|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:01 pm
Ok. I have mostly gotten the certing part down.. i'm getting better with shading.. but one thing I've been workin on with the lineart for my shop is resizing. the image at it's 100pct that was sent to me... is like 625x625. Obviously, even as pretty as they are at that size, we have to make it small enough to go into the cert which i want the pets at about 300x314 cuz the cert is 450x343...
ok well.. everytime I go to resize it... the lines and shading get kind of messed up. It starts to look like crap... so, I need to know if there's a pretty way to do this. People who use PS say that in the edit menu, they have an option called freehand transformation. I don't see that in my psp menu...
I would really appreciate any and all help. This will be such a problem in certing once the shop is up and running and it's time to update their eggs into babies and adults.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:54 pm
nevermind. I got help from a shop owner at a shop I go to.
The answer to this for anyone who has these questions like I did.
1. To get rid of your white background when copy/pastign onto the cert: be sure to have your layer with the lines as a raster layer. Then, use the magic wand, and select everything behind your image, and then delete. Then, when you copy your image, it will paste clean down.
2. To resize your image without teh lines looking crappy on you: when you go to resize, there is a box near the bottom that has a drop down menu. There are several options, but the main three which seem especially useful are
smart size
bilinear
weighted average
use this.. if your image is too big or small, in the top part which I measure my image by pixels so that I can be sure mine is within TOS limits and smll enough to fit into the cert... you just adjust in the size.
A final tip/suggestion from this process I've been going through for other new certers:
Always be sure to save your images as either psd's or pspimages. I never save mine as a png or jpg until it's near the completion stages. I save to png for demonstration purposes to show people. When it's ready, I save it to jpg so the file size gets reduced to ensure their little sig pet will be under the tos standards. But really.. the main point of this tip is .. NEVER MAKE IT A JPG OR PNG UNTIL YOU'RE 100% SURE THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT. otherwise, you better have pspimage file backups... or else you'll have to rebuild your basic cert all over again.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
