Creating your good own custom spray!

[Zeemlapje]

Ok i am really bored now so i am writing this to all you n00bs with crap sprays, but this tutorial will be for PS 7.0 if you don't have it get the trial version HERE!

ok now to the tutorial!


1. First of all you need something you want. The best is to use a picture that has a background out of one colour. (I'm using a Cobra's spray for this now.)

save it as a .tga make sure you save it as a 32 bit per pixel for high quality! (this file supports transparant background)

2. If you've done that open the .tga and select the magic wand and klick on the background


3. Delete the selected background by hitting your Delete button and you'll get this


4. Now select the image

and copy it by doing Ctrl+c.

5. Now start a new file.

(I'm doing 512 by 512 pixels now, you can allways do 256 by 256, aslong it's multiplied from 2 by 2, CSS will resize it to 256 by 256 it's self)

6. Now paste it in your new file with Ctrl+v.


7. It's a little small the picture, right? let's make it a little bigger... select the picture and Edit>Transform>Scale.


8. You'll get this

Now you can make it larger by dragging the squares.

9. Now let's put in some text shal we?
select the text tool and klick where you want to start the text, you can make text bigger or use different fonts or colour with these tools

and if you make it even better you can go to blending options by right klicking on the text layer and choose Blending options.

Now i'm going to use stroke to get an outside colour, you can select collor and also make it transparant with the opacity, to make the overall text transparant go to the Blending options : Default

This is what i did.


10. After you've done this save it as .tga and if you want to edit your spray in the future i'd recommend saving it as a .psd


11. Open CSS and go to options, import spray and import it from the folder you've saved it! and have fun!


If you're too lazy or still don't understand this, i'm willing to make you a sprayprint, but you must say please and say thank you

[Elghanz]

yeah i understand it but im lazy and know i'll do a shit job so could you make me one

please

anything will do since i just formatted my comp and lost everything ah well

thank you

btw nice guide

[{DSE}SHMEE{DC}]

thx for the info zeem.

[BioHazard]

Zeem,

Can you make a spray for me please ?

i send you a pm.

[Xhiea]

Source reads TGA's now? Thats cool, it was a much harder process when it had to be a vtf :/

(This should be stickied tbh)

[bubba]

Source reads TGA's now? Thats cool, it was a much harder process when it had to be a vtf :/

(This should be stickied tbh)

ur 2 well educated for ur age

[ƒookin ßomboclaat!!™]

Thats wicked,

only one thing, that download is effin huge. i was downloading it at work ion a 4mb pipeline and it took ages so on normal 512 adsl its gonna take 2hrs.

jesus . how much do they want for it 400 squid? for a tga its a good job i got a dodgy one(hohum) of m8

nice work though man . im gonna go proper rasta on it tonight

Peace

[bubba]

or go to blahblah (get me on msn tbh)? i think its a forum with lots a dodgy stuff on it 2 DL. shoulda findb out anything there tbh ull have 2 register thou

Edited site Name ,pm sent to poster - Coop

[EDIT] didnt know that was a no no bout sites my bad

[La Chavvy]

Great walkthrough mate, I'lll have to give it a bash!

[EvolvedMonkey]

nice walkthru zeem, comes in handy, but i'm a fireworks whore tbh.

[Elliptic]

Just to let you all know, if you didn't know already that is - If you have Photoshop CS then the tga plugin is shite and doesn't save the transparency correctly. You can always copy over the plugin from version 7 (its called Targa.8BI) to the CS plugin folder (Adobe\Photoshop CS\Plug-Ins\File Formats) I don't know if thats been fixed in CS2.

errrr CS doesn't mean Counter Strike in this case

It was a pain the backside making Windowblinds skins untill I found out about that.

Thanks for the info Zeem

[Psychic Duck]

but it doesnt have a background, or is that the point

[Chrisey Bear]

the point lol,

you could keep the background if you liked then you wouldnt have to save it as a tga just a jpeg would do

[Zeemlapje]

but it doesnt have a background, or is that the point

do you prefer a boring black background? :S
if you do you can just resize it to anything what multiplies 2 by 2...

[Psychic Duck]

no, i meant putting a new bg on it, nvm lol

[ƒookin ßomboclaat!!™]

Wicked M8,
I got a copy of APS7 last night and followed guide step by step,
This post should be stickied

i made a customer tag with a cut out grafitti rasta and mad txt but not only that but i now know how to utilise photo shop better

i went into a couple of servers and sprayed my tag about, they all had rectagular boring ones and they were like "nice spray m8, who made you that, can we get one" <-----NO, its mine

Thanks man, you got much respected skills and everyone should do it.
this is proper share and share alike

im new to this tag thing and i aint good enough to make one for anyone else just yet but give me time
you can make wicked backgrounds and fade it in but i found that transparent was more effective as it proper looks like ive sprayed a wall

nice

[TC]

Good work Zeem. I've stickied your post for all to see in the future.

[Zeemlapje]

Thnx TC

[BioHazard]

ok i have tried to make a spray but when i spray the image it is really blur what am i doing wrong??
I make the spray in 512 x 512 and in photoshop it looks sharp but only in cs:source it looks blur.

[Cobra]

Good work Zeem. I've stickied your post for all to see in the future.

Sticky happy tbh !!. I've added to my sticky thread (Highlighted I must add) and unstickied it.