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Secrets of Photoshop Hair Brushes

Monday, June 16th, 2008 – running time 17:31
This week, Bert magically creates hair and fur from scratch with the pen tool and brush engine.

Bert tackles the topic of creating realistic hair and fur with Photoshop this week. First, Bert creates long flowing hair using the pen tool (for the shape of the strands), define brush preset option (to create a unique brush stroke), the brush engine (to adjust the custom brush) and stroke effect (to add effect).

Similarly, Bert makes fur by creating a custom brush stroke with the pen tool, paths, define brush present, brush engine (adjusting scatter and count) and colorize effect.

Don't forget to design and e-mail Bert a background for our green screen! Please send a jpg design with size 1280x720 pixels

Highlights
Blu-ray ( 2:09, 2:09 ) lighter color ( 9:45, 9:45 ) clumps ( 13:58, 13:58 ) brush ( 4:51, 5:29, 5:31, 5:37, 6:00, 6:02, 6:20, 6:32, 9:05, 9:15, 9:52, 10:49, 11:19, 11:46, 11:50, 13:02, 13:14, 13:40, 16:21, 16:30, 4:51, 5:29, 5:31, 5:37, 6:00, 6:02, 6:20, 6:32, 9:05, 9:15, 9:52, 10:49, 11:19, 11:46, 11:50, 13:02, 13:14, 13:40, 16:21, 16:30 ) Blu-ray ( 2:09, 2:09 ) lighter color ( 9:45, 9:45 ) clumps ( 13:58, 13:58 ) brush ( 4:51, 5:29, 5:31, 5:37, 6:00, 6:02, 6:20, 6:32, 9:05, 9:15, 9:52, 10:49, 11:19, 11:46, 11:50, 13:02, 13:14, 13:40, 16:21, 16:30, 4:51, 5:29, 5:31, 5:37, 6:00, 6:02, 6:20, 6:32, 9:05, 9:15, 9:52, 10:49, 11:19, 11:46, 11:50, 13:02, 13:14, 13:40, 16:21, 16:30 )

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" Yeah."

" Is a free. So hello and welcome to pixel perfect Whitney -- Monroe. Now first I want to thank Jeremiah notes to this cool room and standing and well Jeremiah created his background. Kind of cool on want to jump through that window Internet other world over there. While today's show I'm gonna do something that a lot of people requested market as the Josh public view and as before. Hair. Care and are at the kind of related that'll do both in one show. Hair and are not -- tough that's that kind of a bizarre thing to create so it requires little patience and little. You know like -- they won't catch is doing -- one move now. Learn some patients Cohen or just play around in slow to create something I'm gonna give the shortcut but that's what do you determine how to here is going to blow and so. But before we start. Let's talk about Netflix. Wouldn't that fixed you can run over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles. With free shipping both ways to your home. Now with over forty delivery centers. You can have the delivery -- just one business day with plans starting where his lowest for 99. And -- as a new member you can get a no no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix dot com forward slash pixel perfect and remember the type that WWW. Got to have that thing when -- isn't this code. Now also godaddy.com. We didn't get reliable secure web hosting without the long term contract that's a plus right there. Go -- hosting plans are bigger and better than ever -- 99%. Up time. 3247. Support and no annual commitment I like that on. And the code pixel five when you check out and save an additional ten dollars off any order reported don't know more. Some restrictions apply you know the details see the site or those details. Okay so now hair. Hair now my hair it's always kinda tied in its its back here but we're gonna create some nice flowing hair now. I'm not gonna put this here and anything of the gonna create here you can but the hair where every month. The colors that you want you -- mice long hair of brown brunette whether or maybe some blue streaks of purple whatever you want -- And history -- create the hair high color and way to put it. That's totally up view. And we'll talk about her. -- is like care except it's usually shorter. Paraded them very long haired creature you're creating them bring it kind of something we'll just Tuesday. Hair effect. And then you're fine if it's a little short haired -- or something then you need little -- here's the thing that popped animator. So. Let's start with some long hair. I'm gonna create my file here and Photoshop. And that."

" Got my size of making 900 by 700. And you know I always do things -- set it to the PI. To be able -- to it was produced every two DP aren't actually in February 7 two UPI that's kind of lo it's good for the web but it's not really good for like print or nicknames and so. I don't -- PR because that way it's. Screeners and we're working for the screen. So I deserve to be PI here on the show I think that usually about four maybe CPI's apparently work at 600 entire. But here to show send it to -- all right so now we're gonna do here is not in there because you remember we put everything in later. In a layer and create eight home back here which is gonna be the basis. For the actual here. Shape all right so with a nice big brush here. Those 65 and create the shape. And it's gonna kind of draw a shape and here where they -- is going to be. Right access to state. Dark tone right in -- like thought. All right so now that's just -- That's so that you have to create a billion strands of hair it's -- that we have a basic shape and finally here you have to start home. The door to look here it's all -- that the only seen a few little here's the -- on top the one's -- that this can be historic home. Your eyes will automatically make believe this here back -- you'll see -- here and how going to create the brush. It's gonna be down with a brush. So on the set my colors to black and white. Because number that a black brush will be completely opaque and I -- my -- to a single pixel. Single pixels there's going to be really them just a bunch of little dots here. And -- has been different sizes. And to create a bunch of little dots. And to of the cluster of dots like so. There. From a select those. And turn him into a brush. Define brush preset. -- going to call it here. Click OK now -- can dump them we don't need it anymore and I can be select I don't need that. The select action there we're fine. So now. In a layer. I'm gonna get my brush. Select that pressure we just created it right there which right now is gonna do that okay so that's undo that. And I'm gonna go to my aggression. Good old brush engine which is where all the magic starts to happen. So right there we see that it's got all these little dots on -- my breakfast at shape and bring these facing down to 1%. 1% makes it a solid lines and now it's sort lookalike that they -- start to take shape. So I'm gonna do next is I'm gonna go here to my other dynamics. And other dynamics is where I'm going to really make it look like here. Cam and have it run out of -- haven't run at a pace to set a date here that are really high numbers like there is little stubby little. Who got right but no we want some long flowing here as somebody going here and set this to really kind number like maybe 700. That's who doesn't look like. That's maybe a little tool that's going to make it 500. Now these numbers depend on your particular file. All right so that started to get we'll go right in between those though that'd be perfect we'll -- 600. 600 going to finally have the test that I know is going to be beautiful now I'm not gonna go in there and set a -- dynamics. Why because -- the dynamics is going to affect its tent and what I'm doing here if I feel a whole bunch of tips in a row. That I set up different colors like foreground background and really that's the old here. I don't want them with the hit B solid. Tones so what's gonna happen who create many strays on top of each other and strands themselves will be individual colors. And now. I want control over to flow I want control so with my pen tool under the start to create some shapes. And I'm going here and create this -- just sites so. I'm gonna. Turn that off I held down my command key to get the point at temporarily effected -- select it. Create another one and that some might go appear Plaxo and come down. And around. And another one. For going to create quite a few of them that are going to end in different places and just kind of low. As you can see here through the image like so. You know create one more. Coming all the way over here and down like that. And it one more what that. Just one more right in here which comes down. And maybe up like that so I got all these little strands right here. So let's pick a -- we want to use these to be kind of like a light brown some going to pick a nice like kind of the hand. And if they show another layer yet we're another layer so I get my brush which has that effect so let them do that. And then I'm gonna go in and stroke. All those paths with that brush which created those little effects right there. So now I'm gonna do is I'm going to modify those paths that's going I think this guy and just bring a little bit. Like that I think this one or maybe bring that little. Tested this one and carve it up a little and maybe a little more return there this one I'm gonna bring up into here. And that's why outlook just kind of move like that and -- what does kind of bringing here. Like so. All right and not we have those who don't have to -- lighter color -- go with the earth later base right there. And I mean to brush I think the path and I stroke that she would start to happen mr. get all these cool little hairs which I can now going there again. And they would diesel blue -- to touch just to get a little variety going on here so he's here that is going in different places so that this guy and we'll move them around. That and -- over and this guy what's this kind of move like that you know what I would add another one let me add one more. Have them come in here like this anchor Hannah crow this way. Google -- so this -- kind of like a little. You twits coming down that make it makes its move and it's just pivotal. That the the end there so we got this cool little -- that's right there. -- and now again I have all these it's going to pick up even lighter tone. Much by its -- there and I go ahead and I'm in the brush. I go ahead and stroke it in there we see that we're starting to build up all of this nice. Here on top of that scene in the background cannot just keep applying more in different angles and stuff like that after you let you know what we're just take the whole. Should -- what does grab all. Emigrated here in just -- all the patents is moving down. I'm just moving down a little bit. Okay that they are and I'm gonna get a dark tone about a dark tone again. You like that and go ahead and -- those with my brush. Now we've added some darker tones on top of -- that and we can see rolled his hairs on my little crow laws to decide. So they could see that we have all these little strands of hair and it just -- flows all of the path. Now bear -- is basically like here except it's shorter. So I don't hear. Business to stories guys away. And I'm gonna start off with a brush and as far as going to be very much like. My little grass brush this guy right here -- have -- software I think mine because that's what are was that I designed for the program. That the birth -- there which is basically -- grass. But it's very similar but the blades of grass and it. And the little hairs and for a very thin Sony create this shape it's gonna be long. Thin blades. Basically long been hairs so don't create as long kind of Google -- here which is gonna be really. Skinny -- hold down my option key to go in here and pull out all these new little guys who come up here and down. And back up. And down. That's close enough phenomena go here modified these that I want to make them really been sent to going to go here and just read this guy and make real thin -- But this guy intentions kind of tightened up so it's really then think it would this guy. Me leave them a feeling that open it up there. Bring this and Mary -- got these really. Fined three little strands here which are going to become the basis for my breasts and and -- switch back to black because black makes an opaque brush. So now that I have that I would pick that happened go ahead and done it for the -- Turn off my -- I select that. I'm selecting that analysts say define brush preset."

" No call this one. Where. Hey I would just prefer to sort of -- donated anymore and we can be select so now -- I'm gonna go in here and does select my paintbrush and we get that banner with right now does that. Can be a little fence or something but -- of how we want we want so -- so again we go to our brush engine. Is I've written in Russian and where I'm gonna go to Google scattering. Scattered up a little bit we got some count going -- of its its. He's the kind of jitters so it's gonna randomized that count count just increases the number of tips that have been applied third in a randomized that that we get. Whole bunch of different little clumps of some cases and opened up and others. Okay and out here and we'll give a little code dynamics I will set up a -- dynamics so that it's gonna introduce. Some various causes so my hue and saturation a little bit. They would those just a little touch just a little bit. Oh my size -- my pen pressure but I analysts emphasize not a lot of sides or there's just a little bit. And -- touch of an angle and maybe -- around that round this little. Just a little I don't want to mess it up too much but I so we've got this going now so go on here -- start getting some callers I'm gonna get them. Oh oh would have to make it let's just go with some pages kind of a neutral kind of an animal here that -- based. Yellowish -- like that and then we'll get of slightly darker version of it. Like so let's -- that looks pretty good like that and then right here a little later yep under the layers so now let's get the virtual smaller. And as -- as we want to offer to be Amber's gonna is going to start. Drawing in my fair state that it -- fur and getting at all in there and so on getting all this for happening. And then after the fact after I'm done -- it I go there and and does some stuff. Let's just say that I get get a different -- let's go with -- black or does really dark brown subject my a my. Paintbrush here let's just get a regular paint bush -- go with a kind of it does the respecting guy right and we're going to start the only some -- but I would set it to. Color. Okay and may bring down -- capacity to about maybe 50% of just that -- five to bring it down. And I want to going to have to start their color rise some of -- stuff and and in this light. Told -- there happening. As light -- bring capacity back up to about eighty and I can start getting some darker tones happening in there you know that's not very good when. That's going to happen to you what to set it to. I struck a little hard light -- that's gonna do area go get some -- tones happening in there would do another little one down here. Okay and maybe another one over here there was such a black and with a little black in the middle there. A little black which is it is a little spots but basically we have some. Fair which is basically little hair. Different brush. Same concept to creating all these little all these little. Needles like you didn't it with a grin that lit the the grass brush except in this case they -- them because its fur and hair inheritance was a bunch of dots. Which would then. Me in the long streaming lines and with the fade out so at some point eight to speed up to nothing and become -- and that. So I hope that answers your question is -- ignore that -- are doing some hairy people and stuff. Hope you learn something from that and remember there's anything you'd like to see on the show just email me at -- at revision3.com. You can also check ot pixel perfect forums at revision3.com. But its platform where you can join discussions about the show and maybe influence the future episode. Also your artwork and uses -- background. As disorder couple last week and industry. Email me your designs that blurted we've been -- dot com and background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and they JPEG. That's 1280. Pixels. That way by 720 pixels that -- way. Doesn't matter how many per -- it's just that number of pixels going across. Hope you learned something and I hope to see you next week."

" Yeah."

" Is a free. So hello and welcome to pixel perfect Whitney -- Monroe. Now first I want to thank Jeremiah notes to this cool room and standing and well Jeremiah created his background. Kind of cool on want to jump through that window Internet other world over there. While today's show I'm gonna do something that a lot of people requested market as the Josh public view and as before. Hair. Care and are at the kind of related that'll do both in one show. Hair and are not -- tough that's that kind of a bizarre thing to create so it requires little patience and little. You know like -- they won't catch is doing -- one move now. Learn some patients Cohen or just play around in slow to create something I'm gonna give the shortcut but that's what do you determine how to here is going to blow and so. But before we start. Let's talk about Netflix. Wouldn't that fixed you can run over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles. With free shipping both ways to your home. Now with over forty delivery centers. You can have the delivery -- just one business day with plans starting where his lowest for 99. And -- as a new member you can get a no no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix dot com forward slash pixel perfect and remember the type that WWW. Got to have that thing when -- isn't this code. Now also godaddy.com. We didn't get reliable secure web hosting without the long term contract that's a plus right there. Go -- hosting plans are bigger and better than ever -- 99%. Up time. 3247. Support and no annual commitment I like that on. And the code pixel five when you check out and save an additional ten dollars off any order reported don't know more. Some restrictions apply you know the details see the site or those details. Okay so now hair. Hair now my hair it's always kinda tied in its its back here but we're gonna create some nice flowing hair now. I'm not gonna put this here and anything of the gonna create here you can but the hair where every month. The colors that you want you -- mice long hair of brown brunette whether or maybe some blue streaks of purple whatever you want -- And history -- create the hair high color and way to put it. That's totally up view. And we'll talk about her. -- is like care except it's usually shorter. Paraded them very long haired creature you're creating them bring it kind of something we'll just Tuesday. Hair effect. And then you're fine if it's a little short haired -- or something then you need little -- here's the thing that popped animator. So. Let's start with some long hair. I'm gonna create my file here and Photoshop. And that."

" Got my size of making 900 by 700. And you know I always do things -- set it to the PI. To be able -- to it was produced every two DP aren't actually in February 7 two UPI that's kind of lo it's good for the web but it's not really good for like print or nicknames and so. I don't -- PR because that way it's. Screeners and we're working for the screen. So I deserve to be PI here on the show I think that usually about four maybe CPI's apparently work at 600 entire. But here to show send it to -- all right so now we're gonna do here is not in there because you remember we put everything in later. In a layer and create eight home back here which is gonna be the basis. For the actual here. Shape all right so with a nice big brush here. Those 65 and create the shape. And it's gonna kind of draw a shape and here where they -- is going to be. Right access to state. Dark tone right in -- like thought. All right so now that's just -- That's so that you have to create a billion strands of hair it's -- that we have a basic shape and finally here you have to start home. The door to look here it's all -- that the only seen a few little here's the -- on top the one's -- that this can be historic home. Your eyes will automatically make believe this here back -- you'll see -- here and how going to create the brush. It's gonna be down with a brush. So on the set my colors to black and white. Because number that a black brush will be completely opaque and I -- my -- to a single pixel. Single pixels there's going to be really them just a bunch of little dots here. And -- has been different sizes. And to create a bunch of little dots. And to of the cluster of dots like so. There. From a select those. And turn him into a brush. Define brush preset. -- going to call it here. Click OK now -- can dump them we don't need it anymore and I can be select I don't need that. The select action there we're fine. So now. In a layer. I'm gonna get my brush. Select that pressure we just created it right there which right now is gonna do that okay so that's undo that. And I'm gonna go to my aggression. Good old brush engine which is where all the magic starts to happen. So right there we see that it's got all these little dots on -- my breakfast at shape and bring these facing down to 1%. 1% makes it a solid lines and now it's sort lookalike that they -- start to take shape. So I'm gonna do next is I'm gonna go here to my other dynamics. And other dynamics is where I'm going to really make it look like here. Cam and have it run out of -- haven't run at a pace to set a date here that are really high numbers like there is little stubby little. Who got right but no we want some long flowing here as somebody going here and set this to really kind number like maybe 700. That's who doesn't look like. That's maybe a little tool that's going to make it 500. Now these numbers depend on your particular file. All right so that started to get we'll go right in between those though that'd be perfect we'll -- 600. 600 going to finally have the test that I know is going to be beautiful now I'm not gonna go in there and set a -- dynamics. Why because -- the dynamics is going to affect its tent and what I'm doing here if I feel a whole bunch of tips in a row. That I set up different colors like foreground background and really that's the old here. I don't want them with the hit B solid. Tones so what's gonna happen who create many strays on top of each other and strands themselves will be individual colors. And now. I want control over to flow I want control so with my pen tool under the start to create some shapes. And I'm going here and create this -- just sites so. I'm gonna. Turn that off I held down my command key to get the point at temporarily effected -- select it. Create another one and that some might go appear Plaxo and come down. And around. And another one. For going to create quite a few of them that are going to end in different places and just kind of low. As you can see here through the image like so. You know create one more. Coming all the way over here and down like that. And it one more what that. Just one more right in here which comes down. And maybe up like that so I got all these little strands right here. So let's pick a -- we want to use these to be kind of like a light brown some going to pick a nice like kind of the hand. And if they show another layer yet we're another layer so I get my brush which has that effect so let them do that. And then I'm gonna go in and stroke. All those paths with that brush which created those little effects right there. So now I'm gonna do is I'm going to modify those paths that's going I think this guy and just bring a little bit. Like that I think this one or maybe bring that little. Tested this one and carve it up a little and maybe a little more return there this one I'm gonna bring up into here. And that's why outlook just kind of move like that and -- what does kind of bringing here. Like so. All right and not we have those who don't have to -- lighter color -- go with the earth later base right there. And I mean to brush I think the path and I stroke that she would start to happen mr. get all these cool little hairs which I can now going there again. And they would diesel blue -- to touch just to get a little variety going on here so he's here that is going in different places so that this guy and we'll move them around. That and -- over and this guy what's this kind of move like that you know what I would add another one let me add one more. Have them come in here like this anchor Hannah crow this way. Google -- so this -- kind of like a little. You twits coming down that make it makes its move and it's just pivotal. That the the end there so we got this cool little -- that's right there. -- and now again I have all these it's going to pick up even lighter tone. Much by its -- there and I go ahead and I'm in the brush. I go ahead and stroke it in there we see that we're starting to build up all of this nice. Here on top of that scene in the background cannot just keep applying more in different angles and stuff like that after you let you know what we're just take the whole. Should -- what does grab all. Emigrated here in just -- all the patents is moving down. I'm just moving down a little bit. Okay that they are and I'm gonna get a dark tone about a dark tone again. You like that and go ahead and -- those with my brush. Now we've added some darker tones on top of -- that and we can see rolled his hairs on my little crow laws to decide. So they could see that we have all these little strands of hair and it just -- flows all of the path. Now bear -- is basically like here except it's shorter. So I don't hear. Business to stories guys away. And I'm gonna start off with a brush and as far as going to be very much like. My little grass brush this guy right here -- have -- software I think mine because that's what are was that I designed for the program. That the birth -- there which is basically -- grass. But it's very similar but the blades of grass and it. And the little hairs and for a very thin Sony create this shape it's gonna be long. Thin blades. Basically long been hairs so don't create as long kind of Google -- here which is gonna be really. Skinny -- hold down my option key to go in here and pull out all these new little guys who come up here and down. And back up. And down. That's close enough phenomena go here modified these that I want to make them really been sent to going to go here and just read this guy and make real thin -- But this guy intentions kind of tightened up so it's really then think it would this guy. Me leave them a feeling that open it up there. Bring this and Mary -- got these really. Fined three little strands here which are going to become the basis for my breasts and and -- switch back to black because black makes an opaque brush. So now that I have that I would pick that happened go ahead and done it for the -- Turn off my -- I select that. I'm selecting that analysts say define brush preset."

" No call this one. Where. Hey I would just prefer to sort of -- donated anymore and we can be select so now -- I'm gonna go in here and does select my paintbrush and we get that banner with right now does that. Can be a little fence or something but -- of how we want we want so -- so again we go to our brush engine. Is I've written in Russian and where I'm gonna go to Google scattering. Scattered up a little bit we got some count going -- of its its. He's the kind of jitters so it's gonna randomized that count count just increases the number of tips that have been applied third in a randomized that that we get. Whole bunch of different little clumps of some cases and opened up and others. Okay and out here and we'll give a little code dynamics I will set up a -- dynamics so that it's gonna introduce. Some various causes so my hue and saturation a little bit. They would those just a little touch just a little bit. Oh my size -- my pen pressure but I analysts emphasize not a lot of sides or there's just a little bit. And -- touch of an angle and maybe -- around that round this little. Just a little I don't want to mess it up too much but I so we've got this going now so go on here -- start getting some callers I'm gonna get them. Oh oh would have to make it let's just go with some pages kind of a neutral kind of an animal here that -- based. Yellowish -- like that and then we'll get of slightly darker version of it. Like so let's -- that looks pretty good like that and then right here a little later yep under the layers so now let's get the virtual smaller. And as -- as we want to offer to be Amber's gonna is going to start. Drawing in my fair state that it -- fur and getting at all in there and so on getting all this for happening. And then after the fact after I'm done -- it I go there and and does some stuff. Let's just say that I get get a different -- let's go with -- black or does really dark brown subject my a my. Paintbrush here let's just get a regular paint bush -- go with a kind of it does the respecting guy right and we're going to start the only some -- but I would set it to. Color. Okay and may bring down -- capacity to about maybe 50% of just that -- five to bring it down. And I want to going to have to start their color rise some of -- stuff and and in this light. Told -- there happening. As light -- bring capacity back up to about eighty and I can start getting some darker tones happening in there you know that's not very good when. That's going to happen to you what to set it to. I struck a little hard light -- that's gonna do area go get some -- tones happening in there would do another little one down here. Okay and maybe another one over here there was such a black and with a little black in the middle there. A little black which is it is a little spots but basically we have some. Fair which is basically little hair. Different brush. Same concept to creating all these little all these little. Needles like you didn't it with a grin that lit the the grass brush except in this case they -- them because its fur and hair inheritance was a bunch of dots. Which would then. Me in the long streaming lines and with the fade out so at some point eight to speed up to nothing and become -- and that. So I hope that answers your question is -- ignore that -- are doing some hairy people and stuff. Hope you learn something from that and remember there's anything you'd like to see on the show just email me at -- at revision3.com. You can also check ot pixel perfect forums at revision3.com. But its platform where you can join discussions about the show and maybe influence the future episode. Also your artwork and uses -- background. As disorder couple last week and industry. Email me your designs that blurted we've been -- dot com and background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and they JPEG. That's 1280. Pixels. That way by 720 pixels that -- way. Doesn't matter how many per -- it's just that number of pixels going across. Hope you learned something and I hope to see you next week."

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Started discussion: June 16, 2008 @ 9:18am GMT

Episode 87 - Secrets of Photoshop Hair Brushes [Discussion]

This week, Bert magically creates hair and fur from scratch with the pen tool and brush engine.

Watch and download this episode of PixelPerfect here.

sutherland
about 1 year ago

typo!

did anyone else notice in the credits that the host was not actually bert monroy, but "bert monro"?
jonspence
about 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure that DPI or Resolution doesn't mean anything when it comes to images meant for the web (or your computer).

It only comes into play when you want to print something. There's a lot of people that think 72 DPI is the standard DPI for the web, when that's not true. Your computer and the web only care about pixels. Pixels wide by pixels tall.

Bert said that he uses 72 DPI because it's 'screen res', to me that sounded like you need to make your images at 72 DPI when you are making images bound for your computer or the web.

Am I wrong here? I'm pretty sure that the only thing computers care about are the pixels wide by pixels tall.



Other than that, great show :)
BenKing
about 1 year ago
This has now become ridiculous. It's been two months since the last episode recording, you should have fixed this by now.

If Revision3 is too stubborn to just record off of the damn screen and not film a projection please give this show back to PixelCorps. Why are you so insistent on moving PixelPerfect into an inferior studio?



This is absolutely horrific! (Click the image for full HD horror)
MG151
about 1 year ago
hey jon,

you're right about the 72dpi being not really true Dot Per Inch, but it is considered by many to be the "standard" screen res although i think this came from early monitors which had no variable resolution and the number just stuck. the software was programed to need to know how wide the image is, since all monitors are different you kinda have to give it something so it doesn't whine so 72 gets put in.

if you want more info here's a link on the subject

there is one place that i know this 72dpi business can affect what you see on screen and that's when you click on zoom-print size and it's never the right size.
if you go into preferences under "units and rulers" there is a section to enter your screen res. and if you're fussy like me you can take a ruler and tweak the screen res till a 1inch by 1inch square really is a 1 inch by one inch square when you click zoom print size. just thought you might like that trick;)

oh and benking I don't know if the rest of the show looks bad in high def, but when you're zoomed in on a tiny part of the screen that way and blow it up it can't look good, no matter what. you're seeing pixels because they where zooming in to see Bert draw pixel sized dots for a brush. sorry man, some things can't be high def.
Bani-Banan
about 1 year ago
In reply to BenKing:
This has now become ridiculous. It's been two months since the last episode recording, you should have fixed this by now.

If Revision3 is too stubborn to just record off of the damn screen and not film a projection please give this show back to PixelCorps. Why are you so insistent on moving PixelPerfect into an inferior studio?



This is absolutely horrific! (Click the image for full HD horror)


I completely agree with you! Pixelperfect my ass.

Isn't iShowU + a camera on Bert enough?


Otherwise, nice episode.
Shinigami052
about 1 year ago
higher DPI allows you more control and more detail. A 800x600 image at 72dpi is going to be larger (say 5inx4in) than a 800x600 image at 300dpi (like 3inx2in) or something. I usually work in higher DPI. What he meant by screen rez is that if you make an image 800x600@72dpi and your monitor is set to 800x600. Your image will fit perfectly and not be stretched at all.

Anyway I'm disguested that they went back to the camera on the LCD monitor. I thought they listened to our suggestions but I guess not. Maybe another email to Jim is in order...
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