Research & Development for 3D & the Web

Firstly, set your colour selection wand to one pixel tolerance with no aliasing if the colours are very flat and not blended or aliased on the edges and click the colour spot you want to edit. With that colour highlighted, select 'Similar' from the Select menu. All colours that are similar will now be highlighted / selected. You can then delete the colour - deleting replaces those pixels with the background colour, or makes the layer hollow in that space, or you can select Fill from the Edit menu Read more [...]

Bit of a dodgey work around but as of yet, this is not possible from within the program (ridiculous really that they wouldn't include this ability).. I grabbed this from the following forum site: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/949347 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've found a way of doing that. It's a rough way but worked for me. Just open with "TextEdit" or "NotePad" one project file from cs3 and the one you want from cs4. Copy Read more [...]

To mask, on a layer, click the pen tool. - make sure it's 'closed'. turn off roto bezier (*that make sit need to be close)... Click and drag if want but click points on it to create mask. Make sure it's 'closed'. Click and hold on the pen tool etc. like in photoshop to get the add and minus tools.. once finished, zoom right in and choose the general arrow and you can move and adjust all of the points to make sure they are as good as possible.. use the Ctrl key to allow you to manipulate Read more [...]

In the Composition window, right click and choose new camera. accept defaults, then Ok. tick the boxes next to the layers in the cube to make them 3d layers. > drag select point of interest and position to key both > Hot key C - lets you scrub through - hitting c again and again might cycle through the pan, move etc. tools. > that's all while 'camera1' or your camera is selected. > if you choose 'custom view' you cna look at the scene. > this lets you move Read more [...]

Digital Colouring Crop image in Photoshop Copy/paste into Illustrator In Illustrator, go to Threshold slider and adjust it up a bit to bring out the black Select 'Default' Click on the 'Options' box which is to the left of the threshold slider and tick the 'ignore white' checkbox. Click on 'expand' button. Bring back into Photoshop. Paint on base solid colours Add an adjustment layer (yin/yan) black/white semicircle shape near the new layer shortcut. Choose 'curves' adjustment Read more [...]