12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started With Photoshop This series is supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe, Ben & Jerry's new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here. Adobe Photoshop, the ubiquitous and industry standard graphics software for photographers, designers, digital artists, as well as casual enthusiasts, can be a baffling application to understand the first time you fire it up. In this post, I've pieced together 12 excellent Photoshop tutorials geared toward beginners. Because this is specifically for beginners — and because Photoshop's robust set of features is near-bottomless — I've skipped intermediate and advanced topics such as drawing with the Pen tool and working with 3D effects. If you have tips for aspiring Photoshoppers, share them in the comments below. 1. This tutorial on SitePoint, a popular site for web professionals, will guide you through the Photoshop fundamentals and the basic tools available at your disposal. 2. 3. 4. 5. Layer styles are one or more effects that alter a layer. 6.
10 Sites for Selling Your Creative Masterpieces Some people just have the knack. While other still can’t cut a straight line decades after kindergarten and struggle with pattern instructions, they’re knitting layettes, weaving rugs, making adorable stuffed owls, one of a kind candles, or recreating the Sistine Chapel ceiling in their dining room. And every time they complete another fabulous project, their friends say “You should sell these!” They smile and nod, but have no idea where to begin. The thought of websites, advertising, pricing and taxes makes their feet go cold and the dream grows cold with them. Sounds familiar? Selling your crafts, or art, online isn’t nearly as difficult as you imagine. #1 Etsy ( Etsy sellers list handmade and vintage (over 20 years old) items, as well as craft supplies. #2 Art Fire ( Art Fire members sell fine arts, handmade, vintage, design and media creations, along with supplies. #3 Walkabout Crafts ( Like this post?
Les noms des stations de Métro prises au pied de la lettre Au milieu des années 90, le photographe Janol Apin a mis en scène les noms des stations du métro Parisien avec humour et imagination. De Monceau à Rue de la pompe en passant par Duroc et Dupleix, les stations parisiennes parlent le langage international du mime. Famous Quotes - Over 2.5 Million Funny, Inspirational, Life Quotes! Surreal images created by Romanian Photoshop artist Caras Ionut By Emma Thomas Published: 13:34 GMT, 5 November 2013 | Updated: 16:11 GMT, 5 November 2013 An elephant balances perilously on a tiny cartwheel and a young girl dangles her legs from a swing thousands of feet in the air. These surreal images may make you want to look twice as the everyday is blended with the unusual using Photoshop. Photographer and artist Caras Ionut has created the stunning images by twisting his own, ordinary photographs into bizarre and otherworldly creations. Surreal: Artist Caras Ionut lives in the world of Photoshop where he digitially assembles surreal landscapes and portraits. Precarious: Impossible physical feats like this elephant balancing on a wheel (left) are made possible in the 'dreamlike' artworks. Manipulation: This stag's antlers have been re-imagined as trees complete with nesting birds and This little girl takes a ride on a huge fish in Caras Ionut's artwork Going for a walk: This child is walking a huge bison across a wasteland in the picture by Ionut
IllusionMage® Easy 3D Animation Software Program - The Best In Computer 3D Animation Programs Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop Matte paintings are images commonly used in the film industry to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build. In this tutorial I will show you how to turn a single stock photo into a realistic panoramic scene. Click to enlarge the image. Resources The following images were used during the production of this image. Step 1 Download the following stock image in order to follow this step-by-step tutorial: if you choose to work on a different plate, try to find a photo with a mostly clear sky so it will be easier to enlarge the photo in the following steps. Now open your stock of choice in Photoshop and increase the canvas size in all directions except for the ground. Step 2 Now we will start to fill the new transparent area with life. Next we have to get rid of the sharp edges in the upper layer. Step 3 The left area now obviously looks duplicated, so we will use the Clone Stamp Tool (S) to fix that. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9
Evernote, guide officiel Evernote peut stocker de nombreux types de contenus différents, et les simples textes sont les plus communs. Que ce soit une note écrite pour vous, une portion d'une page web que vous aimeriez sauvegarder, ou un email reçu dont vous voulez garder la trace, Evernote sait comment le gérer. En gardant ceci à l'esprit, créons votre première note. C'est aussi simple que cela. Quand vous avez fini de taper votre note, vous n'avez rien de plus à faire. Suivant Il existe de nombreuses autres façons de personnaliser vos notes (ajouter des étiquettes, choisir un carnet de destination, etc.) mais c'est déjà un bon début.
The 35 best Photoshop plugins | Photoshop In this article we've lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe Creative Cloud's photo editing giant. Photoshop is an amazing tool – capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and very passable renders for 3D art. All this power offers a world of possibilities – but occasionally it's worth adding a few optional extras to get the most out of your investment. There's a plethora of plugins available for PS users, but we've selected the best of those that you can download and use straight away. Publisher: Filter ForgePrice: $149-$399 (now with 80% discount $29 - $79)Good for: Photographers, photo editors, graphic designers, 3D artists Currently in version 6.0, Filter Forge offers 11 thousands of filter effects and textures, covering almost every application you can imagine. 63 Photoshop shortcuts to speed up your workflow Publisher: Alien SkinPrice: $129 (free trial available)Best for: Designers 01. Publisher: FontselfPrice: £43Good for: Designers 02. 03. 04.
10 Portrait Photography Tips And The Fun You Can Have With It Portrait Photography isn’t meant to be boring. It’s supposed to be fun, creative, and exciting. While you can take portraits the traditional way, you may want to experiment a little and try taking some portraits that bend the traditional rules a little bit. Here are some portrait photography tips for you. 1. Change the perspective Many photographers take portraits with the camera at or close to the subject’s eye level if you change the shooting angle it can give the photo a whole different perspective. 2. If your subject has something to look at in the image, such as a child reaching out for a puppy, a loving mother gazing at her newborn baby, a large man hungrily staring at a large pizza, etc. you can create another point of interest as well as a relationship between your subject and it. The second point of interest can also create more of a story in the photo and this is the most amazing part of these portrait photography tips. 3. 4. 5. They will appear more relaxed and natural. 6. 7. 8.
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25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos Getting a little bored with how your photos are presented online? How about injecting some fun and humor into it? You don’t really need to be Photoshop literate to edit and add effects to your photos. There’re some great sites out there that allow you to add effects to your photo by using their existing effect templates. The best part is – they are free, the output is shown immediately on the fly, and no installation of apps is required. Here’s a collection of ten websites to have fun with your photos we’ve come to know. 13 Sites to Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself 13 Sites to Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself Thanks to many free web services, you don't have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. PhotoFunia One of the hottest site with tons of creative backgrounds to play around with. Photo505 We’d say, with Photo505 and Photofunia, you’ll be buzy for days. Loonapic Make funny photos by embedding your face from the photo into the various templates. PhotoWorks Write On It