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Red eye removal with Channel mixer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:36:00 +0000

At the previous post we saw how we can remove red eye from a photo using the Red Eye tool. In this tutorial we will see a different way to fix this problem which is more time consuming but we have better results.
At first we make a selection of the problematic red area and then we use the Channel Mixer of Adjustment panel to correct the color of the eye. A different way to use the Channel Mixer is to click on icon with the circle at the bottom of the Layers panel (Create new fill or adjustment layer) and then we choose the Channel Mixer. That way allow us if we want to change or undo the previous color correction.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user: ranash1995

The Red Eye tool

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:13:00 +0000

The Red Eye Tool belongs to the same Photoshop tool group with the Healing Brush and the Patch Tool. It’s obvious that we use the Red Eye tool when we want to minimize the problem which is caused by the camera flash if the object looks directly into it. The result is the red eye which make an unnatural image.
It is very easy to use this tool. We just click in the problematic red area. But personally I prefer to correct the color of the eyes using other ways (relevant tutorial to the next post) which give me better control to the finally result.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:IceflowStudios

The Healing Brush and the Patch tool

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:49:00 +0000

The Healing Brush and the Patch tool are two basic tools which are used for retouching. These tools are very similar, except that when we use the Healing Brush, we must paint the area we want to repair, with pixels that we pick up from another part of our image and when we use the Patch tool, we must make a selection of the area we want to fix, we drag this area to the area we want to use to repair the first one. Then the original area will be replaced with this one which we choose.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user: ranash1995

Free Fractal Brushes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:46:00 +0000

The first time I heard about fractals was a few years ago and I remember that I was impressed.
Generally a fractal is a geometrical figure that is repeated, so is created larger shapes which have the same figure with the original one. The fact which it seemed the most interested to me was that the fractals can be found in nature: clouds, trees, mountains and galaxy clusters have a fractal structure.
The prototypal example for a fractal is the Coastline Paradox: "The question "How long is the coastline of Britain?" posed by Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of modern fractal theory, in his book The Fractal Geometry of Nature is not as simple as it appears. The problem is that one's answer to this question depends on the length of the ruler one uses. Unlike circles and the other shapes from classical geometry, coastlines are very irregular. They're full of inlets, bays, and rocky shores. A shorter measuring stick will fit more snugly in these nooks and crannies and increase the estimated length of the coastline. Hence, if we measure the length of Britain's coastline using a mile-long ruler, we will get one value. If we use a shorter ruler, say a yardstick, we will get a larger value because a yardstick can more closely approximate Britain's convoluted boundary. In fact, as the scale of measurement decreases, the estimated length increases without limit. Thus, as the length of the ruler approaches zero, the estimated length of the coastline approaches infinity. This difficulty in measuring due to the irregularity of the object being measured is characteristic of fractal curves and surfaces." (by www.peter-laubender.de)

…and after this introduction…
Here you can find the results of my try to create brushes which have a fractal structure: Fractal Brushes.

How To Make A Fire Planet In 5 Minutes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:49:00 +0000

This tutorial is about how we can make a fire planet in a few minutes.
According to this technique we are going to use the Difference Clouds filter for creating the planet's atmosphere, the Spherize filter for turning our basic shape to a sphere so it is going to look more like a planet and finally we will use the Radial Blur filter for making softer the edges of our image. The following step is adding colour by using the Gradient tool and then we use the Brightness/Contract adjustment to make a more dramatic effect.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:xXArgsintXx

Create Awesome Lighting Effect in Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:57:00 +0000

At psdvault.com we see a very good tutorial about how to combine some objects and create a nice lightning effect.
In order to achieve the final result of the above photo, we use some stock images (we find its links in the tutorial) and apply to them varied techniques for combining them. We use some adjustments layers as curves, hue/saturation, colour balance and black and white. Also we use a lot of blending options for manipulating the objects and some filters like Cloud, Radial Blur and Fibers for making our effect more dramatic.

How To Create Sea-Scapes in Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:37:00 +0000

In this tutorial we see a quick and easy way to create a sea as it looks at night under the light of the moon. We only need to use two filters: at first we use the Fibers filter for creating the sea and then we use the Plastic Wrap filter for adding some highlights to our image.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:xpoc

How to Make a Brush

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:11:00 +0000

Many free brushes offered for download can be found around the web. But it is possible that we can’t find this special brush we have in our minds, or we haven’t so much time to search it, or just we want to create our brushes.
The above video show us the way which we can create a brush from a photo. In order to isolate the part of the image we are interesting in to turn to a brush, we use the Channels and some of the Adjustments and then we make the selection.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:rmcisnerosjr

The Slice tool

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:41:00 +0000

The Slice Tool enables us to divine an image into smaller sections, so then we will use them to create a web page.
In my opinion the Slice tool must not be used to turn PSD templates to web pages because this automated Photoshop method does not create valid HTML code, but it is better to code the web page ourselves.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:9to5video

Athletic Streaking Effect

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:51:00 +0000

In this tutorial we see how to create a cool image with a 3D motion effect from a simple snowboard photo.
We're going to make a gradient background, a 3D motion effect to imply motion to our figure using gradients and wrap tool to give the right perspective. Finally we'll create another simple motion effect with the help of a customized brush.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:tutvid

Make a Realistic Egg from Scratch

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:37:00 +0000

This is a photoshop tutorial about how to make a realistic egg from scratch and can be found at photoshoptalent.com.
In order to achieve the result that we see in image above, we use some tools and simple techniques. These include the usage of the Pen Tool which help us to create the basic shape of our egg and also we use the Bevel and Emboss layer style and the Burn Tool for giving depth to the egg.

This is an easy tutorial with a very nice result.

Beautiful and Easy Abstract Background

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:53:00 +0000

The above video introduces us to a very ease technique for creating a cool abstract background.
To achieve our final result we apply the Lens Flare filter to layer. Then we duplicate the layer and transform the flares for creating our basic shape. Finally, we set up the Wave filter with the appropriate settings and our abstract background is ready.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:LiamsTech

How to straighten a crooked photo (The Ruler and Crop tools)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:31:00 +0000

Frequently we must use a photo that was taken with the camera titled or just we want to use it at a different angle. We can achieve something like that in Photoshop either by rotating our image (for that we can use the Move tool or choose the Edit > Transform > Rotate command), or by using the Ruler one. The Ruler tool enables us to find distances and angles in our image (the results appear in the upper part of our screen, above the main menu). As we can see at the video tutorial we drag the Ruler tool along a line in our photo that should be at a different angle and choose the Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary command. After that process we can use the rotated image but very often its sides will have to be cropped. Obviously we can do that easy with the use of the Crop tool.
In the video above we see how to use these two Photoshop tools.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:MattyBoy7777

Light Burst Effect

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:28:00 +0000

In this video tutorial we will learn an easy way to make a light burst effect around a text. For achieving that we use a variety of filters. At first we create the text and we apply to our document the Gaussian Blur filter to make the text’s edges more smooth. After that we use the Solarize filter from menu Filter > Stylize. The most important filters we use in this tutorial are the Polar Coordinates and the Wind, because these are the basic tools for creating our burst effect. At last, we use some Blend modes to give the effect our desirable color.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:Imactherforeiam

Make a 3D Textured Text Effect

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:28:00 +0000

A way that we can make a 3D text can be found at photoshoptutorials.ws. At first, we create the text in Illustrator and we use Extrude & Bevel effect to give it the 3D appearance we want. After that, we copy the text from Illustrator and paste it in Photoshop as Smart Object. Now we can decorate its surface with various textures we’ve downloaded from deviantArt.

The Extract filter

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:58:00 +0000

Extract filter is the most suitable tool to make a tough selection (objects with not so well defined edges), such as hair. When using the Extract filter we must highlight with the Highlight Tool the border of the area we want to select and then we click inside this area with the Fill Tool. By clicking OK our selecting area is remained.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:IceflowStudios

inobscuro.com

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:10:00 +0000

Nela Dunato is a web designer from Croatia and on her website inobscuro.com we see a collection of her artworks but also we can find web design tutorials and some beautiful brushes offered for download, created by her.

The Magnetic Lasso Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:51:00 +0000

The third type of Lasso Tools is the Magnetic Lasso. This enables us to make a more detailed selection than the other two Lasso tools without too much effort, providing there is enough contrast between our selecting area and background.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:MattyBoy7777

The Lasso tools

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:01:00 +0000

The Lasso Tools are a group of selection type tools. Three Lasso tools are available in Photoshop. This video tutorial introduces us the Lasso tool and the Polygonal Lasso tool. With the first one we can make a free-form selection just enclosing the desired area by dragging and returning to the starting point. When we want to make a more detailed selection we use the Polygonal Lasso. This one enables us to create straight line segments by clicking and in this case the enclosing area is our selection.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:MattyBoy7777

Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:19:00 +0000

When we want to select different areas of our images that have the same or similar colors, the basic tools that we use are the Magic Wand and Quick Selection. These are very useful when we are going to select the background of an image where the background and foreground colors have a high contrast.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:thenewboston

The Move Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:11:00 +0000

This video tutorial introduces us to the Move tool, the first tool in our toolbar and the most important and handy one in Photoshop. Obviously we use this tool when we want to move an element in our image, but we also use it to select an element (or a layer) to rotate or transform it…

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:IceflowStudios

Create Lightning in Photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:16:00 +0000

The above video tutorial shows us an easy way to make a lighting, using the filter Render > Difference Clouds.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:MattyBoy7777

The Marquee Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:37:00 +0000

The second group of tools in our Photoshop toolbox is the Marquee Tools.
The Marquee Tools include four selection types: the Rectangular, Elliptical, Single Row and Single Column Marquees. These are our first choice when we want to select rectangular or elliptical areas in our image. The Single Row and Single Column Marquees have the same use as the first two tools, expect that they select a 1-pixel row or column which extend the full height or width of the document.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:TaninHYoung

Vista Aurora Effect

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:03:00 +0000

…my opinion is that Vista aurora wallpapers are the most interesting part of this version of windows…:) On the video above we see a way of making the aurora effect…

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:DesignFusion2

Photo Filters

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Here we can see the way that we use the Photoshop’s photo filters. With photo filters, we can quickly change the color of an image. It’s similar to using camera lenses to produce special photographic images.

Photoshop Tutorial by YouTube user:IceflowStudios