Let's Design Some Knives...

Well Folks, aside from the questions that may come up here, these lessons are finished. I think I’ve achieved what I set out to do, which was to help you learn a Tool (Photoshop) that may aide you in your design capabilities.

Maybe even you Pencil, Paper and French Curve guys can find something usefull in this thread. You could certainly draw your designs on paper, scan them into PS and render them as a Virtual knife. Or maybe take your knife pics or scans and drop them into a new background. My purpose wasn’t to show you how to design a knife, but just to offer ways to make someone else look at your work.

Several people have asked me why I did it?
My answer is, to share what I know and enjoy with you folks. I’m not the first or the last to take the time to write a Tutorial for BFC.

I’ll admit, Kit and I were both surprised at the number of Hits this thread has got. I hope the Topic didn’t mislead too many. Of course it would be nice to see more results from people that have actually applied some of the techniques, but that may come in time.

As a way to demonstrate that there is a learning curve to this, and to encourage others to show their work I’ve attached a pic below here. The top pic is the first knife illustration I ever did, it was done with Appleworks a Mac wordprocessing/paint program. :barf
The other is one I just finished up, and it’s as good as I can do today. Of course I’m working at getting better...I’m still learning.

To all who have thanked me for doing this...You’re welcome!

If you want to know what I’d like in return, I’d like to see you to support BladeForums.Com with your membership.

Kit & Spark, thanks for the space.

Sincerely,
Phil La Barbera
 

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PhilL
I want to thank you again:)
I know this took a lot of your time to do. the way I type
it would have taken me about two months.
I just got PS loaded last night and just barely started
playing with it. :(
If you don't mind I'll put your tutorial with the others here.
www.knivesby.com/knifemaking.html
with Kits and the others.
Again Thanks...Dan :)
 
Well, this thread is still getting hits, but no action and I think Kit is ready to unplug it from the top of this forum. So, you'll see this slowly sink off the front page. :(

I think if you've done the lessons you've probably learned enough to design what you need to design in Photoshop. But, I don't want you to think that you know everything that Photoshop can do, nobody does. If I got you to open PS and give it a try I think that's great. I did try to keep these lessons as simple as I could. For any of you that would like to learn more about PS there are tons of tutorials available for free on the Net, just pick your favorite search engine and type in "Photoshop".

For those that really want to get the basics down, here's a great link for that.

http://www.computer-training-software.com/photoshop-six.htm

I don't think he's as funny as I am, but on the plus side, it's all QuickTime Movies. Just click on them and watch.

I'm still around if you have any questions for me.
 
Phil,

When you first started this, I tried it... but Photoshop LE version 5 couldn't do any of it. I'm finally upgraded and starting over again from the beginning now. I wanted to say Thanks for doing this - even though it's been finished for days ;) I bet I'm not the only one to be starting now OR in the weeks to come.

Thank you!
 
Bill, you're welcome and I know you're right, people will start when the spirit moves them. If you have any questions as you're doing this, don't be shy just ask away. Remember there are no stupid questions...well actually there are stupid questions, but I'll try to just ridicule you just a little bit if you ask one. :D
 
BTTT.
Well it looks like Kit has finally unplugged this thread, and before it sinks into the sunset I thought I would bring it BTTT one last time. If you're planning to do these lessons somewhere down the line you may want to make a note of it now. If you do use the lessons you may want to bounce it BTTT so others can find it also.

Thanks.
 
Here's a little something for those who like to put a "toothy edge" on their knives. ;) A great many thanks to Phil for putting together this tutorial!!

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Friday, from the opening for sure, Saturday all day. Not sure about Sunday.

Greg, your knife is a little too over the top for me, but I think it looks terrific. I'm glad you had some fun with the tutorial.
Thanks for bringing this thread BTTT.
 
Neosporin, thanks for bouncing this thread BTTT and Dan thank you for keeping the tutorial with all the pics on you web site. It's been a long time since I wrote it and most of the links to pics are gone here. I'm using Photoshop CS now and not PS6, but all of the instructions still are true. There's probably hundreds of people that have joined BFC since this thread last saw the light of day.

I can't wait to see if somebody will post some new pics to this thread. ;)
 
PhilL said:
Neosporin, thanks for bouncing this thread BTTT and Dan thank you for keeping the tutorial with all the pics on you web site. It's been a long time since I wrote it and most of the links to pics are gone here. I'm using Photoshop CS now and not PS6, but all of the instructions still are true. There's probably hundreds of people that have joined BFC since this thread last saw the light of day.

I can't wait to see if somebody will post some new pics to this thread. ;)
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:)
179 hits this month so far without this thread poping back up.. :)
 
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