Archive for March, 2010
Photoshop Tutorial: Sparkling Font
Learn to use paths and brush strokes to achieve a great sparkling / magical font effect in Adobe Photoshop CS4.
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[HD] Soft Focus Wedding Photo Effect: Photoshop Tutorial!
Here is a great little effect that adds a whole lot of “mood” to an image by softening and increasing contrast and also features a vignette around the focal point of your choosing. The beauty of this technique is that by using adjustment layers we have full control over the final effect’s strength and color. This one is a great tip for Photographers of any type.
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[HD] Tutorial – How To Make A HDR Image Using Photoshop CS 2 and Photomatix Pro 3
This is a second way of creating an High Dynamic Range image using only one image. Photomatix Pro is an amazing photo editing program has alots of features and it’s probably the best program for creating an HDR image.
Although both HDR videos demonstrate that it’s possible to create HDR pictures with one photo we still sugest using 3 photos done with a camera on a tripod.
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Photoshop 7 Animated GIF Tutorial
How to use the image ready part of photoshop to make an animated gif.
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Photoshop question about layer styles?
I have images that have a layer style applied to them (drop shadow). For reasons I won’t go into, the drop shadows HAVE to be created this way and HAVE to stay this way.
Now, I need to feather part of the image. When i do this and delete the feathered selection, the drop shadow stays, making it look really bad. Is there any way to feather and delete a selection, while also having it delete that portion of the drop shadow at the same time?
In the past, I was just choosing "create layer" to make the layer style a new layer and then repeating the feathered selection on the new layer and deleting that, but I have since found out that I cannot do that (for various stupid reasons).
Hope this makes sense….
This has plagued me for years. Unfortunately, the layer styles are always global. You can’t tell PS to only do the style to a certain side of an object on one layer… It’ll have to be done in otherways.
What I do is take the original object (without the drop shadow applied), and duplicate the layer. So now you should have two layers of the exact same thing. The one on the bottom will become the drop shadow. To turn the object on the bottom layer in to a shadow you can COLOR OVERLAY black or grey or whatever color the drop shadow is (in layer styles). Mess around with blur filters and layer opacity to get the style you want… and you erase or delete parts of the shadow layer if you don’t want it visible……
NOW… we aren’t quite done with lecture yet so sit down : )
a MUCH, MUCH easier way is using layer masks… and its VERY easy.
Select the layer you want to add a drop shadow to. Click on the "add layer mask" icon at the bottom of the layers pallete. (looks like a square with a circle in the middle). This will activate the layer mask. The next step will feather it without deleting anything which I’m sure you’ve been doing in the past, right? (going to select menu after selecting a side, feather a few pixels, and deleting it?)
What you do now that the layer has a layer mask, is grab the gradient tool, make sure black to white is selected above (not radial, just linear) and click and drag on the side you want to feather. It will make one side of the gradient transparent and the other opaque so you can see your image. And the transition will be smooth depending on where you start and finish the gradient.
Now this is the cool part, your layer style can be done already or not, but the layer mask will affect the layer style also. You won’t be able to see the darkness of the shadow behind the part of the layer mask thats transparent. In other words, the shadow will appear as the image itself does, so you won’t see it behind the feathering… hopefully you understand it cuz I enjoy teaching design software.
So in short: select layer, add layer mask, apply gradient to feather out the image. And if you want to change the feather sometime in the future (remember you never deleted anything). Highlight the layer mask on the layer by clicking on the layer mask, grab the gradient tool again, and click and drag.
All layer styles will follow the feathering of the mask.
Layer masks are also an excellent way to blend too photos together for a collage or other cool affects… I like to take a photo, duplicate the layer, add cool effect filters to it, and layer mask the original so it blends into the effect on the bottom…
A Question About Photoshop Top Secret!!?
Hi guys!!!
Ah..I have Photoshop CS4 Extended and i want to know if i get Photoshop Top Secret.Can i use (Photoshop top secret’ Lessons) for my photoshop cs4 extended???
Can i use this program’ tips for my photoshop version???
Thanks…
yes of course.
How do i use a font that i downloaded in photoshop?
I downloaded a Brooklyn kid font and i was just wondering how do i use it on photoshop (adobe) because it doesnt appear on the font list
You need to either download them and add them to your computer’s list of fonts, or have the downloaded file (should be like a notepad file that says something like "The brown fox runs.." in the font you’re using). I don’t know about other systems, but if you have windows, go to
C: drive
WINDOWS
Fonts
and then save your font file/paste it in that folder. Most fonts come zipped, so if you don’t have an unzipper, you might need to download one.
Paint Shop Pro or Photo Shop – Which is Better?
I currently have Paint Shop Pro at the minute but was wondering which one was better? and why?
Why is Paint Shop Pro better the Photo Shop or why is Photo Shop so much better than Paint Shop Pro?
Ive seen loads of tutorials on the net to do pretty much the same thing and was contemplating changing to photo shop.
I prefer PaintShopPro and PhotoImpact over Photoshop…but for me it is emotional.
Let me explain.
I first learned to make pixels do my bidding by using a program called PhotoImpact, then I bought a copy of PaintShop Pro and learned that program.
A friend of mine had bought a new version of Photoshop and gave me his old one…not Elements, PhotoShop.
I was giddy with excitement. This is the program the big boys use 
I got it on my computer, brought up the workspace, opened a picture,…..and was sooo disappointed when I knew how to work it. I felt let down. I was expecting a huge learning curve..hah.
Sigh. There is not a thing I can do in Photoshop that I cannot do with PaintShopPro, or even PhotoImpact. I go onto the net and grab Photoshop tutorials, and do them in Paintshop Pro.
If I was professional graphic artist I might know why so many people go gaga over Photoshop, but I am just someone who enjoys commanding pixels.
Good luck. Both are good programs….as is PhotoImpact.
Where can I get the chrome layer style for Adobe Photoshop CS2?
Where can I get the chrome layer style for Adobe Photoshop CS2?
I accidentally deleted my chrome layer style on Photoshop CS2, how can I get it back?
Did you "delete" it as in you physically deleted from the photoshop styles directory or did you just delete it from the styles list? If you just deleted it from the styles list you can get it back by clicking the little circle w/ an arrow on the upper right side of the styles palette and choose Reset Styles. if you deleted it from the photoshop styles directory then you are probably out of luck (unless you can find it on the Photoshop install CD).
What are the best "how-to" books for learning to draw?
I am looking for 4 different types of art books:
How to draw manga
How to draw real people/anatomy
How to draw in general (the basics, shapes, perspective, lighting, etc.)
How to create digital manga (lessons/techniques in Photoshop)
Does any one have recommendations for which books I should purchase, or which books you have found immensely helpful in improving your skills? Please share if so. Thank you!
I found the best way to learn how to draw is to observe how experienced artists draw. I used Youtube and watched how people such as ArtinArt or macpulenta drew. I also looked at art on deviantart.com and observed the different styles (most the art is in the manga style, but there are other styles as well on this site). If you want to to purchase a book to help to go along with observing other artists styles I would recommend "Manga for the Beginner" by Christopher Hart.