Photoshop For Beginners: 6 techniques to extract anything from its background This is the second of a series of tutorials thought for Photoshop beginners. I’ll explain in depth those features that can result difficult to understand for a newbi. Today I’ll show you 6 techniques you can use to extract a person/object from its background. From now on extraction won’t have secrets for you! Extraction is one of the worst enemies for those who start using Photoshop. Do you want to learn Photoshop basics with simple yet effective tutorials? How to: Before we start: in the following exercises I take for grant you’ll unlock the background layer when you open a new image in Photoshop before start the exercise. For mac users: alt=options. ctrl=cmd. Exercise 1: How to extract simple form objects Objects with simple forms are easy to be extracted. Open the screw image in Photoshop. Now that it’s easier to find the center of the screw head, grab the elliptical marquee tool, hold down alt and shift, left click on the center of the screw and drag until you select the entire object.
Getting to Grips with the Vanishing Point Filter - Psdtuts+ These two tutorials are simple guides about using Photoshop's Vanishing Point filter in photo editing. We'll learn some of the basics about making selections, cloning areas, and pasting images into the vanishing point filter window. This is a beginner level tutorial that will help you master the basics on this topic. Before we get started, let's take a look at the image we'll be creating. The Vanishing Point filter is all about perspective, when you're editing photography, perspective is one of the most important issues to consider, the Vanishing Point filter helps us to make it easy. The first one it's about adding realistic floors to a building. Add a layer mask to the picture layer and paint with a huge brush on it. Now, go to Filters > Vanishing point, remember when you're working with the Vanishing point filter, all the editing (paste, select, clone) must be done into the Vanishing Point Filter window and nowhere else. Now the fun! Let's add some floors next. And that's it!
60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials | Dennis Plucinik's Web Design Blog These are advanced techniques that require more than just technical knowledge of Photoshop, they require talent, Photoshop training, knowledge of design, layout, balance, color theory, etc. I hope you find these techniques inspiring and helpful. UPDATE: If you like these tutorials, you might love this:60+ (more) Advanced Photoshop & GIMP Tutorials UPDATE: (8/28/13) I just updated any broken links and replaced unreachable tutorials with new ones. Text-effects: Movie techniques: Vector effects: Photo Retouching: Photo Manipulation: Web Buttons / Interface Elements: Digital Coloring: Digital Painting: I'm generally not not a huge fan of producing an effect in Photoshop that looks like it was produced in Photoshop. My thoughts are that after having used Photoshop since version 2.5 LE primarily for comping out web interfaces and some mild digital art, I've found that there are many features to help you but not do the work for you. Helpful Links
Photoshop techniques explained: Exposure | Photography Modern camera exposure and dynamic range optimisation systems are extremely sophisticated, but the majority of images still bene fit from a tweak to the exposure or contrast. Even when a camera does manage to produce an image that's near perfect, you may decide to reduce the exposure to ensure that there's detail in the brightest highlights, or to increase it to bring out shadow detail. Many landscape photographers, for example, routinely underexpose the foreground of their images to make sure that the white clouds have some tonal detail. Exposure control Given that exposure control is such a fundamental part of photography, it's no surprise that Photoshop offers an extensive array of ways to adjust it. Brightness/Contrast Levels Curves Exposure Shadows/Highlights HDR Toning These can all be used, with Levels and Curves often being the choice of experienced photographers. So, what's a Histogram? The 'average' image The 'over-exposed' image The 'under-exposed' image Graduated filter in ACR
Photoshop Tips & Tricks In 1990, I had the great pleasure of introducing Russell Brown and a new software package from Adobe to several hundred attendees of my Great Graphics Tips session at Macworld. Photoshop Tips & Tricks has been part of DT&G ever since. High dynamic range, HDR WOW Trey Ratcliff's writings and tutorials in high dynamic range photography has spawned a huge following in this dramatic technique for taking pictures. When you see it, you won't be able to resist the camera to Photoshop results Design Projects: Easier? The idea is simple. High Dynamic Range Photography High Dynamic Range Imaging is a technique that lets you to portray a much greater range of tonal detail than a given camera could capture in a single photo. Russian Paintings In a world now congested with super, expert Photoshop photo manipulators, this artist defies the digital world with exquisite paintings in the tradition of the Dutch Masters. Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Record an action in Photoshop Photoshop for Fingerprinting
Complete Reference Guides and Online Manuals for All Adobe Tools Even years after it went up, a lot of people still don’t know about it. We’re talking about the free online documentation for all Adobe software – a set of user manuals that can answer quite a few customer questions, and also be a great resource if you don’t use a product yet but want to find out more about it… This exists in searchable and downloadable form for all major Adobe applications, including the Creative Cloud, Creative Suite, Lightroom, Acrobat, Photoshop Elements, etc. – for all recent releases on both Windows and Mac OS. For example, every so often we receive a question on how to save back to earlier versions from InDesign CC or CS6… Fortunately, this is answered in the “Saving Documents” section in InDesign’s online manual. (And for all the cases like these, we also put together a special roadmap for CC file compatibility.) Related: Do you believe any of these? So now here below are the direct links to all the product guides to bookmark for your future reference: Important!
Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Advertisement Learning is a process which continues throughout the life of an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. Along the way, designers find the task of mastering Adobe Illustrator a large obstacle which requires practice and experience in using the vector-based application. Practice comes in the form of tutorials, which offer tips, tricks, and artistic styles from other designers who have mastered certain techniques based on their experience. From these tutorials, a designer can polish their skillsets on a variety of topics which will strengthen their own artwork. This post presents 40 excellent simple to complex Illustrator tutorials and presents the overall techniques of each tutorial, summarized in a brief overview. Illustrator Tutorials Gradient Mesh Bell Pepper Tutorial Use multiple smaller Meshes to create a realistic objectLearn to use the Eyedropper Tool (I) to sample colors from a reference photo How to create a Television Icon Illustrate a Malevolent Skull in 8 Steps
Tutorials Welcome to the second tutorial about creating custom brushes in Photoshop! Rickard (who did the awesome first tutorial) and I decided to create a little tutorial series about brushes in PSP 7 and CS. This tutorial will take you through the creation of natural brushes in Photoshop 7, such as watercolor, pastels or japanese tusche brushes. Those are easy to create but make work a lot more simple. Natural brushes can be used for digital painting and for painting textures. If you read Rickards tutorial about custombrushes in Photoshop, than you should already know the basics of creating brushes.Therefore I won't tell you every detail, but just give you an overview of the brush editor and a short description for every brush. In this second tutorial we will create a japanese tusche brush and a basic brush. "The Jpanese Ink Brush" "The Basic Brush" This brush can be used for simulating acrylics or any other painting method that uses a brush. /Johan (www.takuan.de)
Learn the Basics of Photoshop in Under 25 Minutes Custom Brushes in Photoshop - getting started by Rickard Johansson Using a brush set 1. Edit and save So far, you've saved your brush in your basic set (it appears by the end of your standard brush listing). To get a little more control over it and to save a whole set you can use something called "The Preset Manager". Access it by going to "Edit/Preset Manager..." in the menu. Note: Creating sets in Photoshop CS and then trying to load them in Photoshop 7 won't work. 2. When you want to load your sets, enter the menu for the brush tool. Reset Brushes - This will replace all the brushes you have with the standard set. Load Brushes - Here you load you custom brushes into the standard list. Save Brushes - Will save all available brushes (just like you did in the "Preset Manager" with the difference that here it will save them all, not just the selected ones). Replace Brushes - This is the other way of loading your brush set. That's it! Good luck with the creative process! /Rickard < previous page
8 Photoshop Tricks I Wish I Knew when I was a Student | Onextrapixel -... - StumbleUpon Graphics Photoshop is one of the (if not THE) most well known software used in the design industry when it comes to manipulating images and pixels. As a web designer I had some Photoshop lessons at school but that was 2 years ago. Today the software has evolved, more options are available, and I also learn a few tricks while practicing. You will find in this article eight tricks I wish I knew when I was a student (or wish existed in previous Photoshop versions). Easier Illustrator-like Layer Auto-Select As I do a lot of logo / UI design, I won’t hide it, I’m a huge fan of Illustrator. In Photoshop by default you have to go and select what you want to work on in the layer panel, and use a CTRL + click on the element to select it, or right-click somewhere in the working space and you’ll get a list of your layers (good luck if you did not rename them). Fortunately, there’s a simple tip to make Photoshop behave like illustrator. Get Better & Quicker Control on Your Current Tool Size Conclusion