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How to fatten people 2007-10-11 01:13:00 My attempt to help beginners get familiarized with various approaches to fattening people
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When attempting to fatten people there are several options available. While I’m by no means an expert in this area I am aware that there are choices of methods. In the few that I’ve worked on I’ve found that usually you will need to use more than one of the techniques. I think the obvious one is the
How to turn people into statues 2007-10-11 00:29:00 Sources
The key to success is (as always) to find good sources to work with. One of the hardest things to deal with when you are creating a statue is turning the hair into stone (or bronze, or gold or whatever). If you are hoping to learn how to achieve this, you will get disappointed. I’ve tried several ways of making the hair look right in the past and failed miserably every time.
The easy way Read more:people
How to create soft focus effect 2007-10-16 22:44:00 This is a quick way to emulate the effect
of a soft focus filter on your lens. Besides being quick and easy, what I like about this effect is the soft glow it gives your images. Try this technique on a sharp photo of some trees and you'll love what it does for the image.
Step One
Open the photo to which you want to apply a soft focus effect. Duplicate the Background layer by pressing Command-J ( Read more:create
How to create drama with a soft spotlight 2007-10-16 20:13:00 This is a great technique that lets you focus attention by using drama
tic soft lighting. The technique I'm showing you here I learned from famous nature photographer Vincent Versace. I had been getting a similar look by filling a layer with black, making an oval selection, feathering the edges significantly, and then knocking a hole out of the layer, but Vincent's technique, using the Lighting Read more:create
How to use neutral density gradient filter 2007-10-30 21:54:00 Step One
Open the photo (preferably a landscape) where you exposed for the ground, which left the sky too light. Press the letter D to set your Foreground color to black. Then, go to the Layers palette and choose Gradient from the Create New Adjustment Layer pop-up menu at the bottom of the palette.
Step Two
When the Gradient Fill dialog appears, click on the little, black downward-facing Read more:density
How to use infrared technique 2007-10-30 21:38:00 Step One
Open the RGB photo you want to apply an infrared effect to in Photoshop. Go to the Layers palette and choose Channel Mixer from the Create New Adjustment Layer pop-up menu (it's the half-black/half-white circle icon) at the bottom of the palette.
Step Two
When the Channel Mixer dialog appears, turn on the Monochrome checkbox at the bottom of the dialog. Then, set the Red channel to -
How to blend photos together 2007-10-30 21:05:00 Step One
Open the photo that you want to use as your base (this will serve as the background of your collage).
Step Two
Open the first photo that you want to collage with your background photo.
Step Three
Press the letter V to switch to the Move tool, and then click-and-drag the photo from this document right onto your background photo. It will appear on its own layer in your background Read more:photos
, together
How to replicate traditional photography filters 2007-10-30 20:50:00 Step One
Open the photo that you want to apply a lens filter effect to. In this case, we have a shot taken along California's Pacific Coast Highway, but the image is kind of grayish and bland, so we'll add a photo filter (after the fact, in Photoshop) to give the photo more interest and life (basically, to make it look more like it did when I was actually there taking the shot. After all, while Read more:photography
How to make a fake duotone 2007-10-30 20:37:00 Step One
Open the color RGB photo that you want to convert into a duotone (again, I'm calling it a duotone, but we're going to stay in RGB mode the whole time, so you can just treat this like any other color photo). Now, the hard part of this is choosing which color to make your duotone. I always see other people's duotones, and think "Yeah, that's the color I want!" but when I go to the
How to map one image onto another (Image Warp) 2007-10-30 20:14:00 Step One
Open the photo that has an object you want to map another photo onto (in this case, I want to add a label to the wine bottle in the photo, and I want it to follow the curvature of the bottle realistically, so it doesn't look "stuck-on-in-Photoshop").
Step Two
Open the photo you want to map onto the bottle (in this case, we're using a wine label created in Photoshop). You can create
How to set a fire on a house 2007-11-13 03:31:00 Page 1 : Getting Started
I used Photoshop 6 to write this tutorial, but you can use whatever you want, just be aware that some tools might not work exactly the same and you may need to experiment to replicate the effects.
Turning this:
And This:
Into This:
Page 2: Masking the Fire
Masking an undefined shape using the "color range" selection tool.
Add the fire to a new layer above the
How to create a simple layer mask 2007-11-13 02:56:00 Step 1
A layer mask is simply a way to hide parts of a picture or text.
Even though the masked parts are hidden they are still available if you need them.
In order to use a layer mask you need to understand two things:
black takes away and white adds it back.
When you create
a layer mask your foreground and background
colors change to black and white.
If you fill an area on your layer mask with
How to use channels to mask out difficult images 2007-11-13 00:51:00 It would be very difficult and time consuming to separate this image from the background because of the complexity and fine detail involved with the feathers on the woman's headdress. This tutorial will focus on using Channels to help mask out complex objects with clean edges. This technique will also save you a lot of time. The initial goal is to separate the feathers from the pink background on Read more:channels
How to make medium format frames 2007-11-13 00:30:00 Step One
From the File menu, create a new document set at approximately 9x7" at 300 ppi. Create a new layer by clicking on the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. Press M to get the Rectangular Marquee tool, press-and-hold the Shift key, and draw a square selection in the center of the image area.
Step Two
Press D to set your Foreground color to black, and then press Read more:format
How to create gallery prints 2007-11-13 00:20:00 Step One
Open the photo you want to turn into a gallery-print poster. Press the letter D to set your Foreground/Background colors to their defaults, and then press Command-A (PC: Control-A) to put a selection around the entire photo. With your selection in place, press Shift-Command-J (PC: Shift-Control-J) to cut the photo from the Background layer and put it on its own separate layer.
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How to make poster presentation 2007-11-12 23:59:00 Step One
Open the photo you want to turn into a poster layout.
Step Two
Go under the Image menu and choose Canvas Size (or press Option-Command-C [PC: Alt-Control-C]). When the dialog appears, turn on the Relative checkbox, enter 1 inch for both the Width and the Height fields, and choose White in the Canvas Extension Color pop-up menu.
Step Three
When you click OK, an inch of white canvas Read more:presentation
How to create a digital frame 2007-11-12 23:19:00 Step One
Open the photo you want to frame digitally. Press D to set your Foreground/Background colors to their defaults. Press Command-A (PC: Control-A) to put a selection around your entire photo, and then press Shift-Command-J (PC: Shift-Control-J) to cut your photo from the Background layer and put it on its own separate layer (Layer 1).
Step Two
Go under the Image menu and choose Canvas Read more:create
How to create photo-grid posters 2007-11-12 22:20:00 Step One
In Photoshop, go under the File menu and choose New. In the resulting dialog, choose 8x10 from the Preset pop-up menu and click OK to create
a blank 8x10" document (I'm using the default 300-ppi resolution here, but you can enter any resolution you want at this point).
Step Two
Now, open nine of your three-star-rated photos from a recent shoot (technically, these should all be from
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