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Timothee Cazares

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Aug 3, 2024, 11:12:09 AM8/3/24

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In this photoshop tutorial, we will learn the whole process of designing a computer graphic magazine cover by using Adobe Photoshop, how to retouch smoothing skin, how to edit your retouched picture to be a magazine cover, and how to insert the text. I will take you through the whole process and reveal techniques that designers use to make their covers stand out.

For the best results, you should use a high resolution image. I use a nice one with a good quality and good composition. The focus point is on her eyes, but she has freckles all over her face. So we are going to edit that.

7. Draw the shape around the area that you want to make smooth, try to select only the area in which the light does not have too much contrast and stay away from her eyes and mouth, then go to Filter > Gaussian Blur and increase the number or move the slider to right side and click OK.

2. Paste the girl picture, when finished retouching, on background and hold shift to resize and make it fit to the art board. Go to File > Place Embedded.. And locate your picture file. Relabel to picture.

You can arrange the text by using Character Tab (Window > Character). The tool for set the leading is really important to arrange text fields that have more than 1 line. It will close or widen the gap between the different text lines. Every text used Oswald font and only the size and type of font changed(light, regular, bold) depending on which word is more important and attractive.

6. I want to create a shape that attracts the eyes immediately, so I create a circle by using the Ellipse Tool, hold shift button and drag the mouse. I changed the colour by double click at the layer and use Eyedropper Tool to select the colour from the skin in midtone area and put it in shadow area to give it a better contrast. Then type

Separate the line by pressing the return button and rotate it a little bit to make it look more interesting (Press Cmd/Ctrl + T). Again, change the font colour by using Eyedropper Tool to select the colour from the shadow area to achieve a better contrast with the circle background.

question is what are the size settings i'll have to keep in mind while making them? i'm doing the kit on a 1:24 scale. size like lenght,width etc. i was just mentioning Photoshop bcause that is the software i have available as of the moment...what do decal makers use for software?

You're really better off using a vector-based draw program, like Adobe Illustrator, or Macromedia (now Adobe) Freehand, (which is now discontinued by the evil totalitarian devils at Adobe). With these programs, you can scale your artwork up or down, with no loss of image quality. It would appear to me that most decal companies use these programs, based on the quality of their artwork.

hi i wanted to show you a picture but im having trouble "copy" and "pasting" the link.. i havanother thread on this forum..its on the AUTO sub forum..its called the bumblebee out of a 1979 camaro revell.thats the model i wanted to make decals for..thanks for the help sir!

I just print out decal shapes in adobe photoshop cs and test try them first and then keep resizing. There is a ruler so you can measure and adjust in photoshop. Click the eyedropper tool and hold it down, underneath it you can select the measuring ruler and measure point to point.