alright man! sounds good! i'm trying to re upload now.

 

bam! and it worked like a charm...i forgot that last step man! doh!

 

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between reading the tutorial and trying to hurry cuz it 10:42 and i got to be up at 3:30am for work that's what i came up with for now! lol, idk, pretty basic, but that's what i got....i'll try more tomorrow. glad i'm finally getting somewhere with this photoshop stuff

 

very good first try!

 

Great thread....

See ya on the road,
Matt

 

Good job! I should tell you though If you only saved that as a jpg then you wont be able to put the highlights like I did because a jpeg merges everthing down to one layer. Before you saved the car was a separate layer.

 

whenever you save it to any flat file format like jpg, bmp, gif, png, tiff, etc - the layers are always merged before encoding because these file formats do not store multi-layer information.. only when you save it to a raw type format like psd, are the layers stored in the file seperately, if that makes sense

if you use gradients, or a lot of colors in the image (such as photos), jpg or png is typically better (there are exceptions!). if there is fewer, more solid colors, then gif is better.

 

yup, except I never save anything as a gif. Jpg is fine with me.

 

i tend to get higher quality out of jpg anyway

 

thats because .gif is only 8 bit (256 color pallet).. but on the other hand, jpg is a lossy format which can cause a large drop in image quality depending on the quality constant used when encoding.
my bet is that png is going to overtake jpg in the next few years

 

I agree, I use it for everything in graphic design, normal pictures I'll still keep jpeg as of now.

 

I turned my jpg's up to 100% when saving with photoshop. png's been around for a while, I havn't seen it used anymore than any other extension. they take up more space.

 

they take up more space because it doesnt lose any detail, get a nice graphic and then save it with jpg, do the same with png and zoom in and see the diffrence

 

i know theres a difference.. its not great enough for people to care really.

 

not sure as to how you did the gradient part...don't know how you got it to be green and everything?

 

look at this pic again

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http://iit.bloomu.edu/vthc/Photoshop/DRAWING/gradients.htm

 

Here is a quicky i made.. if you still need explanation let us know and well explain how to modify colors and whatnot.. btw what your seeing here is the beauty of windows xp being ran virtually inside linux
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here's my newest one...having problems with how you did that glow effect around your car and the thing you did with my username?

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oops forgot the last part....and tada! lol
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