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Creative Edges Using Smart Filters 2008-11-02 05:52:00 In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to make some cool edge effects using the power of Smart
Objects and Smart Filters
in Photoshop CS3.1First things first, lets go ahead and open a photo, I took this one while on a photography trip through Europe of the Hohenschwangau castle in Germany. It had been raining all day and as the sun set, the showers subsided for about half an hour… just e
Basic Photo Reflections 2008-11-02 05:50:00 In this Photo
shop tutorial I’ll show you how to create realistic reflections on water in your favorite photographs.1Let me begin by saying just a few things about this effect. First and foremost, this is one of those techniques that’s better kept to yourself when showing off your amazing photos to your friends and fellow photographers. For some reason, even in this day and age, the digital wor Read more:Basic
, Reflections
Photo Transfer Edge Effect 2008-11-02 05:45:00 1Welcome back at the end of the lesson.2Since I ultimately want to use this image as a mask, lets go ahead and invert the tones by choosing Image>Adjustment>Invert from the main menu, or by simply pressing Command-I (PC: Ctrl-I).3What I really want from this image is a true black to transparent mask, but what we’re currently working with is a black and white composite. It’ll take a few s Read more:Photo
Design Watercolor Effect Menu 2008-11-02 05:41:00 PreviewHere is a preview of the final image:1. Notepaper stock imageFirst you need to find a notepaper stock image. You can buy stock photo from iStock or scan from a notepad.Cutout the notepaper and apply 2px drop shadow effect.2. Watercolor
effectsCmd + click on the notepaper layer to load the selection. Create a new Layer Group and click on the Add Layer Mask mini icon in the Layers palette. Th
Hand Drawn Design 2008-11-02 05:40:00 1 Create From Scratch in PhotoshopIf you have a tablet, you can simply draw the sketch by using the brush tool.Don’t Have a Tablet?If you don’t have a tablet, you can create the artwork in Adobe Illustrator and then imitate a hand drawing effect in Photoshop.First draw a vector illustration. Then import it in Photoshop. Use a grungy brush and gently erase select parts of the image. Use the Blu
Chroma Wallpapers 2008-11-02 05:27:00 Start with a very, very large screen: 3000 px x 2000 px wide. Draw a rectangle as background for the whole area and fill it with a dark linear gradient layer style. Align that gradient with 45 degrees vertically (sometimes you may change that angle to 90 or 60 degrees). Since the beginning, pay special attention to colors: black and dark violet as base color. The waves colors will match a tria Read more:Wallpapers
Create Custom Photo Brushes 2008-11-02 05:21:00 Preview of Final Results Create Custom Photo
Brushes Photoshop Tutorial Step 1 Open Photoshop and open a photo to use as a brush. It should be something that would work in a pattern, where the content of the photo is obvious as various sizes. I'm using this "blue angel wing" I found on iStockPhoto. IT should be relatively large, perhaps 1000 pixels for both width and height. If you create a brush
Abstract Shine Animation with Photoshop and ImageReady 2008-10-30 05:58:00 Few days ago, I was playing with Photoshop
and ImageReady, and I came up with something really delicious :). I was trying to make an animated Display Picture or Avatar for Windows Live Messenger 9 (which supports recently animated avatars). So I mastered an amazing technique that I’m going over step by step below. Note that this is an advanced tutorial because it involves the usage of Pen Tool, Read more:Abstract
, Animation
, Shine
Animated Interface 2008-10-30 05:57:00 IntroductionBefore we go any further, I’ll first mention that some of the things we will be using are native only to Photoshop CS3 extended, but most of the techniques can be used in any version and the tutorial will be helpful no matter what version you use. I have wanted to write this tutorial for a while as there are very few tutorials which have even mentioned smart objects or video layers a Read more:Interface
Fire in Photoshop - seamless animated loop 2008-10-30 05:53:00 I needed, at some point, a “fire animation” that would be:
1. looping seamlessly
2. horizontally tile-able
I googled and I googled, in vain - I couldn’t find anything but a small tutorial about blending modes. So I took on doing it myself and with some Photoshop
scribbling, I got what I wanted - something like this:
How can you too do something like this? Perty simple, just follow the step Read more:animated
Create a Vintage Film Style Video Using Photoshop CS3 Extended 2008-10-30 05:50:00 Step 1Photoshop
CS3 Extended
has the useful feature of editing videos and animations directly inside of it. This time I'll show you some of the basics of video editing in Photoshop. Before getting started, you must know that Photoshop can edit any video as a Smart Object. This opens endless possibilities to create amazing outcomes to our videos by adding effects, filters, and more.Let's begin, for Read more:Style
, Vintage
Turn your photo into a Renaissance style old canvas 2008-10-30 05:42:00 This tutorial will show you, step by step, how to take an ordinary photo and turn in into a Renaissance
style painting. Please do not mix this tutorial "old photo effect", as we will try to take our picture not only a few decades back in time, but a few centuries.This is what will happen...For a start, take a good quality photo, we used this one:Go to Channels panel and select only the red channe
30 Days of Night Vampire Eats Your Face 2008-10-30 05:38:00 In the spirit of Halloween we’re going to turn a normal person into one of the nightmarish vampires in the graphic novel-turned-movie 30 Days of Night
.I was fortunate enough to find a pic of this distinguished gentleman already in black and white. If you’re working in a color photograph go ahead and take out the color by going to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate.We’re going to start off by Read more:Vampire
Creating Old Polaroids 2008-10-30 05:37:00 Alright guys, let’s start out by picking out a picture we want to use. Generally this effect works best with portraits, I’ve picked one I found off of my friend Callum’s Photostream of his son, Oscar!Credit to Callum WilsonRight, now you’re going to want to find a stock photograph of a Polaroid, for the purposes of this tutorial I’ve already grabbed one off of Stock ExchangeCredit to hug Read more:Creating
Diffusion pic 2008-10-30 05:35:00 Adding the Diffusion EffectMany experienced Photoshop users may already know about this popular effect. For those who don't know, you can apply a quick version of this effect by duplicating the layer, changing the blending mode to Screen, and applying a Gaussian Blur to the new layer. This tutorial goes further by showing you how to filter out the effect from dark areas and how to restore edge sha
The Vista Window at a Glance 2008-10-30 05:32:00 The Main Window
The main window makes up the entire frame of the window, and holds all of the windows smaller components. Therefore, it seems like a good place to start. We’ll begin by creating a new document (Choose the document size based on how large you want your window to be). The background I’ll be using is shown below (You might be familiar with it from our Windows Vista
Lighting Effe
Easily Create a Unique Website Header 2008-10-30 05:30:00 What We’re MakingThis is a technique that I’ve recently used on personal projects of my own, and have impressed a lot of people with. It only made sense to me to share how to accomplish this look with our loyal viewers here at Tutorial9! Here’s a quick look at the effect we’re going to make in this tutorial:Step 1: Setting UpCreate a new document in Photoshop, and use the Paint Bucket To Read more:Easily
How to Make Fireworks 2008-10-24 14:42:00 In this tutorial, I’ll be demonstrating how to create this effect.Step 1 - The BackgroundGo ahead and create a new document, and select the Paint Bucket Tool.Unless you plan on tweaking your fireworks color with Color Balance Layers (or by some other means) later on, the fireworks color will largely depend on what you choose your background color to be. We want a background color that is sort o Read more:Fireworks
Basic Image Adjustment 2008-10-24 14:40:00 In this Photoshop tutorial I will cover the four introductory adjustments that go into a good digital photo. We will be using the Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation and Selective Color Adjustment Layers.(*note: because this is a photo tutorial, the images are more detailed and may take longer to load so please be patient.) 1The following photograph was taken by my wife a few years ago of a landmark ba Read more:Basic
, Image
Basic Sepia Tone Old Photo Effect 2008-10-24 14:38:00 In this Photo
shop tutorial I’ll show you an easy way to create that old photo "sepia tone" look in just a few basic steps.1Like many things in Photoshop, there are a great many ways to achieve this effect, but this is likely the easiest way to get there from here. So lets open the image you want to convert. I’m going to use this Egret photo I took in Costa Rica last year.2The first thing we ne Read more:Basic
, Sepia
Create Spectacular Concept Art in Photoshop 2008-10-22 14:28:00 What we're going to be creatingThe outcome to this tutorial depends heavily on what you want to create and what's going on in your head. I collected two stock images that I thought would work together before I began from sxc.hu. Here are the links to the stock images I used: Landscape, Cityscape. You can use the same stock images I have, but I would also recommend you to experiment as that's half Read more:Concept
, Photoshop
, Spectacular
Quickly Build an Abstract Background of Colored Bars 2008-10-22 14:27:00 Step 1First off, let's start by creating a new document and applying the oh-so-obligatory clouds (Filter > Render > Clouds).Step 2Now that we have our base to work with, apply Mezzotint (Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint) with type "Long Strokes."Step 3Doesn't look like much right now, but with the magic of motion blur(Filter > Blur > Motion Blur), with an angle of 90 degrees and adi Read more:Abstract
, Build
, Colored
Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect 2008-10-22 14:22:00 Step 1Create a new document and place the photo, you can download the one I used at: Photo 1.Step 2Here I placed a second image. I will use it to create the light effects. Here is the link for the next image: Photo 2.Step 3With the Pen Tool(P), create a path for one of the figures.Step 4Select the Brush Tool(B) and go to Window>Brushes or F5 to create our brush. Use 8px for the diameter and sel Read more:Glowing
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Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect 2008-11-17 06:26:15 Preparations:In this tutorial, we will need the beautiful Suddenly Spring brushes designed by GValkyrie.Download the Suddenly Spring brushes here.All rights of these resources belong to their respective owners.Step 1 - Setting Up Background:Create a document of size 750×550 pixels.Set the foreground color to #004B64 and background to #000000.Using the Radial Gradient tool, drag a circular gradien
Making a Brochure Ad 2008-11-16 05:12:33 Here’s how our final result should look: Open a new canvas of size 1024 X 268 pixels, by going to File> New. I have opened a picture of a flower I took some time ago, i like the flower here, since it has clean sharp edges and will work great with the magnetic lasso tool. Once your required photo is opened, drag and drop it on to your canvas you opened earlier. Simply use the Move Tool (V) an
Colorful 3D text 2008-11-16 04:48:02 In this tutorial you will learn how to create this colorful 3D text effect: Step 1 Create a blank document, size depends on the size of your text. Type your text with every new letter on a new layer. This is what your layer paletter should look like: Step 2 Give your text some color and align it to your liking. The colors that are used here are: Read more:Colorful
Radiation txt effect 2008-11-16 04:46:15 Radiation Give your text an unhealthy glow. STEP 1 Start a new image and add your text, assuming white text on black background. Center the text and make sure you have a decent margine around it for the rays to go. STEP 2 Read more:effect
, Radiation
Grunge Rubber Stamp 2008-11-16 04:41:20 Step 1: Open up a stock image in Photoshop of any size and/or format. The best results for this tutorial usually involve large photographic images with effective color separation. Since the overall grunge effect will come out of this source image, it is best to select a photo with lots of vertical lines and straight edges going off at different angles. Rounded objects Read more:Rubber
, Stamp
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