After months of tedious faffing about while trying to capture consecutive screencaps from media players and then loading them into Photoshop as stacks, I now only ever use VirtualDub to extract clips, and import those straight into Photoshop. It saves a lot of time, so here's a quick guide on how to do just that.

1. Get VirtualDub. (I presume you ( Read more... )

Since I'm going to hold that workshop on photomanipping next week, I'd be very grateful if people could tell me what they're most curious about when it comes to manipping. And to Photoshoppery in general. What are the biggest challenges of successful Photoshoppery--be it icons, wallpapers, manips, etc for you guys? What would you want to know more ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm saying "comprehensive", but I'm going to focus on Tennant and Simm here. Because it seems that some fanficcers and some fan artists still seem to be operating under the illusion that the guys have washboard stomachs or bulging muscles. It's such an old fan cliche that it's a bit silly to see that happening, even in this day and age. It ( Read more... )

Oh look, another Potatochop tutorial/rant. First part here, second part here. I'm mostly talking about manippage, but a majority of these rules of thumb are applicable to most fannish Photoshop pursuits.

For this one, I'm going to ramble about...

Overdoing the effects.I could be here all day listing the most popular overused Photoshop effects, ( Read more... )

I've learned a hell of a lot more about Photoshopping in the past six months or so thanks to working with a) timecock and b)45eugenia's cracked-out brain, so I thought I'd share some of the new stuff I learned and some of the things I forgot to include in the first part. So, here we go, more manippage and photofidgeting geekery. Hope it'll come in handy ( Read more... )

Following on from my Grand List Of Photomanippage Tips, I present: Grand List Of Iconage Basics. This will take forever to fill, as I'm not as 1337 as many iconmakers, but I'll hope to eventually provide you with a few basic ways to make text legible, make the most of your images, and make the colourings Not Hurt Anyone's Eyes Unless You're Doing ( Read more... )

Thought people might be interested. List is also for my own reference since I keep forgetting. And probably will keep adding to this. At least I tried to make it funneh, because it is one cracked-up hobby, it is.

[ETA: Part two is up now, here.]

[ETA2: Part three is up here. And reference pics of various naked Time Lords can be found here.]

( Big Fuckoff List Of Photomanipping Tricks and Tips )

Okey-dokey, here's a simple tutorial for a bare-bones icon, made using Paint Shop Pro (neat and simple for your basic imaging needs, you can find shareware versions for free and even the full thing won't break the bank). The same tips apply for all software, as long as they have decent imaging options (no, Windows Paint doesn't count). Yes, this is ( Read more... )