help, dunno if this is basic tho

hello
i was wonder can anyone teach me how to make those shiney hair shapes in photoshop
go here to see an example
http://members.shaw.ca/boshang/viva_ferrari.jpg
i really would like to know how to make thoise hair things in the center with photoshop 7.0

Those shiny hair things is possibly called tentacles and if you perform a search in the forum on that name you'll come up with a numerous amount of hits. possible usable tut here... but it won't be perfect, you'll have to experiment a li'l on ye own to get it good...

thx so much

don' mention it...:-)

i got it looking like a tenticle now but how do i make it shiny red?
and what version are the tutorials done in
cause i did the selection and i used sheer but the sheered thing goes off the selected area so the tenticle got cut off at some parts...
but i managed to figure out a way out of that
now all i have to do is change the colour cause i dojnt want all grey tenticles thx

Hello again Fat-Rat.

You can make it red in different ways, depending on what your preferences are. One way (easíest I guess) is to use a 3:d party filter like eye candy/glass ??? An other way could be to for example fill the tentacle with chrome and then colorize it using image/Adjust/...>hue/saturation. I bet'cha there is better ways, I just mention some easy ways. You'll have to experiment your way to it, I think. Thats what I do. I guess I don't do it right or the easiest way all the time, but I am learning the hole time...

Anybody with more experiance who wanna give Fatrat advice ?

What you asks 'bout the shearfilter could depend on the fact that you pro'bly have your tentacleshape selected when doin it ??? Go to the layer where your tentacle is deselect it and shear the hole layer instead, then you're able to shear it some more.

For the shiny red thing:

Create a new layer and position it above the tentacle layer.

While having the new layer selected Ctrl+click the tentacle layer. You should now see a marquee surrounding it.

Fill the selected area with red and then deselect. Go to the layers palette and select Color or Overlay or Hue (i forgot :\) as the Layer mode. One of those will successfully change the color of it.

Now merge the two layers together (while having the top layer selected press Ctrl+E).

Go to Image->Adjust->Brightness/Contrast. Move the brightness up a bit and jack up the contrast. Maybe 50+ would do the trick. That should give it that shiny look.

Yeay, thats more like it.

Mooch, Thx. It's not easy being willing to help but lacking the appropriate knowledge :-) But I try, don' I...

actually i didn't test it out, i got it from the top of my head. it might come out a bit funky too. :D but then again, that's fun.

yay thx guys
now i have beautiful tenticles