pliff

I thought we could start a thread to help each other out with tips. Post a 1 Sentence graphics related tip that you think could help others. Im sure we can all learn from each other.

Heres my first one:


Layers are your friend. Use them for everything you add to your piece and name them!

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D.P.

Good idea Pliff..unfortunately I really don't have any good tips as I'm learning myself lol. But great thread.

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pliff

Thanks D.P. Feel free to add your own. Heres tip number 2:


Give yourself a chance, always start out with the very best photography as it will make your life much, much easier.

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KryOnicle

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MJB23

NikosCC

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MJB23

Once we get more tips in here I'll move this with the other tutorials and sticky it.

Another tip...

Always add a border, sigs don't look complete without borders.

pliff

Here is another:


When resizing images, smaller is good, bigger is bad. Everytime you make your image bigger, photoshop needs to regenerate the missing pixels and you lose quality.

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N1™

got a pstut for it ?

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MJB23

I don't have a tut but I can give an example.

Use a soft 200px round brush in white to lighten areas or black to darken areas. Play around with the settings (lighten, overlay, soft light etc) to get it to look good.