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that was literally the first project i had ever done.....prolly about 8 years ago.....i got into & learned PS while doing that project.... it was rereleased lrecently & i did the cover for the re-release....if i can find the new cover i will post it... orange.....

a bunch of old ass album covers/inserts/cd's..... havent done an album ina while..... been doin a bunch of twitter backgrounds, logos, & most recently a shit ton of tee shirt designs with some serious financial backing..... will post the designs when they are ready to release em....

the shading on the tree trunk needs work.....

..............this...............

i hear where you're coming from haya..... very much diggin the pilot roots painting, s.w........

haya..... that shits really fresh..... if i had any crits at all i would eff with a dark background so the contrast could allow the focus to pop...

yeah man..... having a project to complete is definitely the best way to learn.... give yourself 'assignments' and complete them..... any 'how to' book or even formal classes basically work the same way.... also just open a jpg of a photo and just fuck w all the tools 1 by 1 to get a feel for what they all do... look at other peoples work that youre into and try to break down how they did it and recreate it..... start small..... dont overwhelm yourself.... it seems like theres a ton of shit to learn but you will eventually pick your fav 5 or 6 tools and only use the other here and there...... almost every PS newbie gets filter happy as a phase, but you will grow out of that quick (if you even hit that phase), especially knowing how much raw talent you have, B....... one spot i frequented for a time for tips, tricks, and tuts is creativebits.org ....... i cant recall an other specific ones right now, but i will post any that come to mind.... i spent/spend a shit ton of time just googling specific tuts based on any project im working on..... theres really no substitute for burying your nose in your keyboard for 8 hours at a time when it comes to learning PS (or any design s/w for that matter)....its a matter of dedication and reps...theres no secret formula...... i have wasted more hours than i care to think of just staring at other peoples shit.... shiniybinary.com is a pretty fresh site that always inspires me..... also check out brianlife.com for some fresh work..... if youre really tryina get serious with it i would look into a wacom tablet..... i have a 9" x 12" intuos that i could not live without..... ...../more buzzy rambling.... //JB

honestly... just play around with it to get familiar with the tools.... google some tutorials and follow them to help you learn the basics (thats all school is anyway)..... i taught myself how to use it with ver 6 or 7 while designing a friends cd cover about 10 yrs ago.... it took me 3 weeks and i could probably do the entire thing in less than an hour now.... one of the best ways to get faster/more efficient with it is keyboard shortcuts..... almost every tool and/or function has one, plus you can customize em (under the 'edit' menu).... a lot of the photo editing shit youre askin about is under the image>adjustments menu..... i would suggest making a duplicate layer (ctrl+j) of the original before you start editting so you dont have to undo (ctrl+z) every edit to get back to where you started... as far as photo editing specifics im not the one to ask b/c most of what i do with PS is from scratch..... im kinda buzzy right now so i prolly just rambled on and didnt say much, but i have had my head buried in PS for a while now so if there are any questions i might be able to answer just ask..... -JB

i know adobe page makr does...... but its been almost a decade since they released a new version....

create/outline a shape in AI or PS and with the shape selected use "paste into" (obviously copying your text from another source/layer first)......... text will fill in your shape........ im rusty as hell b/c i havent used a lot of text in any designs for quite a while, but im pretty sure im right or close to it....... too lazy/busy to test my theory at the moment.....

this.....

you, sir, are correct........ live trace is an excellent tool...... worth figuring out if you dont know it well.... ....vector smart objects in photoshop are also pretty awesome when dealing with this type of shit...........

or just redraw shit using a wacom tablet.....

......or just crop the whole image and take the top out....

theres about 100 ways... but easiest ways are either select that layer in the layers pallet and then use the selection tool to select a rectangle around it then hit delete... or select a chunk of the light pink layer same way then copy/paste it on top of everything.....

that bitch looks like a man...... /nonfiction..........

i think ya mans nick hogan be out there...... check the local sonic........ hes the dude with the expensive fast n furious type vehicle and the washed up wwf wrestler daddy riding shotgun................

is the pattern in the orange part just a pattern overlay or how did you do that if not? would like to see it w/out the bevel/emboss on the stroke just out of curiosity...... shits pretty dope.....

tc, very true......... or as i say when im feeling drunk and urban: "true fucking story"....... -jb

average graffiti....... average body.... nasty face............... above average opinion of ones self (not justified)..................... im just sayin........ dont bother tryin to argue w/ me or gettin all tough/upset...... i prolly wont be back in here for quite a while, and by the time i do wander back over i will have forgotten even making this comment..................... like i said........ im just sayin........

weird question, but: is there any way for me to record a radio show that is streamed online through a radio stations site? and if so is there any way to make it happen automatically m-f 6am-10am? bonus weird question: any way for me to use a desktop sata hd as an external hd on my laptop with some kind of converter or some shit?.. (im more interested in retrieving data and putting it on an external hd than using it as an external long term type of thing..... just too lazy to put a desktop together and load an OS and then use several different drives as slaves to retrieve what i want....) ps..... im sick of moving all the fucking time..........

wanted to prop you but i guess i gotta spread some around first, so im just sayin this i s my favorite post of yours in this thread so far..........

gay....... gayer..........