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I'm planning on making a tutorial but I dont know how to make one. By this I mean, I dont know how to copy a specific step of the picture and post it on the tutorial. Many people told me to print screen and such but is there a more effective way. Basically, I just need someone to teach me all the basic steps to make a tutorial.
Well when I made my tut I just copied the layer with a very thin 1 px border and pasted it on the tutorial canvas. But there is some cropping tool that works like printscreen. SpartanKiller has a tutorial on how to make a tutorial lol.
edit- http://www.gfxvoid.com/forums/showth...118#post513118 here ya go.
Lol, its called cropper, thanks for the reference XD
No, just hit Ctrl+A than Ctrl+Shift+C than paste it with Ctrl+V.
:)
anybody that uses a Mac already has the cropper tool on board. it is under the key-combination:
cmd + shift + 4
:)
When you making the tutorial you should say how it works.
Like if you use selective color then how can you imply it and how it works. basically say how to balance eachother out.
Just Unhide the layer by layer and paste it on then just explain what ya did.
I open up the PSD, hide all the layers and as I unhide each of the layers I save them as a normal png image. Then you'll have one image for each layer to use in the tut. For images of more specific areas, like for showing the gradient map or other adjustments, I use Winsnap.
Moved to the help section!
well.. besides the images i need to know a lot of other things like dimensions.. what if i use my whole canvas and i need more space?
also whats winsnap?
Winsnap is a screen capture program www.ntwind.com/software/winsnap.html
Use the crop tool to expand your cancaves if needed. Check out others tutorials to get some ideas and tips on how to do.
I usually start out wit 600-700 x 10000 pix, the expand if needed.
where do i get the tuts that teach us how to make a tut
Do it like this. Count how many layers you plan to show, then multiply that by the height of your sig. I would add an extra 50 pixels in between each layer as well to add your instructions. Whatever number you come up with, that should be the height of your tutorial. But I would make it even a little bigger, because you can always cut off an extra space at the bottom.
Then hide all layers and unhide only the layer for the step that you are showing, copy it, paste it on a new document and save as layer1.png or whatever. You don't have to make a new document for each layer, just use the first new document and keep pasting each layer on top of the previous one, and each time save it as a .png file.
Once you have all your layers as a separate image, turn on the grid so you can line them up perfectly. Then place one layer at a time on your tutorial, write your instructions underneath it (I would make a text area). Then paste the second layer under that and write the instructions for that layer. Etc etc.
I've never seen such tut.
But c'mon man, you're not handicapped, I'm sure you can make a tutorial without any problems. If you followed or checked some tuts you should know the deal. Just write it the way you've like a tut to be, it's your own thing just as your sigs are too.
Usually i use 700x10000, its a huge rarity for a tutorial to go over 10000 long
