Pohotshop Help

[_Bubs_]

Im trying to trace the image below using either photoshop or illustrator and and color it in and add shadows. Can anyone explain to me how to do this? Or forward me to a tutorial?

Thank you.

http://img14.imageshack.us/i/sc002efb1d.jpg/

[l4nd0fc0nfu510n]

I don't know if there's an official way of doing this, but how'd I go about it is:

Copy+paste that picture into Photoshop, put the opacity down so it's sorta opaque.

Trace over it with the pencil tool or something.

Color it.

Add shadows (In the layer thing, if you double click on a layer (or something like that) it opens up a little window with a bunch of effects, including shadows)

[stillwater78]

Try this in Photoshop:

-first, use magic wand tool to select the whitish stuff outside the "M" (click on an area of it and then shift-click to keep adding areas, or alt-click to subtract areas, until you've selected everything outside the M but the M itself is not selected in any way), and delete it (backspace). Once you've neatly cleaned up the outside, duplicate the layer (ctrl-J)
-You'll now have 2 versions of the layer. Double-click the one that's lower in your layer pallette. In the Layer Styles box, go down to "color overlay" and choose a colour. Press OK. If you like, you can also experiement with inner shadow and drop shadow.
-Now single-click on the top-most layer. Change its blending mode from "normal" to "multiply" or "darken". You should now see a flat colour in the shape of your "M" (from the bottom layer), with the black lines over the top of it (from the top layer).
-If you want to add some more detailed shadowing, start a new layer (ctrl-shift-N), move it to the top of the layer order if necessary, select the paintbrush tool, set the opacity of the tool to something very low like 5%, press "D" to set the colour to black, and start painting the shadows in. Because you're using a low opacity, you'll want to go over certain areas many times to make them dark, or just go over them once or twice to keep them light and subtle.

A bit hard to explain in just a post, but hopefully that'll get you started.

[_Bubs_]

Originally Posted by stillwater78

Try this in Photoshop:

-first, use magic wand tool to select the whitish stuff outside the "M" (click on an area of it and then shift-click to keep adding areas, or alt-click to subtract areas, until you've selected everything outside the M but the M itself is not selected in any way), and delete it (backspace). Once you've neatly cleaned up the outside, duplicate the layer (ctrl-J)
-You'll now have 2 versions of the layer. Double-click the one that's lower in your layer pallette. In the Layer Styles box, go down to "color overlay" and choose a colour. Press OK. If you like, you can also experiement with inner shadow and drop shadow.
-Now single-click on the top-most layer. Change its blending mode from "normal" to "multiply" or "darken". You should now see a flat colour in the shape of your "M" (from the bottom layer), with the black lines over the top of it (from the top layer).
-If you want to add some more detailed shadowing, start a new layer (ctrl-shift-N), move it to the top of the layer order if necessary, select the paintbrush tool, set the opacity of the tool to something very low like 5%, press "D" to set the colour to black, and start painting the shadows in. Because you're using a low opacity, you'll want to go over certain areas many times to make them dark, or just go over them once or twice to keep them light and subtle.

A bit hard to explain in just a post, but hopefully that'll get you started.

Thank you that helped!