Jason
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Hi Mike & Scott, thanks. Mike – thanks for taking the time to give so much detail. I attempted those steps but seemed to have slightly different options on my operating system (had trouble finding a duplicate script), anyway I actually went the easier route and just saved them out of viewer which worked great. Thanks so much!
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On bit more of info – within my operating system, under the file heading ‘kind’ my originals are listed as being ‘JPEG image’. Under the ones saved out of photoshop they are listed as ‘Adobe Photoshop JPEG file’.
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Try doing the same thing without layer via copy – make a duplicate of your layer first, make the color range selection second and then hit with the duplicate layer selected hit the layer mask button at the bottom of the layer palette. Now do your hue/sat adjust and then play with the layer mask icon attached to your dup layer – like select and try applying different blur settings and or levels settings to contract/expand the matte a bit. Anyway – more flexible that way you might be able to tweek it better. Just don’t use layer via copy cause it’s not flexible.
jason
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Thanks very much for your feedback. That’s too bad it works like that, I think I use subclips fairly safely – I usually only make them for stuff I want to export. Thanks again,
jason
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Excellent, that sounds great. The batch export method is the sort of thing I was hoping for, thanks again.
jason
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You could use a selection tool to select the umbrella and hit command-I to invert the colours. That may or may not work well, but give it a try with a quick rough selection first before investing in making a precise selection. Just to see if the shading works for you,
jason white
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This uneven-ness or stair-stepping is probably related to your step of using the magic wand to delete the black background, the wand often produces jagged edges which are showing up more so when you apply the bevel – that’s my guess at what’s going on.
To solve it, hmmmm, starting from scratch with your original b/w logo as 1 layer, do a select all, and copy. Create a new layer and fill that layer with white. Add a layer mask to this layer (one of the button’s at the bottom of the layer palette). Turn off your original layer. On the new white layer in the layer palette there’ll be an extra rectangle representing your layer mask, ALT-click that to make it active – paste into it. ATL-click the same spot again to return to normal viewing. It should of pasted your original logo into the alpha of that layer – ie the layer mask – and should look like you’d expect your logo to. Try beveling that, it will hopefully be smoother.
OR if that seems confusing, from scratch you could just take your original layer, double click it to make sure it’s not a background layer. Go into your layer style options ( same place your bevel is located) and on the 1st screen of options that appears at the bottom there’s a section called “Blend if”, use the sliders labelled “This Layer” and muck around with the black slider and use alt-drag to split the slider apart for a smooth transition, by twiddling with this and your bevel settings you should hopefully get something smoother too.
OR perhaps my guess on what’s giving you issues is incorrect and none of these’ll work. Make sure you have a high rez file.
jason white
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Hmmm, tried deleting the preference file? Hold command-alt-shift on start up and select yes. You’ve tried some other images too?
jason white
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“not just theory real world stuff”
I stick to my recommendation if this what is desired. I find many PS books try to explain too much and a beginner needs to start (and participate actively) with the most basic concepts before reading lengthy paragraphs of explanations. In classroom in a book the “why” is so basic it needs not explaining, why am I cloning out the boat in the water? Why am I giving Mr. Potato Head a hat? You don’t really need the explanation and you get an opportunity to just jump in and starting doing stuff. That is how many people learn, then they can go and get themselves a “better” book and understand it.
Regardless of what angle you’re pursuing PS you still need the basics. Video training is nice too, although I have no specific recommendations for that,
jason white
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I like Adobe Classroom in a book for learning Adobe software,
jason white