Best Design Options for Designers Making Selections With The Pen Tool In Photoshop Written by Steve Patterson. When it comes to making selections in Photoshop, there's really two types of people - those who know how to use the Pen Tool, and those who struggle. Most people put off learning how to use the Pen Tool for as long as possible, while others never get around to learning it, believing it's just too confusing, too complicated, and just plain unnatural. Ultimately, their work in Photoshop suffers for it, since they're stuck relying on the Lasso Tool for just about everything they can't select with the Rectangular or Elliptical Marquee Tools. In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to put an end to the suffering. We're going to learn just how easy it really is to make selections with the Pen Tool. Now, when I say "easy", I don't mean you're going to read this tutorial and be instantly transformed into a Pen Master. One of the great things about the Pen Tool is that it's not something that's exclusive to Photoshop. Where Do I Find The Pen Tool? Pierre Bezier
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Music for Your Design Inspiration Music is without a doubt one of the most appreciated inspiration resources by designers and artists of any discipline. Surely, you've been curious about the musical preferences of the creatives whose work you most admire. Today, we bring you an interesting selection of Spotify lists, over 20 hours of music selected by some of the most recognized agencies in the world and who are also part of our Jury. Some of the Awwward winners have also shared some of their favorite musical sources of inspiration. So just kick back, relax and enjoy! Playlists selected Tobias Van Schneider Freelance art director & visual designer.
Unlock The Full Power Of Basic Selections In Photoshop Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to look at how to get the most out of Photoshop’s basic selection tools, such as the Marquee tools or the Lasso tool. If all you’ve been using them for is to make a new selection every time, you’ve been missing out on their full potential. Let’s start by taking a look at how to add to an existing selection. Adding To A Selection To keep things simple, I have a fairly basic shape open in my Document Window: A basic shape in Photoshop. I want to select this shape using the most common selection tool in all of Photoshop, the Rectangular Marquee Tool, so I’m going to grab it from my Tools palette: Selecting the Rectangular Marquee Tool from Photoshop’s Tools palette. I could also press M on my keyboard to quickly access it. Now, let’s say all I know how to do is make a new selection with this tool. Dragging a selection around the bottom half of the shape. There we go, looks good. There we go, the top of the shape is now selected.
ocenaudio audio editor ocenaudio is available for all major operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Native applications are generated for each platform from a common source, in order to achieve excelent performance and seamless integration with the operating system. All versions of ocenaudio have a uniform set of features and the same graphical interface, so the skills you learn in one platform can be used in the others. To assist ocenaudio development, a powerful toolset of audio editing, analysis and manipulation called Ocen Framework was created. ocenaudio is also based on Qt framework, a well known library for cross-platform development.
High Speed Motion Trail Effect Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photo Effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to add a sense of speed to an object using an easy to create motion blur effect! This "speed trail" effect is very popular in sports photography since it’s a great way to add motion, direction and excitement to an image, creating the illusion that an athlete, for example, is blazing past the competition at super human speed. Of course, this effect works just as well with a photo of your kids running in the backyard, or people dancing at a party, or any image where the subject should appear to be moving. I’ll be working with Photoshop CS4 for this tutorial, but you can create this effect with any version of Photoshop. Here’s the image I’ll be using: The original image. Here’s how the image will look after giving the racecar a high speed motion trail: The final “motion trail” effect. Let’s get started! Step 1: Select The Object You Want To Apply The Motion Blur To Step 2: Copy The Selected Area To A New Layer
Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis | 293 free trance samples Continuing our run through of some of today's most popular genres, here we're stepping into the euphoric world of trance. Born in the 1990s, this anthemic form of dance music has been a fixture in clubs ever since. Its signature synth sounds are currently being used in hip-hop, too, while Calvin Harris's number 1 hit I'm Not Alone also features a classic trance riff. What you need to know The samples are split intro instrumental categories: Basslines, Drums, Explosions, Leads, Pads and Trance Piano. All the samples are supplied as 24-bit WAV files so can be imported directly into your DAW of choice. The trance samples are supplied in a zip file, so you'll need to extract them before you can see them. Example loops Bassline Explosion Drum loop Pad Lead Piano Trance samples: click to download Trance samples (510MB) These samples originally appeared on Computer Music magazine's cover DVD. Trance tutorials 26 trance tips How to make a massive lead synth sound
56 Absolutely Brilliant and Intriguing Photoshop Video Tutorials We see a lot of Photoshop tutorials on the net, but most of what we come across are tutorials written in a step-by-step manner. In most cases, the instructions are clear-cut and easy to follow, but few would argue against an even more effective kind of tutorial: Video tutorials. With the emergence of video sharing websites such as Youtube and Metacafe over the recent years, we see an ever-increasing number of user-generated videos from all over the net. Some of these videos came from avid Photoshop fans sharing their tips, while others originates from websites dedicated to Photoshop techniques sharing their video tutorials on a regular basis. These videos give the most direct demonstration of how to achieve certain image effects via Adobe Photoshop. With such boundless video resources on Photoshop tips and tricks, it will be quite a waste not to utilize them to sharpen our Photoshop skills. More: Check out our collection of more Photoshop Tutorials. 1. 2. Got a Light? 3. 4.
DJ Music Online (mix 20 millions songs!) - PartyCloud 9 Great blogs that regularly publish Photoshop tutorials | Free Design Resources By Jobey Buya - Thursday, June 19, 2014 - No Comments Its always great to see incredible Photoshop tutorials and learn something new everytime while following one, Here's 9 great Blogs that makes regularly cool tutorials with valuable Photoshop tips . Share This: Like1Tweet0+2Pin it0 I'm Jobey. an alien who decided to go as a human in EARTH. Understanding Actions in Photoshop - LensVid.comLensVid.com On this video photographer Nino Batista goes back to Photoshop basics and looks at everything you need to know about using actions in Photoshop. Actions are simply a set of functions or operations that a user can record and use later on automatically with one click of a bottom in Photoshop (you can also have actions in windows or MAC and many other programs – but that is a matter for another lesson). An action can be simple – like reduce opacity and increase contrast or can be very complex involving many changes to you image with a single click of the mouse. Batista also mentions the Phlern actions from phlearn (called the phlearnmethod), we actually mentioned these in this video in the past – we also highly recommend them and you can download a few of them for free to check out what they do. As we have mentioned in one of his previous videos, Batista created a set of actions that work well for his style of retouching and he demonstrate that in the video.
Free Engraved Illustration Effect Action for Photoshop My most popular tutorial of 2014 was my guide to creating a realistic money effect in Photoshop, which explained the steps to achieve an authentic engraved illustration style. The process is quite time consuming, so I figured it would be useful to follow it up with a ready made Photoshop Action that produces the effect automatically with just the click of a button. Choose from 3 levels of detail for your image, then the Action will transform your photo into a realistic engraved illustration. This free Photoshop Action transforms your photographs into realistic engraved illustrations with the click of a button, allowing you to easily create money or wood cut style effects. The download package contains the Photoshop .atn Action file and a .pat Pattern file. Make sure your image is contained on the Background layer, then choose one of the three levels of detail from the Engraved Effect Action. The engraved effect layers are neatly contained within a layer group.
41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] - Hongkiat Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it. So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Mental Wave Explosion EffectHow to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.