Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Adobe Photoshop: Comic Style Photos

Are you ready for the next lesson? Once again, we will be needing Adobe Photoshop in doing this. Why don't you grab the finished image on our last lesson or click here.

Now that you have the image, let us continue.

1. On the toolbox, choose the Rectangular Marguee Tool (refer to the left image).

2. Make a square selection like the illustration on the left.







3. On the menu, go to Select and choose Inverse. Look at the illustration on the right.

4. Locate the Layers mini-window inside Adobe Photoshop. It looks like the image on the left. Now, make a new layer by clicking the create new layer icon.

5. Paint the inversed selection box with white color. Now, it should look like the one on the right side.



6. Right-click on the newly created layer and choose Blending Options.













7. Select Outer Glow, change the color to black, and Blend Mode to Normal. Most likely your image will look the right below the Layer Style image.
8. Now, we are not yet done. Create a new layer like in step 4. Choose that layer and paint it with white and it SHOULD be under the frame.

9. In your toolbox, make your primaty color white and secondary brownish orange or as you like - best is brownish-orange. Refer to image on the left.

10. Your image should look just like a plane box - same as the right box.


11. Now on the menu Go to Filter and choose sketch and Halftone Pattern, choose dots. It should look like the pattern on the right below.

12. Select the new.layer and Choose Overlay. It will look this. Add some text in your comic image, look for anime fonts or comic book fonts - Check out here.


13. Lastly, after putting a text. Select the layer of the frame and choose "Rectangle Tool". Draw a rectangle using the "rectangle tool" and cover the text area. Here is your finish product.


Wow, it's a pain just to layout this lesson. Forgive me guys, let me fix this issue later. And that would be our lesson for today.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Photo to Cartoon ver2.0

Hello! I am back. I thought I was really going to catch a cold there, I'm feeling better now. I have promised before from my past article that I'll be posting an article which includes a new technique to create a cartoon effect.

As you can see, my boy Ize is back with a new lesson for everyone. Here I'll be teaching you another way to achieve cartoon effect like the finished picture on the left side.

You'll probably hate me for this. This is a shorter version of the first Cartoon to Photo lesson that I did. So here it goes:

1. First, right-click on this picture and save to clipboard or save it on a file and then use it on your adobe photoshop.

2. Use Poster Edges. You can use the default value.

3. Adjust the Brightness and Contrast till you are satisfied with the outcome.

4. Tada! Finish.

That's how simple it is. The first one is kinda clean cartoon effect while this one is not so neat version or grunge cartoon effect.

Hope you enjoyed our lesson.

Using this same image (the one on the left), we will continue our lesson about Comic Style Picture on our next lesson.

Thank you very much and wish you enjoy your stay.

Happy Halloween!!


I would like to greet everyone a Happy Halloween. I'll be on a holiday for today, I feel sick and very tired. Hope you all had a very screaming halloween.

XLEON TIPS is sponsoring a contest called Triple Medical Celebration - Wish you the success.

I also want to have a contest here but since this blog is just new, I'll reserve it for the best occassion. I am still thinking of a theme, before I thought of the Coolest Choice Award or Most Sexy Blog, etc... which will also have prices and a trophy I made. All candidates will have a 125x125 image displayed on their pages and linked to the Contest Information. Of course, I am still thinking and preparing all that I need. The candidate button will look like this.

Friday, October 30, 2009

If Good Things Could Happen, Expect Bad as Well


Good News
  • My popularity rate with EntreCard is getting high.
  • My traffic is getting higher as well, thanks to the combo drive made by EC and Adgitize.
  • Earning more with Adgitize than in my Google Adsense, and faster - thanks to Adgitize ads, yes I purchased a month advertisement 3 days ago and dramatically I raised my traffic.
  • Because of my gained traffic, I am earning ads with CMF Ads now, I got 18 ads now.

Bad News
  • My PC broke, I have to use the laptop.
  • I was unable to post the version 2 of the Photo to Cartoon v2.
Good News
  • Sometimes I really amaze myself, I fixed my PC but it took me hours to fix it. Never mind what happened, sometimes stupid things could happen and you just have to learn from it.
Sorry about that, I'll post the new lesson tomorrow, I'll post 2 lessons to make-up for the lost time.