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By: ledirlo This tutorial demonstrates an effect that gets so photorealistic it led to some cheating controversies in the past. Aside from the interest of the created effect it also gives key layer technique information. The only material needed is these two photos, the crumpled paper and what we want printed on it. Let's start by opening the two photos and moving the grass photo above the paper's layer; you can turn the grass layer into multiply mode and transform it to get the correct placement. In this case I chose to avoid the darkest tree parts as they don't produce a great effect on the paper. Once finished, press CTRL+I so you invert the layer mask. The selection's edges have very little chance of being perfect already so I used the smudge tool with a large soft brush to push or draw the layer mask so it fits the paper edges perfectly. Now time for using the layer blending modes. You can now flatten all the texture layers to make a single object above the original background. Related:  photoshopssp142

Photo Retouching | Skin Retouching in Photoshop This tutorial will help you learn how to speed up skin retouching and polish photos in Photoshop using basic techniques. Original Photo Step 1 Duplicate the background image and rename it to Layer 1. Step 2 Go to Filter > Other > High Pass and set the Radius to around 4.5 pixels. Step 3 Change the Blending Options for Layer 1 from Normal to Soft Light and uncheck the eye to make Layer 1 invisible for the next step. Step 4 Duplicate the background image again and rename it to Layer 2. Step 5 As you’ll see the image will be just slightly blurred and smoothen out but not the edges. Step 6 Flatten Image and use the Clone Stamp Tool mixed with a Soft Brush with the Flow set to around 30% to manually select areas next to one another, blend it in as much as you can using this tool to make further improvements to the skin. Step 7 This step here is to quickly balance out the whole lot, to do that we need that extra bit of shadow to be added to the overall image. Final Result

La pose longue Bienvenue sur Apprendre la Photo !Si vous êtes nouveau ici, vous voudrez peut-être faire un tour sur la page Par où commencer, qui vous aidera à vous y retrouver parmi tous les articles.Merci de votre visite, et à bientôt sur Apprendre la Photo ! :) De jour, de nuit, au coucher de soleil, à la mer, devant un lac ou sans eau du tout, la pose longue peut être un outil créatif intéressant pour le photographe qui a envie de donner un plus à ses images. L’aspect est tout de suite plus original (l’oeil ne voit pas en pose longue), et souvent plus « pro ». En effet, l’intérêt d’une pose longue est de flouter les éléments qui sont en mouvement. Elle peut également avoir un intérêt purement technique : si vous n’avez vraiment pas assez de lumière, une pose longue sera le seul moyen de réaliser une photo correctement exposée. Ici typiquement, la pose longue est employée pour pallier le manque de lumière ! Il est également très conseillé d’avoir une télécommande. Le trio gagnant ! Pourquoi ?

25 Must Watch Photoshop CS5 Video Tutorials Photoshop is one of the favorite software used by most of the designers. Here are 25 most demanding and selected video Photoshop CS5 Tutorials that cover everything you expect. So now photographers get relaxed and get ready. Learning any software from your own is not that easy but it gets easier if you find video tutorials for what you are going to learn. If you are trying to learn photoshop CS5 then we have collected 25 Most demanding Photoshop CS 5 video tutorials, ranging from basic to advanced. With its new powerful features, it provides designers with a flexible tool for printing, making a video or designing for the Web. Hope you will enjoy the post.. Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-feed, follow us on Twitter and like our facebook Fan page for recent updates. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions | Developer& Photoshop Effects: recreate the look of a medium format portrait When I first got in to photography, which wasn't quite 100 years ago, there were three reasonably clear groups of camera user. The happy snappers used compacts, the enthusiasts used SLRs and the professionals used medium, or large, format. If you were a really 'serious' amateur, and every club had at least one of these Yodas, you might have got yourself a medium format system, using 6x4.5cm, 6x6cm or even 6x7cm frames of 120 roll film. If you were a professional wedding or landscape photographer you wouldn't have dreamt of using a 35mm SLR, for credibility reasons as much as for quality, and a happy snapper wouldn't have known which end of a 35mm SLR or medium format camera to look through. Not much of that has meant a great deal in the last eight or so years, and the lines between what is professional equipment and what is amateur are exceedingly blurred. Old format, old hat In the meantime, many of us have forgotten what medium format means and what medium format can do.

Create Surreal Artwork via Simple Break Apart Effect and Smoke Texture in Photoshop Create Surreal Artwork via Simple Break Apart Effect and Smoke Texture in Photoshop In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Surreal Artwork via Simple Break Apart Effect in Photoshop. I will also introduce the use of dynamic brushsets to generate a “magic dust” effect. Have a try! Techniques included in this tut are layer mask, image adjustments, cloud rendering and various tools. Here is a preview of my final image for this tutorial: (click to enlarge) Alternative version with colours added: PSD File Download You can download the PSD File for this tutorial via the VIP Members Area for only $6.95/Month (or less)! OK Let’s get started! To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks: Stone Background (the first image on the page) Girl Smoke Brush Step 1 Create a new document sized 1000px * 1500px, Levels Curves Black and White You will have the following effect so far: Step 2 Now let’s get on to the break apart effect creation. That’s it! Step 3 Step 4 Levels: Curves:

Exposer à droite : pourquoi, comment ? Bienvenue sur Apprendre la Photo !Si vous êtes nouveau ici, vous voudrez sans doute lire mon guide qui répond aux 5 problèmes courants des débutants : Cliquez ici pour télécharger le guide gratuitement !Merci de votre visite, et à bientôt sur Apprendre la Photo ! :) Vous avez peut-être déjà entendu ou lu ce terme ici ou là, y compris sur ce blog, mais ce n’est pas forcément une notion si évidente que ça à comprendre. En écoutant les différents conférenciers qui m’ont fait le plaisir de venir sur mon stand au Salon de la Photo, je me suis rendu compte que la notion d’exposition à droite était souvent évoquée, et pourtant je ne suis pas sûr à 100 % que tout le monde la comprenne à fond. Pourquoi exposer à droite ? Rien à voir avec un musée, donc L’idée de cette technique est de tirer le meilleur du capteur de votre appareil photo. Cela vaut en particulier dans les situations à forte dynamique, c’est-à-dire quand la scène est contrastée. Rappels utiles L’histogramme L’exposition

Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below. You might also enjoy: Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper Windows Vista Aurora Effect Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad NoPattern “Jumper” Effect Mysterious Lighting Effect How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks Creating a Mac-Type Background Luminescent Lines Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect Abstract Dust And Spray Effect Make a dreamy abstract background Digital Bokeh effect Abstract Lines Background Abstract Light Rays Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb How to create 3D abstract circles Comments Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?

1000+ FREE High Resolution GIMP Brushes | Noupe Last week we published our first GIMP post “30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources” and saw a great appreciation from our readers. So this week, i would like to share with you 1000+ high-Resolution GIMP brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Also you will find some useful tutorial to teach you how to create your first GIMP brush-set and how to convert Photoshop brushes into GIMP brushes and more. Please note that Photoshop Brushes are now Fully Compatible with Gimp 2.4 and up. Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them. 1. 1.1 GIMP Grunge Brush Pack 2 10 grunge GIMP brushes. 1.2 GIMP Scratchies Containing all six brushes in this set for the GIMP 1.3 Grunge brush set 3 Includes an imagepack and brushes for Gimp. 1.4 More grunge brushes 13 grunge brushes; includes .gbrs for Gimp and an imagepack. 2. 2.1 Floral I 2.2 Floral Part 2 There are 6 big brushes of flower brushes. 2.3 Floral Brushes 3. 4.

Traditional Japanese Crafts: Silk Folded Flowers I run Atelier Kanawa (which means “studio to play Japanese harmony & peace”) and I would love to share my stories of my ancestors who were in Kimono business and how I am trying to keep these traditions alive. My great grandfather was an artisan who dyed Kimono designs, mainly Yukata, the Summer Kimono. My grandmother was a Kimono tailor, and both my mother and my aunt graduated from Kimono academy. My aunt has been teaching Kimono classes in Japan. Since January in 2005, I have been studying Kimono and dressing with them myself. And since March 2006, I have been learning to dress other people. I also study how to dye Kimono designs by Bingata Katazome, which is the traditional Japanese method of dyeing fabric in Okinawa (southern part of Japan), using a resist paste applied through stencil. I am also pursuing classical Japanese dance by Hanayagi-style, which includes Geisha dance, Noh, and Kabuki. Today, there are ONLY 15 acknowledged Tsumami Kanzashi artisans in the whole world. Part 1

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