‘Real sketch’ features to be reproduced with Photoshop
May 23rd, 2007
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Let’s have a look at some real sketches (portraits this time) to find out what we are going to reproduce and what will make our photos look like a pencil drawing. All drawings used in this tutorial have been made by Andrew Loomis.
“Princess of Egypt” Tutorial
May 23rd, 2007
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This is an attempt to stylize photo to make it look "Egyptian". Style components are: hierogliphs, aged photo effect, "pyramid wall" texture.
Dreamy Landscape Effect
May 23rd, 2007
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Sometimes a photo may be greatly enhanced by adding a soft 'dreamy' glow. The Photoshop technique described below may be used for creating mystique 'fairy tale' look, or just for adding slight and very soft glow effect. It works best for landscape photos.
Glamour Girl Photography Portrait Glow
May 22nd, 2007
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This tutorial will teach you to create nice glow effect that adds 'dreamy' look to your images. You may use this technique both for color and B/W images.
28 Top Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
May 22nd, 2007
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There are dozens of useful Photoshop shortcuts, and here is my favorites list. All shortcuts are for Adobe Photoshop CS2, but they should work in other Photoshop versions as well.
All keyboard shortcuts are for PC. I don't have a Mac, but as far as I know the main difference is use of the COMMAND key and OPTION key on a Mac instead of the CTRL key and the ALT key on a PC. If I'm wrong - correct me.
Colored Grapes Photoshop Tutorial
May 22nd, 2007
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This lesson is a part of tutorial series about making rather ordinary things look unusual. This time I decided to stylize the grapes photo and give it lots of color to achieve very unusual look, but keep the details so the image remains "realistic".
You will learn to use Pen tool, Hue/Saturation command and Adjustment layers together to get interesting and easily adaptable result.
Infrared Photography Tutorial – 2
March 23rd, 2007
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We continue to convert your photo into very unusual, infrared-like image with extreme colors with second part of our infrared photography tutorial.
You will learn very effective sky extraction technique, use channels and curves to produce infrared-like grayscale image, use mask to isolate part of the image and create several layers with blending mode set to 'color' to control parts of the image independently.
'Setting up' the image takes several minutes. Once you created all necessary layers it becomes very easy to alter the colors to achieve quite unusual or even 'crazy' color effects.Â
Infrared Photography Tutorial
March 23rd, 2007
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Convert your photo into very unusual, infrared-like image with extreme colors.
You will learn very effective sky extraction technique, use channels and curves to produce grayscale image which will look like infrared photography, use mask to isolate part of the image and create several layers with blending mode set to 'color' to control parts of the image independently.
'Setting up' the image takes several minutes. Once you created all necessary layers it becomes very easy to alter the colors to achieve quite unusual or even 'crazy' color effects.
Snow Effect in Photoshop
February 23rd, 2007
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Use Adobe Photoshop to add realistic snow effect to your pictures. Even if picture is taken in summer :)
Platinum Photography Effect
February 22nd, 2007
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This tutorial will teach you to use several types of adjustment layers to create "platinum" - looking images. I used Adobe Photoshop CS2 for this tutorial, but you may use other versions of Adobe Photoshop as well.