[babe_girl]

so your other two picture doesn't show up? if you blend the stock then your other two picture should appeare. does it appeare with a black or blueish blackiesh screen? if that happens then did you set your layer where you put 03061E to Exclusion? if you're not sure make sure to recheck it.

[babe_girl]

Banner Tut. =]


1.ok, before i start, result may varies. In this tutorial, it’s best if you use a picture with only one color background or don’t have a lot of things going on in the background since it would be harder to work with. In here I will be using a picture of LeeJunKi



2. resize your banner and change color setting or anything else if needed. remember to place your person to the right of the banner like i just did so it would be easier to work with, but you don't have to.


3. make a new layer and fill it with a black color. then on your layer pallete, add the layer mask. there should be a white layer next to the black layer.
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4. make sure that on foreground, the white is ontop and the black is on the bottom. then take your earser tool with a soft round brush of 1oo or more and getnly earse the black part off his face. so i would have something like this:


5. next open up a new window with 500 x 500 pixels and fill with with a black. go to Filter > Render > Lens Flare and click in the lower part of the right hand corner.


6. then go to Filter > Blur>Gaussian Blur and for the Radius, put in 15.8. then copy and past it on your banner setting it to Screen Light. Move it around so that the light spot is next to your person or until your liking. =]


7.Now go back to your window with your Lens Flare. then go to Filter > Distort > Wave. make sure that the setting is like the picture shown below and do it once more. then you should get something like in the second picture.
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8. next press Shift+Ctrl+U together so that the picture is black and white then copy it onto your banner, move it around to your liking then setting it to SoftLight. Now for the cool part! Go up to Image>Adjustment>Color Balance. play with the color till your liking. and if needed get your earser tool and earse things that you don't want, like for example some parts of the coloring cover his face so i kind of earse it.


9. Now go to press Shift+Ctrl+C together and paste it, setting it to Softlight giving you a more vibrate coloring and if you don't think it's enough duplicate another one and set it to soft like or however you want it to be. Then add text and your done unless you want to add brushes and such to make it all pretty. =] We all know we like to see pretty things. =]



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[babe_girl]

Banner Tut.

1.first off, crop your banner and change duplicate it and set it to screen 38% (you can go lower or you don't have to set it to screen)

2.then open up a new window with a canvas of 100x100.

3.then on your layer pallete click on the half black and half white circle.


4.after clicking on that white/black circle a list should come up and click on gradient.choose a gradient you'll like to be on your banner.

5. after press CTRL+ A. after that go to Edit>Copy Merged. copy the gradient then past it on your banner.

6.stretch the gradient out to fit your banner.


7.change the layer mood to anything you like. for me i'm going to change it to overlay.(if needed you can stretch out the gradient more if you like) here's how mine look like:
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8.change anything if nesscary. for me i don't like how the gradient makes her skin look blue so i'm gonna zoom into the picture and earse the blue tint of her skin.
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9. next open up a stock picture. i'm using this stock picture. make sure it's pretty big so that it would work.


10. use your marquee tool and select parts of the stock just like how i did with mine.


11.copy that selected part and past it on your banner. if needed you can change the color of the stock picture. for mine i change it to kind of blue.

12.go to Filter>Pinch, put in a number for the amout. for me i put 95%. Then after go to Filter>Polar coordinates. Choose the rectangular to polar. your stock should have soemthing like this:


13.flip your stock to your liking and set the layer mood to your liking. for me i tilt a little bit to the lower left corner and set it to softlight. do this a couple of time using different Filter to acheive diffent effect and you can always go back to your stock picture and choose different parts of the stock.so far this is how my banner look like:


14. do anything you want like adding brushes or extra things to make it nice. then add text.



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[Grace]

Wow it's great thanks

[kjc1994]

Thank you very much.

[nanthao]

Thank you, this is something I will try

[babe_girl]

Not a Filter tutorial, but hopefully it's useful! enjoy.

[Lalita]

wow thanks for all your lessons, great step by step help!

[kjc1994]

Yay more tutorials! Thanks for sharing, they are so helpful!
Thanks for much for sharing

[ooo]

where do we do that??

[babe_girl]

ooo, on Jan 4 2010, 10:15 PM, said:

where do we do that??

what do you mean? filter can be use in almost everything

[Thip]

wow these are alot of tutorials.....thank you so much.......

does anyone know how to make a rounded edges of a banner...i went to soompi but that didnt help me

[babe_girl]

Thip, on Jan 22 2010, 12:43 AM, said:

wow these are alot of tutorials.....thank you so much.......

does anyone know how to make a rounded edges of a banner...i went to soompi but that didnt help me

what i do is open up a window that is a lot bigger then your picture. then afterward hold your CTRL button and with your mouse click on the layer of the picture in your layer palette. then go to Select>Modify>Smooth.

a window should pop up and asking for a sample radius. put any number you would like in there since this is going to determind your round bouder. after that click OK. after that go to SELECT>INVERSE. Then hit you DELETE button on your key board. and the end result you should have round bouders.

hopefully this isn't confusing.