Dragged Pixels

[bwolford]

Does anyone else remember a tutorial where a column of pixels was selected, essentially one pixel wide, and draged to create a background effect. For the life of me, I can't find it. I thought it was in the tutorials, but it doesn't seem to be there. I also search on "drag pixel" and other varieties, but came up blank.

If you can tell me what I'm searching for, isn't that absurd, I'll look for it...

Brice

[bwolford]

It's called a ribbon, bit a pixel drag...

Here's the instruction:

Ribbon background.


Select a colorful image.

Select the rectangular marque tool.

Set it for fixed aspect, 1 pixel wide and 2/3 - full height of the image.

Select the area.

Ctrl-J or copy and paste

Free form transform the selection

Drag it horizontally (or vertically as the case may be) to create the effect.

You can then rotate the image and use shere filter to change it's shape.

Sample, yet, uncreative result.
http://thewolfords.com/PSE/ribbon.jpg

Brice

[Wendy]

Hi Brice ...

Subscriber Area>Tutorials "Pulled Pixel Effect (http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/subscriber/tutorials/tw_pulledpixel.php)"


Wendy :)

[Diana]

There's a video tutorial on this site for it:

http://www.amrgraphics.com/index.php?page=ps_tutorials (http://www.amrgraphics.com/index.php?page=ps_tutorials)


Diana

[graficalicus]

and here (http://www.graficalicus.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=247) - - including special steps for Elements :cool:

[karen donnybrook]

Graffi,

That looks great, thank you.

Karen :)

[bwolford]

Wendy, I looked there and completely missed it. Crazy. Thanks everyone else for other options!

Brice

[Wendy]

Hi Brice ...

Took me a while to find it too and I knew it was there :)

It think its because the thumbnail doesn't stand out ...

Wendy