Tutorial: Tech Crosshairs in Photoshop

NOZFX · 04-09-2006, 01:45 PM

alright instead of making a new crosshair, this time ill show you a quick and easy way to make a cool looking tech crosshair that anyone can do and it requires no experience at all in my opinion

first start or with a page with theese settings

then grab the rectangular marquee tool

make a basic design stretching across the page with the marquee tool i got something like this

fill it with a color of your choosing

now go to filter > distort > polar coodinates

this is what my result was

then make sure the crosshair is centered it should be already but check anyway

and if you want you can add a pinpoint to it

have fun customizizing it and changing however you feel my end result was this and i didnt change anything except the dot

credits for this goto me for wrtting it and getting the immages
adobe: for creating photoshop
good-tutorials.com: for providing me with photoshop tutorials to develope this and showing how the polar coordinate feature works
and gunzfactor.com: for being a great community and a place to host this

please post your results you got from this i would love to see them you will get a different result everytime

- I was quite suprised by the amount of people this tutorial helped and I glad it did help, below are some people who used this tutorial in some way -

Zen-Reloaded
wished
Deus
LonelyDucky

--Iq-- · 04-09-2006, 03:20 PM

I think I would be more than happy to use that crosshair.

**Dash** · 04-09-2006, 03:25 PM

Very useful

/sticky

sindedawg · 04-09-2006, 03:31 PM

I like that one. Can you put it up as a folder.

undead · 04-09-2006, 03:56 PM

Hmm, thats a pretty ol' one from Good Tutorials, I did that tut as a Photoshop newbie

NOZFX · 04-09-2006, 06:31 PM

here a new one i made i didnt save the example one

undead · 04-10-2006, 05:45 AM

Pretty nice... you should add some effects, to spice it up

james1001 · 04-12-2006, 05:57 AM

Nice tut , and also nice crosshair , i didn't know that Polar Coordinates works so well

SoulXShinobi · 04-24-2006, 11:44 PM

i dont get this custom crosshair stuff

-Lvl 22 -RiCeBoWl-

pokeraddict · 05-10-2006, 11:54 PM

what type of pohotshop did you use. Adobe, etc......?

pokeraddict · 05-11-2006, 12:01 AM

If anyone wants to volunteer to make me a free crosshair and tell me how to use it in Gunz go right ahead. If your really good at it could you make it in a poker theme, ty. ttyl

masterjaja · 05-18-2006, 02:02 AM

cool crosshair

masterjaja · 05-18-2006, 02:18 AM

I had difficulties and uh,all I've got is this stupid crosshair you can view it and its not perfectly circular

UkRaiNeR · 05-21-2006, 06:17 PM

looks like a good tutorial.. ima try it lataa

LonelyDucky · 07-24-2006, 01:02 PM

I'm trying this, but I have no idea how to use the marquee tool. Everytime I try to do a second box my first one disappears =/ help?

Edit: Nevermind, it's amazing what a bit of searching can do.

Ducky,
I wish my grass was emo, then it would cut itself.

04-09-2006, 01:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
NOZFX Gunzfactor Crosshair Creator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In your imagination Posts: 276	Tutorial: Tech Crosshairs in Photoshop alright instead of making a new crosshair, this time ill show you a quick and easy way to make a cool looking tech crosshair that anyone can do and it requires no experience at all in my opinion first start or with a page with theese settings then grab the rectangular marquee tool make a basic design stretching across the page with the marquee tool i got something like this fill it with a color of your choosing now go to filter > distort > polar coodinates this is what my result was then make sure the crosshair is centered it should be already but check anyway and if you want you can add a pinpoint to it have fun customizizing it and changing however you feel my end result was this and i didnt change anything except the dot credits for this goto me for wrtting it and getting the immages adobe: for creating photoshop good-tutorials.com: for providing me with photoshop tutorials to develope this and showing how the polar coordinate feature works and gunzfactor.com: for being a great community and a place to host this please post your results you got from this i would love to see them you will get a different result everytime - I was quite suprised by the amount of people this tutorial helped and I glad it did help, below are some people who used this tutorial in some way - Zen-Reloaded wished Deus LonelyDucky __________________ Check out my custom Crosshairs Octi-Shot Triple Precision Octi-Shot Fullscreen Elemental Kanji Sundial Last edited by NOZFX; 01-05-2007 at 03:21 PM.

04-09-2006, 03:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
--Iq-- Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: South Carolina Posts: 95	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) I think I would be more than happy to use that crosshair. __________________

04-09-2006, 03:25 PM	#3 (permalink)
Dash Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Dutchland Posts: 4,144	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) Very useful /sticky __________________

04-09-2006, 03:31 PM	#4 (permalink)
sindedawg Citizen's 1,000 Post Avatar Contest Winner Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In ur closet....BOO!!!! Posts: 990 sindedawg's GamerBio	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) I like that one. Can you put it up as a folder. __________________ Did you know that Sindedawg is Pro Sindedawg - lv. 37 - Bubble - Yum +Rep me! +Rep back! Simple like that! :O Note, leave name

04-09-2006, 03:56 PM	#5 (permalink)
undead Gunzfactorian Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 101	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) Hmm, thats a pretty ol' one from Good Tutorials, I did that tut as a Photoshop newbie __________________

04-10-2006, 05:45 AM	#7 (permalink)
undead Gunzfactorian Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 101	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) Pretty nice... you should add some effects, to spice it up __________________

04-12-2006, 05:57 AM	#8 (permalink)
james1001 Citizen's 1,000 Post Avatar Contest Winner Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Earth Posts: 98	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) Nice tut , and also nice crosshair , i didn't know that Polar Coordinates works so well

04-24-2006, 11:44 PM	#9 (permalink)
SoulXShinobi Newbie Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) i dont get this custom crosshair stuff -Lvl 22 -RiCeBoWl-

05-10-2006, 11:54 PM	#10 (permalink)
pokeraddict Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 15 pokeraddict's GamerBio	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) what type of pohotshop did you use. Adobe, etc......?

05-11-2006, 12:01 AM	#11 (permalink)
pokeraddict Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 15 pokeraddict's GamerBio	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) If anyone wants to volunteer to make me a free crosshair and tell me how to use it in Gunz go right ahead. If your really good at it could you make it in a poker theme, ty. ttyl

05-18-2006, 02:02 AM	#12 (permalink)
masterjaja Gunzfactor Fan Artist Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cebu City,Philippines.Town,TDM Posts: 260 masterjaja's GamerBio	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) cool crosshair __________________

05-21-2006, 06:17 PM	#14 (permalink)
UkRaiNeR Gunzfactorian Patriot Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ukrainer.zxq.net Posts: 355	Re: Tech Crosshair Tutorial (Photoshop) looks like a good tutorial.. ima try it lataa __________________ myspace.com/thefreestylerscrew

07-24-2006, 01:02 PM	#15 (permalink)
LonelyDucky Gunzfactorian Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cheese? Posts: 137	Re: Tutorial: Tech Crosshairs in Photoshop I'm trying this, but I have no idea how to use the marquee tool. Everytime I try to do a second box my first one disappears =/ help? Edit: Nevermind, it's amazing what a bit of searching can do. Ducky, I wish my grass was emo, then it would cut itself. __________________ Last edited by LonelyDucky; 07-24-2006 at 03:32 PM.