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Make a Cool unique latest text effect

2012-04-23T21:27:00.001-07:00

Here we will tell you how to make a Cool-unique-latest-text-effect in photoshop.

[1] Finding a good image like this.

[2] Now press Cntl+Shift+U.

[3] Then go to Image > Adjustments > Threshold use these settings.

[4] Your image will be like this.

[5] Then, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur use the following settings.

[6] After that, go to Image Adjustments > Curves apply these settings.

[7] Your image should be look like this.

[8] Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map use these settings.

[9] Thanks for reading, I hope this photoshop tutorial has taught you few photoshop tricks and techniques and you can use them in your website design project. Your final image will look like this.

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ISOMETRIC POOL

2012-03-25T09:18:00.000-07:00

First to say this is my first tutorial, and though I hope to work many others, this is the only one for now. It's also my fist isometric drawing, so this will be also a self-tutorial :)

We will be using MS Paint and Paint Shop Pro for this tutorial. Step 1. First of all we will be creating a cube on an isometric view (1), then we must shade it according to our own liking, matching what we have planned using default Windows palette (2). Last of all we re-color it using the real final palette for our project (3). We will be using a 7 color blueish palette (4), enough for 3 different intensitiy cubes (5).

Step 2. Now it is time to form the outline on four pool using those cubes we have just drawn. Just copy and paste enough cubes to build the form you desire for the pool (6).

Repeat again with 2 more levesls, with the darkest intensity in the bottom and 2 less cubes length (one from each side).

Step 3. Now to the floor, the most easy part. As the floor is at the bottom it must be shaded with the darkest tones (obvius enough eh?)

We create our floor tile using 2 deep blue tones, but you can define any tile you like to personalize your image.

So we have an... empty pool... we are missing something... The water! This will be the real touch-up for the pool, giving the quality feel to the whole thing.

Our aim is to create our "water tile", create the full texture and apply a translucency effect in a layer for it, reducing then the color number... let's see it on a step by step basis.

First take your empty pool (6) and "fill" the inside with a color from MS paint palette... the color is not important, just use any one you like, take the image to paint shop pro and with the wand icon select the fill. Then copy it (Ctrl+C) and on a blank Paint image you paste it (Ctrl+V). This should be the result (with your own choice for the color...)

Ok... nice but then what do I do with that solid fill? This is just the "shape" we will use to texture the water. Now create your water texture, i used 6 colors for mine... try to use just a few colors... round 3 to 7 is my suggestion. The texture must be big enough to fill the full paste area. You can draw the full texture or just a tile and "tile" it in the area.

Now to "cut" our texture just selkect your fill color (in MS Paint) as transparent color and overlay it on the texture.

Step 5. Now on PsP, copy your image from step 3 and our texture... insert this last one as a new layer, put it in place and apply a translucency effect... 'round 24% opacity is what I used. Now reduce color depth (colors->decrease color depth) and voilа... this should be the resutlt (aprox).

Now just play round with gamma, luminance (brightness/contrast) or color adjusting to refine the colors to your liking... add some small details and the work is done... time to go swimming!

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Draps and Knots Header

2012-03-24T02:32:00.002-07:00

Start by creating a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.

Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select warp. Select Bulge from the preset warp shapes on top bar. Apply settings as shown.

Press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select rotate 90° CW. Press Ctrl+T again. Right click the layer and select warp. Select Bulge from the preset warp shapes on top bar. Apply settings as shown.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

You should now have a faded shape like the one below.

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Retro Web Menu

2012-03-22T01:51:00.000-07:00

Start by applying a gradient to the background layer.

Create a triangular shape using polygon shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Duplicate the layer. Right click the layer and select rotate 180°. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Change shadow angle in inner shadow. Move the layer to the other site.

Create a triangular shape using polygon shape tool.

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Glossy Hanging Web Buttons

2012-03-21T08:24:00.002-07:00

Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool.

Enable "subtract from shape area" at the top bar. Create two triangular shape using polygon shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. Press Ctrl+T. Right Click and select Warp. Adjust the nodes to get the shape as shown. Fill it with white color.

Create a rounded rectangle using rounded rectangle shape tool. Move this layer below all the layers in layer order in layer palette. Apply same layer style.

Duplicate the layer, move and place as shown.

Create small rectangles using rectangular shape tool as shown.

Create a small rectangle for the clips using rectangular shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Similarly create more clips and place them as shown in the image below. We'll use these clips to hang the buttons to wire.

Select all the button layers. Press Ctrl+G to group. Duplicate the group several times and place as shown. Create two horizontal lines for the wires as shown.

Add a dash of color by create small blue circles on top right of buttons. Apply same layer style as used for the clips. Remove gradient overlay from the layer style.

Type link names over the buttons or use HTML/CSS later on to populate the menu.

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Pisces Symbol

2012-03-19T23:20:00.000-07:00

Start by applying a solid color to the background layer.

Double click this layer in layer window to unflatten it. Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply layer style with the settings shown.

Using custom shape tool create a preset 5 pont star shape.

Populate the background with stars of different sizes.

Rasterize the layer. Hide the background layer. Create a rectangular selection of the whole area using rectangular marquee tool.

From edit menu select define pattern. name the pattern "stars". We'll use this pattern regularly in later steps.

Change the layer mode of stars layer to overlay.

Using custom shape tool create a preset 5 pont star shape.

Create a circle for the eye using elliptical shape tool. Apply stroke layer style.

Create tail shape using pen tool.

Select and merge all the fish layers. Duplicate the layer. Right click and select rotate 180°. Place as shown.

Create a circle using elliptical shape tool.

Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply settings as shown.

Duplicate the circle layer several times to create an illusion of bubbles and place as shown.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool and type the star sign name over it. That should give it a finishing touch.

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Face Mask

2012-03-18T23:50:00.002-07:00

Page 1 Start by opening an image of a face. It would be easier to pick a photo where the face looking straight ahead so then it won't be so hard to put a mask on it.

Create a selection of the lower half of image using the lasso tool. Press Shift+Ctrl+D to feather the selection.

Press Ctrl+J to copy and paste the selection in a new layer. From the "Filter" menu select "Artistic>>Plastic Wrap". Apply settings as shown.

Change the layer mode to "Linear Light".

Similarly create a selection of the upper half of the image and use the same steps.

Create a mask using the pen tool.

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Frozen Paper

2012-03-17T23:48:00.000-07:00

Today i would like to share how to create amazing light effect in photoshop. In this tutorial we use fantastic method to make this effect. So, why not have a try...

1)Create a new file with 400x400 pixels with white background . Apply Filter--Render--Fibers with Variance-13 and Strenght-19.

2)Go to Filter--Brush Strokes--Angled strokes and set up Directional Balance-48 Stroke Length-17 Sharpness-5.

3)Press CTRL+U and apply :
Final result:

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2012-03-16T01:25:00.002-07:00

This effect uses a few free resources and Photoshop’s blending options – as with most of my tutorials, feel free to play around with the settings – you may find something you prefer – if not, you can easily go back or just delete the relevant layer!

Resources:

Occoluchi Outline Font from dafont.com
Starwalt Textured Florals Brushes from deviantart.com
Watercolour Background and Tainted Love Gradients – download here

Step 1

Create a new file using the following settings:

Select the Type tool, Occoluchi Outline font, size 400pt, foreground colour black
Type your required letter
Right click on the layer in the layers palette and click Rasterize Type
Rename the layer ‘outline’

Step 2

Erase the ornament from the letter using the Erase tool, Pen tool or your chosen method.
Select the Magic Wand tool and click inside the letter
Select>Modify>Expand – set to 2px, click OK
Create a new layer
Fill the selection with white
Drag the layer to beneath the original text layer
Rename the layer ‘fill’

Step 3

Double click on the fill layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay and Bevel & Emboss settings:

Step 4

Double click on the outline layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay and Bevel & Emboss settings:

Step 5

Create a new layer
Select the Brush tool, Textured Florals brushes, foreground colour white
Select the first brush in the set, set the size to 450px
Click once on the canvas
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:

Rename the layer ‘gem’
Duplicate the layer

Step 6

With the gem copy layer active
Select the Ellipse Marquee tool, hold down the shift key to maintain the proportions and drag out a circle the size of the gem

Hit the delete key – do not deselect
Make the gem layer active
Select>Inverse – hit the delete key
Ctrl + D to deselect

Step 7

Double click on the gem copy layer to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:

Step 8

Drag the outline layer to the top of the palette – your layer order should now be as shown below:

Step 9

Ctrl + Click on the thumbnail of the fill layer to select the pixels.
Make the gem copy layer active
Edit>Copy (Ctrl + C)
Hit the delete key
Edit>Paste (Ctrl + V)
Double click on this new layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Color Overlay settings:

Step 10

Turn off the visibility of the background layer
Right click on any visible layer and click Merge Visible

Step 11

Open the Watercolour Texture image
Edit>Copy (Ctrl + C)
Make your project active
Make the background layer active
Edit>Paste (Ctrl + V)
Add a layer mask by clicking on the icon at the bottom of the layers palette
Select a soft round brush
Make sure the foreground colour is black
Mask out the gem.
The finished project:

Here is another example, using 2 characters.
The ’1′ had the gradient overlay of the fill layer reversed.
Another floral ornament was applied, the same gradient added and it was rotated 180°, then a layer mask was added and parts of it were masked out.
The top part of the ’1′ was masked out to appear to be behind the ‘G’.
The serif of the ‘G’ was masked out to appear to be behind the ’1′.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and most importantly that you learnt something from it.

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Learn how to make shiny silver or chrome border around your text

2012-03-15T06:27:00.002-07:00

Latest Free photoshop tutorial Learn how to create chome border around your text for logo.Free Photoshop training and tutorial to create chrome or shiny silver border around your text.

Free photoshop tutorial to create chrome border on a text using photoshop features.

[1] Take a new file of 400 pixels, 300 pixels, of resolution
72 dpi in the RGB mode.

[2] Select the Text tool from

the tool pallete.

[3] Creating a black text on a white

backgroung like in the
picture.

[4] Now select the Drop Shadow from

the Layer style and use
the following settings.

[5] Now select the Inner Shadow Structure from the

Layer style
and use the following settings.

[6] Now select the Outer Glow Structure from the

Layer style
and use the following settings.

[7] Now select the Bevel and Emboss Structure from the Layer
style and use the following settings.

[8] Now select the Contour Elements from the Layer style and
use the following settings.

[9] Now select the Satin Structure from the Layer style and
use the following settings.

[10] Now select the Color Overlay Color from the Layer style
and use the following settings.

[11] Now select the Gradient Overlay Gradient from the Layer
style and use the following settings.

[12] Now select the Stroke Structure from the Layer style and
use the following settings.

[13] Here is your Metel Text Effect.

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Non-Destructive Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

2012-03-14T05:28:00.002-07:00

It may be hard to believe these days, but there was a time not so long ago when cameras were not digital, and photo developing was done in a lab, not on your computer. Digital cameras and Photoshop may have brought the world of photo editing out of the darkroom and into your living room (or wherever your computer happens to be), but many of Photoshop's tools and features have their roots in traditional film development. Two great examples of this are Photoshop's Dodge and Burn tools, both of which are found in the Tools palette. The terms "dodge" and "burn" refer to techniques that were used to either lighten (dodge) or darken (burn) specific areas of a photo by increasing or limiting the exposure in those areas. The Dodge and Burn tools in Photoshop are the digital versions of these techniques and are often used to either lighten underexposed areas of a photo or darken overexposed areas.

As useful as the Dodge and Burn tools are, however, they both suffer from a serious problem. Both of them cause permanent damage to your image, and this is never a good thing. The best way to work in Photoshop is to keep your original pixel information intact so you always have the original photo to fall back on. This is often referred to as working "non-destructively" in Photoshop, and it's the way you should be working whenever and wherever possible. Fortunately, Adobe has given us numerous ways to work non-destructively on our images, and in this photo editing tutorial, we're going to look at one of them. We'll look at a great technique for selectively controlling the exposure in a photo by lightening and darkening specific areas, giving us results very similar to what we could achieve with the Dodge and Burn tools but without harming a single pixel in the image.
Here we have a photo suffering from a very common problem. The wedding couple should be the main focal point of the image, but thanks to the direction of sunlight and an apparent lack of fill flash, the couple appears too dark in the photo while the background appears too bright:

The original photo.

Using nothing more than Photoshop's Brush Tool and a layer blend mode, as we'll see in a moment, we can easily fix things by lightening the couple and darkening the background:

The photo after lightening and darkening specific areas.

Let's get started!

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Step 1: Add A New Layer

Open the image you need to work on in Photoshop, then hold down your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key and click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:

Hold down "Alt" (Win) / "Option" (Mac) and click on the New Layer icon.

Normally, this adds a new blank layer above the currently selected layer, but by holding down the Alt/Option key as we click on the New Layer icon, we tell Photoshop to pop open the New Layer dialog box for us before the layer is added. This gives us a chance to name the layer, and it also allows us to change a couple of important options. First, since I'll be using this layer to dodge and burn different areas of the photo, I'm going to name the layer "Dodge and Burn". You don't have to name the layer if you don't want to, but naming layers is a very good habit to get into:

Name the new layer "Dodge and Burn" (optional).

The real reason why we brought up the New Layer dialog box is for the option at the very bottom, Mode. "Mode" is short for Layer Blend Mode, and by default, it's set to Normal. Change the blend mode to Overlay:

Set the blend mode of the new layer to Overlay.

I cover the Overlay blend mode in much more detail in our Five Essential Blend Modes For Photo Editing tutorial, but briefly, the Overlay blend mode is part of the Contrast group of blend modes and is often used to quickly boost the overall contrast in an image. Any areas on the layer that are lighter than 50% gray (meaning the shade of gray directly between black and white) are used to lighten the image, while areas darker than 50% gray darken the image. Any areas that are exactly 50% gray are completely ignored by Photoshop, and when I say "ignored", I mean they actually become transparent. In fact, we're about to see this is action.
With the blend mode now set to Overlay in the dialog box, you'll see a new option directly below it, Fill with Overlay-neutral color (50% gray). Click inside the checkbox to select this option:

Click inside the checkbox to select the "Fill with Overlay-neutral color (50% gray) option.

This option tells Photoshop to fill our new layer with 50% gray. Click OK when you're done to exit out of the dialog box. If we look in our Layers palette now, we can see that we have a new layer named "Dodge and Burn" sitting above the photo on the Background layer. The layer is set to the Overlay blend mode for us, and if we look in the layer's preview thumbnail to the left of the layer's name, we can see that it has in fact been filled with gray:

The new "Dodge and Burn" layer appears in the Layers palette.

I said a moment ago that when a layer is set to the Overlay blend mode, any areas of the layer that are 50% gray become transparent, and if we look at our image in the document window, even though the "Dodge and Burn" layer is filled with solid gray, which would normally mean that our document window is filled with gray, all we see is our original photo. The gray on the "Dodge and Burn" layer is completely transparent:

The solid gray on the "Dodge and Burn" layer appears transparent in the document window.

Step 2: Select The Brush Tool

We're going to lighten and darken different areas of the image simply by painting over them with either black or white. Areas we paint over with white will be lightened, while areas we paint over with black will be darkened. Again, this is because we'll be painting on a layer that's set to the Overlay blend mode. Before we can paint over anything, though, we need to grab the Brush Tool, so either select the Brush Tool from the Tools palette or press the letter B on your keyboard to access it with the shortcut:

Select the Brush Tool.

Step 3: Set Your Foreground Color To White

I'm going to begin by lightening the couple, which means I'll need to paint over them with white, which means I need to set my Foreground color to white, since the Brush Tool paints with whatever color the Foreground color is currently set to. If you're following along with your image, press the letter D on your keyboard which resets the Foreground and Background colors to their defaults. This makes black the Foreground color and white the Background color. To swap them so white becomes the Foreground color, press the letter X on your keyboard. If we look at the Foreground and Background color swatches near the bottom of the Tools palette, we can see that white is now the Foreground color (the left swatch):

The Foreground color swatch in the Tools palette.

Step 4: Lower The Opacity Of The Brush To Between 10 - 20%

The best way to work with this technique is to gradually build up the amount of lightening and darkening that's being applied, since even a subtle amount can sometimes be enough. To do that, we'll need to work with a low opacity brush. Make sure you have the Brush Tool selected, then go up to the Options Bar at the top of the screen and lower the Opacity option down to somewhere between 10-20%. I'm going to set mine to 10%. This way, each time I paint over the same area, I'll increase the amount of lightening or darkening in 10% increments, giving me lots of room to work with:

Lower the brush opacity in the Options Bar.

Step 5: Paint Over Areas That Need To Be Lightened

With your Brush Tool selected, white as your Foreground color and the opacity of your brush lowered, simply paint over any areas in your photo that need to be lightened. The effect will be subtle at first due to the low brush opacity, but if you need more lightening in certain areas, just paint over them a few times to build up the effect, making sure to release your mouse button in between paint strokes. You can change the size of your brush by pressing the left bracket key to make the brush smaller or the right bracket key to make it larger. You'll want to use a soft edge brush, and you can make the brush edges softer by holding down the Shift key and pressing the left bracket key a few times. Holding Shift and pressing the right bracket key will make the edges harder.
I want to brighten the couple in my photo, so I'm going to paint over them with a medium size, soft edge brush. Each time I paint over them, I'll increase the brightness by 10%. Painting over them 3 or 4 times should do it. The man's face is especially dark in the photo, so that area may need an extra click or two with the brush:

Paint with white over any areas in the photo that need to be brighter.

Step 6: Set Your Foreground Color To Black

When you're done with the areas that needed to be lightened, press the letter X on your keyboard to swap your Foreground and Background colors so black becomes your Background color:

The Foreground color swatch in the Tools palette showing black as the Foreground color.

Step 7: Paint Over Areas That Need To Be Darkened

With your Foreground color now set to black, paint over any areas in the photo that need to be darkened. Again, each time you paint over the same area, you'll increase the amount of darkening that's applied. In my case, I want to make everything behind the couple darker, so I'm going to use a larger brush and paint around the couple a few times to darken the background:

Painting with black over the background to darken it.

If we look at the preview thumbnail for the "Dodge and Burn" layer in the Layers palette, we can see all the areas where we painted with white or black:

The preview thumbnail shows where we painted on the layer.

If you accidentally paint over areas you didn't mean to and want to set those areas back to 50% gray, simply click on the Foreground color swatch in the Tools palette, which will bring up Photoshop's Color Picker. Enter a value of 128 for the R, G and B options in the Color Picker, which gives you the 50% gray color:

Enter a value of 128 for the R, G and B values in the Color Picker to select the 50% gray color.

Click OK to exit out of the Color Picker, then simply paint over those areas in the image to set them back to the original 50% gray.
And with that, we're done! We've successfully adjusted the exposure levels in different areas of the photo by manually painting over them with black or white, giving us results very similar to what we could have achieved with Photoshop's Dodge and Burn tools, without touching a single pixel in our original image! To see the difference, here is my original photo on the left and the corrected image on the right:

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Reducing Wrinkles With The Healing Brush In Photoshop

2012-03-12T17:48:00.000-07:00

In this tutorial, we'll look at the Healing Brush, by far the best photo retouching tool in all of Photoshop, and how we can use it to easily reduce distracting skin wrinkles in an image. Notice how I said "reduce", not "remove" wrinkles. One of the most common retouching mistakes is to completely remove the wrinkles from a person's face, smoothing the skin out so completely that a person in their 40's, 50's, 60's or later looks like they've barely aged a day since they were a teenager. That may sound flattering, and if you're doing work for a high end fashion magazine, it may well be the result you want. But for those of us who live in reality, wrinkles are a natural sign of aging, life experience and the wisdom that comes with it, not something to be shunned and removed through heavy-handed use of Photoshop. As the saying goes, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Still, wrinkles that appear too dark and noticeable, whether from bad lighting or just lack of sleep, can detract from an otherwise great portrait, so in this tutorial, we'll learn how to reduce their impact through a combination of the Healing Brush and layer opacity. I'll be using Photoshop CS5 here, but any recent version of Photoshop will work.
Here's the image I'll be working with. Overall, I think it's a great photo, but some of the wrinkles on the man's face, especially around his eyes, are too intense and distracting:

Removing the wrinkles on the man's face would be wrong, but reducing them would improve the image.

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Step 1: Add A New Blank Layer

Let's begin by adding a new blank layer above our Background layer so we can keep our retouching work and the original image (which is sitting on the Background layer) separate from each other. Hold down your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key and click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel:

Click on the New Layer icon while holding down the Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key.

Normally, Photoshop would go ahead and add a new blank layer when we click on the New Layer icon, but by holding down the Alt / Option key, we tell it instead to pop open the New Layer dialog box, which lets us quickly name the new layer before adding it. Click inside the Name input box at the top and name the new layer "wrinkles":

The New Layer dialog box lets us set several options for the layer, but here, all we're interested in is naming it.

Click OK when you're done to exit out of the dialog box, and if we look again at our Layers panel, we see that we now have a new blank layer named "wrinkles" above the Background layer. The layer is highlighted in blue, which means it's selected, so anything we do next will be done to the "wrinkles" layer, not the Background layer below it:

Naming layers helps keep our retouching work organized and manageable.

Step 2: Select The Healing Brush

Grab the Healing Brush from the Tools panel. By default, it's hiding behind the Spot Healing Brush, so click and hold on the Spot Healing Brush until the fly-out menu appears, then select the Healing Brush from the list:

Click and hold on the Spot Healing Brush, then select the Healing Brush from the fly-out menu.

Step 3: Change The Sample Mode To "All Layers" And Uncheck "Aligned"

Much like the Spot Healing Brush, the Healing Brush is basically a texture replacement tool, replacing damaged or unwanted texture from a problem area in the photo with good texture from another area, blending the good texture in with the problem area's original color and brightness values to create a seamless fix. This is what Adobe means by the term "healing". With the Healing Brush, we first select the area we want to sample good texture from by clicking on it, then we paint over the problem area to heal it with the good texture.
By default though, the Healing Brush will only sample texture from the currently selected layer, and since our currently selected layer is blank, we're not going to accomplish much. We need to tell Photoshop to sample texture not only from our selected layer but from the layer below it as well, and we do that using the Sample Mode option in the Options Bar. By default, it's set to Current Layer. Click on the words "Current Layer" and select All Layers from the list:

Change the Sample Mode option from 'Current Layer' to 'All Layers'.

Also, make sure the Aligned option is unchecked. You'll find it directly to the left of the Sample Mode option in the Options Bar. With the Aligned option turned off (unchecked), you'll continue to sample good texture from the same area you clicked on until you click on a different area. This is usually the behavior you want with the Healing Brush. Generally speaking, if you're using the Clone Stamp Tool, you'll want Aligned selected, and with the Healing Brush, you'll want it deselected:

It's usually easier to work with the Healing Brush with the Aligned option unchecked.

Step 4: Click On An Area Of Good Texture To Sample It

As I mentioned, using the Healing Brush is a two-step process. First, we click on an area in the image that contains good texture to sample it, then we paint over the problem area to replace the unwanted texture with the good texture. One important thing to keep in mind when reducing wrinkles is that skin texture appears different in different areas of a person's face. For example, the skin around your eyes has a different texture than the skin on your cheeks or your forehead. So if you want your retouching work to look as realistic as possible, try to sample good texture from an area close to the wrinkle to keep the skin texture consistent.
Also, as a person ages, wrinkles become longer and deeper, so we can often make someone look younger just by shortening the length of the wrinkle. For that reason, always start at the thin, narrow end of the wrinkle, which is the youngest part, and work your way towards its origin.
I'm going to zoom in on one of the man's eyes so I can get a closer view of what I'm doing, and I'll start by removing some of the smaller wrinkles before removing the larger one under his eye. For the moment, we're going to be completely removing the wrinkles, but when we're done, we'll see how to reduce the appearance of our retouching work so things look more natural. To sample an area of good texture, hold down your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key, which will temporarily turn the Healing Brush cursor into a small target symbol, and click on the area:

Hold down Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) and click on an area of good texture close to the wrinkle to sample it.

Step 5: Paint Over The Wrinkle To Heal It

Once you've sampled your good texture, release your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key, then move the Healing Brush over the youngest end of the wrinkle. For best results, use a brush size just slightly larger than the wrinkle itself. You can quickly adjust the size of the brush from the keyboard. Press the left bracket key ( [ ) to make the brush smaller or the right bracket key ( ] ) to make it larger. Then click on the wrinkle and, with your mouse button still held down, drag the cursor along its shape towards its origin as if you're painting over it.
As you paint along the wrinkle, you'll notice two things. First, a small plus sign ( + ) appears over the good texture and moves along with you as you paint. The area directly under the plus sign is the good texture that's being sampled, making it easy to see exactly where the texture is coming from. Also, Photoshop doesn't actually blend the texture in with the original color and brightness values until after you release your mouse button, so as you're painting, things may not look as expected. Here, it looks more like I'm simply cloning pixels over the wrinkle with the Clone Stamp Tool:

The color and brightness values of the area will look wrong as you're painting. As small plus sign shows the area of good texture being sampled.

When I release my mouse button though, Photoshop blends the new texture in with the original color and brightness of the problem area, and the wrinkle disappears:

Photoshop blends the color and brightness values to create a seamless "heal" when you release your mouse button.

To avoid painting with the exact same texture over and over again and ending up with a wallpaper effect, choose different areas to sample texture from as you make your way from one wrinkle to the next by holding down Alt (Win ) / Option (Mac) and clicking on a different area before painting. Depending on the length of the wrinkle and the amount of good texture available, you may not be able to cover the entire wrinkle with one continuous paint stroke, especially if the person has lots of wrinkles. In those cases, use a series of shorter strokes, always starting from the youngest end of the wrinkle and working towards its origin. If you make a mistake, press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) to undo the brush stroke, then try again.
I'll continue removing more of the smaller wrinkles by painting over them with good texture, changing the size of my brush as needed with the left and right bracket keys:

Completely removing the wrinkles for now, but we'll bring them back later.

Now that I've cleaned up the area around that one large wrinkle that runs under his eye, I'll have an easier time removing it, which I'll do next!

Now that I've cleaned up the area around that one large wrinkle that runs under his eye, I'll have an easier time removing it. I'll remove it in sections rather than trying with one continuous paint stroke. First, I'll sample an area of good texture from nearby, then I'll click at its youngest end and begin painting along the wrinkle, releasing my mouse button just as I get directly under his eye:

Using a series of shorter paint strokes to remove the larger wrinkle.

I'll continue my way along the large wrinkle, sampling texture from a different area and cleaning up any small problem spots as I go:

Continuing with short strokes along the wrinkle.

Finally, after reaching the corner of his eye and touching up some minor problems, the wrinkle is gone:

The large wrinkle has been completely removed.

I'll continue making my way around the image with the Healing Brush to remove the remaining wrinkles, including the similar large wrinkle under his other eye. To speed things up for myself, I'll switch over to my pen tablet (a Wacom Intuos4), which allows me to change the size of the brush dynamically as I paint simply by varying the amount of pressure I apply to the tablet with the pen, a much faster way to work rather than constantly resizing the brush from the keyboard. If you don't have a pressure sensitive pen tablet, you can still get great results using a mouse. The pen just makes things easier.
Here's how the image looks after spending 10-15 minutes or so with the Healing Brush to remove the remaining wrinkles around his eyes, his forehead and around his chin:

With all of his wrinkles removed, he almost looks like a different person, or at least a much younger person.

Step 6: Lower The Opacity Of The Layer

The Healing Brush, along with a little patience on my part, did an amazing job of removing the man's wrinkles, but if I was to show him my results at this point, I'm not sure he'd be as impressed with me as I am. He knows, and everyone who knows him knows, that he has very distinct wrinkles on his face, and those wrinkles add a lot to his personality. You may be surprised at how many people would be insulted to suddenly see them gone, which is why our ultimate goal was not to completely remove the wrinkles, just to reduce their impact.
To ease up on the retouching work and bring the wrinkles back, but to a lesser extent than they were originally, lower the opacity of the "wrinkles" layer. You'll find the Opacity option in the top right corner of the Layers panel. Finding the right opacity setting is simply a matter of experimenting, and the easiest way to do that is to press the letter V on your keyboard, which will instantly select the Move Tool from the Tools panel. With the Move Tool selected, we can change the opacity of the currently selected layer just by pressing numbers on the keyboard. Start by pressing the number 5, which will lower the opacity in the Layers panel to 50%. This is usually a good place to start:

Press "V" to switch to the Move Tool, then easily change the layer opacity by typing a number.

To set the opacity to something like 55%, type "55" quickly. Keep an eye on the image in the document window to judge the results as you try out different opacity settings. Pressing 0 will switch you back to 100%. For my image, I think 60% opacity works out well, but the value you use for your image may be different. Here, once again, is how the image looked originally:

The original image.

And here's my final result after bringing back a less intense version of the wrinkles:

The final result.

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How to use Photoshop Quick Selection Tool

2012-03-11T19:27:00.000-07:00

In a previous Photoshop tutorial, we learned how the Magic Wand Tool works and why it can be a great choice for selecting areas of similar tone and color. In that tutorial, we used the Magic Wand to easily select the clear blue sky in an image, which we then replaced with one that was a bit more interesting. But if any of Photoshop's selection tools deserve to be called "magic", it's not the Magic Wand. It's the tool we'll be looking at in this tutorial - the Quick Selection Tool.

First introduced in Photoshop CS3, the Quick Selection Tool is somewhat similar to the Magic Wand in that it also selects pixels based on tone and color. But the Quick Selection Tool goes far beyond the Magic Wand's limited abilities by also looking for similar textures in the image, which makes it great at detecting the edges of objects. And unlike the Magic Wand where we click on an area and hope for the best, the Quick Selection Tool works more like a brush, allowing us to select areas simply by "painting" over them! In fact, as we'll see in this tutorial, it often works so well and so quickly that if you're using Photoshop CS3 or higher (I'm using Photoshop CS5 here), the Quick Selection Tool could easily become your main selection tool of choice.

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Selecting The Quick Selection Tool

To select the Quick Selection Tool, click on its icon in Photoshop's Tools panel, or press the letter W on your keyboard to select it with the shortcut:

The Quick Selection Tool is found near the top of the Tools panel.

Making Selections

Here's an image I have open in Photoshop:

The original image.

For this image, I'd like to keep the original colors in the main subject (the child pushing the wheelbarrow filled with pumpkins) and colorize the rest of the background with a single color. To do that, I'll first need to select the main subject. I could try drawing a freehand selection around everything with the Lasso Tool, but Lasso Tool selections tend to look rough and unprofessional. The Pen Tool would work great with this image thanks to all the sharp edges and smooth curves, but drawing a path around the main subject would take some time. The Magnetic Lasso Tool would also work well due to the strong contrast between the main subject and the background. But let's see how well the Quick Selection Tool can select the area we need.
To begin my selection, I'll move the Quick Selection Tool's cursor into the top left corner of the child's sweater and I'll click once with my mouse. An initial selection outline appears around the area I clicked on:

An initial selection outline appears in the top left of the sweater.

So far so good, but obviously there's much more I still need to select, which means I'll need to add to my existing selection. Normally, to add to a selection, we need to hold down the Shift key on the keyboard to switch the tool to its "Add to selection" mode, but the Quick Selection Tool is different. It's already in "Add to selection" mode by default, indicated by the small plus sign (+) displayed in the center of the tool's cursor.
If you look in the Options Bar along the top of the screen, you'll see a series of three icons which let us switch between the tool's three selection modes (from left to right - New selection, Add to selection and Subtract from selection). The "Add to selection" option (middle one) is already chosen for us, since the whole point of the Quick Selection Tool is to continue adding to the selection until you've selected everything you need:

The "Add to selection" mode is already chosen by default with the Quick Selection Tool.

There's two ways to use the Quick Selection Tool. One is to simply click on different areas of the image just like we would with the Magic Wand, and just as I did a moment ago to begin my selection. The more common way, though, is to click and drag over the area you need to select as if you were painting with a brush. As you drag, Photoshop continuously analyzes the area, comparing color, tone and texture, and does its best job to figure out what it is you're trying to select, often with amazing results.
To add to my initial selection, then, I'll simply click and drag along the left edge of the sweater. The area I drag over is added to the selection. As long as I keep the cursor inside the sweater and don't drag over the sky or the trees in the background, only the sweater itself gets added:

Keep the cursor over the area you want to add to the selection.

If I do accidentally extend my cursor into the background area, the background gets added to the selection as well, which isn't what I want. If that happens, press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) on your keyboard to undo it and try again. A bit later on, we'll see how to remove unwanted areas of a selection with the Quick Selection Tool, but a good habit to get into here is to not try to select everything in a single drag. If you do, and you make a mistake and need to undo it, you'll undo everything you've done. Using a series of short drags, releasing your mouse button between each one, is a better and safer way to work:

Part of the background is accidentally selected. Press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) to undo.

I'll continue clicking and dragging over the sweater to add it to my selection:

Adding the rest of the sweater to the selection was as easy as dragging over it.

Resizing The Cursor
If you have a large area to select, you may want to increase the size of the cursor so you won't need to drag as much (I know, us Photoshop users can be a lazy bunch sometimes). Likewise, selecting smaller areas often requires a smaller cursor. The Quick Selection Tool's cursor can be resized quickly from the keyboard the same way we'd resize a brush. Press the left bracket key ( [ ) to make the cursor smaller or the right bracket key ( ] ) to make it larger. Typically, a smaller cursor will give you more accurate results.
I'll increase my cursor size a little and continue dragging over the pumpkins and the wheelbarrow to add them to my selection. In the few seconds it took me to drag over things with the Quick Selection Tool, Photoshop was able to do a pretty outstanding job of selecting my main subject for me:

The initial selection of the main subject is complete. Estimated time: 10 seconds.

Subtracting From A Selection

The Quick Selection Tool did an impressive job with the initial selection of my main subject, but it's not perfect. There's a few areas here and there that need to be removed from the selection, like this gap between the sweater and the child's arm where the background is showing through:

The Quick Selection Tool selected a few areas that shouldn't have been included.

To remove an area from a selection, hold down your Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key, which temporarily switches the Quick Selection Tool to Subtract from selection mode (you could also select the "Subtract from selection" option in the Options Bar but you'd need to remember to switch it back to the "Add to selection" mode when you're done). The small plus sign in the center of the cursor will be replaced with a minus sign (-). Then, with Alt / Option still held down, click and drag inside the area you need to remove. I'll need to make my cursor smaller here by pressing the left bracket key a few times:

Hold down Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) and drag over areas you need to remove from the selection.

I'll do the same thing along the bottom of the wheelbarrow where the background is showing through. It often helps to zoom in on the image to remove smaller areas like these:

A few more unwanted areas to remove.

And with that, my selection is complete! Not bad at all for a minute or two's worth of effort:

The final selection.

With my main subject now selected, to colorize the background, I'll invert the selection by pressing Shift+Ctrl+I (Win) / Shift+Command+I (Mac), which will deselect my main subject and select everything around it instead. Then I'll click on the New Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel:

The New Adjustment Layer icon.

I'll choose a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer from the list:

Choosing a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.

If you're using Photoshop CS5 as I am, the Hue/Saturation controls will appear in the Adjustments Panel. In CS4 and earlier, the Hue/Saturation dialog box will appear. To colorize the image, I'll select the Colorize option by clicking inside its checkbox. Then I'll drag the Hue slider a little towards the right to select a brown color similar to the color of the wheelbarrow:

Select "Colorize", then dial in a color with the Hue slider.

Click OK to exit out of the Hue/Saturation dialog box when you're done (Photoshop CS4 and earlier only). Finally, I'll change the blend mode of my adjustment layer to Color so that only the colors in the image, not the brightness values, are affected:

Change the blend mode to "Color".

Here, after changing the blend mode to Color, is my final result:

The Quick Selection Tool made colorizing the background easy.

Additional Options

The Quick Selection Tool includes a couple of additional options in the Options Bar. If your document contains multiple layers and you want Photoshop to analyze all the layers when making the selection, check the Sample All Layers option. Leaving it unchecked tells Photoshop to include only the layer that's currently active (highlighted in blue) in the Layers panel:

Choose "Sample All Layers" if you want to include multiple layers in the selection.

If you're running Photoshop on a fairly powerful computer, selecting the Auto-Enhance option can produce smoother, higher quality selection edges (they tend to look a bit blocky on their own), but you may find the Quick Selection Tool takes slightly longer to do its thing with Auto-Enhance enabled. I'd suggest turning Auto-Enhance on unless you find yourself running into performance problems:

Auto-Enhance can give smoother results but may result in slower performance.

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Feather Selections In Photoshop With Quick Mask

2012-03-10T21:40:00.000-08:00

In this tutorial in our series on Photoshop Selections, we'll look at a great way to feather, or soften, selection outlines using Photoshop's Quick Mask mode!

Photoshop refers to softening the edges of a selection as "feathering" the selection, and there are plenty of times when we need to feather our selection edges since not everything we need to select has edges that are sharp and clearly defined. We may be trying to select an object that's slightly out of focus in an image, causing its edges to appear soft and blurred, or we may be creating a vignette effect where our selection needs to transition smoothly and gradually into the surrounding background color.
Many Photoshop users head straight to the Feather command under the Select menu in the Menu Bar (Select > Modify > Feather) when they need to soften a selection, but the Feather command has a serious drawback in that it gives us no way to preview what we're doing. As we'll learn in this tutorial, there's a much better way to feather selections, one that isn't quite as obvious as the Feather command but is every bit as simple to use and has the added advantage of giving us a live preview of the result!

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I want to apply a vignette effect to this photo of a young couple:

The original image.

If we look in my Layers panel, we see that my photo is sitting on a layer that I've creatively named "Photo", and the photo layer is sitting above a white-filled "Background color" layer which will serve as the background for my vignette effect. The photo layer is selected and active:

The Layers panel showing the photo sitting above a white-filled background.

I'll grab my Elliptical Marquee Tool from the Tools panel by clicking and holding my mouse button down on the Rectangular Marquee Tool, then selecting the Elliptical Marquee Tool from the fly-out menu that appears:

Selecting the Elliptical Marquee Tool.

With the Elliptical Marquee Tool in hand, I'll drag out an elliptical selection outline around the area in the center of the photo that I want to keep:

An elliptical selection outline has been drawn around the couple in the center of the photo.

The Elliptical Marquee Tool, as with most of Photoshop's selection tools, draws hard edge selections, so to create my vignette effect, I'll need to soften the edges quite a bit. Before we look at the better way to soften the edges, let's take a quick look at Photoshop's Feather command. I'll select the Feather command by going up to the Select menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen, then from there I'll choose Modify, and then Feather:

Going to Select > Modify > Feather.

This opens the Feather Selection dialog box where we can enter a Feather Radius value, in pixels, to specify the amount of feathering we want to apply to the selection edges. Problem is, how we know what value to enter? In my case, what's the exact feathering value I need here to create an ideal transition between the selection and the white background behind it? The correct answer is, I have no idea. All I can do is guess at a value. Since the Feather Selection dialog box gives me no other choice, I'll play along and enter a value of 30 pixels, which is nothing more than a guess:

The Feather Selection dialog box makes feathering the selection edges a guessing game.

I'll click OK to close out of the Feather Selection dialog box, and now if we look again at my elliptical selection in the document window, we see that it looks... hmm, pretty much the same as it did before I feathered it:

The selection outline doesn't look much different than it did before.

In truth, the selection edges are now softer, but Photoshop's standard "marching ants" selection outline has no way of indicating that the edge is feathered. It still looks like a solid, hard edge. The reason is that the standard selection outline only appears around pixels that are at least 50% selected. It does not appear around pixels that are less than 50% selected. So basically, Photoshop is looking at us right now and saying "The most I can tell you is that any pixels inside the selection outline are at least 50% selected, and anything outside the selection outline is less than 50% selected. I wish I could be of more help."
Photoshop shouldn't feel too bad, though, because it actually can be of more help. In fact, it can give us a full preview of what our feathered edges look like. It just can't do it using the Feather command and the standard selection outline. What we need, then, is another way - a better way - to feather selection edges, and that way is with Photoshop's Quick Mask mode.

The Quick Mask Mode

I'll press Ctrl+Z (Win) / Command+Z (Mac) on my keyboard to undo the feathering I applied a moment ago. Then, I'll click on the Quick Mask icon at the very bottom of the Tools panel. Clicking the icon once switches us into Quick Mask mode. Clicking it again switches us back to normal mode. Or, another way to enter Quick Mask mode is by pressing the letter Q on your keyboard. Press it once to switch to Quick Mask mode, press it again to switch back to normal mode:

Clicking the Quick Mask icon at the bottom of the Tools panel.

In Quick Mask mode, the standard selection outline is replaced by a red overlay. The overlay represents areas that are currently being protected. In other words, they're not part of the selection. Areas that are fully visible, not covered by the overlay, are selected. We can see this clearly in my document window. The area in the center of the image, which was inside the selection I drew with the Elliptical Marquee Tool, is fully visible which means it's currently selected. The rest of the image is covered by the overlay because it was not part of my selection:

In Quick Mask mode, the red overlay indicates areas that are not selected.

Photoshop's Quick Mask mode doesn't just give us a different way to view selections. It also lets us edit selections in ways that are not possible with the standard selection outline. For example, we can run any of Photoshop's filters on the overlay! At the moment, the transition between the area covered by the overlay and the area not covered by the overlay is very sharp and abrupt, which means my selection still has hard edges. To soften them, I can simply blur them using the Gaussian Blur filter.
I'll select the Gaussian Blur filter by going up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, then from there I'll choose Blur and then Gaussian Blur:

Going to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

This opens the Gaussian Blur dialog box. Click on the Radius slider at the bottom of the dialog box, then keep an eye on your document window as you begin dragging the slider towards the right. As you drag the slider, you'll see the edges of the Quick Mask overlay begin to soften. The further you drag the Radius slider, the more blurring you'll apply to the overlay and the softer the edges will appear. Thanks to Quick Mask mode and the Gaussian Blur filter, we now have a live preview of the amount of feathering we're applying to our selection edges! No more guess work needed because we can see exactly what's happening to the edges as we drag the slider:

Blur the overlay edges by dragging the Radius slider towards the right.

When you're happy with the way things looks, click OK to close out of the Gaussian Blur dialog box. Here, we can see the effect the Gaussian Blur filter had on my Quick Mask overlay. The transition between the fully visible and overlay-covered areas is now much softer, which means my selection edges are now softer:

Softer overlay edges mean softer selection edges.

Now that we've softened our selection edges, we can switch out of Quick Mask mode and back into normal mode by clicking again on the Quick Mask icon at the bottom of the Tools panel or by pressing the letter Q on the keyboard:

Click again on the Quick Mask icon to switch back to normal mode.

This brings us back to our standard selection outline, which again gives us no indication that we just feathered the selection in Quick Mask mode. That's okay, though. The feathering is still there whether we can see it at the moment or not:

Back to normal mode.

The only remaining problem is that I currently have the wrong part of the image selected. I want to keep the area I've selected in the center of the image and delete the area around it, which means I'll first need to invert my selection by going up to the Select menu at the top of the screen and choosing Inverse. This will deselect the area that was previously selected and select the area that was not previously selected, effectively swapping the selection:

Going to Select > Inverse.

With the selection now inverted, I'll delete the area around the couple by pressing Backspace (Win) / Delete (Mac) on my keyboard, then I'll press Ctrl+D (Win) / Command+D (Mac) on my keyboard to quickly remove the selection outline from the document since we no longer need it. Thanks to the selection edges being softened in Quick Mask mode with its live preview, we get the smooth transition we expected between the couple in the center of the image and the white background surrounding them:

The final vignette effect.

And there we have it! That's how to feather a selection in Photoshop, complete with a live preview of the results, using Quick Mask mode and the Gaussian Blur filter!

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How to draw Fire flames and black smoke

2012-03-09T02:10:00.002-08:00

I got this idea when I was looking at some online magazine. so lets create a photoshop
tutorial of this unique image that represent Fire and black smoke. The flame I have drawn
looks very unique and I have used smudge tool to make them look really cool. oops I mean HOT.

I have also shown the use of Calligraphic Brushes like Oval Brush in this photoshop step by step tutorial.

1. First of all to open a new Document go to Menubar select File > new and then a new document will appear.
In the new Document type the name of the document width=300 pixel, height=300 pixel and resolution = 96.012 pixel/inch.
You can do it with the Ctrl+N.

2. Now from the Tool bar select Pen Tool and draw a new shape as shown below.
Pen Tool is a great tool but if you like there are other options to draw shapes also. see Lasso etc.

3. Right click > Make Selection > click ok at Feather 0.2 px.

4. Now create a new Layer1, to create a new layer click on the icon that is
shown with the red circle in the Layer window or press Shift+Ctrl+N.

5. In the Toolbar there is a forground color plate choose color and then press Alt + Backspace to fill the color #E1665E, after that Deselect.

6. Now from the Tool bar select Brush Tool, then click on the Brush preset picker which is shown with the no1 then click on No 2.

7. From here select Brush style, here I have selected Calligraphic brushes.

8. Here in the Calligraphic brushes select oval Brush at 20 px.

9. Here use the Brush size 10/20.

10. Now here click on the Layer1while pressing Ctrl. Now you have selected the shape and then give more black color shape to the image, after that press Ctrl+D.

11. Now here create a new layer2, create a new shape with the Pen Tool and fill it with color #E1665E.

12. Here create another new Layer3, create a New shape as shown below
and then fill it with black color after that Deselect.

13. Here to make a copy of Layer3 press Ctrl+J.

14. Select Gradient Tool from the toolbar then click on the first rectangle which is shown with the big red circle to get lenear Gradient, after that click on the icon with the small red circle to get the Gradient Editor.

15.Now choose the color from presets which is shown with the red circle.

16. Now with the help of Moove tool first slide the copied layer3 then cick on it while pressing Ctrl, fill the color with the Gradient Tool , and then Deselect.

17. Here with the Pen Tool create a new shape and fill it with color.

18. Here first select Brush Tool then create a line with the Pen Tool > Right click > select Stroke path > select Brush > click ok > press Enter.

19. Now the Strke path will look like this.

20. Now create a new Layer4, and then with the Pen Tool create a new shape as shown below, after that select Stroke path , and the press Enter.

21. Now create a new Layer5, and create a Ellipse with the Elliptical Marquee Tool, and then fill color#FEE57B. #EFA34A with the Gradient Tool, after that Deselect.

22. Now here use Smudge Tool brush size-10 / mode- normel / strength-70%.

23. Here click on Layer5 while pressing Ctrl to make selection, then select Lasso Tool or Rectangular Marquee Tool Right click > select Stroke > in Stroke select Width-1px / Black color / Location- Center, after that Deselect.

24. Final Image.

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How to Remove Background using Photoshop

2012-03-08T04:43:00.002-08:00

Isolating items with clarity and finesse isn’t solely a fine-art pursuit in Photoshop, professional background removal is a common undertaking in the world of Digital Design. As it is a fundamental process, it’s well worth employing the best technique possible; and in my humble opinion, the Pen Tool is king. Due to it’s bezier nature, it’s a tricky one to get to grips with, but once learnt, becomes indispensable.

The Pen Tool

We touched upon the Pen Tool briefly in an earlier HD Video Tutorial, introducing it’s basic uses to create precise selections. In this installment we’re building upon these techniques and combining the Pen Tool with Layer Masks to perform background removals.
In our earlier Background Removal with Layer Masks tutorial, we used brushes to ‘paint away’ the background. The Pen Tool method however is infinitely more precise, and also a much faster technique once mastered.

Fast n’ Clean

Many would argue their preferred method works fine, and I’d agree to a certain extent; but there are many situations where you require a lot more precision. For instance, if you were tasked with isolating curved / circular objects such as a beach ball, you will find that your polygonal lasso technique becomes long and arduous. The Pen Tool will not only tackle this problem with a few clicks, but also produce a flawless result.

The example piece we are working with is Grey on Grey 1 by mjranum (DeviantArt) – a great figurative pose, shot on an even background. Above is the before and after, as you can see the isolated version is clean, with no degradation on the edges.

Setting Up

Paste your selected image into a new document, the stock layer you are working with needs to be on a new layer above the background. As we are using a layer mask, you will need to add a Layer Mask to the stock layer (Layer Mask icon highlighted red below). To activate the Pen Tool, hit P – or alternatively select the Pen Tool icon in the tools palette. You need to ensure that the Pen is set to ‘paths’ – you can check this in the tool settings, usually found at the top left of the screen (Pen Tool paths, highlighted red below):

Chopping out the Background

A common mistake made is to work on the stock image as opposed to the Layer Mask, so ensure the Layer Mask is active by clicking on it (will show a thin black border, see above). We are going to create a closed path, which will then be filled with black; chopping out a section of the image. Using the Pen Tool (P), click a point on the edge of the object. Click another point further down the edge, but this time hold down the left mouse button when you click – this will allow you to contort the line to fit the curve of the object:

Essential Keys

There are two keyboard shortcuts that are essential to modify the path when you work. The first is Ctrl / Cmd – holding down this key allows you to move the ‘anchor points’, the small squares of the path. Holding Ctrl / Cmd also allows you to tweak the ‘handles’ – these are the two lines that come off the anchor point, moving these will change the curvature of the path you are making. The second essential key to use is Alt. When creating paths, there are many instances where you don’t require a ‘curve’ for the next point, in this cases you hold down Alt and click an anchor point, which turns off the curvature for the next point.
To the un-initiated, the above may sound like garbled nonsense – have a practice and then the concepts will start to make sense.. If your a visual person like me, maybe checking out our Pen Tool video tutorial will help to clarify things.

..And back to it

Instead of creating a huge path around the object, it’s a lot nicer to chip away in increments – so for the example Im going to create a smaller path and fill it with black:

You must ensure a path is ‘closed’ before you are able to fill with black – do this by connecting the last point to the first. Once the path is closed, right click on the path and select ‘Fill Path’ – you will see a dialog which will give you fill options, select ‘Black’ from the dropdown. Once this is complete, right click on the path and select ‘delete path’. For the example I turned off the background layer, so in the pic above you can see the transparent background showing through.
So how does this work..? We have created a precise selection using the Pen Tool and filled with black, as it is on a Layer Mask the black reduces the opacity of this area to 0%. The explanation is actually a lot more complex than the process itself, but bear with me on this one!

Rinse and Repeat

Using the techniques above, chop away the background by creating paths, modifiying with Ctrl / Cmd and Alt where necessary and then filling the paths with black. What initially may seem like a long winded workflow actually becomes an extremely efficient method of isolating objects, with practice you’ll find yourself gliding around an image with speed and finesse.
Some additional shortcuts.. There’s a couple of keys that really assist productivity; as you will be zoomed in close, it is worth using the spacebar and mouse to pan around as you work and use the Ctrl / Cmd + – to zoom in and out where necessary.

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Creating a Cloudy Dream Scene in Photoshop

2012-03-07T01:59:00.000-08:00

Sometimes real life can be boring so artists extend their imaginations and designs to extreme limits through dream scenes, fictional world, or surrealistic images. Today we’ll be creating a cloudy dream scene using Photoshop’s different tools and techniques.

Tutorial Details:

Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Difficulty: Intermediate
Estimated Completion Time: 2 hours

Resources

Before we start, here are the stock images I used in creating the artwork. You can download the images for free. Just sign up to start downloading.
From CGtextures
Clouds
Rocky Mountain
Tower
Rock Arch
Ok Let’s get started!

Final Image

Procedure

Step 1

To start our project, first create a file with a size of 1080×810 pixels. If you want to have a higher quality image, I recommend to increase the resolution up to 300ppi.

Step 2

Next, open the cloud.jpg and place it right in the centre of our workplace. The cloud.jpg image is a huge file so you should resize it just enough to occupy the same area of our image. You can do it by pressing Ctrl+T to activate the resizing handles. You can hold down the Shift key to resize the image without loosing its original proportions.

Step 3

Next, add a new layer just below the “cloud.jpg” layer and name it as “blue sky.” Now, by using the brush tool (B), set to a size of 175px and a hardness of 0%, brush the upper portions of our image with color #275488 going to a gradient, as shown below, of color #628eae.

Step 4

Next, go back to the “cloud.jpg” layer and erase the indicated areas shown in red below.

We did the previous processes to clear up the upper portions of our sky. The final effect should look like the one below.

Step 5

Next is to open the Tower.jpg. Then, by using the the Magic Wand tool (W), select the areas indicated in a . Next, click the Refine Edge button, b and follow the settings indicated in c then trace the outline of the tower.

Step 6

After refining the edges of the tower, place it somewhere in the center of the image. I erased some parts of the tower that I think are not important for the final effect.

Step 7

Next, a new layer. In this layer, using the Brush tool (B) set to a size of 45px and hardness of 0%, paint some grey (#262626) areas on the clouds just below the tower indicated by the arrows below. Make sure to activate the Tablet Pressure button and decrease the brush opacity to 64% prior to doing the shading.

Step 8

Next step is to add further shadings and highlights to the tower to enhance its depth. First use the Burn tool (O) with a soft brush to darken the areas indicated by the arrows in a. Then use the Dodge tool (O) with the same soft brush to lighten up the other side of the tower indicated by the arrows in b.

Step 9

Next step is to open the Rocky Mountain.jpg. Like what we did in Step 5, select the areas we don’t need by using the Magic Wand tool (W), a. Make sure to press the Shift key to add selections. Next press the Refine Edge button, b then, using the settings in c, trace the outline of the mountain. Finally, when your content with your selection, hit delete.

Step 10

Next is to add the waterfalls coming out of the rocky mountain. To do this, select the Brush tool (B) set to a size of 3px, hardness of 100% and opacity level of 100%, a. Make sure to activate the Tablet Pressure button prior to painting the falls. In painting the waterfalls, start with short lines rushing out of its source, b-1. Then, continue the process by painting longer lines that fades away at the buttom, b-2. Add more lines spiking out of the falls, b-3. Then finally, put some small amount of dots at the buttom of the falls to make an illusion of mist.

Step 11

Next, using the brush tool (B) set to a size of 20px and hardness of 7%, paint some shadings (Color #000000) on the areas indicated in red below.

Step 12

To add a misty and foggy effect at the buttom of the falls, use a soft brush, first in color #ffffff, set to an opacity of 46%, followed by color #000000 with an opacity of 15%.

Step 13

Next we’ll add the river flowing from the waterfalls down to “Earth.” Using a small brush, size 3-4px and hardness of 100%, follow the flow of the arrows indicated below. For the portion where the water is falling down to earth, use the same techniques we did in making the falls.

Step 14

Next we’ll add the “Energy Absorbing Cable” from the tower to the poor rocky mountain. To do this, use the Brush tool (B) set to a size of 3px and hardness of 100% and draw a thin simple line just like in a. Then add some highlights in the upper portions of the cable (Color #ffffff), b. Then add the primary vine creeping around the cable, c, followed by further detailing shown in d.

Step 15

Because we want to complete the “Old Natural” effect, we also added vines on some areas indicated below.

Step 16

Next open the RockArch.jpg. Press Ctrl+T to activate the resizing handles, a, then press right-click and select Flip Horizontal from the dropdown menu, b. Next, using the Magic Wand tool (W) select the areas shown in c. Next, use the Refine Edge button, just like what we did from the previous steps to further “refine” the selction then hit delete. Finally, adjust the color balance (Ctrl+B) to match the color tones of the final effect we want, d.

Step 17

Next, add a new layer and fill it with color #000000 using the Paint Bucket tool (G). Next, go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Finally change its Blend mode to overlay and decrease its opacity to 16%.

Step 18

As you can see we have to put something more in the tower to draw more attention to it. For this step, add a new layer and fill it with color #000000 using the Paint Bucket tool (G), a. Then go to Filter > Render > Lens Flare and follow the settings in b. After that change its Blend mode to Screen. The final effect is shown below, d.

Step 19

Next is to add more details to our image. First add a new layer and name it as “Bridge.” Now, using the Paint Brush tool (B), we’ll add a bridge connecting the tower and the rock arch. To do this, use a small brush with a size of 3-4px and hardness of 100% and make a Primary line for our bridge, a. Then add some shadings, making sure to follow the source of light, and add some more details. I added the railings for the bridge to add a realistic effect, b. Complete the effect with an “Old Nature” theme with the use of vines, c. I added further more details shown in d like the vines creeping across the rock and a small opening on the tower for the bridge.

Step 20

Next add a new layer and name it as Greenish tint and fill the entire selection with color #2d4a3f then change its Layer settings indicated in a. Next, add a new layer and name it as Sepia Tint and fill the entire selection with color #ad7a02 then change its Layer setting indicated in b. Finally, add another new layer and fill the entire selection with color #000000. Next go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and set it to 16%. Finally, change its Layer settings indicated in c.

Step 21

Next is to add the border shadings. To do this, add a new layer and name it as “Border” then using the paint Bucket tool (G) fill the entire layer with color #000000. Next, using the Eraser tool (E), erase the the areas indicated in red below. Finally, decrease its Opacity level to 20%.

Step 22

The next step is to add a blur effect to complete the “dream scene.” To do this, select all the layers in the Layers tab by Shift+clicking the first and last layers then press right-click and choose Merge Layers from the dropdown menu, a. After merging the layers, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and change its settings indicated in b.

Step 23

The last step is to erase the area indicated in red below using the Eraser tool (E) set to a size of 1000px and hardness of 0%.

Conclusion

That’s it, we’re done. The final product is shown below. Hope you had fun working on this project! Thanks for reading.

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Create Channel Mask Technique in Photoshop

2012-03-05T22:20:00.000-08:00

In this tutorial, I will show you a rather useful technique I use in Photoshop to make perfect human selection, which requires the combination of channel mask and the quick selection tool available in Photoshop CS3.
I have received a number of emails lately in regards to this topic and I have decided to post this short tutorial with a step-by-step guide for beginners. Once you master this skill, you can apply it to pretty much every human image you want to selection/extract.

Meanwhile, if you have any tips/tricks about making selections, you’re more than welcome to share your experience with us, just drop a comment below :)
Although this is not a formal photo effect tutorial but rather a tip/trick, I have created a final image here:

OK let’s get started!
To complete this tutorial, you will need to the following stock image:
Girl

Step 1

Load the Girl stock image into Photoshop. We know the ultimate goal is to seperate the girl from the rest of the image, but how do we start. Firstly let’s take a look at the image:

The overall lighting is quite good and it doesn’t have a lot of colour variation.
This is a human portrait so that means taking out the hairs and making selection around it will be difficult.
You may think of using Pen Tool, but what happen if you’re just not that good at it??

After those thoughts above, it’s time to get down to business. To begin with, let’s take a look at the channels in the channel palatte and select the “Blue” channel as shown below:

The reason I chose the “Blue” channel here is because it provide the biggest contrast from the model to the background, comparing with the Red and Green channel.

Step 2

Now we’re are on the blue channel. The second thing we’re going to do is to increase the contrast as much as we can, while preserving the hair bits. To do this, we can make a duplication of the “Blue” Channel by right-click and choose “Duplicate channel”.
On the “Blue Copy” channel, go to Image > Adjustment > Brightness /Contrast and apply the following settings:

Then hit Ctrl + L and bring up the level adjustments tool, apply the following settings:

and you will have the following effect:

Step 3

Now we will have to use the power of the Quick Selection tool to select the light colour part of the girl’s body. To do this, simply grab the Quick Selection tool (W) from the tool box, set the brush size to 2px and tick “Auto-Enhance” option, make a selection of the white part as shown below:

Hint: make use the + and – quick selection tool available on the option bar for adjustments, don’t worry about the hair bits on the outside as they’re already in black colour.
When you finish the selection, simply fill it with black colour:

De-select the image when you’re done, if you see a white gap on the girl body, simply use a black brush to fill it.

Step 4

Now you will see around the girl’s body (which is in Black), there are some areas cover in dark grey colour. We must get rid of them in order to make our selection better. To do this, simply use the Quick Selection Tool to make a selection around the girl, then press Ctrl + Shift + I and inverse this selection. Grab the Eraser Tool to gently erase those dark grey bits off:

The reason we make the selection is that by doing so, we will not accidentally erase the parts on the girl’s body.
Here is the effect so far:

Now we have successfully completed a Channel Mask, which we

Step 5

Now we can go back to the layer palatte, go to select > load selection and choose the following:

and you will see now the model is selected:

Press Ctrl + J and make a duplication of the selection, and create a new layer in between and fill it with white colour, you will see we have now successfully make a pretty good selection for the girl model:

Step 6

Now we can of course fine tune the image a bit by using the Sharpen Filter. Go to Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen and apply the following settings:

Also add a series of adjustment layers on top of it will help to bring out extra light and contrast: (Go to Layer > Adjustment Layer)
For all adjustment layers, make sure to tick the “Use previous layer as clipping mask” option.
Black and White:

Levels

Curves

Hue and Saturation

and here is the effect so far:

Step 7

Now we have a perfect girl image, without any background and great to work on as a starting point. It’s time to use your imagination and creativity :) I simply use some custom brushsets from qbrushes.com and add some patterns in the background, adjusted the colour balance a bit.

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How to Create Search Field in Photoshop

2012-03-04T20:49:00.002-08:00

Learn How To Create Search Field In Photoshop! Today we will learn how to Create Search Field in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background , then we will work on the many layers, layer masks and other useful techniques related this tutorial. This tutorial is very simple to follow, so I suggest to everyone to give a try.

1. Create a new project with a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels

2. Now Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) and make shape with radius to 80 pixels like as Below

3. Now Create new layer and fill Pattern (Shift+F5) like as below

4. Now again Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) and make shape with radius to 80 pixels like as Below

5. Now again Select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) and make shape with radius to 80 pixels like as Below

6. Now select the Rectangular Marquee tool (M) and make a round shape like as below

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Create a Playful Cat & Earth Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

2012-03-04T04:02:00.000-08:00

In this week’s tutorial, we’ll be learning how to create a Playful Cat & Earth Photo Manipulation. To create this we’ll be using a mixture of Photos, brushes and shapes and using various techniques in photoshop!

Resources

Background

1. Create a new document that’s 700×900 pixels and fill the background #e6e0d2.

2. Select the Rectangle Tool and draw a long rectangle, to rotate the shape press CTRL+T and rotate a corner. Duplicate the shape by dragging it to the new layer icon and have it overlapping with the first shape. Make the colours and opacity to below:

3. Create a new layer and select draw on a couple of the Grunge Paint Strokes in white, set the Blending Mode to Soft Light and the Opacity to 27%. Again create a new layer, select a Paper Texture brush this time a press on the texture in white.

4. Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool and hold down the Shift Key to draw a perfect shape. Create a new layer, select a large soft edged brush and draw along the edges of the circle like below and set the Opacity to 22%. Duplicate the shape various times and rotate until you get the look you desire.

Earth

5. Copy and Paste the earth image onto the canvas, to make the image smaller press CTRL+T and drag a top corner down while holding down the Shift Key. Draw over the earth using the Elliptical Marquee Tool like below and click on the Add Layer Mask icon to crop the earth image down to the circle.

6. Duplicate the earth image and press CTRL+T on the second earth image, shrink the earth down and move below the first earth like below. To turn the duplicated earth into a better shadow, go into Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and put in 8. Then go into Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

7. While holding down the CTRL Key click on the main earth’s Mask Thumbnail to bring up the marquee. Create a new layer and draw on a shadow using a black soft edged brush. Set the Blending Mode to Soft Light and the Opacity to 66%.

Cat

8. Next copy and paste the cat image onto the canvas.

9. To crop the cat out of the background we’re going to be using the Quick Selection Tool (in versions CS4 & CS5). Using the tool, drag through the cat to select it. If it selects an area you don’t want, hold down the ALT Key to subtract. It’s best to using the Quick Selection Tool with various brush sizes to get the best result. With the cat selected, click on the Add Mask Layer to crop the image down to the selection. The cat will still have rough edges, so we’ll fix that up!

10. Click on the Mask layer on the cat & using a soft edged black brush, erase the edges of the cat. If you make any mistakes, just change the brush colour to white and brush on the areas you want to bring back. Next click back onto the cat layer, go into Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contract and put in the settings below to make the cat more vibrant.

11. Duplicate the cat and move the behind cat layer across like below. Double click on the cat layer to go into Blending Options > Color Overlay and make it black. Set the Blending Option to 3% for a nice shadow.

12. Repeat steps 9, 10 & 11 for the bird image.

Clouds

13. Create a couple of new layers and draw on some white clouds and experiment with the positioning of the cloud layers.

Circles

14. Next draw some coloured circles using the Ellipse Tool. Set the Blending Mode to Multiply and the Opacity to 20% to make the circles subtle.

Hot Air Balloons

15. Copy & Paste the Air Balloon image onto the canvas. Repeat steps 9, 10 & 11.

16. Once the air balloons are complete, duplicate the image and place them nicely on the design. If you want to change the colour of the air balloon, double click into Blending Options > Color Overlay, choose the colour you want and set the Blend Mode to Hue.

Final Result

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Virtual Tuning with Photoshop – Page 3

2012-02-28T18:04:00.000-08:00

Today i would like to share how to create fantastic visual ruining using photoshop. In this tutorial we use fantastic method to make this effect. So, why not have a try...

Step 27

Create a new layer (Layer > New Layer) on the top and name it stroke.

Step 28

Create a path like shown below using the Pen tool.

Step 29

Use the Color Picker tool to select the light blue on the bottom left corner. Then in the Paths palette (Window > Paths), right click on the path then choose Stroke Path.

Step 30

Choose Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur then apply the settings shown below.

Step 31

Decrease the opacity of the current layer to 80%.

Step 32

Using the same technique, add some strokes to other parts of the bevel like shown below. Adjust the opacity for each one to get photo realistic results.

Step 33

Create a new layer on the top then create a selection and fill it with black like shown below.

Step 34

Use the Dodge tool to add some highlights like shown below.

Step 35

Create a selection like shown below then create a new layer as the top layer.

Step 36

Fill the selected area with a gray color. Use the Dodge and Burn tools to shade it. Dodge the left side of the selection then use the burn tool to burn the right side.

Step 37

Select the Move tool then while holding down the Alt key, drag the image to create duplicates of it. It will create a new layer for each duplicate. Repeat this several times to create a grill like shown below.

Step 38

Use the same stroke path technique used earlier on the edges of the grill. This time, use white as your foreground color.

Step 39

Create a selection like shown below.

Step 40

Paste a mesh texture to the selected area (like shown in Steps 22 and 23).

Step 41

Create a selection of the headlights. Make sure that the layer with the car body is selected.

Step 42

Choose Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation then reduce the saturation. I reduced it to –100.

Step 43

To improve the contrast, choose Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast then adjust the settings to improve the contrast of the headlights.

Step 44

Create a new layer as the top layer then fill the area shown in the image below with black.

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Amazingly fast red eye removal with Photoshop CS5

2012-02-27T06:07:00.000-08:00

A very fast Adobe Photoshop tutorial to show you how to remove that annoying red eye that you get from using your flash.

Step one
Open up Adobe Photoshop CS5 and select the photo you wish to use. Here is a photo of my baby son’s eye!

original photo with red eye

Step 2
Select Red Eye Tool. (sometimes you might need to Right Click if one of the other tools is already selected)

select red eye removal tool

Step 3
Select the part of the eye that is red.

Select The Red Eye

And that’s is! Amazingly simple, fast, easy and effective.
Thank you Photoshop!
Finished Image

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Web Design Photoshop Tutorial

2012-02-26T04:06:00.000-08:00

This Adobe Photoshop Tutorial is a very basic tutorial about how to make a web page design using Photoshop. The design i am going to do below is very basic but it gives you an idea of how it is done and you can start to make something creative.

You would probably want to do the HTML and CSS first and design the website around the frame you are going to be using, also thinking about using code to stretch to fit the users page and centralising the image etc., this tutorial is going to be about the design.
So fire up Adobe Photoshop CS5 …..
Create a new document

Choose Gradient Tool and your selected colours

Then click from the top to the bottom to get your gradient.

And you will end up with something like below.

Now to make some buttons,

And choose the colour you want the buttons to be ..

Like below

Now we want to duplicate the buttons , right click the layer and Duplicate Layer.

In this example I duplicated it an extra 3 time to make a total of 4 buttons.

Now to label the buttons.

In this example I created, Home , About, Contact, Shop.

Make sure the text layers are above the rectangle layers,

And make another layer for where your main text is going to go.

Now we need to make the site title, so goto the Text Tool and type your name in the header, then right click on the layer and goto Blending Options.

Choose Drop Shadow

Change some of the settings to suit and your title is now done..

Add a logo ..

Now we need to Slice the image up ready for the website.

Using the slice tool , cut the website up into sections, e.g logo, header, menu buttons, main text section etc.

Now to save the images , goto File -> New -> Save For Web & Devices

Choose, HTML and IMAGES.

Then goto the folder you have chose to save your files to.

You will see a folder called images and a html file. In the images folder will be the images we sliced earlier

Opening the HTML file will give us the website we designed…

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Simple Eye Make Up Using Photoshop

2012-02-25T08:12:00.001-08:00

The first thing you need is a picture of girl’s face. You can also use your own photos to experiment with, if you’re girl of course or a boy who’s “into” that sort of thing.

Go to Google Images and find needed photo or feel free to use mine also. Open up the photo and start to work with it.

I think it will be better to start with adding eye shadows to eyelids. Get out the Polygonal Lasso Tool and create selection similar to mine on the picture below:

Then holding Shift button and when the plus sign near cursor will appear just add second eye area selection. After that fill selected area with color of # 806475 on the new layer.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:

Change layer mode to Overlay:

To correct eye shadows borders we can apply Smudge Tool (Brush: 50 px, Mode: Normal : Strength: 70%).

Then create a new layer and start with creating eye-liner effect. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool again and create one more selection as on my picture below, then fill it with color of #282a37 on the new layer.

Deselect chosen area with Select > Deselect and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:

The result should be next:

After that apply Smudge Tool for this layer again.

Time to add white shining under the eyebrows. Create new layer, then select the Brush Tool and a soft round brush about 35px to color some area under eyebrows with white color.

After that apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise with similar settings to these:

Then change layer mode to Soft Light:

After that apply Blur Tool a little bit.

Ok, now make some clean work with Eraser Tool to bring shining realistic view.

Tome to color eyebrows. Create new layer, then select the Polygonal Lasso Tool again and create selected areas similar to mine and fill it with black color.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to blur current layer content about 1,5px, then reduce opacity to 40% for this layer.

And the last one thing that I would like to add is eyelashes. I’m gonna show you one interesting method how we can add it by using Pen Tool. Before we start making it, just get out the Brush Tool before and set up with the following settings for it:

Then set foreground color as black. After that select the Pen Tool (you need to make sure that you’re working with Paths instead of Shape Layers). Draw out the line using paths:

Then right-click and select Stroke Path.

A little dialog box will appear as in the screenshot. Choose Brush and make sure there is a tick next to Simulate Pressure. This is important as it will give your curve tapered ends which will make it rock!

You should get result similar to mine:

Next right click again and select Delete Path. Create more eyelashes on the same way.

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Create 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

2011-11-26T03:00:00.000-08:00

Today i would like to share how to create 3D text effects in photoshop. In this tutorial we use fantastic method to make this effect. So, why not have a try...
1)Start with your text on a background . For this totorial i will use this background

2)Duplicate the layer with the text . Hide the layer with the original text (Press the eye near the layer).Select the duplicated layer , press M and 20 times the Down Button.

3)Go to Filter--Render--Lightning Effects and press ok . Now move the layer with the original text above and press the eye again.

4)Select the copyed layer and press 20 times Up Button

5)Select again the layer with the original text , go to blending mode and add some Inner Shadow . Final result :

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