green fairy

Ehh.... Saint-Michael, I didn't copy the tutorial from anywhere. Someone requested this tutorial, and since I didn't know exactly how to do this myself, I of course had to go to different places to learn how to do the effect first. After I had learned it myself how to do it, I made my own matrix tutorial. I didn't even look at other tutorials while writing my own... All the pictures and text are mine. I didn't copy anything

I had to continue my post here since I'm only allowed to post a sertain amount of images in each post. Sorry about this.. You should read the post Matrix Effects in Photoshop before doing with this one. LINK Animate your image: Follow this steps if you want an animated matrix effect: 1) Open a new document. Make the hight much longer than you want your final result to be. I will be using 350x150 pixels. 2) Repeat the same matrix effect you have learned until you have something like this: 3) Save your image as GIF and then open it in Image Ready. File -> Save as... Format: GIF 4) In Image Ready, go to Window -> Animation. 5) Duplicate your image by clicking the Duplicate Frame button: 6) Select the second frame + the move tool from the tool bar. 7) Hold down Shift while you use the move tool to drag your image down the canvas. Leave no more than a third of your image present on the canvas. Try to make it look something like this: 8) Go to Select -> Load Selection -> Layer 1 Transparency 9) While selecting, go to Image -> Crop. 10) On the animation palette, click the Tween button. Use these settings: 11) Your animation palette will now look like this: Pick Forever in the looping options like above. You can now test your animation by pressing play. 12) Go to File -> Save Optimized As... and save as GIF. Now you're animation should be finished and done This id how mine turned out: Hope someone can make use of this tutorial then I know it probably isnt the greatest matrix effect out there, but at least it shouldn't be too hard to do Notice from Saint-Michael: Quote your tutorials next time i seen this on pixel2life.com and good-tutorials.com Notice from snlildude87: Following up on SM's note, I Googled an excerpt from green fairy's post, and saw that it wasn't copied directly, so no quotes is needed.

A person here wanted me to make a detailed matrix tutorial. I can't say I completely understood what he meant, but I've figured out how to make some pretty cool effects that are not to difficult to do. Hope you can make use of it: 1) Open a new document in Photoshop. I'll be using 400x150 pixels, but you can use whatever you want. 2) Press D to make the foreground and background colour the default. 3) Go to Filter -> Texture -> Grain... Apply these settings: You'll then have a result looking something like this (it varies for time to time): 4) Now go to Filter -> Artistic -> Neon Glow... Apply these settings: Youll have something looking like this: 5) Go to Filter -> Stylize -> Glowing Edges... Apply these settings: My image turned out like this: That's it. The effect is now all dLINKone The result of this effect turnes out different every time, so if you are not happy with your result, it is just to try again Here are some other images I created using this effect: Use you image as a background: You may want to save it as a pattern now, so that you can use it as a background it other images. Do like this: 1) Selecting your image, go to Edit -> Define Pattern... Give your pattern a name and click ok. 2) Now, to use the pattern in a new image, simply open that new image and go to Edit -> Fill. Select your matrix pattern there. <-- See next post for continuing part --> LINK Notice from Saint-Michael: Quote your tutorials next time i seen this on pixel2life.com and good-tutorials.com Notice from snlildude87: Following up on SM's note, I Googled an excerpt from green fairy's post, and saw that it wasn't copied directly, so no quotes is needed.

Glad that you made use of the tutorial. Looked at your image just now. It looks really good I don't think I did anything special to make my image more liquidy. Just did the same as I described in the tutorial. Did you complete step 11? I guess you just have to play aroud a bit with the liquid filter. Use the brush and simply drag it around until you get the effect you want. Anyway, I think your image looks very good as it is

This is all very easy. If you don't know how to do it alredy, just follow these simple steps and try in now: 1) Open a new document (I use 500x500 pixels) 2) Press D to make the foreground and background colour the default. 3) Go to Filter -> Render -> Clouds. You should now have something like this: 4) Now go to Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds. My image now looks like this: 5) Type Ctrl + i to invert the image. It will now look something more like this: 6) Now type Ctrl + L. The Level box will pop ut. Make shore you have these settings: That's all! My final result looks like this: It depends from time to time how the result will turn out. You often have to try several times until you're happy with it. You can of course try different colours as well

I'm pretty shore this would give an overall "blueish" effect on mostly any type of image. If the image is very red, it will at least tune that down a bit. I think this effect looks best on images where you can see a bit of sky. You should probably try it on an image that already has some blue in it (like the sky), and perhaps with some green trees. These are the colours that tend to become most visiable I think, which makes it look kind of cool together with the other colour that seem to become more grayish

Here I will show you how to create a simple freeze effect on images. It is much easier than you would think. 1) Open the image you want to freeze. I will be using this myself: 2) Go to Image -> Rotate Canvas -> 90CCW 3) Go Filter -> Stylize -> Wind. Make shore you have these settings: 4) Now go to Image -> Rotate Canvas -> 90CW to rotate the image back to normal. 5) Press Ctrl + u to make the hue/saturation box appear. 6) Use these settings fore hue/saturation: That's all! Here's my result: You can do this with all other sort of images, but I think it looks best when the background is black. Try using different landscapes too. You can even freeza a cat with this method:

Let me show you how to create this pretty cool liquid plstic effect in Photoshop: 1) Open a new document (I used 500x500) 2) Now press D to make the foreground and background colour the default. 3) Go Filter -> Render -> Clouds so that you have something like this: 4) Go Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds and press Ctrl + f ones to repeat. 5) Now go to Filter -> Liquify. Use the default settings, but set the brush size to 60. Draw your brush around until you get the liquid effect you want. I made mine look like this: 6) Press Ctrl + u. This will bring out the hue/saturation bar. Use these settings: Now, here's my result from this. I chose to use the colour purple, but you can of cours choose what colour you like. 7) Now duplicate so that you have two layers. Selecting the top layer, go Edit -> Transform -> Flip Horizontal 8) Set the top layer's blending mode to overlay. 9)With the top layer still selected, click Ctrl + E to merge the layers together. Here's how my image turned out: 10) Go to Filter -> Artistic -> Plastic Wrap. Use these settings: This will give a nice liquid effect to the image: 11) If you want an even more liquid effect, you can go to Filter -> Liquify ones more. Use the same settings as before. Now here's my final result:

Nice that you like the tutorial. Just want to declair that I am not a man . Doesn't seem to be a lot of women in this forum, but they make websites too you know. Personally, I'm just a 16 year old girl looking for some free hosting

In this extremely simple tutorial I will show you how to add a cool blueish effect to your images: Here's the photo I will use: 1) In the layer window, click the half blue, half white circle button at the bottom. 2) Pick the channel mixer from the menu. 3) In the popup window, mark the box for Monochrome. A new layer will appear. 4) Change the blend mode to lighten in the new layer: That's all. You're done! Here's my final result:

I'll just show you all how to do this. It's actually pretty easy. 1) Open a new transparent document and use the type tool to create some text (use a big font with space between the letters). I will be using Uzusi: 2) Now hold in Ctrl while you click on the text layer. This should select your text: 3) Now with your text selected, all you need to do is copy an image you want to use to the clipboard. I am using this image, but you can of course use whatever you want. 4) After copying, go Edit -> Paste Into. My result now looks like this: 5) Click right on the image layer and go to blending options. 6) Drop shadow, bavel and emboss, + add some contour. It's better if you just use your own settings here to see what looks good. My image text turned out like this: Here are some other styles I did:

These are all really basic patterns, but a lot of people still don't know how to make them. They can be quite useful, which is why I'm showing you here how to do them: 1) For each new pattern you want to make, open a new document. It should be 3x3 pixels and transparent. 2) Grab the pencil tool and set it to 1 pixel. Then pick the colour you want to use. (I'm using black) 3) Zoom in real close and start adding some dots. Here's some examples of how you can make them: 4) Now, with each pattern you have made, go Edit -> Define Pattern and save it there. After that, they are all ready for use. 5) Open the image where you would like to add some texture. 6) Create a new layer in your image. 7) Now go to Edit -> Fill, and select your pattern there. 8) Set the opacity to 20% if you think that looks better. That's it! You're done! Here are the results of the patterns I made: (100% opacity)

In this tutorial I will show you how to make some pretty simple pixel art using paintshop pro and animation shop. In case you didn't know; pixel art means you create something pixel by pixel. It's actually pretty fun ones you get the hang of it. Lets make an animated candle... 1) Some preparation: First of all you will need to put the grids on in PSP. Make them 1x1 pixel. Then zoom in close before before starting. Use the paint brush tool and set it to 1 pixel. Make shore you have these settings for your magic wand: Mode: Add (shift), Match mode: RGB value, Tolerance: 0, Contiguous, Feather: 0, Anti-alias, Inside 2) As always when making pixel art, you start by making an outline in black. Click here to see how the candle outline should look like. The numbers tells you how many pixels to use everywhere, so all you should have to do now is reproduce it. 3) Now you can start colouring. See below for the different colours to use. Forget the flame for now. 4) Now we will start adding some effects. Use the magic wand to select these areas: 5) No go Effects -> 3D Effects -> Cut-out and insert these settings: 6) Now pick up the magic wand again and make selections like this: 7) Go to Effects -> 3D Effects -> Cut-out. Use the same settings as before, but replace the colours with this: Now your result should hopefully look like this: 8) Now duplicate the candle twice so that you have three layers. 9) Now you can edit the flame outline of layer2. We do this so we can make an animation afterwards. Use this model to change the flame appearence in both layer2 and 3. 10) Now, with the background selected, you can start colouring the flame. Colour the different flames like this: 11) You should now have three slightly different candles looking like this: 12) Lets get them in to animation shop. Just copy each of the three layers and past them one by one into a new project in animation shop. 13) Now you may want to select the three candles and make the background transparent. All you have to do now is set the speed of your animation and then save it. Here is hopefully your finished result: Hope you like the result. It was purely my imagination playing around when I first got the idea of making this candle.

Just thought I'd show you all how to make dashed lines ( _ _ _ _ _ _ ) in an easy way. Just follow these simple steps: 1) Start with making a new canvas (1x10 pixels). 2) Grab the rectangular marquee tool and select everything except the the first and last pixel. Zoom up close to see (use the grids if that helps you). 3) Select the paint bucket tool and fill the selection with your chosen colour. 4) Now go Select -> All, and Edit -> Define Pattern. 5) Now you can open the image where you want dashed lines. Make a selection where you want the line to appear (1 pixel in height). 6) Go Edit -> Fill... -> Pattern, and select your pattern there. Click ok. 7) Now the result should look somthing like this: You can also make vertical dashed lines: 8) Go back to the 1x10 pixel image you saved as the pattern. 9) Go to Image -> Rotate Canvas and flip the image 90 degrees. 10) Now repeat step 4, 5 and 6. That's it!

I just learned how to blend images in photoshop myself, so now I want to show you how to do it: 1) Open some pictures you like in photoshop. For this tutorial I will use these: Get the the pictures here: Tree1, tree2, tree3, tree4. 2) Now that you've got all the tree pictures opened in photoshop, simply use the move tool and drag all the images into one of the photos. This will create one image with several layers. 3) You will now have something like this: With the top layer selected, click the "add layer mask" button. 4) Now make shore your foreground colour is black: 5) Select the brush tool from the toolbar. (make shore it's a bit blury) 6) Now you can start brushing the top layer until you got like 1/4 left. You will see the next layer appear under your brush. 7) No go to this next layer and click the "add layer mask" button again. Brush of half this layer until you see the next one appearing underneath. 8) In Layer 1, brush of like 1/4 of the layer (remember to add layer mask). When you are done, hopefully, you'll be left with something like this: You will have to see for yourself where and how much to brush to get the best result. You can do this with any other images, and even though this result might not be magnificent, you have at least learned how to blend layers