Okay, I see Photoshop CS2 is really addictive!
After receiving great advices from![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
o_yannik, I played with several pictures to see what I can do, and I ended up making 2 more BSG banners. I'm still a long way to go from being good at this, but I had a lot of fun playing with the pictures and CS2.
After receiving great advices from
o_yannik, I played with several pictures to see what I can do, and I ended up making 2 more BSG banners. I'm still a long way to go from being good at this, but I had a lot of fun playing with the pictures and CS2.In this first one, I wanted a banner with Lee in his flightsuit. So I made this one "Apollo God in the Sky." With this banner, I've also experimented with using the Gradient Tool on the background:
Next, since I've always wanted a father-and-son banner, I made this one "Commanders of Battlestars - Father & Son." With this banner, I experimented cropping the Galactica from the original promo picture slanted so that it can fit within the banner:
(Hmmm... I think I'm going to use the father-and-son one at The Adama Realm)
Edited to Add:
It's now Thursday, and I'm on my lunch break right now. I just finished with another Lee banner I started late last night. I wanted one with Lee in his double tanks. With this one, I played with the idea of simple background and not stacking the pictures together. Compare to the other banners I made, this one is very simple to make and I spent very little time on this:
Next, since I've always wanted a father-and-son banner, I made this one "Commanders of Battlestars - Father & Son." With this banner, I experimented cropping the Galactica from the original promo picture slanted so that it can fit within the banner:
(Hmmm... I think I'm going to use the father-and-son one at The Adama Realm)
Edited to Add:
It's now Thursday, and I'm on my lunch break right now. I just finished with another Lee banner I started late last night. I wanted one with Lee in his double tanks. With this one, I played with the idea of simple background and not stacking the pictures together. Compare to the other banners I made, this one is very simple to make and I spent very little time on this:
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I'm nowhere near your caliber, but I'm experimenting with and learning about the features of CS2. I'm particularly satisfied with that Galactica in the background--I tried very hard to fit it in the banner. I was very happy that I finally (by accident) figured out that I can crop it from its original picture at an angle. :)
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What do you mean?
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Notice how the Galactica is at a 30 degree angle? Well, when I crop, I first centered the cropping box (say, 165X400 px) in the middle of the Galactica. Then I move the cursor toward the corner of the cropping box. If you get the cursor at the right place, it will change from an arrow cursor to a rotation cursor. Just grab the corner with the rotation cursor and you can rotate the cropping box to the desired angle. Viola!
And here's my cropped Galactica:
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