That is really old. That could be why. I’m sure holding alt draws the shape from the center and holding shift keeps the shape proportional. So, having photoshop 7 could be why it is not working.
Well yeah… Photoshop isn’t cheap D: Will try to think about something else to create. Thank you anyway ^^.
@Limiz, before you give up, try holding down just Shift when you click and drag with the Ellipse tool. Works for me in CS3, so I don’t know if maybe Shift+Alt was just a custom setting on SaucyPinoy’s machine.
Sorry, didn’t work. Think I need to update to a newer version of Photoshop ^^. Thank you very much for your help tho.
I’ll look into it. I still wish I knew how to modify the template so I could add in that 8th button, and line up the button cut-outs on both templates though…
Shift+Alt is not a custom setting. Holding just shift would make a perfect circle, but not from the center. Holding shift+alt would do both. @Limiz you can try downloading gimp which is free and should have more features than photoshop 7. Gimp is almost just as good as photoshop cs6 and they work the same, so it shouldn’t be hard to transfer and adapt from photoshop to gimp.
Can anyone get the white template lines out of these images??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37300899@N02/7107138767/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37300899@N02/6986474856/sizes/o/
PM me what you need exactly.
Does anyone have the template for the Omni Rev saved? The download link from eTokki.com no longer works… I can work with either 1/2 or 3/4 version…
If you are trying to make a perfect circle selection in Photoshop 7, go to the Elliptical Marquee Tool and the menu at the top of the screen hit the Style drop down menu and select Fixed Aspect Ratio. that will give you a perfect circle when you drag from the middle.
If you want to create a perfect circle shape, select the Ellipse Tool on the side menu. At the top of the screen you’ll see a menu of different shapes. At the right of those shapes is a drop down menu; select Circle (draw diameter or radius).
Ok I want to use this image as art but I don’t know the best method of doing this. Is it as simple as re-sizing it to fill the template but I don’t want it to look crappy. If someone can help that would be greatly appreciated.
You want to start with a image at the same size or larger than the template. As you resize a image larger you get noticeable pixels which will get fuzzy.
Templates are usually 300 dpi, and most art samples on the net are 75 dpi.
Tyvm will try doing that 
I usually just lurk, but I’m sending this off to print in a couple of weeks and was just hoping for some feedback before doing so. I’m worried it looks too plain/cheap, and I can’t think of any particularly creative means of incorporating my username (though I could just omit it entirely).
http://i.imgur.com/viyG6wM.jpg
Probably going to use green or white buttons and a green or white ball-top, as well as a clear dustwasher, white shaft.
Thanks in advance to anyone that throws a criticism my way.
Also, that Magneto art above me is really, really cool.
i love it. it looks very good. very clean, not overly crowded. i like the comic, doesnt take anything away from the total art but adding.
also, 6 button is doge
I totally dig it. Nice work.
After doing enough stick art samples, I found out that selecting the images with the largest pixel sizes was actually more important than dpi. You can still get decent results with 72-75dpi if an image is 1100 x 800 pixels or larger. Fortunately, there’s still a LOT of great artwork even at that low a resolution that’s much bigger than 1000 x 700 pixels.
You can have a 300dpi image but if it’s only 0.5 by 0.3 inches big it’ll still look like crap when you scale it up.
Obviously, the best solution is to have source material you can scan in at 300dpi (220dpi minimum is what I’d recommend for most scans) but that’s not always available or even particularly cheap for many of us. I’d say that at least 50% of what I’ve done has been scan-in’s from art books and graphic novels I own, 50% off the Net including the vast majority of free fonts I’ve found online… and there’s a LOT of good fonts online.
300dpi by itself isn’t always great. I found out that scanning in a lot of still photographs at 300dpi or higher gets some awful results depending on the texture of photo paper when you scan it in and things inherent in photographs like lighting and filmstock grain if you’re not doing digital photography… I, for one, don’t care to overuse Photoshop’s ability to “fix” photos and have found the built-in PS filters to be limited. I’ve been down the road of overusing filters, too, but also found that careful tweaking with filters can make photos look like paintings and drawings, too, to a limited extent. Personally, I prefer drawn art to both CG and still photography…
I like it a lot. i would just clean up the white edge around Kamen rider. It throws off the rest of the image with it being uneven.
I dont agree. I like the white edge.