Topic: the Official Photoshop Tutorial Thread!!! - (Sticky Please)

[Fury_of_a_Seraph]

This thread will be dedicated to tutorials

Please Do not Reply to this thread unless you are posting a tutorial...in that case, please post what the tutorial is in the title

[Fury_of_a_Seraph]

First Tutorial....making a Saucer Texture...

Okay, this was made with Photoshop v7

First, Create an Image: 1024x1024
Second create two more layers on top of the background
Change Layer 2's Blending Mode to Multiply.

Next open this image as a seperate image.


Make a copy so you now have two versions of this B5 Hull image.
On ONLY ONE of them, go to IMAGE>IMAGE SIZE.
and change it to the following settings


Now on this image, go to EDIT>DEFINE PATTERN
Name is something like "Hull-50%"

Do the same thing on the unmodified B5 hull image and name it "Hull-100%"

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This is for future use, this way you can do different things with scaling, i recommend as going so far as making a Hull 25% version too
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You can close out both b5 Hull images, you dont need them any longer.

Go back to your 1024x1024...

Select the flood fill tool.
At the top there is an option called "Fill" with a dropdown menu.
Select PATTERN
Just to the right of that there is a "Pattern" drop down, select the Hull-100%...it should be second to last.

Fill Layer 2 with said pattern.

Now go to the FILTER>DISTORT>POLAR COORDINATES....
Select "Rectangular to Polar" and press okay...

VIOLA....now you can stop there and call it a good texture basis, or you can do just a little more...

On that second layer...the one that should be MULTIPLY mode...right? good....

On that layer, fill it as white (make sure to change your flood fill tool back to FOREGROUND instead of PATTERN)
 - it will look like nothing happened, dont worry it did.

go to FILTER>NOISE>and add these settings.



Now go to FILTER>BLUR>MOTION BLUR and add these settings



Do the same thing with FILTER>DISTORT>POLAR COORDINATES that you did with the Hull...and viola you have some wear and tear on your hull...


Of course you can play around with the settings....change Layer 1's opacity to 75%

add another layer on Overlay mode and fill it with color....have some fun with it

Of course if you want to make it 512x512 use the HULL 50% Fill instead.


I Hope this helps some of you
more tutorials to come

IMPORTANT!!!!!
PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD IN RESPONSE!!!!!!!
POST ONLY IF YOU HAVE TUTORIALS TO SHARE!!!!!
Reason why is this way people dont have to hunt through this thread as much in order to find tutorials
please help those in need...dont post in this thread.  

[MrCue]

http://www.frost-works.com/galactic_truckstop/mars_station/main/Contents/Tutorials.htm

The two tutorials on that page can be very heplful to new comers.

[Anthony_Scott]

A warp field tutorial:

1>open a new document, any size..(I usually make mine 1024x768)
2>EDIT>FILL>BLACK
3>FILTERS>NOISE>ADD NOISE..usually you want to just accept the default setting because the sttings usually give you a   decent enough starfield.
4>IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>THRESHOLD...this allows you to adjust the number of stars even further...a neat effect
5>FILTERS>BLUR>RADIAL BLUR...adjust to suit your particular tastes and you can also put the blur on differant parts of the picture like for an off-center warp field...

There ya go...you should have a decent warp field!

Semper Fi, Carry On  

[Anthony_Scott]

Uncle Anthony here with another tutorial..this time with a link!

Check out this cool  explosion tutorial at PhotoshopCafe...they did it with text but it will work with other objects....

Semper Fi, Carry On

[Anthony_Scott]

Once again, I am posting a new tutorial in Photoshop...this time it is one about making honest to goodness planets. Planet Creation Part 1
 Planet Creation Part 2

As always, enjoy!

Semper Fi, Carry On
 

[Tus]

saw this link in a post on scifi-meshes a while back , has a great tut for planets and starfields

http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tutorials.html

[Kreeargh]

I came across CGtalk here is a link to more photoshop tutorials,  more than i could ever read  

 CGtalk forum links to photoshop tutorials thread  

[manitoba]

anyone remember where that tutorial for doing signature files is. i lost it when my HD died awhile ago and i cant find it again.

 

anyhelp would be appreciated.

and no i didnt do mine. i did the main pix but a friend did the rest.

[Toasty0]

Thank you Fury and to all those who've conributed to this thread. I'm having a great time wading through all the online tuts.

Man oh man, is there some great stuff to learn.

Best,
Jerry  

[manitoba]

heres another planet tutorial

http://www.gkane.de/tutorials/ps_planets.html

[Khalee]

 well heres a art site with a tutorial section on Photoshop http://www.noir.org/2dTutorials.html#Photoshop

And it has a good selection of links to other Art sites as well.

And heres another link I found http://www.newtutorials.com/ Sometimes following one websites links takes you to some interesting places.

and one more link http://www.purephotoshop.com/

another one. http://www.photoshop-stuff.com/

[Toasty0]

Digi has posted a tutorial on my board at  this link "rights here".

Enjoy peeps.

Best,
Jerry