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Portrait Enhancement - Major Shadow Removal and Skin Smoothing 2008-06-26 23:37:00 This photo was taken by a friend of the bride, not a professional photographer. Overall, It is a beautiful picture. The problem: It was obviously shot in the early to mid afternoon, when the sun was high and shining directly down on the bride; causing dramatic shadows and hiding her beautiful blue eyes.The details of what I corrected included lots of detail work around the eyes, lightening shadows Read more:Major
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How to Create a Beautiful Selective Black and White Photo in Photoshop 2008-06-26 16:11:00 Here is and example of a soft, glowing SelectiveBlack
& White
.I will start off with this where I left off on the restoration of this same original photo (see previous posts).This customer wanted a Selective Black & White version of this photo. She asked me to leave the flowers red and the eyes blue. So, after the restoration, I carefully selected the tulips, inverted the selection, and fe Read more:Beautiful
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How to Turn A Baby Into a Flower - Example 2 2008-06-12 23:30:00 This is me again! Some people are embarrassed by their baby pictures, but I’m not. I was adorable and I know it! =)In this case, I used my own face and put it on a picture of a daisy that I had taken earlier. It is quite an involved process, and I don’t want to reveal all my secrets, especially since I don’t know of anyone else who does portraits like these, so I won’t be explaining this o Read more:Example
Damaged Photo Restoration - Recreating missing Pieces of a Photo 2008-05-27 08:11:00 Much of the time, repairing a photo is more difficult than it looks. This was not one of the those cases.Though it may look difficult because such large pieces are missing, the majority of what was missing was background, so repairing them mostly involved some creative cloning and blending.The most difficult part to fix was the piece missing from the lower left corner, because part of the child’ Read more:Photo
A Really Cool Special Effect 2008-05-14 07:11:00 Here is an example of another one of my favorite Special
Effects; Brownie Diffuse. This effect is best used on a photo like the one below, with two main colors or tones.This effect is a mixture of two different filters, some dodging, some burning, and some good, old fashioned, tinkering with color and saturation. It was done completely in Microsoft Digital Image Pro 10, but it can just as easily b
Turning Friends Into Fairies - Example 1 2008-05-05 17:39:00 This is another photo I took myself, of one of my best friends in my front yard. I can take pretty much any photo of a person and turn them into a fairy, but some positions are better than others. For me to turn you (or anyone else) into a fairy, just send me a picture of the person in whatever clothes you want, and make sure that there is nothing in front of the person that you don’t want in th Read more:Example
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Fixing an Old, Damaged Photo 2008-04-20 18:17:00 For this otherwise beautiful photograph, the worst of the damage was in what is almost always the most difficult place to repair; the face.Eyes are especially tricky when there are scratches or tears to fix. Luckily, with this photo, the majority of the damage was limited to only one side of the woman’s face. I used this to my advantage, especially when fixing the eye.As with most photos that re Read more:Photo
Abstract Mermaid Tutorial - Turning a Pencil Drawing Into an Abstract Graphic Image 2008-04-03 00:01:00 To create this image you'll need:two pencils; one sharp and one fairly dull, a piece of paper (a sketchbook would be perfect),a scanner, and a digital editing program (the one used here was Adobe Photoshop Elements)When I started drawing this, just like a lot of my drawings, I had no idea what I wanted it to look like when I was finished. But that's what is so great about art; you can watch yourse Read more:Abstract
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Enhancing Portraits and Lighting Correction 2008-03-23 01:47:00 This is a self-portrait I shot against a blank wall in my house. When I took this photo, I accidentally shot it with the wrong setting on my digital camera. As you can see, the lighting left A LOT to be desired, but fortunately I was able to fix that afterward. Once again, this work was done completely in Adobe Photoshop Elements.For a better, larger view of this portrait, please visit my website, Read more:Lighting
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How to Turn an Ordinary Photo Into a Dreamy, Dramatic Image 2008-03-11 17:50:00 This is a portrait I shot of my cat. And below is an example of how I can take a simple, ordinary, albeit very cute subject and turn it into an engaging and interesting image.I used two of my Special Effects on this image, both of which are made up of several different filters and some other digital tinkering.First, to get the intense color, I used an effect that I call "Wonderful Drama". It invol Read more:Dreamy
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Hello World! 2008-03-10 04:03:00 Gini Here!I can’t wait to start posting here and showing you guys all that I can do. I use digital editing computer programs to enhance and repair photographs. I can restore old and damaged photos, use special effects to enhance already beautiful images, and I can turn ordinary people into extraordinary beings.I love what I do and as I do it I learn more and more. As I learn more, I seem to wind Read more:Hello
, World
Safely Upgrading RAM for Graphic Artists and Other Computer Lovers 2008-07-13 20:20:00 Adding extra memory to your computer will keep it running smoothly and quickly. For graphics artists like me having plenty of RAM is one of the most important things to think about when buying or upgrading a computer. Adding RAM to an existing computer is easy, fast, and cost effective.Memory Deal has taken the process a step further toward safety with their unique online service guaranteeing that Read more:Artists
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Top 10 Free Photoshop Brush Sources 2008-08-14 16:09:00 These websites include brushes that are free for personal and/or commercial use. The blog is not connected with any of these sites and I am not giving official terms of use for any of them. Please make sure you check the terms of use and licensing information for each website before downloading anything from them.1. Obsidian Dawn - By far the best brush source I've found, and the one I use more th Read more:Brush
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New Fairytale Backgrounds Available For Custom Fantasy Portraits 2008-08-01 18:40:00 I've been creating Fantasy Portraits
for some time, but now I'm very happy to be able to include these gorgeous backgrounds to be used in them. Please explore the examples below and see for yourself how magical a portrait can be.Allow me to use your own photos to turn you or your child into a fairy, or a princess; or simply transport you into a magical world all your own!Take a look at some of the Read more:Backgrounds
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Awesome Photo Sharing and Personalized Gifts 2008-09-20 17:32:00 PhotoFun.com offers tons of great services that can very useful to anyone who enjoys photographs, but especially to photographers and other artists. Using PhotoFun, you can share photos online with friends, and even set up your own online galleries.When you sign up for PhotoFun you will receive 100 free 4x6 photo prints and after that, each print is only 5 cents each, a pretty impressive price whe Read more:Gifts
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Happy Halloween Designs 2008-10-10 14:31:00 The brand new Gini's Magic Shop features a large variety of items with this Halloween
Design and many other designs that I've created. The shop includes items that are highly customizable, available in all different colors and styles, and purchased products almost always ship within 24 hoursItems available in the shop include clothing and shoes for adults, children, and infants, mugs, skateboards, Read more:Designs
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How to go from "Pretty" to Princess - Part 1: Changing Background and Selected Colors 2008-10-24 01:28:00 Sorry it's been a while between tutorials, a lot's been going on.This tutorial incorporates many techniques in order to create the final portrait. We will cover background removal, a selection technique, changing sections of color, and adding additional elements to an image. I will be posting this tutorial in two parts. Now, on to the good stuff! =) Enjoy!We start off with a stock photo of a prett Read more:Changing
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Photoshop Tutorial - How to Create a Soft Fog Effect 2008-11-21 01:20:00 For this tutorial I'm using a stock photo as my example. I am going to take a nice photograph of white swans and give it a soft-focus, foggy/smokey look. This tutorial can be used with Adobe Photoshop
or Photoshop Elements. Click on any of the following images to see larger versions.
1. Pick a good photo and open it in Photoshop. Create a new layer, and name it "Fog". This is the original we're
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How to Turn Photographs Into Custom Text 2009-01-02 04:24:00 Let’s here it for my first-ever Photoshop Text Tutorial! In this tutorial I will teach you how to create text using a photograph, outline, and bevel in Photoshop.
Step 1. Open a blank canvas in Photoshop along with the photo that you want to make into text. Choose a font that is thick enough to become a border for the photo and use a size that takes up most (but not all) of the canvas. I chose
"Sketch to Photo" Effect Photoshop Tutorial 2008-12-31 04:18:00 A very fun tutorial that will teach you how to create an image that gradually goes from looking like hand-sketched to a photo photograph.
See how the "drawing" of her shoulder and dress turns into the photo of her face and the rose? Pretty cool, right?
If you are using a portrait of a person for this effect, you may want to check out my tutorial on How to Create Smooth, Beautiful Skin in
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Petal People Portraits - How to Turn a Person into a Flower in Photoshop 2008-12-27 21:14:00 In this Photoshop
tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to make what I call "Petal People Portraits
". You can use photoshop to make one yourself, or if you prefer, you can go the Fantasy Portraits section of my website, www.GinisMagic.com, and have me custom-make one for you!
To use this tutorial, you will need two photos; one photo of the face you want to use, and a photo of an open flower with
Creating a Winter Wonderland Background 2008-12-22 03:41:00 Learn to make a beautiful background with snowflakes and hills of snow. This is a great Photoshop tutorial for making desktop wallpaper of holiday cards.
Before following this tutorial, visit my previous tutorial, Learn to Make Snowflakes in Photoshop.and make at least 3 different snowflakes.
Step 1. Open a blank white canvas, 5000 x 4000 pixels and paste your snowflakes onto seperate layers.
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How to Create Gorgeous Snowflakes in Photoshop 2008-12-20 20:57:00 A Photoshop
tutorial explaining in detail how to create beautiful snowflakes, each completely unique just like real snowflakes.
I've also written a tutorial on how to use these snowflakes to create a Winter Wonderland Background or Wallpaper.
Start with a blank square canvas of 600 x 600 Pixels.
Step 1. Set your foreground color to the color of your choice and use the Paint Bucket tool to
How to Make Beautiful Leaf Frames in Photoshop 2008-12-17 22:02:00 I had so much fun writing this Photoshop
tutorial and I hope you'll enjoy reading it just as much. By following this tutorial, you'll learn to create intricate and unique frames and borders for your photos. As with most of my tutorials, this can be done in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
Step 1. Open a large transparent canvas in Photoshop. Choose a size that is 1000 pixels larger than
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How to Create Smooth, Beautiful Skin in Photoshop 2008-12-16 03:04:00 In this tutorial, we'll be learning how to enhance a portrait in Adobe Photoshop
by smoothing a person's skin. I'm using a stock photo as an example. This tutorial is great for retouching portraits of people who have acne, wrinkles, and other blemishes that you want to smooth out or remove. Once you've completed these steps, you'll be able to use Photoshop to make any portrait subject appear
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Opinions on the New Blog Design, Please! 2008-12-12 16:22:00 Hello, my lovely readers!
As you may have already noticed, we have a brand new site design here at Gini's Magic Blog.
While I liked the totally black design I had before, some of my readers found it difficult to read the light text on the black background, and some found it to be plain and unorganized. So I created a dark repetitive background and a lighter wrapping for the main posts, header,
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, Please
Photoshop Tutorial - A Super Easy, Cool Pop Art Photo Effect 2008-12-11 04:46:00 This Photo
shop tutorial explains an easy pop art photo effect that will always produce a new result, even when using it on the same photo many times.
For this effect, a close up portrait with lots of shadows and/or colors works best. The images below are few examples of the looks I came up with using this effect.
Here is the photo I started with.
Step 1. Open up your photograph in Photoshop Read more:Super
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How to Get Started with Photoshop and How to Get the Most Out of Your 30-Day Trial 2008-12-09 22:00:00 For beginners everywhere, here are some tips on how to get the most out of your Free 30 Day Trial
of Adobe Photoshop
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1. Use Tutorials.
Whether they are written or video tutorials, when you're learning Photoshop, look to those who have gone before you. You can find great tutorials for getting started in Photoshop at sites like SitePoint and TutVid. You should also check out PSDTUTs list of 50
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