Psssst!!! Hey all you Photoshop experts, in here --->

**sikpupy** · 03-18-2003, 03:52 PM

I have a banner I want to make. I have two ideas:

1) Take a a color picture, turn it black and white, then but a colored hue on it. Not sure if I can take a color picture and do that but it seems like it would be just as easy to convert it to B&W first.

2) start with a rectangle. Left side will be black fading to blue and then insert above picture floowed by the blue going to black. As a twist, the lightest part of the blue will be the hue the above piture will have.

Any ideas what tools to use?

Thanks.

**JungleMan** · 03-18-2003, 07:13 PM

1) Easy, Image > Adjustments> Hue/Saturation. Check the Colorize box and set the proper color, saturation, and brightness.

2) Not sure what you mean...explain it in another way? Do you want like a semi-transparent layer of blue/black gradients over the picture? If so..you could make a black to transparent and back to black again gradient and do a semitransparent overlay over the pic. I'll post an example...

**JungleMan** · 03-18-2003, 07:21 PM

OK, this isn't exactly a semitransparency (except for the gradient, but not the gradient layer) but is this it?

**RavenTai** · 03-19-2003, 12:47 AM

wile there is a PS question thread I'll add one,

is there a way to crop a photo and easily maintain a 4/3 ratio? without having to manually count pixels, like a crop box I could make and adjust for position and size but it constrains its height width ratio? or eaven better is there a way to make a 1024/768 crop box?

I hope I explained that so someone can understand it

**sikpupy** · 03-20-2003, 05:14 PM

Yes, that would work El` perfecto!!

**Zorki** · 03-21-2003, 07:21 PM

RavenTai, I think I found an answer to locking the crop ratio. With your crop tool chosen, input numbers into the "width" and "height" boxes in the upper left corner. Whatever ratio you enter, the box will be fixed at.

**RavenTai** · 03-21-2003, 09:41 PM

SWEET! I should have seen those boxes, you mean the tool spacific bar up at the top where you hit check when you have what you want? that that sounds perfect, there is so much to know about photoshop a casual user like me is easily lost

gonna have to check that out when I get home, I have a verry large tiff of a eclipse and would like to crop it to 1024/768 it is not a 3/4 ratio so if I set windows to strech it the round eclipse is quite distorted, if I set to center I get a small portion of the Image

**Eyenovation** · 03-21-2003, 09:42 PM

Originally posted by RavenTai
wile there is a PS question thread I'll add one,

is there a way to crop a photo and easily maintain a 4/3 ratio? without having to manually count pixels, like a crop box I could make and adjust for position and size but it constrains its height width ratio? or eaven better is there a way to make a 1024/768 crop box?

I hope I explained that so someone can understand it

Yes. There is a way. You can set a fixed aspect ratio.
The way to do it is with the Square selection tool.
Which version of PS are you using?
I will send you screen shots.

**Eyenovation** · 03-21-2003, 09:47 PM

The answer to post number 1 -

Get an image. *not a GIF
Make a new layer (Shift+Ctrl+N)
On the new layer, fill it with whatever color you want.
Then adjust the opacity with the slider bar.

OR....

Create a new document (Ctrl+N)
Put whatever colors you want in it.
Paste your picture of choice (Ctrl+V)
Turn it black and white (Ctrl+Shift+U)
Then adjust opacity so the color below shows through.

PM me if you guys need anymore help.
Dont let anyone ever tell you that graphics are only done on a Mac.

**zirik** · 03-22-2003, 08:09 AM

is this what you had in mind?

**JungleMan** · 03-22-2003, 08:59 AM

Originally posted by zirik
is this what you had in mind?

I don't think he's got a red X in mind..

**RavenTai** · 03-22-2003, 08:59 AM

thnaks between those two tips I figured it out

first run (little time) gonna do a little more with it later

Thank You

http://webpages.charter.net/raventai...se%20sized.jpg

**zirik** · 03-22-2003, 09:57 AM

doh! my bad... hehe. fixed the file now.

**zirik** · 03-22-2003, 10:25 AM

Originally posted by Eyenovation
PM me if you guys need anymore help.
Dont let anyone ever tell you that graphics are only done on a Mac.

there are many reasons why graphics are done on macs which is why a majority of "designers" and "artists" use them. the biggest reason is the workflow which is facilitated by the operating system. it is designed with artists in mind. i can work faster with photoshop on a mac than win2k. the alt key on a pc just doesnt function as well as the cmd key on a mac.

**Eyenovation** · 03-22-2003, 03:07 PM

Actually, I suppose it's to each their own... but in reality I think if you did the research you'd see that a PC is actually more advantageous and now becoming more common in the designer's workplace.

In may design applications, most notably web design and video editing, PCs are the unit of choice - not the overpriced Steve Job's machine. This is because: 1. Flash runs like poo on the Mac, and that the Mac does not have the raw processing power to that of a comparably equipped PC.

Not only is a moderately built PC much faster than the top of the line Mac, it's much more inexpensive.
Sure, Macs look better on the whole than your run of the mill PC, but that's not enough to warrant the 3000 price tag.

The myth that Macs are better for artists is an old misnomer from the days when the GUI OS's were introduced. Macs led the way... but now things have not only been equalized; PC's have surpassed the capabilities of any Mac, IMO

Of course, with Al Gore now on the board at Apple, who knows - maybe Macs will improve with their handling of internet content and development apps.

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