of ALL of the active Layers, and as well as the composite of the Red, Green, Blue channels. If there is transparency for the entire image, it is stored as an additional channel. Further, all the selections that are saved via the [Select/Save Selection] menu items, and are stored as additional "alpha" or "masks" channels.
Each layer does not have to be completely full of image data. When a Layer Style is applied, it is applied to only the non-transparent data. You add data to a layer, and as you paint, or copy, etc. information to the layer, the reminder of the layer is transparent, and the effect is applied to the opaque, or partially-opaque data on the Layer. This allows one to add bevels, patterns, gradients, etc to a laeys, in a variety of transparencies and opaquenesses. That is entirely separate to the transparency of the entire layer, which is specified near the top of the [Layers] Tab.
On the Layer tab, you can modify a selection of data using Layer Styles. There are literally thousand and thousands of free Layer Styles to be downloaded from the Internet. You can then install those in the Photoshop Effects Library, which is in the [Styles] Tab. Click on the little icon in the upper right corner of the Styles Tab to do that; it opens another menu of Style based activities, like load, Load, Reset, Append, and the like. You will find a Preset Manager for each of the various Tabs in the same place. Each stores your file in the {Drive-letter}:\Users\{User-name}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets, or some where near to that.
I hope that helps you understand the image data, layers, transparency, opaqueness and the Layers and Channel Tabs. I recommend following a few tutorials on masks, selections and transparencies, as well as layer styles.
----------------------
Patterns and layer styles (overlay) in Photoshop tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-yXuW…
----------------------
How to Install and Use Photoshop Layer Styles
creativemarket.com/blog/how-to…
----------------------
BTW, check out some Photoshop Brush tutorials too.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
WildWanderinGirl In reply to quasihedron [2019-01-29 05:35:10 +0000 UTC]
Awesome! Thank you! Can’t wait to really get started one day soon. I do need to have a go with brushes, I always wanted to add brushes such as clouds and birds to 3d works, imagine how that would help the sense of perspective...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
WildWanderinGirl In reply to quasihedron [2019-03-11 01:40:27 +0000 UTC]
Thank you again so very much, my friend! I have been so busy this winter away from my desk that zero artwork has been generated. I have had 2 jobs, but I’ve earned some extra money so can’t complain. That second job will come to an end very soon, just in time before I start the outdoor chores. But at least when I’m doing that, I am at home. Close to my desk where I can sit down during breaks and be working on an art piece... It will happen! Studying on anything new such as PS CS2 should be done at my desk. I’ve tried studying via my tablet, but it gets frustrating because my art programs are on the laptop.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
marijeberting [2019-01-19 13:12:17 +0000 UTC]
Magnificent Danny
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
33M [2019-01-19 05:47:41 +0000 UTC]
Great work Danny
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
33M In reply to quasihedron [2019-01-20 00:07:53 +0000 UTC]
You are always very welcome Danny
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
AnnieBee61 [2019-01-19 02:36:36 +0000 UTC]
wonderful work
👍: 0 ⏩: 1