Graphics Discussion/Help.

[TheNameisNiru]

Gradient map basically uses a gradient and places it over your pic. For example if you create a black to white gradient map (always create a map from dark to light btw), it turns your image into a nice (nicer than a regular desaturated image) blac-and-white image. A bit hard to explain tbh, but it's really effective if you can use it right.

A clipping mask is a mask that allows a layer on top of another to cut itself according to the layer below. For example if you place a soft brush over a circle and use a clipping mask, the soft brush will cut itself so it's inside the circle only. If you remove the clipping mask, the brush will return to its original state. Useful for creating certain types of lighting effects.

I'm terrible a bit bad at explaining things properly, but I hope what I said above helped you.

And, if anyone's interested, I can do an avatar tutorial that emphasizes on stock placement, basic photo enhancement and lighting.

Do a tutorial

 

[Viral Shah]

What's a gradient map and clipping mask and what are they used for? I need help in the respective areas, want to take my works to another level using them, but I can't grasp the basics.

Here check this out
Gradient Map
Gradient Maps | Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS6 | Adobe TV
Ben Mathis
Photoshop Tutorial: Gradient Map Tool

Clip Masking
Getting to Know Clipping Masks and Layer Masks in Photoshop :: Echo Enduring Blog - A Web and Graphic Design Blog
Photoshop Clipping Masks Tutorial

Those will help ya out and for gradient map aslo check my messi tutorial if it is still there

 

[GlitchInTheMatrix]

Can anyone give me the link for photoshop cs6?If this is the wrong thread for my ask then I am sorry...........

 

[Rizwan_zak11]

Fonts tip please?

 

[SiriusBlack]

edited

 

[GlitchInTheMatrix]

^Ooh thanks man.Don't mind I think I just got a bit fragile there...

 

[Rizwan_zak11]

Need some light textures to be used in signatures and some other too.

i'll donte v,cash for the best one.

 

[GlitchInTheMatrix]

Check my Vm^ and can any one post a screenshot that where I can find Brush Settings?

 

[GlitchInTheMatrix]

Anyone please?^ I'll donate 2000 vcash.

 

[Villain]

Check my Vm^ and can any one post a screenshot that where I can find Brush Settings?

This will help you out.

Photoshop Help | Creating and modifying brushes
And don't send over the vCash, thanks.

 

[GlitchInTheMatrix]

Can anyone tell me that how to use custom shapes on an icon?

 

[GlitchInTheMatrix]

Plz guys help me!

 

[AkshayC]

Can anyone tell me that how to use custom shapes on an icon?

Via Pen tool !
Draw a shape over an icon then with pen tool selected right click over the path, select make selection. Since your selection is created you can fill color or may be a gradient !

 

[Champagnepapi]

Be sure to check out this guy's amazing graphics tutorials, they are a big help.

 

[Champagnepapi]

Been seing that Friendly battles has gone madly famous, so famous that it is getting confusing because there is just too much going on there.
My suggestion is that have a thread prefix of "graphic battle" or something like that, and people can just have the friendlies in their graphics thread and will be less confusing.