Piano music Photoshop creation method

by kentaku_sama Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:31 am

This is a very strange and laborious way to make sheet music but I made a template in photoshop for it. /Now I open up that template and use a music font to create sheet music. This is that hardest way of making sheet music but still if it gets the job done, it's worth it. I'm about fed up with music software because of their evil ways (finale especially) of leaving out features like 8va and coda. So I found that if I make it in photoshop (I still can save it as a pdf) I can put whatever I want in it and have full control. Yes it's hard, but it's my way of getting things done unfortunately.
Here's a sample: piano - Piano music Photoshop creation method Piano_11

piano - Piano music Photoshop creation method Piano_11

Note that the reason for the long borders is for printing purposes. It goes away when you print

by VictorCS Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:51 am

Why not try to get a hold on Sibelius?

by Amro Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:02 am

Yeah,
Nice & tricky ..

But if you wanna write a 5-6 Pages sheet .. This will take more than 2-3-4 days maybe !!

Post a .PSD file so that I can watch how does it work ??!

Wink

by Thomandy Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:47 am

I think its better to use Finale, then just use CuteWriter, and it automatically saves as a .pdf

by Amro Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:20 am

Thomandy wrote:I think its better to use Finale, then just use CuteWriter, and it automatically saves as a .pdf

Yup, this is a Nice idea too Wink

by kentaku_sama Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:14 pm

Yeah,
Nice & tricky ..

But if you wanna write a 5-6 Pages sheet .. This will take more than 2-3-4 days maybe !!

Post a .PSD file so that I can watch how does it work ??!

Yeah, sure but it takes me about that long anyway.

I think its better to use Finale, then just use CuteWriter, and it automatically saves as a .pdf

If you can afford it in which I can't. And I can't post a pdf file because the image uploader says that it's not allowed.

by Amro Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:21 pm

kentaku_sama wrote:And I can't post a pdf file because the image uploader says that it's not allowed.

You can use : http://imageshack.us/
it allows you to host .pdf files Very Happy

by kentaku_sama Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:54 pm

never mind, I found a software that looks really nice and has all music symbols available plus you can edit some of them. It's affordable and looks great not to mention easy to use. Here's the software