I absolutely loved this video, Dave! The sticker recreation segments of your videos are always my favorite part and I’ve always wondered about the specifics of what you do. I am really enjoying what you are doing on this second channel. Thank you!🙏
MASK community is cheering for you! Class act sir giving it away for free, great video! I don’t have one mask product but this was fun to see thank you!
Yeah I mean stuff like this blows my mind Dave!!! So impressive to see just what you can do. And the fact you make these available for free just shows what you do for us all, you are a massive credit to this community sir 🙏
Thanks. I have been doing this a long time which helps. I thought I'd start with a simple project and move onto more complicated processes in the next videos.
Photoshop Mayhem! (See what I did there? lol) Brilliant insight into how you have made so many great decals. I'll definitely be giving Gigapixel AI a try. Thank you for another great channel and video.
That’s cool, I know nothing about photoshop or any editing software really so it’s nice to see a more in depth video on the process. I never skip the parts in other vids where you create these but for obvious reasons you do show the process speeded up so to see the hidden work is great.
The clone stamp is a brilliant tool. Early in our trip to Japan a few years ago, our camera got a bit wet when it started snowing in Hiroshima. After that, the lens ended up with some tiny specks on it I couldn't clean off, resulting in the remaining 3 weeks worth of photos having a small number of splodges on them. It took about six months off-an-on, but I cleaned up over 3000 photos so you'd never know the marks were there.
Great tutorial, David. Like retrofuture said, there are many ways to reach the same goal in Photoshop. In the second to last step, instead of erasing the old sticker graphics, one could simply mask the text after selecting them with the lasso or marquee tool. Or you could create a mask, select it, paint the text off, then invert the mask. I'm saying this basically because when you erase the non-text part, sometimes you may leave some bits behind.
Brilliant! you are an absolute Wizard when it comes to Photoshop! Massive thanks to you Dave for what you do, please keep up the amazing and brilliant work that you for us to enjoy Tremendously fun to watch, cheers!
Great video. A small tip that you may find useful. When adding the ‘new venom logo’ over the original, if you set the new logo layer, to difference and keep it at 100% once it’s over the under layer in perfect alignment it will turn completely black. Then just change it back to normal. May be useful
I love the color halftone effect. One of the things I didn't love about some of the sticker art restoration you've done in the past is how clean and sharp everything is. I've never noticed you adding that effect before, but maybe I just missed it.
Always wondered what it was like to work in Photoshop (had imagined it was really complex), thanks for showing us Dave. I may try this over Pixelmator Pro which I currently use for random graphics. It seems the trick is to use layers :) You are very generous to give away your hard work - can't believe people are trying to make money from it!!
I enjoyed that! Usually, Kenner did a great job with stickers, but I'm sure that the print shop they were using just had a bad day on that one. I know that not all of those sticker sheets were flawed, so maybe it was just a limited few that made out out with the bad die-cuts? I taught myself to use Photoshop years and years ago, and I always find that there are many, many different ways to accomplish the same goals in the program. It's rather fascinating to learn new things, and I find that I'm always learning new tricks. It's great to see your particular process for recreating stickers, Dave. I know that you sometimes scratch build them entirely, but this tutorial demonstrated a mixed bag. You had to redo the Venom logo almost from the ground up, but given you had the logo, that wasn't much of a task for you. Heh. I think the hardest thing with this was probably getting rid of the bad die-cut lines, and figuring out where to set your new ones! Dealing with symmetrical images is always easier because you really only need to do one half, then copy it and flip for the other side. That flip technique has saved many an artist a lot of time over the years, and I use it often to actually check my hand-drawn artwork. If I have a face that's looking straight forward, I will check to make sure that both sides of the face look even, and that both sides of the head are the same width, etc. I do this one of two ways. The First way is to turn the paper upside down to look at it from that vantage point. This gives you a different perspective one viewing the work, and flaws that weren't obvious right-side-up, suddenly will be revealed! The second way I go about this is to look at a scan of the drawing in Photoshop. I can do the same upside down trick there, but I also copy one half of the face, flip it, lower the opacity so I can see the layer below, and then overlay it with my drawing. That way I can see where things have succeeded or gotten off track. I hope you'll do more tutorials like this in the future! I absolutely appreciate all the work you put into your videos, and I can't thank you enough for all the joy, entertainment, and knowledge that you've shared over the years. I have some badges and patches in my studio closet somewhere. If I can locate them, I'll try to mail you some for one of your nerd vests.
Thanks Loston. There are so many ways to do things in PS. I thought I'd start with a basic project to get people started. I will show more involved processes in future videos. Cheers
Nice tutorial 👌 Always interesting to see how others use Photoshop. Loads of ways to reach the same goal. For instance, I'd have probably created a vector mask and used the expand selection tool on the logo to create the outline. Nice to see someone else who likes to have the colour halftone. 😀
Thanks. There is no right or wrong way to use it. The end results are key. I always find vectors take too long and at the size these are printed you just can't tell. Maybe I'm just lazy 😄
I love Photoshop for all my image work. It’s so versatile. I guess I could use a PD image manipulator but I’m still using CS6 and I’m happy that it does everything I need it to do. Great tutorial, Dave. I need to get better at masks. No pun intended!
Thanks for sharing! you always make it so easy in your video's, love this tutorial! Sure will watch your tutorial a few times more while making artwork for my homebrew pinball project!
This is actually helpful I've been making sticker sheets recently. I made faction symbols for my gobots just because I thought they would look cooler with good and bad symbols bc originaly they don't have them. Also I used your stickers for twin twist and they look great
Hey David! Love your channels and all you do for the toy collecting community! Regarding the Photoshop file, have you always worked and printed in the RGB color space? From my personal experience the colors I get from RGB vs. CMYK on my printer can be much different. Most times I save a version of my files as CMYK in order for them to print properly. It might be worth trying and seeing if it changes your final product.
Always RGB as not everyone has the right software to print CMYK. And most cheap printers, like the one I use, generally only have RGB inks. But it's easy to convert if you want to. Cheers
Those original cuts were so badly lined up! Looks like the paper may have been rotated in the press; they all seemed to be out by different degrees on either side.
Great video, but the Adobe nerd in me can't but yell "too many uneccesaaey steps!" almost constantly through the tutorial! 🤣 For instance when you have your blue mask shapes there is no need to make that layer black and white. Holding CTRl/CMD & clicking on that layer will select your mask shapes and then hitting the mask button on your new layer will automatically make a mask on your selection. You could also just mask your cleaned up artwork layer instead of making a white mask layer on top. Lots of ways to do the same stuff I suppose.
And that's exactly why I haven't done these videos before 🤣 There is no right or wrong way to do any of it. As long as the end results work, how you get there doesn't matter. Same for fixing toys. I'm just showing the way I work. Not the correct or only way, just my way. Cheers Dave
I absolutely loved this video, Dave! The sticker recreation segments of your videos are always my favorite part and I’ve always wondered about the specifics of what you do. I am really enjoying what you are doing on this second channel. Thank you!🙏
Thanks Josh.
MASK community is cheering for you! Class act sir giving it away for free, great video! I don’t have one mask product but this was fun to see thank you!
You make that look so easy which just shows for how many year's you've been practising your art!
Yeah I mean stuff like this blows my mind Dave!!! So impressive to see just what you can do.
And the fact you make these available for free just shows what you do for us all, you are a massive credit to this community sir 🙏
Thanks Luke. It's nice to be able to use my skills to help others. That's the fun part. Cheers
You make this all look so easy. Your patience is incredible dude. What a fantastic result!
Thanks. I have been doing this a long time which helps. I thought I'd start with a simple project and move onto more complicated processes in the next videos.
Photoshop Mayhem!
(See what I did there? lol)
Brilliant insight into how you have made so many great decals. I'll definitely be giving Gigapixel AI a try. Thank you for another great channel and video.
That’s cool, I know nothing about photoshop or any editing software really so it’s nice to see a more in depth video on the process. I never skip the parts in other vids where you create these but for obvious reasons you do show the process speeded up so to see the hidden work is great.
The clone stamp is a brilliant tool. Early in our trip to Japan a few years ago, our camera got a bit wet when it started snowing in Hiroshima. After that, the lens ended up with some tiny specks on it I couldn't clean off, resulting in the remaining 3 weeks worth of photos having a small number of splodges on them. It took about six months off-an-on, but I cleaned up over 3000 photos so you'd never know the marks were there.
Great tutorial, David.
Like retrofuture said, there are many ways to reach the same goal in Photoshop. In the second to last step, instead of erasing the old sticker graphics, one could simply mask the text after selecting them with the lasso or marquee tool. Or you could create a mask, select it, paint the text off, then invert the mask. I'm saying this basically because when you erase the non-text part, sometimes you may leave some bits behind.
Brilliant! you are an absolute Wizard when it comes to Photoshop! Massive thanks to you Dave for what you do, please keep up the amazing and brilliant work that you for us to enjoy Tremendously fun to watch, cheers!
My pleasure!
Great video. A small tip that you may find useful.
When adding the ‘new venom logo’ over the original, if you set the new logo layer, to difference and keep it at 100% once it’s over the under layer in perfect alignment it will turn completely black. Then just change it back to normal. May be useful
Thanks. I'll give it a try.
Been waiting for you to do a video like this. Grazie.
My pleasure. Hope you found it useful.
Ignore any negative comments (if any!), you are showing YOUR process. Thanks Dave!
There are many ways to get the same result in art. The end results are what matters, not the process you use I find. Cheers
I love the color halftone effect. One of the things I didn't love about some of the sticker art restoration you've done in the past is how clean and sharp everything is. I've never noticed you adding that effect before, but maybe I just missed it.
I always add it if the stickers need to look aged. No sticker should be perfect, that's what gives them away for me.
Always wondered what it was like to work in Photoshop (had imagined it was really complex), thanks for showing us Dave. I may try this over Pixelmator Pro which I currently use for random graphics. It seems the trick is to use layers :) You are very generous to give away your hard work - can't believe people are trying to make money from it!!
I enjoyed that! Usually, Kenner did a great job with stickers, but I'm sure that the print shop they were using just had a bad day on that one. I know that not all of those sticker sheets were flawed, so maybe it was just a limited few that made out out with the bad die-cuts?
I taught myself to use Photoshop years and years ago, and I always find that there are many, many different ways to accomplish the same goals in the program. It's rather fascinating to learn new things, and I find that I'm always learning new tricks. It's great to see your particular process for recreating stickers, Dave. I know that you sometimes scratch build them entirely, but this tutorial demonstrated a mixed bag. You had to redo the Venom logo almost from the ground up, but given you had the logo, that wasn't much of a task for you. Heh. I think the hardest thing with this was probably getting rid of the bad die-cut lines, and figuring out where to set your new ones! Dealing with symmetrical images is always easier because you really only need to do one half, then copy it and flip for the other side. That flip technique has saved many an artist a lot of time over the years, and I use it often to actually check my hand-drawn artwork. If I have a face that's looking straight forward, I will check to make sure that both sides of the face look even, and that both sides of the head are the same width, etc. I do this one of two ways. The First way is to turn the paper upside down to look at it from that vantage point. This gives you a different perspective one viewing the work, and flaws that weren't obvious right-side-up, suddenly will be revealed! The second way I go about this is to look at a scan of the drawing in Photoshop. I can do the same upside down trick there, but I also copy one half of the face, flip it, lower the opacity so I can see the layer below, and then overlay it with my drawing. That way I can see where things have succeeded or gotten off track.
I hope you'll do more tutorials like this in the future! I absolutely appreciate all the work you put into your videos, and I can't thank you enough for all the joy, entertainment, and knowledge that you've shared over the years. I have some badges and patches in my studio closet somewhere. If I can locate them, I'll try to mail you some for one of your nerd vests.
Thanks Loston. There are so many ways to do things in PS. I thought I'd start with a basic project to get people started. I will show more involved processes in future videos. Cheers
Nice tutorial 👌 Always interesting to see how others use Photoshop. Loads of ways to reach the same goal. For instance, I'd have probably created a vector mask and used the expand selection tool on the logo to create the outline. Nice to see someone else who likes to have the colour halftone. 😀
Thanks. There is no right or wrong way to use it. The end results are key. I always find vectors take too long and at the size these are printed you just can't tell. Maybe I'm just lazy 😄
absolutely loved that. Would love to see more PS tutorials from you from time to time. Thanks Dave
Thanks. I do plan to do more in future. They are surprisingly hard to film, much harder than fixing toys 🤣
@@ToyPolloiTwo totally understand how tricky it must be. It's much appreciated.
I love Photoshop for all my image work. It’s so versatile. I guess I could use a PD image manipulator but I’m still using CS6 and I’m happy that it does everything I need it to do.
Great tutorial, Dave. I need to get better at masks. No pun intended!
I use CS5. Never bothered to upgrade, and don't want to have a subscription. It still does all I need. Cheers
really interesting , i have no idea what your doing as its all above my pay grade lol, but i enjoyed it never the less !
Awesome video, Dave!
Thanks 👍
Cool stuff, Dave.
Thanks
interesting process
Thanks for this. Great tips.
Thanks for sharing! you always make it so easy in your video's, love this tutorial!
Sure will watch your tutorial a few times more while making artwork for my homebrew pinball project!
My pleasure. I hope it gives you some ideas. There will be more that cover different more complicated processes in future.
@@ToyPolloiTwo Great idea, thanks and will be following with interest!
Really helpful, I'm rubbish at Photoshop so hopefully I'll get a little bit better.
It takes practice to learn. I thought I would start with a video that covered some basic ideas that should help.
This is actually helpful I've been making sticker sheets recently. I made faction symbols for my gobots just because I thought they would look cooler with good and bad symbols bc originaly they don't have them. Also I used your stickers for twin twist and they look great
Glad I could help!
Hey David! Love your channels and all you do for the toy collecting community!
Regarding the Photoshop file, have you always worked and printed in the RGB color space? From my personal experience the colors I get from RGB vs. CMYK on my printer can be much different. Most times I save a version of my files as CMYK in order for them to print properly. It might be worth trying and seeing if it changes your final product.
Always RGB as not everyone has the right software to print CMYK. And most cheap printers, like the one I use, generally only have RGB inks. But it's easy to convert if you want to. Cheers
Hey Dave
Once again I have no idea which toy these stickers belong on, however enjoyed watching your work. 🙂
Take care
It's for a M.A.S.K. Switchblade which you will be seeing in a few weeks on my main channel. Cheers
@@ToyPolloiTwo
Thanks Dave, I look forward to seeing the next big fix on TP1.
Take care
A bit of a nit pick but you seem to have forgotten the white dot after each letter in the Venom logo. Otherwise a very good video, cheers.
Good spot. I will add that. I wonder why they are not on the larger version of the VENOM logo I used?
Fixed. Cheers
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Those original cuts were so badly lined up! Looks like the paper may have been rotated in the press; they all seemed to be out by different degrees on either side.
They are really badly cut. And that maybe why they had never been used.
Great video, but the Adobe nerd in me can't but yell "too many uneccesaaey steps!" almost constantly through the tutorial! 🤣
For instance when you have your blue mask shapes there is no need to make that layer black and white. Holding CTRl/CMD & clicking on that layer will select your mask shapes and then hitting the mask button on your new layer will automatically make a mask on your selection. You could also just mask your cleaned up artwork layer instead of making a white mask layer on top. Lots of ways to do the same stuff I suppose.
And that's exactly why I haven't done these videos before 🤣
There is no right or wrong way to do any of it. As long as the end results work, how you get there doesn't matter.
Same for fixing toys.
I'm just showing the way I work. Not the correct or only way, just my way.
Cheers Dave
promosm 😔