I'm not sure if this would be more appropriate as a discussion question, but it's something I've been wondering about lately --
How do you guys go about finding communities on LiveJournal to post with? Do you create your own, create your own with one or more other makers, join others or just post at your personal journal? I've been looking for one to post with, but I can never find ones where makers have similar interests and where the community is accepting new makers, and I'm not sure about starting a new community, though I know for a fact that I don't want to start a new one on my own, as I just don't want to have to put that much time and effort in to make it worth it.
I have a question
, my computer thinks that photoshop is a virus - stupid i no- so i have paint shop pro instead, can i transfer tutorials and various techniques that you use on photoshop to paint shop as i have heard that they are practically the same thing.
Aw, that sucks that your computer doesn't approve of PS
. In terms of transfering tuts and techniques, it depends on the function you're trying to mimic.
I'm not as familiar with PSP, but I thought you should have Channel Mixer, no? Some aspects of Selective Coloring won't be translatable. To my knowledge, if the Selective Coloring calls for Black, Neutral/Grey and/or White, it won't be translatable, but, if it's just changing the colors, you should be able to use Channel Mixer.
With channel mixer, the following formula (multiply every number as you see fit) makes it brighter and makes all colors stand out, just as the following Selective Color formula does about the same thing:
Channel Mixer
Reds:
Red: 110
Blue: -5
Green: -5
Greens:
R: -5
G: 110
B: -5
Blues:
R: -5
G: -5
B: 110
Selective Color:
Reds:
R: 10
Y: 10
M: 10
Yellows:
R: 10
G: 10
Y: 10
Magentas:
R: 10
M: 10
B: 10
Blues:
C: 10
M: 10
B: 10
Greens:
C: 10
G: 10
Y: 10
Cyans:
C: 10
G: 10
B: 10
I would recommend checking out this
LiveJournal group to get a sense of what you can do. Check the
archive there first, as they don't like answering questions again that have already been answered. Also check the
tutorials listed for Paint Shop Pro and the other tips for PSP there. You can also sort tutorials and other things there by which tools (e.g. channel mixer, color balance, et al) are involved, and go for tools available on PSP. I am absolutely sure that they have guides for translating from Photoshop tutorials to PSP. Good luck!