[Sharapov91]

Cole Haan Interview Magazine 2010:

[Break My Rapture]

Those are beautiful. Great coloring.

[Mr.Sharapova]

Now I am convinced that everything Maria wears looks good on her!

[Sharapovian]

Originally Posted by Teerin

I like them but they look a bit out of proportion. When you resize them and want them to remain in proportion, just CTRL+T and on the bar on top there's a "100%", just resize it by making it less e.g. "75%" so the height and width remains in proportion.

If you don't get what I mean, I'll show you.

I knew some didn't look in proportion when I made them - I was only using photoshop for the 2nd time and was kind of rushing and messing about with cropping while making them I actually think my first ones looked better than these

I think I know what you mean but when I do CTRL+T nothing happens/appears though there is a bar already at the top saying 100% so thats probably why. But doesn't that just make the image zoom out and nothing actually changes if you save it?

[Vodkapova]

Nope, the 100% thing makes it bigger/smaller. Just change it, and when you are done just click the any tool on the panel (pretty sure you can click any tool, or that first point tool) then it'll ask if you want to apply or discard, if you apply then it'll change.

[claypova]

^ what program are you talking about?

[Sharapovian]

Originally Posted by Teerin

Nope, the 100% thing makes it bigger/smaller. Just change it, and when you are done just click the any tool on the panel (pretty sure you can click any tool, or that first point tool) then it'll ask if you want to apply or discard, if you apply then it'll change.

But even if you do that you still don't get a perfect size to make an avatar, and when I looked at the image size it was still the same . I've also noticed doing that sometimes makes the image quality go down. IDK when you alter the image size it asks you if you want to constrain proportions - maybe I should do that but then I will still have to use crop tool quite alot.

Maybe you have a more up to date version of Photoshop? I am using CS4

[Break My Rapture]

Originally Posted by Yazoo.C

But even if you do that you still don't get a perfect size to make an avatar, and when I looked at the image size it was still the same . I've also noticed doing that sometimes makes the image quality go down. IDK when you alter the image size it asks you if you want to constrain proportions - maybe I should do that but then I will still have to use crop tool quite alot.

Maybe you have a more up to date version of Photoshop? I am using CS4

I use crop tool as well and I can make perfectly fine avies. Did you check if your navigator is at 100%?

[Sharapovian]

Originally Posted by pieter pan

I use crop tool as well and I can make perfectly fine avies. Did you check if your navigator is at 100%?

Yeah thats the way I was doing it first, and yeah its at 100%. But do you resize it first then crop it or the other way around And is there any way you can crop it without estimating and getting the perfect avatar size?

[Vodkapova]

Originally Posted by Yazoo.C

But even if you do that you still don't get a perfect size to make an avatar, and when I looked at the image size it was still the same . I've also noticed doing that sometimes makes the image quality go down. IDK when you alter the image size it asks you if you want to constrain proportions - maybe I should do that but then I will still have to use crop tool quite alot.

Maybe you have a more up to date version of Photoshop? I am using CS4

I am using Photoshop CS4 as well, and I'm pretty sure that's the most up-to-date unless CS5 was released which I think it was if I'm not mistaken. But these versions do not make much difference anyway. Next time I get on, I'll take a picture and show you how I do it. I'll head to bed for now.

[claypova]

Originally Posted by Yazoo.C

Yeah thats the way I was doing it first, and yeah its at 100%. But do you resize it first then crop it or the other way around And is there any way you can crop it without estimating and getting the perfect avatar size?

what i do is : resize so that either the width is 144 or the height is 168, then image > canvas size.

[Vodkapova]

Originally Posted by claypova

what i do is : resize so that either the width is 144 or the height is 168, then image > canvas size.

I think you can do it this way too. But for me it depends on the picture, sometimes I only want certain parts of the image to show in the avatar. If you do it this way you can see almost, or sometimes everything, in the original picture -- depending on the size of the picture.

[claypova]

^ you mean crop the image to get the good parts of the pic? yea i always do that b4 i change the image and canvas size.

[Sharapovian]

Originally Posted by claypova

what i do is : resize so that either the width is 144 or the height is 168, then image > canvas size.

Oh I was trying to crop the image to the right proportions by estimating before and then resize it to avatar size but I guess it didn't really work that way. Next time I will try it your way and hopefully they will look better. I'm still not really used to photoshop just now so thats probably the main problem. Thanks for your help

[claypova]

Originally Posted by Yazoo.C

Oh I was trying to crop the image to the right proportions by estimating before and then resize it to avatar size but I guess it didn't really work that way. Next time I will try it your way and hopefully they will look better. I'm still not really used to photoshop just now so thats probably the main problem. Thanks for your help

dont worry. first time i used PS i did the same thing you'll get better as you go