Photoshop :: Nice Curves
Nov 25, 2004creating nice and smooth curves, curved lines etc.
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View 4 RepliesI am preparing a batch of images for test submission, for a stock photo library.Recently a person working for one of the visual effects studios in London happened to tell me that these strict agencies use some set of layers that can separate tonality and color values to check for banding, dirtiness, noise and all those technical flaws that the human eye can't notice on a monitor.He said they perhaps have an action for it so that they can review faster.
He said that it is known as 'Craze Curves' or 'Visibility Curves' technique.He further added that all the studios use it before giving the final files to clients so that there is no issue in printing afterwards.It is sort of a quality control check and has been used by digital and advertising agencies all over the world.
But now his email seems to have changed and I can't get in touch with him to know how to use the technique.
I have got few, nice plugins like KPT (5, 6) Painter 7, Knockout 2, Dreamsuite 2 but I don't know how to make the most of them.
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And what font type is "studies"?
How do I make a nice (coloured) curved line? (+/- 800 px with nice curve like starting high then going down hard with a long tail)
I tried using pen tool (curved pen) but still you get damn ugly lines..
Also purely need the lines not any square or something..
how do u do this look man nice.
how do u make a cartoon sketch that nice?
I am working on my amateur game and need a nice 'top down view' image of grass.
I have triedd effects like filmgrain and grain but there is something that just doent make it look realistic.
how to make nice looking grass?
The problem certainly has been discussed all over the place, but I've yet to find an answer in all of my research. And the problem hasn't been limited to only CS6 (earliest reported cases involve CS2), but that's what I'm in now...
Given:
Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit
8 GB RAM
CS6 Extended 64-bit
Issue:
Print screen image 01 captured (using the PrtScn key on the keyboard) to Windows' clipboard pastes into Photoshop document. Print screen image 02 captured to Windows' clipboard does not paste into Photoshop document, but instead image 01. Delete unwanted layer and capture image 02 again, and this time Photoshop pastes in image 02. Curiously, the problem is not remedied by Photoshop's menu Edit, Purge, Clipboard.
This problem does not occur in other applications like in Paint for example - only in Photoshop.
I'm trying to make a glass/crystal ball glow in the dark and have the glow emanating from a central point within the ball .... anybody have any ideas? Does this belong in a 3d forum?
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I've searched this forum but not found any good solutions. Nor the one at pegaweb.com.
I need a surface in one basic colour which is glittering.
I think the noise-filter is a good start but how do you make the noise look more "glittery"?
I have a photo of a bus I want to take the reflection off of while keeping the perspective of colour change.. if that is possible?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedBasicly when i try to erase a layer/rectangle tool to make a nice fade this is what happens: every time i try to erase it makes a huge black lining around the erased part as u can see .
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View 5 Replies View RelatedHow to edit a .wmf file that is a graph and was generated by a statistical program. I need to visually enhance this graph, making it look more appealing for publication in a manuscript. It's very simple, just need to make rectangles behind the existing text that form the columns in the graph, and shade the rows of the graph to assist the reader to follow the row across the graph. While I can edit the text on the .wmf, I can't get a rectangle to be placed under the existing text unless I lower the opacity of the rectangle which won't work as I need black and white only. I've tried converting the text to rectangle, but the stretching of the text won't be acceptable. What would be the workflow I should attempt to follow to enhance the looks of the document in illustrator? Is there a trick to getting the rectangle to behave? It works just fine if I actually type NEW text in, then place a rectangle, but I'll have to work with the info in the .wmf file - can't re-type it all.
View 4 Replies View Relatedi have outlined this pic and used the Gaussian blur , but how would i soften the edges of the blur so it doesnt look so "sharp"? I want it to kinda blend in so to say here is the pic.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI want to add a line to a bit of text in Photoshop. I have the text in a layer, and I know how to add a line using the shape tool. The problem is, I'd like that line to be IN the text layer. No matter what I do, the @$#@$ thing shows up on it's own - it's not in ANY layer that I can see (ie, I make all layers invisible... the only thing I see on my screen is the line I drew.)
the thing takes over my Transform tool! If I want to, say, resize a layer, I typically choose Edit-Transform. If I have my line on the screen, Edit-Transform turns into Edit-Transform Path (I think that's the wording) and I can't do a thing to my layers - only the line I drew.
How do I get this thing to "play nice"? It would be ideal if I could add it to the layer my text is in.
how to use Curves, in CS3.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHow do you get bezier curves in PhotoShop CS6 to act the way they used to in CS5.5? In 5.5 i would be able to move/adjust the path with the direct select tool and the control arms would stay at the angle they were created at. In CS6, depending on where you direct selected the path, would depend on how the path could be/would be adjusted. And the control arms have become more fluid, rather than static. They do not keep the angle they were created.
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View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen making adjustments in the curves panel the procedure in previous editions was to raise the curve in the upper section to lighten the image and lower it to darken the image. Mine is working just the opposite. When i raise (or lift) the curve the image darkens and when I lower it lightens. The lower half for contrast works the in the same backwarsds way.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen using Curves to increase contrast for an image, I see that some people will use the eyedropper to define an anchor point on the Curve to manipulate, and others just seem to drag on a spot on the curve without first using the eyedropper.
1. Is there a reason to not use the eyedropper, and instead just drag a point on the curve?
2. Won't using the eyedropper always be more accurate than just eyeballing a spot on the curve to drag?
I have a question about using toning curves...
In older versions of Photoshop, I was able to use Paul Butzi's beautiful toning curves (which are ACV files) through the Curves menu.
There was a 'Load' button, and if I pressed that, I could browse my curves folder and pick whatever curve I wanted. Is there any way to do that in Photoshop CS5? I can't seem to find a 'Load' button under Curves, and I'm not sure how to use the Custom Curve feature.
I can't seem to load them under Filters, either. How I could load them?
When using Curves, one used to be able to move from one point to the next ("point" is what I use to refer to the points that determine the shape of the curve) by holding the Control key and pressing Tab.
This no longer appears to work with Photoshop CS5. I am wondering how I can move from one point to the next without having to click on the next point. More often than not I end up actually moving the point when trying to click on it.
So, I absolutely love a lot of the changes I've come across so far. I am very happy with the crop tool changes except for one thing. I work on hundreds of B/W headshots at a time where all I do is crop>curves. Up until CS6, when in the crop tool it would still show tone info in the info pallette. Now it shows nothing. This puts a crimp in my workflow because I either have to open the curves dialog or switch to the eyedropper tool to see if I need to apply curves. I have noticed that if I hide the crop area it will revert to showing the info .
Also, with the curves dialog I am going to complain about something that started with CS5. The 'click and drag in image to modify curve' feature is pretty cool but it should respect my option settings. I work with it displaying the amount of pigment but the click and drag feature doesn't respect this setting.
As I said small issues (especially the second one) but it would be nice to get them changed.
I am stumped with this problem and havn't found a thread that seems to give me a points in how to simplify the procedure/problem described. Is there a plug-in ?
I am using PS7.0 and am at the beginner end of the spectrum.
I have TWO pictures and want to duplicate the colour values at certain points in the picture. The manual operation would be to:
1) Open Picture #1, put colour samplers in at the points I want duplicated (max 4) and write down on a piece of paper the RGB values at those points. I make the assumption that the points are all present on the Picture #2 and that the tonal values are all different enough that they fall on different parts of the tonal curve. ....
how to draw a curve to get this kind of effect?
View 4 Replies View Relatedhow to make curves with a set pixel width. It's hard to explain my dillema with words beyond that... Most of my question is detailed in the picture I've enclosed... (I needed a few visual aids to get my point across, lol)... I'm going to post again in this thread with another picture to help further explain, so check that out if this one doesn't cut it for ya.
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