Art Graphic Design Specific Help

[cancer]

I have some specific questions for making designs and flash banners, and I hope someone is able to help me out. First of all, can anyone explain or direct me to a place that can explain how to make flash banners? I do have flash mx and photoshop.

Secondly, I would like to know how to achieve the effects of the designs which I've attached: the radiating lines, the gradient fills, and the clean simple looks to them, yet also the horror look. Can someone please help me out. Thanks.

[Semjaza]

In Photoshop, most of what you have shown here wouldn't be too difficult to accomplish with time spent learning the program... but as far as Flash goes, I'm not really sure what you're wanting to do since nothing attached (obviously) animates.

For example, do you want the radiating lines to cycle colors? It's kind of hard to offer any real help without more of an idea of what your goal would be by using Flash for this stuff.

[cancer]

i need to know how to take multiple images and make them loop, either in imageready or flash. also, check out the logos at [URL=http://www.myspace.com/scleraart]SCLERA ART[/URL] and please give me advice on how to execute those kinds of techniques in photoshop.

[Retribution]

[size=1]As discouraging as it sounds, I'd recommend you read up on tutorials first. Learn what you can from them, try to experiment, then come back with questions. [url=http://www.pixel2life.com][b]Pixel2Life[/b][/url] is great, and I'd recommend you start there.

To be honest, I be that's how the guy you linked to learned. Trial and error is the most underrated weapon of graphic designers. Not only do you learn how to do the effect you desired, but you learn all sorts of interesting tricks along the way, and end up with an increased knowledge of the program you're using.

So good luck to you. I know how annoying and disheartening everything I just said was, but I have confidence you'll pull through if you want to bad enough. Feel free to come back with questions [preferably when you have some stuff for us to sample].[/size]

[Delta]

[COLOR=#656446]WORRY NOT, cancer! I COME BEARING ANSWERS TO THINE ASKING! MUWAHAHAHA!

[size=1]Ehrm, now that my ego's out of the way, let's get started:

Fire up yer Photoshop.

[b]Blue and yellow thingamajig:[/b] Judging from the uneveness of the stripe widths near the bottom, I'd say those were drawn/traced by hand with the Pen tool. Bring up the ruler guide, make a new shape layer and start clicking points.

[b]Thrashed Design:[/b] (Did I get it right?) The rays look like they were rendered via the Gradient Overlay option in Layer Style. Open it and in the default gradients, you should see the "Transparent Stripes" entry. To get the sharp boundaries, adjust the gradient in Gradient Editor. Make sure that adjacent black and white boxes are set as close together as possible.

[b]Glowing Stuff on an Orange Background:[/b] Prepare a layer between the image and the orange background. Get a Soft Round brush, pick a light color and brush around and behind the image. Go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur and mess with the settings.

[b]Horror House:[/b] Play around with the levels (Image > Adjustments > Levels) and hue/saturation/brightness (Image > Adjustments > Hue and Saturation, go for a greenish hue)

[b]Sclera Art:[/b] If his weapon of choice is Photoshop CS, we're looking at extensive use of the Pen tool, graffiti fonts (warped or set on paths), gradient maps, gradient overlays, grungy/bloodspatter brushes, blend modes, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. *headache* Nothing trial-and-error can't teach you.

I shall refer you to Pixel2Life and two of my favorite tutorial sites: [url=http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/tuts.htm]Eyes on Design[/url] and [url=http://www.phong.com/tutorials/]phong[/url](<-got flash and an easier tutorial for the ray/sunburst design).


Best of luck![/SIZE][/COLOR]