Eye Sharpening - Photoshop Tutorial - 416 Studios
With this tutorial you can create amazing, bright eyes within minutes. First retouch, adjust levels and do all necessary colour corrections on your image. With a Lasso Tool (L) select the eyes (hold Shift key to add to selection).
How to Make a Pattern: Learn How to Draw Patterns Step by Step
learn how to draw patterns step by step Learn how to make a pattern in this easy drawing tutorial! Once you learn how to make patterns, you can use them in your art in all kinds of ways. For instance, take a look at the colorful painting to the right.
The 30 best Photoshop plugins
In this article we've lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe's photo editing giant today. Photoshop is an amazing tool - capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and even create very passable 3D renders. 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. 01.
How to Break the Rules of Writing (& More) According to Bestselling YA author Ransom Riggs
Like most first conversations and bad first drafts, my (WD’s Managing Editor Adrienne Crezo) interview with Ransom Riggs begins with a discussion about the weather. And not just any weather, either, but peculiar versions of standard precipitation: dust storms, cloudbursts, thundersnow and tornadoes. Of course, Riggs is experiencing none of those phenomena as he sits in the warmth of the never-ending summer of Los Angeles. “I hate to tell you what it’s like here right now,” he says.
54 free Photoshop actions
Adobe's flagship image-editing software Photoshop has a powerful programming language built-in that allows you to record tasks as an 'action' and replay the steps to complete the task automatically. Not only can you record your own but you can also import actions, opening up a whole range of effects and time-saving options – whether you're using an older CS or have signed up to the very latest Creative Cloud version. So to add to our collections of Photoshop plugins and Photoshop resources, here are some great Photoshop actions that are free to download and install, for photographers, graphic designers, game artists and more. You can jump to the section you want from the dropdown menu above, but you should definitely check out the entire list – who knows where inspiration will strike! Photo filters 01.
Zentangle: Pattern-Drawing as Meditation
by Maria Popova If greater creativity and more mental balance are among your new year’s resolutions, look no further than Zentangle — a type of meditation achieved through pattern-making, created by artist duo Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts. Each pattern is built one line at a time, organically combining simple patterns into complex zentangles in unplanned, unexpected ways that grow, change and unfold on the page as you enter an immersive state of flow. Totally Tangled offers a fantastic introduction to the relaxing and beautiful practice through step-by-step instructions and over 100 original tangles. We’re particularly taken with Zentagle because its basic principle — building on simple shapes and combining different patterns into complex creativity — is such a beautiful visual metaphor for our core philosophy of combinatorial creativity.
Four New Photoshop Plugins for 2013 » Colortrails
Perfect Black & White Among the newPhotoshop plugins available from onOne Software in 2013, Perfect Black & White is my favorite. “Perfect B&W” as it’s known, gives onOne Software users an equivalent workflow that’s long been enjoyed by users of Nik’s Silver Efex Pro: the ability to take a color photo and convert it to a professional looking black and white image. As you might imagine, a brand new plugin should take advantage of the latest UI developments in the onOne suite, and Perfect B&W doesn’t disappoint. Easy preset browsing, collapsible side panels, and intuitive masking tools are all available to speed you through the workflow. The image below provides an idea of just much control you have.
100 Wonderful Photoshop Photo Effects tutorials
How can we define what’s a photo effect? That was my main concern when I started the research to build this list. Despite of this situation, I had one thing clear: the final result had to be quite different from the orignal picture and be recognized as a post production photo manipulation.
