Combining & Compositing Images Using Photoshop CS4 In this video we will use simple techniques to combine a couple images. We are actually using a couple image which are pretty difficult to combine and my hope is that you will take a few tricks from this video that will help you with combining images of...
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Basics of Using 3D Objects – Photoshop Tutorial
Basics of Using 3D Objects – Photoshop Tutorial 3D is very new to Photoshop only really coming into existence when CS3 was released. In CS3 however the 3D capabilities were pretty limited, but with the release of CS4 3D exploded into Photoshop and now has it’s own set of tools and even it’s own panel....
3D Spiraling Light Beams – Photoshop Tutorial
3D Spiraling Light Beams – Photoshop Tutorial In this tutorial I start with a simple 3D object created in Photoshop and to really show off the 3D nature of this object we will “wrap” it with light, specifically these light zips, or bands. A pretty cool effect and really as soon as you create the...
Quick Black and White Photographs! – Photoshop CS4
Quick Black and White Photographs! – Photoshop CS4 When working with large numbers of photos occasionally I will try batch processing a black and white conversion over a folder of images, but my problem always was the simple desaturate command in Photoshop never really did the trick, the photo(s) always looked way to flat. Using...
Retouch & Smooth Skin & Sharpen Portrait Photographs – Photoshop CS4
Smooth Skin and Sharpen Portrait Photographs – Photoshop CS4 Soften and Smooth Skin! This is a huge thing when working with studio photography, models, or anyone really. Smoothing skin can really add a lot to an image, but if you do it the wrong way it really can look terrible. We will also look at...
Soft Focus Wedding Photography Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
Soft Focus Wedding Photography 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...
Retouch and Brighten Eyes in Photoshop CS3
Retouch and Brighten Eyes in Photoshop CS3 When I first began editing images in Photoshop I quickly realized the best way to edit images was to do as much as you could on separate layers and keep everything as editable as possible. This tutorial covers how I prefer to retouch eyes and really enhancing eyes...
Add Dramatic Color to Your Photographs – Photoshop Tutorial
Add Dramatic Color to Your Photographs – Photoshop Tutorial Here we have a great tutorial on creating a textured grunge style background for web and photo use and even create a little place-holder for images form scratch. We will talk about applying texture to colored layers, a little dodging and burning, Smart Objects, Custom Brushes,...
Create a Gallery Photography Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
Create a Gallery Photography Effect – Photoshop Tutorial I really love actions in Photoshop and time-saving features in any program for that matter. In this case we will be applying a nice black frame, a vignette, and a customizable caption to a photograph in the blink of an eye with an action! If you have...
Create a Wipe & Fade Animated Transition – Photoshop CS3
Create a Wipe & Fade Animated Transition – Photoshop CS3 Learning Photoshop’s new timeline animation system is easy and really great! By the end of this video you will have a nice grasp of how to get going animating in Photoshop. We will be creating a nice and simple image wipe/fade effect to transition from...
Selecting Hair & Difficult Selections – Photoshop Tutorial
Selecting Hair & Difficult Selections – Photoshop Tutorial In this video we will cover using channels to cleanly cut out complex hair selections of both brunette and blonde hair on a studio style background and an outdoor scene. You will learn a lot about how to select things in Photoshop using the techniques displayed in...
Change Brunette Hair To Blonde Hair With Photoshop
Change Brunette Hair To Blonde Hair With Photoshop Changing hair color in Photoshop(Brunette to BLONDE, not Brown :P) is quite popular, but transforming a head of dark, or brown hair in not so easy, matter of fact most people would skip right over after a try or two and find a blonde or settle for...