Tag Archives : Photoshop
Grainy Black And White Photo Tutorial
Posted by Bert Marissen on September 4, 2010 · 0 Comment
[tweetmeme]Today we are going to make an old film style grainy black and white photo using adjusments filters, noise filters and much more. We will look at the difference between different adjustment filters like ‘black and white’ and the saturation adjustment. Which one will we use? Well lets find that out!
Step 1:
Search for a nice picture. For this tutorial I will be using a photo [...]
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Adding Color to your Subjects in Photoshop
Posted by Jamice Ivie on September 2, 2010 · 0 Comment
[tweetmeme]Most of us now use a handy little tool in Photoshop for correcting an stylizing our photographs, That’s right, ACTIONS! You got to love ‘em.
But if you’re like me; you want your subject to pop, and actions sometimes seem to flatten the colors of your image especially of your subject. So hopefully this quick tip will help us all out.
First, lets take a look [...]
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Adobe releases updates for Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2
Posted by PopPhoto Flash on August 31, 2010 · 0 Comment
Adobe announced the final release of Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2—the update provides raw support for newly released cameras and corrects bugs found in earlier versions of the program. Plus, Lightroom even gets a few new features.
Both programs now provide support for the following new cameras: Canon EOS 60D, Casio EXILIM EX-FH100, Fuji FinePix HS10, Leica S2, Panasonic DMC-FZ100, [...]
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How to add vignette to photos in Photoshop
Posted by Alex Cican on August 20, 2010 · 0 Comment
Vignetting is the process of darkening the corners of a photo. Vignette is usually an undesired effect, caused by a number of elements. But sometimes vignetting can help direct the eye on a particular subject of the photo, minimising distractions. Vignetting can also improve photos by giving them an artistic look and making them somehow more interesting. This effect should not be overdone though. Let’s [...]
60 Creative Mind Blowing Examples Of Photo Manipulations
Posted by TimothyBlake on July 25, 2010 · 0 Comment
A creative truly mind blowing collection of high quality photo manipulation showcase of inspiration. Photo manipulation is what Photoshop was designed especially for so as well a showcasing awesome inspiration this is also a showcase of what designs can be created using Photoshop as well as other additional programs.
1. Feel My Greatest Temptation I
2. Feel My Greatest Temptation II
3. Feel My [...]
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Essential Free Photoshop GUI Elements For Designers
Posted by TimothyBlake on July 16, 2010 · 0 Comment
An essential compilation which consists of some good GUI elements which are useful design resources for designers, who are working on web design projects a great way to speed up the overall design process with some ready made design resources available to download for free of charge.
WEB UI Treasure Chest v 1.0
GUIFX Elements Pack “Victor”
Wireframe stencils
Token
Webdesign Min Kit
Selected [...]
Simply But Elegant Floral Photoshop Pattern Set
Posted by TimothyBlake on July 15, 2010 · 0 Comment
A simple floral vector pattern created using illustrator. These are four high quality vector pattern designs which the Creative Nerds teams made available to download for free which can be used in commercial and non commercial design projects.
License Details – Creative Commons License
These vector patterns can be used in commercial and non commercial design project. You may NOT modify and redistribute [...]
100 Photoshop Tutorials For Learning Photo Manipulation
Posted by TimothyBlake on July 11, 2010 · 0 Comment
A large collection of only the best top quality 100 design tutorials which will teach you how to use Photoshop in order to manipulate photography, this large reference point showcases every aspect which is essential for creating good photo manipulation with each tutorial having an awesome outcome.
1. How to Make a High-Impact Fashion Poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you are going to learn [...]
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Create A Slick Gold Text Effect Using Photoshop
Posted by TimothyBlake on July 7, 2010 · 0 Comment
This a simply but very good tutorial with a nice outcome showing you how to create a gold text affect using Photoshop, the tutorial is also super easy to follow because of it being a screen cast.
Tutorial Details
Difficulty: Beginner
Tutorial estimation time: 10 to 5mins
Program: Photoshop
Resources Needed:
Gold gradients
Expected Outcome
The Tutorial
Feel free to leave your thoughts on the article [...]
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How to increase contrast of photos in Photoshop
Posted by Alex Cican on July 6, 2010 · 0 Comment
If you are like me, you must enjoy strong vibrant images. But most of the times, the photos I take, result in being washed out, not having enough contrast. In this article I’ll show you how to increase the contrast of your photos in Photoshop. This technique alone, will improve your photos dramatically. Furthermore, I’ll discuss good practices, several methods of applying this effect and tricky [...]
Guide to using masks in Photoshop
Posted by Alex Cican on June 22, 2010 · 0 Comment
Masks are an essential tool that gives you astonishing freedom. Masks are generally used for applying a certain effect only on a part of the photo. In this way, you can change the colour of the sky leaving all other areas intact or brighten only the eyes of a portrait or sharpen only the leaves of a tree and so on. In this article we’ll go through how to use masks in Photoshop.
When I was a [...]
Photoshopping Sparkling Gold Text
Posted by Jeevendra Ranasinghe on April 25, 2010 · 0 Comment
[tweetmeme]Gold, one of the most sought after metals in the world, is used in coins and jewelry, as a store of value, electronics, medicinal purposes and in many other possible ways you can think of. Entire civilizations have been wiped out because of the greed for gold. Even today many people fight to own this precious metal.
But since we’re talking about phostoshopping gold text, I’d [...]
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This Month’s Critique – You Make The Changes
Posted by Peter Carey on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
For this month’s DPS Writer’s Critique, I thought I’d turn things around. It has been suggested before that there should be the opportunity for blog readers to not only voice their critique of the monthly photos, but that they should also show the rest of us what they were thinking. And that’s what we’re going to try this month!
With that concept in mind, here is [...]
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How to photograph the Moon Part 1
Posted by JaneCollinsS on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
PART 1 OF 2 This video demonstrates you how to take an excellent close up photograph of the Earth’s Moon without a name – also demonstrates you how to develop the RAW (or NEF) files in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (We use the original LR in this tutorial but similar results in LR 2) and Adobe Photoshop CS3 (similar results in CS4). Enjoy! Music: Autumn Leaves by John Coltrane
http://www.youtube.com/v/9h7inWkOD_E?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata [...]
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This Month’s Critique – You Make The Changes
Posted by Peter Carey on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
For this month’s DPS Writer’s Critique, I thought I’d turn things around. It has been suggested before that there should be the opportunity for blog readers to not only voice their critique of the monthly photos, but that they should also show the rest of us what they were thinking. And that’s what we’re going to try this month!
With that concept in mind, here is [...]
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Spot Fixing Images in Photoshop
Posted by Helen Bradley on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
Many of the images that you take particularly cityscapes, like most portraits, can do with some spot fixing. I’ve been traveling through Europe a lot lately and because it’s considered almost de rigeur to smoke there, many of the photos that I have are littered with cigarette butts and assorted garbage.
And although you may not realize it, even small cigarette butts will detract from [...]
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Photoshop in a Weekend – Book Review
Posted by Barrie Smith on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
Adobe’s favourite son is often considered to be a powerful but daunting program yet many consider it to be an essential tool for photographers who take their efforts seriously.
Photoshop in a Weekend, based on CS3, attempts to open the application and to be seen as a companion to the original Adobe manual.
It begins with the lowdown on the companion programs — Photoshop Elements and Lightroom — [...]
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Create a burlesque photo montage using pro-level masking skills …
Posted by Photomaniac on April 14, 2010 · 0 Comment
Brighten Photos Like a Pro Learn the ultimate Photoshop technique to brighten underexposed pictures. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a masking technique to brighten images without overexposing highlights. …
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Create a burlesque photo montage using pro-level masking skills …
Technorati Tags: brighten-images, brighten-photos, brighten-underexposed, learn, [...]
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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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Add Space to Your Studio in Photoshop
by Elizabeth Halford
No matter how big your studio is, chances are it’s not big enough. I shoot on a piece of white vinyl 5 metres wide. I’ve talked about the photographing side of what I do already and now I’ll share a couple techniques I use for editing – and sometimes rescuing – studio photography done the white seamless way.
1. Open your raw image in LR and create a virtual copy.
2. [...]
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ToonIt! Photo for Photoshop 2.5
Zoltan Arva-Toth
Digital Anarchy today announced a free update to their popular ToonIt! Photo plugin. Toonit! Photo for Photoshop creates cartoon-like images from photographs automatically, while still allowing artists to customise the cartoon with different paint styles, shading and outlines. Version 2.5 expands ToonIt!’s cartoon outline effect with three new styles: Woodcut Outlines, Conte Outlines [...]
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4 Ways to Formatting Images for the Internet
by Elizabeth Halford
I don’t really think it’s unreasonable that a lot of photographers out there aren’t entirely savvy about all aspects of technology. Take me for instance: I can barely figure out all that @soandso and #britneyspears. If you use Twitter, you’ll know what I mean. If not, then you’re lost with me.
So here I am writing a painfully simple introduction to preparing your images [...]
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Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial has been produced using Photoshop CS2 on a PC. Photoshop is a graphics editing program for enhancing photographs and producing stunning effects. Similar to playing poker, where superb knowledge of the basics is necessary to win, using Photoshop requires mastery of its fundamentals to be effective. With this in mind, a good tutorial like this can be a useful to those who want to gain [...]
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Remove Glare And Reflections From Glasses
Lots of times the subjects in your photos have glare and reflections from light in their glasses. Could it be getting more common because of the aging of the baby boomers?
This is another problem that you can eliminate with Photoshop Elements. This tutorial will take a little more time and skill than some of the other problems. But because you will be working on a separate layer your original image [...]
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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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