The Power of Photoshop’s Refine Edge Tool One of the most difficult and frustrating tasks in Photoshop is making a clean and decent selection on photos that involve super fine hair, fur, leaves, and any fiber like elements. When using the standard selection tool or the masking process, you may able to accurately select smooth edges. We may use the color range tool and the tweaking of levels and channels to select much difficult areas but that would also take too much time on manipulation and very complicated to follow. The good news is that, PS5 or Photoshop CS5 has a tool called the QUICK SELECTION tool. For example, we have here a wonderful haircut. Normally we would start at the marquee tool. Now when you have selected the necessary parts, find the Refine Edges option found at the right top area. On the strip image below, you can that I am using the black and white as the view mode, because we can clearly see the effectiveness of the tool. After that, we can now remove or apply a masking layer to remove the background.
How To Create Great Typographic Wallpaper In Photoshop This tutorial will teach you how to create a really interesting and unique typographic wallpaper in few easy steps. Even a beginner will be able to recreate this effect, and add their own style and thought in it; I am sure you will enjoy and learn a lot from this tutorial! You will learn how to create good looking background, add lightning effects and work with fonts, sizes, colors to make the necessary places stand out! Let’s get started! Step 1 – Creating background First, open a blank document with size 1920×1200 pixels. Set layer opacity to 50%. Step 2 – Lightning Create a new layer and name it Lighting. Draw the gradient as shown below. Set layer to Overlay and opacity to 55%. Step 3 – Adding Brushes Download Adys grunge brushes, create new layer and brush around a little bit. Step 4 – Creating Main Text Download BEBAS font, create a new layer and type your text. Step 5 – Add Background Text – Important Step Lower your text opacity to around 15%. Step 6 – Creating effect
The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions - Smashing Magazine Ryan Berkley | Animal Illustrations Ryan Berkley is a talented illustrator from Portland, Oregon. A big part of his portfolio are these witty and immaculate animal illustrations. When I first saw Ryan’s illustrations, I could almost imagine the personality of each of the portrayed animals. Via We Find Wildness
Astuces et Conseils pour la photomanipulation avec Photoshop – la suite ! Voici une deuxième fournée de techniques pour maîtriser la retouche photo qu’on ne vous apprendra pas tous les jours ! Cet article est la suite de l’article Astuces et conseils pour la photomanipulation avec Photoshop. Smashing Magazine a publié il y a peu deux articles sur les techniques de photomanipulation avec Photoshop. Suite à la demande exprimée sur la page Facebook de Design Spartan je me suis chargé de traduire le principal en donnant mes impressions. Chaque professionnel et même chaque amateur possède ses propres techniques et ses habitudes sur Photoshop. Voici donc les astuces et conseils sur la retouche photo abordées ici : L’effet « split-toning » N’ayant osé faire une traduction bancale de ce terme, j’ai préféré le laisser en anglais. Comment obtenir cet effet ? Commencez par créer 2 courbes de transferts de dégradés en allant dans Calques > Créez un calque de réglage > Courbes de transfert de dégradé… A partir de là réalisez deux dégradés de la couleur que vous voulez.
Free Pack of 14 Quality Photo Effect Photoshop Actions I’ve shared all kinds of free design resources on my blog over the years but one freebie I’ve never actually made is a set of Photoshop Actions, so today I’m going to change that with this free pack of actions to enhance your photos. The set contains 14 unique actions that will transform your images with various levels of colour correction to create trendy retro, vintage or fashion style effects. I’ve created 14 individual actions to produce a range of unique photo effects. Some have a classic retro or vintage theme while others result in edgy fashion style effects. Here’s an overview of each one with a before and after preview: Red Haze Winter Grey Action Movie Schindler Retro Camera Split Toning Summer Sunset Hollywood Blvd Vogue Fashion Strawberries & Cream Country Classic Vintage Chic Bleached Forest Light This set of photo effect actions is free to everyone. Download the photo effect actions pack 4kb Join the mailing list to have every new post hand delivered to your email inbox.
Top Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube You Need to Watch We know how much are readers love great Photoshop tutorials. In this list we thought we would switch it up a bit and list some awesome Photoshop tutorials on video. While I prefer text and images when doing tutorials I know there are many people out there that would rather watch a video tutorial. Ladies and gentleman, without further delay I present to you the best Photoshop tutorials on YouTube. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. I have viewed all of these tutorials at one time or another and have learned a great deal from them. Astuces et Conseils pour la photomanipulation avec Photoshop Smashing Magazine nous a dernièrement gâté d’un article sur les techniques de photomanipulation avec Photoshop. Suite à la demande exprimée sur la page Facebook de Design Spartan je me suis chargé de traduire le principal en donnant mes impressions. Voici ces conseils et astuces repris dans notre belle langue afin de parfaire votre technique et maîtriser diverses situations. Chaque professionnel et même chaque amateur possède ses propres techniques et ses habitudes sur Photoshop. Quelque fois, des articles comme celui-ci tombent du ciel et viennent rafraîchir notre vision de Photoshop, de ses outils et des différentes possibilités offertes pour aborder une situation. Voici donc les astuces et conseils sur la retouche photo abordées ici : Augmenter la lumière de façon naturelle Voici une technique très efficace pour contrôler l’intensité lumineuse d’une photographie et l’augmenter à volonté sur un calque séparé. Les niveaux Cela fonctionne aussi pour trouver un gris neutre. Coucher de soleil
Massive Collection of Photo Editing Tutorials and Photoshop Actions You don’t have to be a professional photographer and have thousands of dollars worth of equipment to have a lovely collection of photographs in your album or on your Flickr account; especially if you learn some techniques or download some Photoshop actions from this post! If you have Photoshop (or something similar) editing your dull photos using simple techniques or actions can make a huge difference. This post has a great selection of tutorials to help improve your photo-editing skills, and if you don’t want to or just don’t have the time to edit hundreds of photos, there’s a huge selection of great actions which you can download and use on all your photos! Part 1: Photo-Editing Tutorials Learning how to correctly edit your photos is great if you want to add that extra something to your photography, whether your a complete amateur or a long-term professional photographer. Edit an Image in Photoshop to Add Some Pizazz! Return Colors to a Black and White Photo Fixing Over-Exposed Sky
Photoshop 30 Christmas Holiday PSD & AI Flyer Templates The success of any event, being it a show, a sale, a party or a simple get-together, often depends on how well you can promote it. These flyers are diverse and eye-catching examples of promotional materials created for events that take place during the holiday season. 45 CV Resume Templates That Will Get You Hired You could make your resume in Microsoft word. Draw a few columns, write the text you need, hit tab a few times and press enter a few times. 24 Really Cool Photoshop Actions To Enhance Photography Photoshop actions are the best — they save time and make you more productive during post-processing. 110 Free PSD Web Design Elements Looking for some nice and high-quality web design elements? 80 Helpful Photoshop & Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials 80 Random Best Photoshop Brushes Photoshop brushes are possibly the easiest way to add style to your designs, there settings are endless, they increase your productivity.
50 Photoshop Actions For Every Photographer | Freebie Photoshop 50 Photoshop Actions For Every Photographer by Alex on Apr 1, 2011 • 12:17 pm 9 Comments Using Photoshop actions can make your life easier and help you edit your photos more quickly. Basically, actions are nothing more than a series of normal Photoshop operations recorded so you can run them in sequence quickly, without having to remember just what steps to do, and in what order. Photoshop Actions For Every Photographer Here i have collected over 50 Time Saving Photoshop Actions for your photosthat will help you achieve some of these looks and save you a ton of time in the process. PROActions Landscape action by EliseEnchanted Magical effect 4.0 by sa-cool Ghost Stories Photoshop Action by elestrial HDR Tools by forfie PW Action Set action 10 by night-fate 3D Actions by myonlyloverob Cinematic Effect by orangeycow Retro Vintage actions by Freaky-Stock Caffeshop Actions – 1st Set by FairyAngelPrincess Blue Eyes Action by mysweetobssession Free Useful Photoshop Actions by MosheSeldin 9 comments
3D Map Generator - Action Create your own 3D maps with only one click! Every shape is possible and delivers a professional result. Ideal for web graphics, infographics or presentations. Choose between three different directions (left, right or frontal). The tileable texture can be moved unlimited and the shadows and layers of earth are placed on single layers, so that they can be edited every time. Then create your own personal terrain with the 30 detailed bonus elements, which most of them are editable, too. Please also watch the Video Presentation and the screenshot examples. Package includes PSD file with all bonus elements and shape examples ATN and ASL files with the required actions and styles Short Instructions PDF Please watch the Video Presentation Shape examples (only for testing) of USA, Russia, France, Japan, China, Poland, India, UK, Germany and complete World.
The Ultimate Collection of Free Photoshop Patterns Photoshop patterns offer a quick way to enhance your project with a cohesive look. Here are a collection of absolutely beautiful photoshop patterns. Whether you use patterns to fill the entire background of your site or just a specific area of your design, you will definitely find these useful. Download these free Photoshop patterns to make an amazing poster printing design. 70′s Photoshop Pattern “Here’s an old 70′s looking Photoshop Pattern that I made a while back and had no use for so I decided to share it with the community. Download File Patterns from PunkSafetyPin This set of 15 patterns from a deviantART user offers more than 30 other packs of patterns. Download File Checkered Carbon Fiber Patterns Three different patterns featuring a checkered design. Download File Spiderman Pattern One tileable metal pattern. Download File Textured Stripes Six patterns of textured diagonal stripes of various colors. Download File Tile Patterns A large set of 36 patterns of tiles. Download File Vector Patterns