photoshoping help please

[Foosa]

Can sombody take this image and change it from core duo to core 2 duo and keep it the same sise.
I would, but i don't have photoshop(or anything like it) or the skills to make it look good...yet

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h9...21/coreduo.png

thanks

[Chazell29]

Done!!
Sorry it took so long i was busy, but what do you think? I think it turned out really good!
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/intelcore2duo.gif

[Chazell29]

and you said you don't ahve good enough photoshop skilsl yet, you'll get there, just practice alot and you'll get good, ive been photoshoping for 2-3 years :-p

[jayb1234]

There are several versions of core 2 duo images on this page at intel.

Save them to your pictures file and open them with your photo program and resave them in whatever format you need them in.

EX: attached 1 as a .jpg

[Foosa]

Sweet, it looks great.
Thanks a ton guys.

[AnotherMuggle]

Chazell29 pretty impressive I wouldn't have known the image had been adapted..well done!

[David M]

"Photoshopping"?...careful, thats a verb. Adobe might sue you! Google does.

[Chazell29]

meh, well im over it it didn't take me to long
but what does everyone else think of my photoshoping job?
(and if you think i didn't phothsop that and i googled it I DID NOT i photoshped that)

[TwoRails]

I like it, Chazell29. Care to share how you did it??

[tigstah]

i smell a tutorial coming...

[Chazell29]

um no i did not use a tutorial, first i made a rectangle selection around both the Core and Duo and cut it, and pasted them in new layers. i turned their visiblity off, that left me with 2 white spots, so i took a 2 pixel wide selction on the side of each square, copy and pasted it and transformed it and dragged it across the white blanks. so now it just looks like there were no words there. I then made hte words visible again. I then looked at the letter, and noticed that it was just a Mydriad Pro with a white drop shadow. So i made a 2 and made it the size of the D in duo, and made a white drop shadow the size as the other letters. I then repositioned the 2 words and the number 2 and aligned it in the middle.

thats how i did it. NO I DID NOT USE A TUTORIAL

[Chazell29]

oh and for the reflection, i just made a selection around the one i changed, turned it upsidedown, feathered the top part of it (bottom when flipped) and lowered the opactiy to 25%

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by Chazell29 .... NO I DID NOT USE A TUTORIAL

What tigstah ment was you were (hopefully) going to give us a tutorial... which you did Thanks!

[Chazell29]

oh haha , i thought he ment i used a tutorial to do it, yeah if you REALLY want detail, i could make a tutorial with picstues on it lol

[TwoRails]

If you don't mind going into a little more detail, I sure wouldn't mind learning. Don't want to waste too much of your time, though.

[Chazell29]

Originally Posted by TwoRails If you don't mind going into a little more detail, I sure wouldn't mind learning. Don't want to waste too much of your time, though.

no prob. I'll get to work.

[Chazell29]

Altering an Image: Tutorial
By Chazell29

So i decided to make this a tutorial, just because it would be easier to understand. Read the description, and click the link to view the image, do the tutorail even if you want. Enjoy, and hope this explains more of how i did it.

Start of opening the image. (Note: when i was doing this, i was zoomed in closer, because its easier to work)

Step 1
We will have to move the word "Core" and "Duo" so we can fit the "2" inbetween, so this is how we are going to do it.

Make a selection with the rectangle marquee tool around the word "Core". it doesn't have to be perfect, but around the hole word.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/1.gif

Now press Ctrl+X (make sure you have the background layer selected) to cut the selection (it will also copy it) Now make a new layer, and press Ctrl+V to paste what we cut. If its out of place its fine, make the layer invisible.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/2.gif

Now make a selection around the word "Duo". Press Ctrl+X (make suer you have the background layer selected). Make another new layer, and paste it on that layer.
Make that layer invisible.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/3.gif

Step 2
Now we will fill in the empty spaces where the words were.

Make a selection on the side of the first box (where "Core" was) like below
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/4.gif

Now press Ctrl+C to copy. Make yet again another new layer, and paste the selection. You probably won't be able to see where it just got pasted, thats fine.

Click Ctrl+T to transform the layer.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/5.gif

Now position the layer that is selected right on the edge of the blank spot. The image below shows this.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/6.gif

Now drag the right edge all the way over till it touched the other end. Double click inside of the selection to deselect it. Now you have that box filled, and it looks as if there was nothing there.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/7.gif

Now do the EXACT same thing for the other box. Start off by making the selection on the side of the box, press Ctrl+C, make a new layer, press Ctrl+V and press Ctrl+T and drag it all the way across so now you have the image, but with no text. Its already starting to look good.

Step 3
Time for the text. Remember those 2 layers we made invisible, well make them visible again. Make sure you drag them ontop of ALL of the layers. Now its time to make the "2" I zoomed in to 1600% and looked really closley at the text, to see how they made the effect of the text "sunked in" and i noticed that all it was was a small white drop shadow. So Align the "Core" on the left, and the "Duo" to right, it doesn't have to be perfect. Look at the image below.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/8.gif

Now get the type tool, and type a "2" in the font "Mydriad Pro" at size 48.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/9.gif

Click the eye dropper tool. Click inside one of the letter on "Core" or "Duo" and click inside toward the top of the letter (the dark part)
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/10.gif

Highlight the 2, click the color box on the top of the screen to change the color of the text, and move the mouse and click the box on the left with the color we just got.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/11.gif

That will have changed the color of the font.

Right click on the "2" layer, and click blending options. Add a drop shadow with these settings (i found the right settings by just playing around with them till it looked the same)
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/12.gif

Now click the layer with the "2" and press Ctrl+T. Now resize it so its the same size as the "D" in "Duo"

Now move the layers with "Core" and "Duo" so they are aligned in the center, and spaced evenly from the "2". this is what i got
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/13.gif

Its looking good. We are now done with that part.

Step 4
In this step we will be doing this reflection. This may seem hard, but its actually pretty easy. Make a new layer. Press Ctrl+A to select the hole canvas. Go Edit>Copy merged. Click Ctrl+V on the new layer. It will paste the hole canvas in one layer.

Make a selection around the Core 2 Duo box like shown.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/14.gif

Press Ctrl+C to copy the selection. Now delete that merged layer.

Make a new layer and press Ctrl+V on it.

Hold Ctrl and click as shown
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/15.gif

Thatshould make a selection around the box. Now move the selection all the way down so its around the relection.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/16.gif

Go down to the first layer that has the background and everything, and click delete to delete inside the selection. Now remember what we did before? We made the small seleciton along the side of those empy boxes, copied it, pasted it and did the Ctrl+V? Well if not scroll up, but do that again for this, drag it all the way across. Now the relection is gone.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/17.gif

OK now click the layer that was the copy of the box. Now click edit>transform>flip verticle. That should have flipped it upside down. Now move it down, so its under the original box like shown (NOTE: move this upside down layer ontop of them all)
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/18.gif

Now we have to do some touching up. With the eraser tool, erase the parts shown below (the shadow on the upside down layer, and the dark parts on the corners)
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/19.gif
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/20.gif

Now take out the lasso tool, and make the feather on the top 15 pixels, and make a selection of about the bottom half.
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/21.gif

Now right click inside the selection, and click feather. Set it to 2 pixels, and press delete as many times until it ends up like this (i pressed it 3 times)
http://www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/22.gif

Now set the opacity on that layer to 25%.

After that I did a few touch ups, and ended up with this as my final result:
www.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/23.gif

So that was my tutorial on how i changed it. Hope that explains it.

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Fixed bad link - admin

[Foosa]

I didn't look at the whole things, but when i get ps i will so i can do it as i read. Thanks again. nice job as well

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by Chazell29 Altering an Image: Tutorial By Chazell29 So i decided to make this a tutorial, just because it would be easier to understand. Read the description, and click the link to view the image, do the tutorail even if you want. Enjoy, and hope this explains more of how i did it. ....

Very inspirational, Chazell29!! I appreciate the time you took in building that very nice tutorial! -- I went thru it very carefully, re-reading some sections multiple times until I was sure I "got it." Step 4, for some reason, was the hardest for me to follow at first. The photo examples are invaluable; I probably would not have understood without them. The link for #22 didn't work, but it didn't take long to figure out one 'W' is missing in the "www" so I was still able to view it. I even flipped from the original and your two final examples multiple times. Pretty interesting flipping them like that.

Thank you

TR

[Chris_Rootes_Wizard]

"http://ww.pspfaqs.psunited.com/tut1/22.gif"

Yes, you may want to edit that. Dont matter

Wow, a good job. (i read the tutorial too) Well done!

[David M]

Chazell, does this work in Photoshop Elements as well? I'm too cheap to buy Photoshop. I'm trying to get better at Elements.

[Chazell29]

you can do it in any version, i ussed photoshop CS2

but yeah im glad you liked the tutorial
=D

[pillainp]

Originally Posted by Chazell29 Altering an Image: Tutorial By Chazell29 So i decided to make this a tutorial, just because it would be easier to understand. Read the description, and click the link to view the image, do the tutorail even if you want. Enjoy, and hope this explains more of how i did it.

Great tutorial, but I hope you will not mind if I add a little something, just to make it a little easier.

For Step 1, instead of cutting (CTRL+X) each word and then pasting it to a new layer, you could also do as follows:
Select the word, and then go to Layer>New>Layer by Cut (CTRL+SHIFT+J).

Hope you do not mind the small addition.

NPP