hi i need a banner please.
88px x 88px

if possible i would like the steelers helmet on right side and the green bay packers on the left, and the NFL logo in the middle  i need it to blen into black please.thank you.

P.S i just wanna say thanks and i think its cool that you guys do this for people. not to many people like that out there any more. i would like to learn how to do it if you guys know where i could find a good tutorial and list of programs i would need please let me know. thanx alot

i hope the px's are right  i got them from the current banner. if i didnt put all the info in let me know ty

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here is the pics for the banner sorry.  maybe px's are to small maybe more like 200px X 88px or whatever you think is correct thanx for everything.

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Yes there is a list of programs and we'd be more than happy to help you learn.

I recommend Photoshop if you have the money, or GIMP if you prefer free (I don't have Gimp so wouldn't personally be able to help with that much).

I'll start your request now.

Is this the kind of thing you had in mind?



(btw I hope I got the helmets the right way round, I assumed the 'G' stood for Green.)

hey thanx a bunch bravo i appreciate your work you have done for me and i will get photoshop so i can start learning ill let you know when i get it thank you. i have looked at alot of the old post and threw stuff you have done for people. all i have to say is you do awsome work.

You're welcome

ok is adobe photoshop 7.0 good enough ? or what do you suggest ?

The latest is CS4, I have CS3.  

7.0 would still be good, though I don't know what features I'd have that you didn't have.  It would have most of the everyday stuff on it though.

ok im getting photoshop cs3 extended and illustrator version. hope thats ok talk to you soon when i get it installed and everything

ok i have it all installed its photoshop cs3 extended and i opened it and have absolutly no idea what to do lmao but looks very interesting.  

PEACE..

Haha yes that is exactly how I thought when I first opened it.

In fact it was several months before I finally started using it, it looked so hard.  Trust me though, it does get easier, and it all does make sense in the end

do you suggest i go threw the tutorials before i do anything or just start asking you a crap load of questions lmao. im just playing ill go threw the tutorials then get back with you.

I had an idea of maybe giving you a quick tutorial on your own avatar.

Fire up photoshop.
File>New
Make it 88 x 88 at 72 dpi (you'll figure it out).

Layer > new

Right click your NFL pic in here and select copy.
Go into photoshop and edit > paste (or CTRL V)

The NFL pic is now in Photoshop.  It's slightly too big, so let's fix that up.

Edit > Free Transform (or CTRL T)

Go to one of the corners of the box and drag the corners about.  If you press SHIFT as you drag the corners about the image stays in its original perspective.  Have a bit of a play.

Copy and paste the helmets in and resize them to your own choice.  If you do CTRL T and move the cursor out a bit further from the corner, it changes into a sort of circular arrow.  If you move the mouse now, your image will rotate.  If you press shift while you rotate, it will rotate in increments of 10 pixels.

To 'flip' one of the helmets, do CTRL T and right click in the box and choose 'flip horizontal'

Once you have finished anything on the CTRL T press enter to accept your changes.  If you make a mistake, you can go edit > step backward.

To change the background (the first layer) just double click it and press enter to unlock it.  Then go edit>fill to fill with the colour of your choice.

To work on any particular layer, just click somewhere on that layer and it will be selected.

To hide a layer, press the eye button next to it.  To unhide, press the eye again.

Have a play and any questions just ask

Wow, Makes me wish I had photoshop. Maybe someday I will be able to afford it.

Kat

i got the nfl background and the helmets in place i just cant figure out how to get the background from the helmets layer to go away so its just the helmet and not the black or white square behind it. hope i worded my question right if not we will try again.

thanx for all the help

Yes you worded it right.  I was waiting for this question

Find and select the 'magic wand tool'.  It'll be on the left of your screen. If you can't find it, press 'w' and it will be highlighted.  If the magic wand tool isn't highlighted, press and hold whatever is highlighted and the magic wand tool will come up in one of the options.

Make sure the helmet layer is selected.

At the top (just underneath the main menu) is the current tool menu which changes depending on which tool you have selected.  

Set the tolerance to about 30, choose anti-alias and contiguous, but not sample all layers (you may not have all those options available on your version, not sure).

Click in one of the background sections you want to get rid of.  It should make a selection of a section of the background.  If it looks right press backspace and it will disappear.  Repeat for other parts of the background, then select the other helmet layer and do the same there.

ok this is what i ended up with hope its right.

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Looks alot diffrent then what you did for me but hell its my first time thanx again.

Cool stuff, well done!

Have you seen the tutorials in the tutorial section?  The latest few I posted up will take several hours work each but you would learn loads from them (they may be too advanced just yet I'm not sure).

My favourite is the apple tutorial.  Takes hours to do but I love the end result.

thanks for all the help bravo and i will check out the tutorials,and if i have anymore questions yur the one i running to lol
sorry took me so long o reply back been really busy . talk o you soo

peace

Feel free to run to me whenever you like

is there some where i can get a list off the hotkeys for the tools im having trouble finding some tools im trying the apple tutorial.thanx

If you press F1 or go help>photoshop help, at the bottom there is a list of all the keyboard defaults.

It could be a bit of a nightmare going through them all though, so it might be easier to post in the apple tutorial thread (so others doing it can see too) where you are stuck and I'll help you along

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