Nice, good old google, who'd have thought? Well, you... Thanks man

Thanks, gonna check it out...

That looks excellent M!!! (as usual, M-tastic;-) I realy like the blinds (not sure it's the right word), I mean the shutters at the top of both door-openings, to seal them of... Very 'contained' atmosphere; I actually get claustrophobic just from looking at it :blink: The blue backroom makes it very cool (both figuratively and literally!!!) Can't wait to see it with the modular wall units you have in mind. Not sure if there's a problem with the size of the keypads, you could enlarge them, or not, I don't mind, if you don't matter Thanks for sharing, Mike

Hey, be nice man... What was the last thing you contributed?

You could try it in Photoshop with patterns (select the image u want to spray, choose Filter; Pattern Maker), but you can only make rectangular patterns so maybe you need something else... I would choose the Symbolspray tool in Illustrator for the job you want done. Open the file you want to spray in illustrator, select your image, choose New Symbol by clicking the arrow in the top right corner of the window with your preset symbols and start spraying. You can adjust opacity, size, hue,... afterwards by selecting the tools available next to the symbol sprayer. Hope this helps, Mike

I'm guessing 3DMax, but hoping it's done in Lightwave becouse that would make you yet another potential LW-supermodeler capable of helping me along my quest to become the greatest modeler ever... Excellent work dude!!! Greetz

If it does what is says it can do, mystmaiden has found someone who proved me wrong, here I stand corrected... Nice job Gill.

I think they're only a psp thing. After 6 years of daily use I have not found them in Photoshop yet, but maybe some other computerfreak knows better and can prove me wrong... I hope so for you... Greetz

You mean you want to keep the paths editable? There may verywell be a way to do so, but I don't know of any... Things would be a lot easier if you'd bite your way thrue Illustrator, it offers all you want for cartoon-style CG. Many of my friends (well, the few I have anyway) found Illustrator scary at first, but after a few trials and errors and some help, they never turned to Photoshop again for animor cartoon style graphics. Give it one more shot, I will help you if you need assistance, just post your questions on this forum (screw this being a Photoshop forum, as long as it's adobe software I see no harm;-) Mike

I can not answer all your questions, give it some time and someone else will, I'm sure of it. In the mean while, here's what I can tell u; 'Does this mean in Photoshop when I chose file NEW and fill in my width/height, I chose CMYK Color for the mode and should make resolution 300 pixels/inch ? or is there some other way to do this?' CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black-using 'B' would make things confusing since B stands for Blue, so K seamed obvious, don't ask why) is what they use for printing indeed. I often start of in RGB (Red, Green and Blue-screen colors) becouse it offers more freedom, especialy in Illustrator. You can always adjust the color mode afterwards in Image; Mode; CMYK. 300 pixels per inch (or dots per inch) is like standard for printing. You can sometimes get away with 150dpi, but only if your file is very, very large with 300dpi. Again, this can be adjusted afterwards in Image; Image Size. 'When saving my document as a TFF I get option of Byte Order of IBM PC or Macintosh. I chose IBM PC ...but should I check off LZW Compression ? I'm not sure what is for.' A TIFF saved in Mac (Motorola/IBM) order should open more quickly on the Mac.?A PC byteordered file will need to be byteswapped first which is an extra step.?Similarly if you save a TIFF in PC byte order on the Mac it will require more work than if you chose Mac byte order. So there isn't that much of a difference. LZW (Lempel-Zif-Welch) is used as a Giff-compression. Editing your file in a program like Imageready will make this option usefull. If you don't want to make 'giffing' easier, just leave it alone... 'I usually save my drawings as jpgs and psd file to preserve all layers if I want to go back and change something. I noticed when I saved as TIFF it flattened all my layers. Maybe I did something wrong?' When saving as tiff you can check Layers (under Alpha Channels), that way you keep your Layers. Hope you get the rest of your questions answerd, Mike

One more thing;

You can also try going to Preferences (top of screen click Photoshop) than go to Memory & Image Cache and lower the Cache levels, (mine are set to 4).
Check how much ram you have available in the lower part of the same window (hopefully more than 256MB) and tell Photoshop tu use 50% of it. If you have enough left you can choose more, but half should be enough...
Greetz

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Go to Edit; Purge; All This should take care of your problem for the time being, or so I hope... Your next step should be to start saving for some more RAM. Good luck, Mike

Try using a Poster Edges Filter; go to Filter, Artistic, Poster Edges. Keep the settings low, Edge Thickness and Edge Intensity below 4 and Posterization at about 1 or 2. See if that's the look you want to go for... After that you can use good old Brightness/Contrast; go to Image; Adjustments; Brightness/Contrast. This tool does have a reputation for being anything but subtle, but give it a try anyway. If you really want to get something like a cel shade image and aren't afraid of a little work, give this tutorial a shot, it's for a car but can be aplied on other images too. http://hyperion.50megs.com/cell.htm Hope this helps, Greetz

Forgot about this; 'how do you add them together without them looking patchy?' After adjusting the colors so they match, you can paste the part you want to add in a new layer and use the Eraser tool to soften the edges. Go easy with the opacity and flow percentages at first. Afterwords you can use the Smudge tool to blend the edges together, again, take it easy with this tool becouse it will mes up your pixels if you take it too far (stay away from it if your images are high-resolution). Hope this helps, greetz

What you ask for is pretty hardcore... The worklflow Quest suggests seems like a solid way to go. The replace color option (Image, Adjustments) might be of good use for this. It allows changing the hue level, saturation and lightness adjustment of colors by pixelselection with the eyedropper tool. A faster way would be to open your files seperatly and use the Match color option (also under Adjustments), this 'matching' does however sound better than it actually is, since it didn't realy match the colors last time I tried, only kinda came close... There has to be an easier solution for this, so maybe sit this one out a little longer, there's probably some Photoshop-genius out there who may decide to join this forum today, or the next day... Hope you het there, greetz