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Harry P.

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  1. This topic has been discussed to death here. There is NO reason to start this nonsense again. If anyone wants to send Jim their opinion of Reliable Resin, do so via PM. I'm not going to allow yet another Relaible Resin flame war to erupt here.
  2. Yes, please do. We already have about a bazillion posts on RR, we really don't need another one...
  3. I agree. Those tires would look more at home on a Jeep 4x4, not an exotic sports car.
  4. Uh... how does that thing go around a corner? Does it just go right over the house on the corner?
  5. I vote ugly/weird.
  6. A functioning 1/25 scale internal combustion engine is impossible, for all the reasons you mentioned and more. How could tiny connecting rods take the stress without bending or breaking? Full-scale tolerances are in thousandths of an inch. How can anyone get tolerances 25 times smaller than that to hold?
  7. A few more... all done using the techniques I showed you in the tutorial...
  8. I'm with you, Andy. R&R was my "guilty pleasure" here...
  9. The scenario that Davey described sounds fantastic. I wish I could be in a similar situation, but a serious lack of model building time is my problem.
  10. That's one of the best things about Photoshop!
  11. Uh, it's the arbags that will keep you alive in a wreck. As me... I know from first-hand experience.
  12. Sounds like you really get into the "zen" of modeling. Your hobby is working very well for you!
  13. Because Chicago has a $600 million budget deficit and since he can't raise property taxes during tough times and he's already tried to raise money by privatizing some city services and is still hundreds of millions of dollars short and he can't figure out how to close the budget gap, because gangs completely rule the south and west sides and there are 40-50 shootings on a typical weekend and no end in sight, because his approval rating is at an all-time low and he probably wouldn't get re-elected anyway, because his power as the King of Chicago is being taken away (for example, the Supreme Court just struck down his handgun ban as unconstitutional and some of the aldermen are finally standing up to him and not always rubber-stamping every loony idea he throws out there), because his administration is probably the most corrupt administration in all of Illinois (and that's saying something!!!) and the people are slowly but surely getting fed up with all the corruption, because he's getting old (68, I think), and because his wife has terminal cancer. Just a few reasons. Did you get that I'm not his biggest fan? Ooops, how did politics get back in here?
  14. The last thing I want to do is be the moderator of a whole city!
  15. Yeah, you're right. TMI!
  16. Jiggly, yes... but some say bodacious...
  17. Ed, what I tried to do is show my basic techniques in as uncomplicated a way as possible. You know PS, so you know that trying to "uncomplicate" PS so that a beginner understands it isn't easy! PS is incredibly complex, there's way more to it than I could possibly show in a simple tutorial like this. But you're right, the transparency control is a pretty basic element of PS that comes in very handy, and I should have mentioned it. Here's how it works: I added a new layer to my illustration, drew an ellipse with the Elliptical Lasso tool, and dumped red into the ellipse with the Paint Bucket tool. Remember, this red ellipse is not on my illustration layer, but on its own, separate layer above the illustration layer. At the top of the layers palette there is a box with the word "Opacity" next to it. You can change the opacity of any layer by either moving the slider or by typing in a percentage, from 0% (layer invisible) to 100% (layer fully opaque). Here I've set the opacity of the red layer to 63% opaque, and you can see the result: And here I've set the opacity to 24%: There are dozens, maybe hundreds more filters, tools, effects, etc. within PS. I use PS literally every working day, and have used it for more than 20 years, and there are still functions that PS has that I either don't know how to use, or have never needed, or don't even know exist! PS is so comprehensive, so huge a software program, that I wonder if anyone ever really gets to the point where they fully understand and can use all of PS's features.
  18. I think you're right... it's just a matter of practice.
  19. I tried a tablet, but didn't like it. I'm used to using a mouse, it feels "right" to me. It's just a matter of personal preference, and what you're used to.
  20. Where the heck have you been all this time?
  21. I want to rant and rave about the loss of the Rants and Raves section. Where can I post that?
  22. As usual, don't post answers or hints here. I need year, make and model. PM me with the answer. The answer: 2010 Tata Nano.
  23. I know that a lot of people buy a ton of kits... many more than they could possibly build in their lifetime. And I sort of get that. But buying 5,6,7,8,9 of the same exact kit? That I just don't get...
  24. I never log out. Every time I open up the forum, I'm already logged in. Don't see any reason to constantly log out and back in every time I visit the forum.
  25. You can also go the full-detail route and add all the little things to make your illustration more realistic, like I did here: And of course you can create illustrations of anything with PS using these same techniques... not only cars! These were all done using the same exact techniques I just showed you (plus a few more tricks that I didn't tell you about... ) The same basic techniques were used to create the realistic guitar above, and the stylized Elvis portrait below. You can paint in PS in whatever style you like... the techniques work the same way, no matter in what style you want to create your illustration. Jean Harlow (below) was done to look like an old photo. The only colors I used were black, white, and shades of gray. When I was finished I used the Image>Adjustments>Selective Color dropdown menu command to give the neutral tones a slight sepia tinge to give the illustration that "old photograph" look. This portrait was created using the exact same techniques that I used to create the Tucker. Well, that's it! I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and I hope you picked up a few ideas to help you with your own illustrations!
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