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Realize that anything created pre-1980/1985 was done by hand. So much of the texture you see is probably from the canvas or medium directly and often mimicking traditional elements can be a challenge with digital workflows.
For the second sample image......
I think you can get something similar by simply adding noise to areas after they are painted.
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PPI (Pixels Per Inch) settings are not used in web images. Images on the web, retina displays or otherwise, are displayed by their pixel dimensions (width and height) not any PPI/DPI setting. In fact, many web images such as png, gif, jpg may not even store a ppi setting in their internal data and rely on width and height settings.
A 100 pixel x 100 pixel ...
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I'd do this in Illustrator, because it's a lot easier than Photoshop for this particular task, especially if you want to maintain full edibility and easy control over font, leading and be able to paste text in for all labels.
Step 1 — Draw a text box.
Draw a text box, paste your text in, set a vague font, size and leading, and right align your text.
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There are some "rules" regarding color harmonies that you will find very helpful for this case and any future ones you might have regarding colors.
Color combination is really the most important part of color theory
and designing with colors, and also the hardest-- It always comes down
to your personal judgement and how you look at colors. There ...
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Noise and dither usually yield quite good results. There's a couple of things that may make “banding” more apparent:
“start” and “stop” colors
gradient size (banding becomes more apparent when “start” and
“stop” points are getting farther from each other—gradient have to be “projected” on more samples with the constant number of available brightness ...
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The Color panel has some well hidden abilities to copy the foreground colour to the clipboard. These can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut. I use ⌥⌘C.
It's also possible to right click with the eyedropper tool. This is quicker if you're sampling many colours.
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I can't tell you how to fix it, because I don't think you can, but here's some info that might lead to a solution:
The left is an attempt at reflecting 2-point perspective. The challenge is that the reflected object has to adhere to the same perspective points as the regular object. So after flipping, you'll have to manually adjust each 'half' of the ...
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The answer is to create your logo artwork as vector rather than raster graphics. You can then use this artwork directly for print work, or export raster artwork at the size you need for web graphics.
While Photoshop has some vector support, if you have Creative Suite, Illustrator is the tool for the job. If you don't, then Inkscape (which is free) is worth ...
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Design in greyscale, black and white. And it's printed with one ink. It doesn't matter what color that ink is. It's still just one color.
Don't use Pantone or spot colors, just design everything with black and white. The printer will use whatever ink color they choose.
There is never a reason one would need to use one spot color to design something like ...
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Pixelapse comes pretty close.
Here's what they offer:
Public gallery
Downloadable source (e.g., PSD, AI, etc.)
Revision history
Commenting and annotations
Dropbox-like saving behavior
Here's what they don't have:
Licensing information for public works
Explicit "fork" behavior and "pull" requests
Here's a sample I added to try it out: ...
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Choice of the best compression method depends on your image content. If you're trying to save image with a lots of colors and smooth transitions between them, your choice would rather be JPEG. Otherwise, if you've got some lineart, text, image with a couple of colors you should try PNG instead.
Specific compression scheme, parameters, color reduction etc. ...
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e100's advice is spot on. A vector application such as Illustrator is the best tool for logo design, whether you start on paper and scan it in, or work directly within the program.
This isn't the whole story, however. Scalability doesn't just involve vectors; the detail in a logo must also be adjusted for the size of the finished artwork. Just as with ...
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Ok, so I figured out one way to do this effect.
I started with the original photo in Photoshop (I used the Wikimedia photo of Alan Turing)
I then adjusted the contrast and levels to make the photo more dramatic for the halftoning effect later:
I added a Gaussian blur (about 5 pixels) to the photo and saved it to be placed into illustrator. Remember fo ...
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The easiest way to create an effect like that with precise control is using a Gradient Map.
Start with a normal colour image.
If you apply a Gradient Map Adjustment Layer on top, with a pink to black gradient, the effect will be identical to what you're after. It even means you can choose precise colours for anywhere along the tonal range. I'm a big fan ...
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Yes, it's possible to create high quality gradients. There's lots of factors to take into consideration though.
Photoshop doesn't and can't dither on the alpha channel. You're better using solid colours, if possible. Also, try to avoid layer opacity. Create the gradient using the exact colours you need.
There can be some cumulative rounding errors if your ...
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Pixel Fonts. These are fonts designed to not use or rely on anti-aliasing and be clear and legible at very small sizes. Most of the fonts have a range of 1 or 2 sizes they can be used at specifically.
A great place for pixel fonts is fontsforflash.com
When using a pixel font, you want to turn off all anti-aliasing within Photoshop for the text.
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This is an outdated piece of advice related to using images in older layout programs that were not Photoshop-aware. It has no relevance to Save for Web. A jpeg is a flat file, and Photoshop takes care of the flattening (and conversion to sRGB for web use) automatically.
In general, practice non-destructive editing: never flatten a PSD, never change original ...
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The colour treatment? You can do most of that with a Gradient Map. In the example below, I'm using a Gradient Map that's set to 80% opacity.
With a Gradient Map
Without a Gradient Map
(Image nabbed from here.)
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In Photoshop, how do I take a grayscale image and transform it into shades of whatever color I want?
Make sure you're working with a Grayscale image and then go Image > Mode > Duotone, you'll bring up this dialog:
From there choose the colors you want to use by clicking on the color block. Adjust the mapping of gray to color by clicking on the curves (the block with the diagonal in it).
You can achieve different effects by adding multiple colors. ...
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Click the S or B options to the right and then adjust the vertical slider. This will retain the hue but allow you to alter saturation or brightness.
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This is a common question but usually for code. To create this in Photoshop:
New layer in Photoshop
Draw rectangle slightly smaller below
Fill with black
Filter>Gaussian Blur
radius around 5-7 pixels, play with the settings
Edit > Transform > Warp
Drop opacity around 20%
Another tutorial here.
Free Files
Free .psd files here for ...
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Yes, Photoshop could be used to design a magazine. But, so could MSPaint. This is absolutely a job suited for InDesign.
InDesign has much better tools for typesetting. If I didn't have InDesign available to me, I'd probably even use word processing software to lay everything out instead of going with Photoshop. It's definitely not the tool for the job.
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A really easy way to achieve a sharp stroke is with a drop shadow layer style (yep, you read that correctly).
The top Goomba is your example. The bottom Goomba is the same bitmap, but masked with the stroke added as a drop shadow layer style. The trick to getting it right is the custom contour curve.
The same can be done with the outer glow layer ...
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If they require a template, then the best option is probably to build the template in the application itself, using other apps like Photoshop to create assets like logos you'll reuse.
What's the newsletter for? If it's to be emailed, then you're probably better off creating a MailChimp or Campaign Monitor template. Emailing Word documents often isn't a good ...
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Channels.
Duplicate the blue channel and highlight it in the Channels Panel.
Use Image > Adjustments > Levels and slide the left arrow to the
right to bring up the white a bit.
Slide the right arrow to the left to darken most of the grays.
Adjust the middle arrow to further darken grays and get them as black
as possible without overly effecting edges.
Then ...
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Yes. In many cases the Save for web feature will reduce your file sizes. This is because in addition to allowing you to change the quality of your image (for example, jpeg quality 10 to 100), it also strips out a lot of unnecessary (for web purposes) metadata from your images like camera model, time the photo was taken, white balance, and so on.
Using "save ...
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Here are some options:
Use another format other than JPEG (PNG or GIF); the results in terms of both file size and image quality will depend on the content of your image; each is better at certain kinds of content
Make the image smaller in terms of pixels - this will have a very significant effect and should definitely be considered if you have control ...
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All tool shortcuts are listed if you choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and choose Tools from the drop down.
The move tool's shortcut is v
For tools with sub-tools, you can right-click/control-click the tool for the pop out and the shortcut will be shown to the right of the tools.
Adding Brenden's comment to this answer so it's more complete:
If you ...
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To add in words, Since Export Layers to Files is run by some script all I had to do was find that script, then find the function which saves the layers to files, find which part of the function does the numbering prefix & comment it out.
So here are the steps -
on Mac running Lion, goto Applications > Adobe Photoshop CS5 > Presets > Scripts ...
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I'm 99.999999% sure the example you posted is just a typeface that's like that. If you want to achieve a rough approximation in Photoshop, it's possible using the Bevel and Emboss Layer Style. The key is the custom contour.
The best way to do something like that would be to use a font with the effect baked in, or draw custom shapes... probably in ...
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