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4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop!
by Darren Rowse
#1: blur/overlay
Duplicate your picture layer by dragging the layer to the ‘new’ icon in the layers palette (ctrl+j).
Apply a gaussian blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur…). Blur it enough that the detail disappears but the shapes mostly keep their form.
In the layers palette, change the blending mode from ‘Normal’ to ‘Overlay.’
If you look at the before and after, [...]
Filed in: Photography Tips, Photography: The Basics
How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
by Darren Rowse
From the first time I saw a photo that looked like this, I wanted to shoot one of my own. But, for the longest time I couldn’t figure it out how people took photos look like this. Then one day searching the web, I realized I needed a Lomo LC-A camera. This is a Russian made camera that was a knock off of another camera. It is poorly made and by Japanese camera standards, a bad picture [...]
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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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Quick Tips to Learn How to Use a Digital SLR Camera
Posted by BenGsKe on December 17, 2009 · 5 Comments
by Peter Phun
If you’re the typical digital photographer, you have to wonder if there is a faster way to learn how to use your camera. The owner’s manual is written by a technical writer often not a practicing photographer.
Follow these step-by-step, using your manual as a guide and you should be taking pictures in no time.
Take some pictures on automatic, program, aperture or shutter priority
Download [...]
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 [...]
Filed in: Photo Editing Tools & Techniques
Sin City Effect
In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to create effects like in the movie “Sin City” using. For this tutorial I have selected a picture of German actress, Yvonne Catterfield. You can use any photo with any colour of dress. Now lets carry on with this tutorial.
Step 1:
Open a file document and set the layer in RGB mode. Double Click the background layer. Rename [...]
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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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Tips For Starting Freelance Newspaper Photography
by: Peter Phun
So you’ve honed your skills to the point where you are confident you can get a good picture in any situation.
Have you thought about freelancing for a newspaper? Photojournalism is one of the most challenging, exciting types of photography.
As a result, it is also the most competitive fields to break in to. So what do you need to start?
Reliable Transportation
This should be obvious, [...]
Beginner Digital Photography: Choosing your equipment
by: Peter Phun
As you are entering the world of digital photography, it is important to pause for a little consideration ahead of time make sure you can accomplish your goals. Start thinking from the point where you go out into the field; all the way to where you start printing or sharing your work.
Ask yourself these questions:
Will your present computer run Adobe’s Photoshop?
I’m going to assume [...]
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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Change Hair Color Photoshop Tutotial
by: Jason Cameron
In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to change hair color using Photoshop CS4. This is an easy and fun tutorial and result should give you something similar to this:
Open the image that you want to use. For best results you should try to get high resolution picture. This tutorial depends greatly on the selection you make, so be careful and accurate.
I opened the image I’m [...]
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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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10 Rules for Editing Digital Images
Posted by Guest Contributor on November 19, 2009 · 0 Comment
During the week one of our readers – wedding photographer Martin Whitton – shot me a list of his ‘10 rules for editing digital images’. I thought I’d share them today as a discussion starter for readers.
Martin comments that ‘these ideas may seem a little elementary, but sticking to the basics keeps our editing focused, maintains consistency from image to image and keeps our clients happy’.
Tone [...]
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10 Rules for Editing Digital Images
Posted by Guest Contributor on November 19, 2009 · 0 Comment
During the week one of our readers – wedding photographer Martin Whitton – shot me a list of his ‘10 rules for editing digital images’. I thought I’d share them today as a discussion starter for readers.
Martin comments that ‘these ideas may seem a little elementary, but sticking to the basics keeps our editing focused, maintains consistency from image to image and [...]
Filed in: Photo Editing Tools & Techniques, Photography Tips
How to Find and Use Scripts in Gimp
When I first started using Gimp to edit my photos (because I couldn’t afford Photoshop), I remember getting jealous when Photoshop users would talk about the Actions they used to edit their photos.
While Gimp doesn’t have Actions, they do have scripts, and while there might not be as many Gimp Scripts as there are Photoshop Actions available, there are certainly enough to keep you busy for a while.
Finding [...]
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Wedding Photography: Be Imaginative
Posted by Christina N Dickson on November 13, 2009 · 0 Comment
The world of wedding photography is becoming more and more competitive as time goes on. New techniques are discovered. New shots are developed. The envelope continues to be pushed. As a result, it’s easy to rely on the creativity of others rather than finding your own originality.
The most notable wedding photographers are the ones who are most innovative in their portrait creations. So the question [...]
Filed in: Photography Tips, Wedding Photography
This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (25-31 Oct ‘09)
Weekly Assignment
Ghosts, goblins and things that go bump in the night were a common theme in our Scary or Spooky assignment. There were definitely some scary and spooky entries this week but we had a very clear winner with this week’s votes. The winner this week was Murtasma’s Skeletor shot. This elaborate costume was both scary and well done. Our first runner up was a_brewley’s “Thing under [...]
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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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Adobe Illustrator
Posted by BenGske on October 30, 2009 · 4 Comments
Illustrator Tutorials
Creating a Crazy Cool Logo In this post I will show you how we created the logo. I will skip the drawing parts, yes there were tons of drawings before going to the computer, because when they stole my computer and backups in 2006 they took all my photos of the drawings.
Spice up Pie Charts For some charts you might only want to spice up the most important slice or the biggest [...]
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