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How to set a fire on a house
2007-11-13 10:31:00 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 More About: House , A House
How to create a simple layer mask
2007-11-13 09:56:00 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 More About: Simple , Mask , Create , Layer
How to use channels to mask out difficult images
2007-11-13 07:51:00 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 More About: Images , Mask , Diff , Ages
How to make medium format frames
2007-11-13 07:30:00 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 More About: Medium format , Make , Format , Medium
How to create gallery prints
2007-11-13 07:20:00 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. Step More About: Gallery , Create , Prints
How to make poster presentation
2007-11-13 06:59:00 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 More About: Poster , Make , Presentation , Resent
How to create a digital frame
2007-11-13 06:19:00 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 More About: Digital , Frame , Create
How to create photo-grid posters
2007-11-13 05:20:00 Step One In Photo shop, 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 More About: Posters , Grid , Create
How to use neutral density gradient filter
2007-10-31 03:54:00 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 More About: Filter , Adie
How to use infrared technique
2007-10-31 03:38:00 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 - More About: Technique , Infrared
How to blend photos together
2007-10-31 03:05:00 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 More About: Photos , Blend
How to replicate traditional photography filters
2007-10-31 02:50:00 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 More About: Photography , Filters , Traditional
How to make a fake duotone
2007-10-31 02:37:00 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 More About: Fake , Make , Tone
How to map one image onto another (Image Warp)
2007-10-31 02:14:00 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 More About: Image , Warp
How to create soft focus effect
2007-10-17 05:44:00 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 ( More About: Soft , Effect , Focus , Create
How to create drama with a soft spotlight
2007-10-17 03:13:00 This is a great technique that lets you focus attention by using dramatic 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 More About: Drama , Soft , Spotlight , Create , Dram
How to fatten people
2007-10-11 08:13:00 My attempt to help beginners get familiarized with various approaches to fattening people. 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 More About: People
How to turn people into statues
2007-10-11 07:29:00 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 More About: People , Statues , Turn
How to Remove dark circles under eyes
2007-10-01 06:27:00 Here are two different techniques for removing the dark circles that sometimes appear under a person's eyesespecially after a hard night of drinking. At least, that's what I've been told. Method One The Clone Stamp Tool Step One Open the photo that has the dark circles you want to lessen. (Note: If needed, press Z to get the Zoom tool and zoom in closer on your subject's eyes.) Press the More About: Eyes , Dark
How to lessen freckles or acne
2007-10-01 03:04:00 This technique is popular with senior-class portrait photographers who need to lessen or remove large areas of acne, pockmarks, or freckles. This is especially useful when you have a lot of photos to retouch (like a portrait retoucher) and don't have the time to use the methods shown previously, where you deal with each blemish individually. Step One Open the photo that you need to retouch. More About: Acne
How to remove blemishes on portrait
2007-09-29 03:36:00 Removing Blemishes When it comes to removing blemishes, acne, or any other imperfections on the skin, our goal is to maintain as much of the original skin texture as possible. That way, our retouch doesn't look pasty and obvious. Here are three techniques that work pretty nicely, and when you have all of these methods in your retouching arsenal, if one doesn't carry out the repair the way you'd More About: Portrait , TRAI
How I turned Ayumi into a Pinocchio
2007-09-23 11:35:00 How to adjust a real person's features into a cartoonesque caricature. The concept We will turn: To Lets Begin... Select the parts which you want to edit and keep them all on different layers. Select the 'LEFT EYE' and free transform it 'CTRL + T'. Lock the 'Maintain Aspect ratio' and increase the width to 150 % Repeat the same step with the 'RIGHT EYE' Once done, Lower the opacity and More About: Ayumi
How to to make Zebraceros (zebra and rhinoceros combined together)
2007-09-23 11:07:00 Using the transform, liquify filter and some shading, were going to effectively dress up a rhino in zebra fur. Source Images In this tutorial, we're going to combine 2 animals: and this: To make our final product below: First and most important is to find the proper source images. I chose these 2 since the angles and stances are very similar. Since I liked the high contrast color of the More About: Make , Racer , Comb , Rhin , Rhino
Edit Colors (Hue/Saturation Tool)
2007-09-20 07:49:00 The Hue/Saturation tool provides some quick and easy steps to add some “snap” to your image. It also provides some precise control over editing individual image colors. In the Hue/Saturation dialog, choose a color in the Edit list box to localize edits to a specific color range. (The default “Master” edits all color ranges.) The Hue option shifts the color range towards its adjacent colors, that More About: Tool , Colors
Color Balance (Color Balance Tool)
2007-09-20 07:45:00 The Color Balan ce tool is adequate for making large global image adjustments, so go ahead and use it for Color Balance adjustment. Open the Color Balance dialog and adjust the color levels. Move the sliders for each color channel to get the image to a fairly neutral color balance. The Color Balance Tool only provides for basic control of global color balance. But the Color Balance tool isn’t
Adjusting Shadows/Highlights (Curves Tool)
2007-09-20 07:42:00 The Curves tool is also great for increasing the detail in highlights and shadows. It’s best to perform this adjustment separate from using Curves to increase contrast, i.e., perform the separate adjustment tasks by creating two adjustment layers. In the Curves dialog, first place a point at quarter tone, midtone, and threequarter tone. This fixes the curve for most of the tonal image range and More About: Tool , Highlights , Shadows
Adjusting Image Contrast (Curves Tool)
2007-09-20 07:40:00 The Curves tool provides a good way to adjust global image contrast. It allows for increased contrast in localized image tones (e.g., the midtones). Increased contrast in the midtones flattens the highlights and shadows resulting in a global increase in image contrast. In the Curves dialog, place a point near the shadow end of the curve and drag it down to decrease contrast in the shadows. Then More About: Tool , Contrast , Image
Black and White Point Adjustment (Levels Tool)
2007-09-20 07:37:00 Most images look best printed to maximum contrast: full black to full white (or, perhaps, nearly black to nearly white to preserve detail). The first step for adjusting global image density is to ensure the image is adjusted to this maximum contrast. Move the black point slider to the right until it is under the first few darkest pixels in the image. This makes these pixels pure black. Move the More About: White , Tool , Black , Point , Black and White
Tools for Global Adjustment
2007-09-20 07:06:00 Most users just want to open up an image and quickly perform some basic edits on the image to improve its contrast and color. The basic adjustment tools are Levels, Curves, Color Balance, Hue/ Saturation suffice for these edits on most images. This is the heart of editing images in Photoshop. If you learn to perform these adjustment tasks well, you can do 90% of the work necessary to edit images More About: Tools , Global , Adjustment
Displacement Maps and Textures
More articles from this author:2007-09-17 12:40:00 Through general information and practical application, this tutorial will give you a better idea of how to apply a texture to an object through the use of displacement maps. What is a displacement map and how does it work? I had some free time and energy to burn, so I figured I would take what I know about displacement maps and the use of displacement maps to apply texture to an object, put More About: Maps , Textures 1, 2 |
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