Newbe question

[Blabbermouth]

On many mixtapes you'll find rappers with bling, cars with rims etc. and there's always been added an extra sparkling effect to it, do you know what I mean? It's probably an easy trick, but what's the procedure? How do you make that bling become even more blingy?

Thanks in advance,
Blabbermouth Chea;)

[cjoe]

is this a photography or photoshop question? You could always use a starburst filter when shooting bling.

[Liquid Layers]

Lens flare maybe?

[Blabbermouth]

It's a photoshop question. Yeah now I've tried the lens flare filter and that works great, but is there other ways to go about it as well?
I'm also wondering how you add lights, lamp reflections and stuff on a picture, to turn a dull pic into a more interesting one, especially on faces etc. I see it on mixtapes, flyers, posters etc. all the time. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Last but not least, I'm interested in learning the teqhnique that makes pictures of people look cartoonish. Check out the cover for the Fabolous - Loso's Way mixtape, even though that's not the best one I've seen.

Thanks in advance,
Blabbermouth Chea!

[urstwile]

I just recently watched this effect being done on an episode of Photoshop TV. Essentially, he used a star shaped brush from the Assorted Brushes, and then clicked (using white as the paint color) on the areas where he wanted the glints. Then he went back to a standard round brush and clicked (still using white as the paint color) in the center of each star shape.

Here's the link: http://www.photoshoptv.com/index.php?s=glint

[Liquid Layers]

I'm also wondering how you add lights, lamp reflections and stuff on a picture, to turn a dull pic into a more interesting one, especially on faces etc. I see it on mixtapes, flyers, posters etc. all the time. Do you know what I'm talking

Not 100% sure what you mean, but try going into:

Filters-->Render-->Lighting Effects

and experimenting with the different lighting settings.

[Riya]

Another thing that might work for that extra "bling". Get a big, soft edge, star shaped brush and turn the opacity way down. Click, then make the brush a little smaller and repeat, layering more color the smaller you get. That gives it a nice glow that I like more than any of the filters put out.

[Blabbermouth]

Thanks for the tips guys, I appreciate it. With the lighting effect, why does everything else than the light get dark and black?

[FlipFriddle]

If everything but the light area is getting too dark, you need to play with the Ambient Light slider in the Lighting Effects dialog box.

[DivineDesign]

Photoshop TV??? Wow... :)

[Blabbermouth]

Photoshop TV is a brilliant show, thanks for the tip. I'm gonna download every single episode.

[erichmond]

WOW!! PSTV, any more links like this, maybe for Illustrator or Flash or Dreamweaver?

[1ooScreamingTrees]

Here's a link to these things that "The Company Formally Known As Macromedia" created using a remote application that let the seminar viewers interact with the instructor...some fairly useful info:

http://www.macromedia.com/community/macrochats.html


*Update* Haha a lot of them say "resource does not exist" now...Adobe didn't want to maintain them I serrrpose? Gr. The lip synching and pseudo-character-rigging tutorials were great.

[distruktor]

I just recently watched this effect being done on an episode of Photoshop TV. Essentially, he used a star shaped brush from the Assorted Brushes, and then clicked (using white as the paint color) on the areas where he wanted the glints. Then he went back to a standard round brush and clicked (still using white as the paint color) in the center of each star shape.

Here's the link: http://www.photoshoptv.com/index.php?s=glint


yeah that'll work especially if you do 'em at different sizes and opacity... layer them up over the top of each other too, one on normal and then some others on overlay of softlight... maybe slightly bigger and/or rotated

[urstwile]

For more tutorial based sites, check out the Apple Music store podcasts section. You can search for specific programs (that's how I found Photoshop TV). Some are audio only, some are video.

lynda.com has some free tutorial video podcasts available on a variety of programs, including Flash, Dreamweaver, CS2 apps, etc.

You just need the most current version of iTunes to subscribe to the video versions. I've become quite the video podcast tutorial junkie of late, since we just upgraded all of our software here at work.

[Blabbermouth]

Many good tips, and that trick shown on Photoshop TV is a good one. But is it possible to rotate the brushes, for example rotate the brush used on Photoshop TV so that you can make more of a star with it? Or do you just have to download another brush formed like a star?

[urstwile]

You could create your own brush(es). See the help in Photoshop for how to do that. Probably some tips on how to do it on a variety of other sources, as well.

Or create a custom shape, and manipulate that (probably a little more cumbersome, but nice feature....editable!).