been playing with photoshop and imageready ver 7.0.

*where are the other photoediting tools?
1. painting tools (paintbrush, flood fill, spraypaint, eyedropper, smudge, etc.)
2. other photoediting tools (freehand tool, line tool, circle/shape tools) i only see marquee, crop, and the magicwand

thanks for the guidance

Goto menu above, press Windows > Tools. You should have something like this:

ahh, thx expert. didnt realize holding the tool down gave me more options THX!!!!

lol,

love the way you showed where the tools where expert

I'm sure augustborn99 you will come up with better (if there's anything better from what you do now) themes, now that you are enlightened with all the other functions of photoshop. Good Luck and have fun with it!

Since there's an awful lot of functions in Photoshop that people mostly don't know about, I felt there should be a thread where everybody can share her/his ( ) Photoshop secrets and people can ask questions on how to do stuff.

So, here we go. - any questions?



om.

1. with the marquee tool, is there any way i can view its current location (in pixels) on the object?

2. magic wand tool is often unreliable in outlining an object. is there a tool that i can freehand an outline to cut out an object?

*btw, thnx for the tutorials om!

vin, exactly what im looking for! specifically the magnetic lasso tool thx!

I have found each image manipulating program offers something slightly different, if you can get a few then get them.
Adobe I dont like personally but I do mostly use ACD See for my theme making and occaisionally Paintshop when I want to use the Scratch remover to get rid of text and scratches.
Only been using them for a couple of weeks but if there is anything I can help with, I will

hoe do you soften images? opposite to sharpen

i use blur filter, blur tool (waterdrop)

I use blur or I plasticise the image slightly. Have a play with all the effects, I try nearly every one until I find 1 that suits. Thats why I use more than 1 image program

cheers august, i was thinking that just wondered if there was tool like it (called soften) though

Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur.


om.

Cheers omdot

i've been playing around with the blurs (for the past few hours) and hue colours.

heres one:

i use the marquee tool a lot.
-i cut a small square out an image.....
-i paste the small square unto a new image...

*is there a way that i can make the small square dynamic within the new image?make it taller, wider? i do not want to use the "image size" option because you cannot see the changes until you hit "ok"

Press CMD + T (Transform)


om.

omdot, you're pretty damn good! you shall be our photoshop guru!

godsend..... you guys are godsend. at this rate, i wont have anything to do with the*cough* *corel* *cough* photoeditor :D

*is there an extra pack of filters that i can add to my eyecandy?

@expert21: Nope, no guru.
It's just that I had to work a lot with photoshop... doin' this for 8 yrs.


om.

@augustborn: Nope. None that I knew of.
But there's loads of more filters out there. Just try and search google.
(There's a lot of crap out there, too )


om.

Just spent 3 -4 hours trying to come up with my first theme using Photoshop Elements, many of the tools from standard photoshop are missing. Question is what version should I buy and how much?

@omdot: wow, you beat me..I've only got half of it..4 years

wow 8 years dont u jus wish you had one of those plug things to plug in the back of your head and you knew it all, like off the matrix

[i better hype down a bit]

What can I say, seems like I'm one of the older guys here.


om.

Just finished first theme with Son of Tenax and have the following question.
Which of the Theme Creator Pro 3G progs do I need to download

TCP 3G v. 1.248 is the latest one out there. that version has a bug, you need to download the patch along with it

Perfect, what about the add ins for photoshop etc?

if you have the full version PS7 it should come with the eyecandy pack of filters. im looking to add some more, if i findem, i will postem.

There is a new version of Theme Creator as well, seems the bugs are fixed (as far as I can see anyway)

I still use the 3.00.0187 version, is the latest version better? If it is, where can I get it? Thanx

TCP you mean? Yes I think it's better... it supports more models and it allowsyou to include a rington in the theme, which I think is a very nice feature.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/themecreator/

Oh, that's great! Think I have to try using that, thanks so much Vlammetje.

how do you get rid of the box with "01" and a envolope icon, circled?

cheers

? what is it? It hardly ever appears on mine anyway, but what does it do?

i think it has got something to do with the slice tool?

i am such a photoshop n00b! i am clueless

its the indication of slice 1 - you get it when slice view is activated under view, show.

you can slice the image into parts of specific size using the slicetool, then go to save for web, and now it will save a .html page and the 3 slices of the image.

yey, cheers spawn it worked went to slice view show and clicked slice

Thanks Spawn! Never knew that one, but will come in handy when making next website! Cheers!

@tybalt: mobile9 is actually designed using the slice tool everywhere

I've noticed, just always thought it was done using Fireworks. never knew Photoshop was so helpful!

Could we have a section for newbies where say 5 thememakers chosen by expert21 convert the same image into either a theme or a wallpaper. The best image is then used for a frame by frame tutorial for all us beginers.

Hey, getting some new software when it comes. Anyone had a play with Serif stuff? Had a taster and I like it. Ive ordered Serif Draw Plus 7

http://www.mobile-review.com/articles/2003...-theme-en.shtml

Theme tutorial link

Got a bit confused with screen sizes for the P800, what size screens do I use for : -
a. flip open and b. flip closed. I have used 208px wide x 320px high, with flip open viewed in widescreen it is perfect, with flip closed it is awful.

how do you make the marquee tool (the rectangle with dotted lines) round (a circle)? (so you can select a circle out of a picture)?

cheers (hope you understand)

forget that just found out, if anyone else wants to know, hold down the mouse on it and go across and select the option

hey everyone i just got the adobe photoshop 7 full version up and running on my pc. i love it even better yet...it was free i have to admit that i wouldn't have been able to realize the importance if it weren't for you great themers out there thx alot :D