Comments on: An Exercise In Quick Masks and Color Halftones

By: ChampionSound

ChampionSound — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:25:19 +0000

Hey Hero, cheers too from New Zealand. just found your site the other day and lo and behold i’ve got exactly the project that requires the fine advice you’ve provided.

thanks again!

andy

By: HERO

HERO — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:29:49 +0000

Marcos! Welcome to the site! I’m psyched to have a Spaniard in the house!

By: Marcos

Marcos — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:27:49 +0000

Great tutorial, I have learned a cool effect working with it. A friend told me about the site and I think I will be rounding here a lot of my spare time. I have exactly the same operative sistem and version of the software, so the photos helped me a lot. You´re very meticulous. Sorry about my english ;-)

greetings from Spain

By: HERO

HERO — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:28:52 +0000

Gabe, thanks for the contribution. I’m glad you found the site!

By: HERO

HERO — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:28:21 +0000

Yan, the reflected gradient is the 4th of the 5 gradient option icons in the gradient options bar and I drug the gradient from the horizontal center line of the stage to the top, creating a gradient that is solid through the middle and then thins out towards the top and bottom. I then applied the halftone and used the Free Transform tool with Warp turned on to tweak the effect.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:11:35 +0000

Yan - you can use a gradient layer style to get the gradient effect (right click on the layer, then go to blending options, check off the gradient overlay box, then play with the colors/opacity.) It also looks like that image uses some sort of distort filter, my guess is wave (from the filter menu, go to distort, then play with those options until you get something you dig.)

Love the site, just stumbled onto it today, glad I did!

By: Yan

Yan — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:41:46 +0000

Please explain in detail instructions the last effect of how to create a Quick Mask with a Reflected Gradient (Vitamin Energy-Got Dragon?)

Thanks a lot

By: tonik

tonik — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:26:53 +0000

great site!you are hellping a lot!thanks.can you add more text tutorials:)

By: DuDe

DuDe — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:06:08 +0000

Nice job man! Thanks for this smoooth tutorial! :)

By: Sacha

Sacha — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:01:53 +0000

Even though I knew about all of these things separately, it’s nice to see your workflow and how you use these techniques ! thanks for another great tutorial !