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10 easy steps to coloring/ enchancing a photo Adobe Photoshop
This is my first (and I do hope many to come) photoshop tutorial. Today, I would like to show a coloring tutorial to create and transform a normal/ dull looking photo into one with much attractive colors. (depending on your taste actually)
Different people have different ways of coloring their photos. Below are 10 easy steps I recorded on how I edited a random photo from www.sxc.hu :
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Adobe Photoshop Cosmetic Techniques
In this DVD you will learn how to use Adjustment, Layers and Calculations, producing Alpha Channel,Masks which are used to add shape and
proportion to the following retouching techniques: Lines and wrinkles,hot-spot areas, image lightening, lips, eyes, sharpening, skin smoothing, and adding realistic make-up. Finally, due to the non-destructive nature of this advanced workflow, we can spend [...]
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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for …
A frequent speaker at industry events and presenter of Photoshop techniques , he is author of Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers. He is also a founding partner of PixelGenius, developer of software for Photoshop. Download …
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Achieve vintage-look collage techniques Adobe Photoshop | News …
Posted by Jaclyn35Faulkner on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
Achieve vintage-look collage techniques Adobe Photoshop . Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Cosmin in Design. This tutorial will show you how to hone your cut-out skills to prepare images for collaging. You’ll also learn some handy tricks to …
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10 Awesome Photoshop Tutorials 32 Issues A Must-Have Tutorial …
Posted by Arielliana on April 12, 2010 · 0 Comment
10 Awesome Photoshop Tutorials 32 Issues A Must Have Tutorial | 416 MB One of the most awesome collection of tutorials I have ever found for Adobe Photoshop . More than 100 tutorials from.
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Topaz Detail 2 for Photoshop
Zoltan Arva-Toth
Topaz Labs have released the Topaz Detail 2 Photoshop plug-in, which features a user-requested speed boost versus Detail 1, a totally redesigned user interface, and more detail enhancement tools and presets. Topaz Detail’s underlying algorithm employs the most recent advances in detail enhancement technology. This new technology provides the unique ability to enhance detail and [...]
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TiltShift Makes Your Photos Look Like Miniatures
By Adam Pash
Web site and Adobe AIR application TiltShift gives your photos a tilt-shift photography effect that normally requires expensive special lenses or Photoshop chops.
We’ve actually featured asimilar service once before, but TiltShift is a much better tool, offering more advanced features and more control. As Jason pointed out last time we talked abouttilt-shift photography: “Tilt-shift [...]
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.6 & ACR 5.6
Zoltan Arva-Toth
Almost exactly a month after the release of Lightroom 2.6 and Adobe Camera Raw 5.6 Release Candidates, Adobe posted the final versions. ACR 5.6 adds support for a range of new cameras, and replaces the original one that was installed with Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop Elements 8, and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software. Adobe Lightroom 2.6 also provides support for new cameras [...]
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Photo Frame Show Adobe Air Version
Zoltan Arva-Toth
Likno Software has released a new Adobe Air version of its software, Photo Frame Show. Photo Frame Show is an intuitive program that allows people who wish to enhance their digital photos to do so by adding original and impressive frames to them in a fast an easy manner. The new version offers more advanced features, faster rendering, support for a wider range of operating systems, [...]
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Retouching And Improving Your Photographs – Photoshop Makes It Possible
By David Peters
Digital imaging and more specifically Adobe Photoshop as well as other image editing software have revolutionized photography. The advances in digital image manipulation now allow for unlimited possibilities in the area of improving photographs through retouching and restoration.
What types of improvements are possible by retouching photographs with Photoshop?
Blemishes
Embarrassing [...]
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Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation
by Jarka H.
In this tutorial I will show you how to use different blending modes to blend flying hairs easily and to make semi-transparent planet. I’ll also show you different techniques of adjustment to get the most realistic results in your photo manipulations!
Preparation
Before we start download all the necessary pictures (girl, background, earth, tree, apples and moon) and brushes [...]
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Create an invisible man wallpaper in Photoshop
by TutsArena – Tutorials
Today we will be creating a wallpaper with an invisible man in it. Since the guy is invisible, only a few things can make him appear and be seen — diffraction of light and rain are just a couple of them.
Step 1
Pick two images, a stock of a man and a stock of a sea. Open the stock image of a man of your choice, use your skill to cut out the man. We assume here [...]
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Photoshop Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
Marquee Tools:
Pressing Shift-M toggles back and forth between the rectangular marquee and circular (Elliptical) marquee tools.
Pen Tools:
To cycle through the standard pen, freeform pen, and magnetic pen tools: press Shift-P.
Add Anchor:
To select the Add Anchor Point tool press “+”.
Subtract Anchor:
To select the Subtract Anchor Point tool press “-”.
Ruler Tool:
Press U to [...]
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Burn Face
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a realistic Burn Face in Photoshop.
It also covers the basics of texturizing an image.
I have three pictures.
Step 1
Open the picture of girl in Photoshop.
Also open the texture in Photoshop. Cut the texture and paste it into the picture of girl. Place it on top of her face asshown on figure below.
Help
You can cut and paste by doing the following:
Activate [...]
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Reduce Camera Noise in 3 Easy
by Guest Contributor
Shooting with a higher ISO can sometimes solve low light shooting situations but it can also present a whole other set of problems. Higher ISO’s allow you to shoot in low light situations but the combination of low light and high ISO creates a perfect storm when it comes to camera noise and texture.
Camera noise is most obvious in the darker midtone and shadow areas of your [...]
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How to Create a Vector Goldfish in Six Steps
by Lazunov Iaroslav
In this tutorial I’ll show you the process I use for creating a vector goldfish in six easy steps. The steps are a bit condensed so Intermediate Illustrator users will benefit greatly, though beginners will be able to get similar results, you’ll just need to experiment a bit more with these tools and techniques. The vector goldfish is created with the use of the Mesh, [...]
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Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect
Apr 15th in Effects by Fabio
Step 1
Open a new document. I used 800x600px. Look for a road photo on the Internet. The one I used can be downloaded here. After downloading, place the photo in your document.
Step 2
Now we need a photo of a person. The one I used can be found here. Once you have your photo, it’s time to extract the guy from the background. Using the Pen Tool(P) create a path like [...]
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Stylish Swirly Effect Photoshop
Design Inspiration: Alberto Sevenso
This tutorial focuses on using a simple photo, but with a little extra effort you can achieve some amazing results using very complex photographs. This tutorial will teach you how to easily create swirly works of art, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes, following an increasingly popular design technique.
This is the image we’ll [...]
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Ethereal Ghost
Posted by Kirin Knapp in Miscellaneous
We’ll be altering a photo of a beautiful woman walking in a wind, into an ethereal ghost haunting the grounds.
This is a very easy tutorial, that once you learn how to do it, it will only take you a few minutes to make anyone into a ghost.
Starting with our lady:
Desaturate the whole picture CTRL+SHIFT+U.
Duplicate the woman/background image in the layers [...]
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Lightroom 3 Print Improvements
With Lightroom 3 Beta having just been released, the first thing that most people will do – as I did – is to look and see if the features that you’ve always wanted in the program have been added.
One of the areas that Lightroom 2 fell a little short on in my book was the Print module. I wanted to be able to print with a colored background without having to import a background to use as a Identity [...]
Lightroom: What is it and When Should you consider it?
by Helen Bradley
There have been questions posted as comments recently asking about the role of Lightroom in a photographer’s workflow. Many posters who are not currently using Lightroom aren’t sure whether Lightroom it is an alternative to Photoshop or where it fits if you have Photoshop too. I thought it was a good time to look at where Lightroom fits in the Adobe line up and to explain [...]
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Adobe Photoshop Techniques
Color adjustment tutorial
This tutorial shows how to get more mood into your pictures via Adjustment Layers and some other effects.
Vector Polishing Techniques
This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.
Advanced Black and White Conversion
In this tutorial, we will convert an RGB image to Black and White [...]
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Texteffects, Buttons, Logos & Menus
Texteffects
3D typographic effects Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool – and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
Slow shutter text effect Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.
Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text Take typography one step further by having [...]
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Drawings, Paintings, Cartoons
Sexy Girl Comic With Photoshop
This tutorial describes a way to create a sexy comic girl from a paper sketch.
Skin Painting Tutorial
Learn how to paint a realistically looking skin with Photoshop.
Making of The Blues Singer Leaves Town
This picture was done in a hot summer day, in the memory of an old anime series I used to watch as a kid, about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Historically, [...]
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Adobe Illustrator
Face, Hair, Clothing Illustrator Tutorial Learn how to create real-looking human face, hair and cloth.
Illustrator: Golden Selection Have you ever wondered why a profound piece of art is so compositionally pleasing? The artist probably employed the use of the Divine Proportion, which is a phenomenon that suggests that there’s a mathematical equation that’s consistent with the aesthetics of good [...]
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