Easy Photoshop Tutorials

Create Your Own Social Networking Stitched Fabric Icons

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:28:28 +0000

In this tutorial I will show you how to make social networking icons that look like a sewn patch. This tutorial shows you techniques with the pen tool, paths, creating textures, and blending modes. I will show you how to make a twitter icon first. First go to http://twitterfont.com/ and download the twitter font and install it. Just [...]

Glossy Peeling sticker Effect in Photoshop

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:08:33 +0000

The peeling sticker effect looks cool and is one of the easiest effects to do in photoshop. I will show you the steps to complete this simple effect. Start a 400X400px document and create a black circle that fills up most of the area Add blending options to it similar to this or whatever you want Stroke Gradient Overlay Inner [...]

Create a Fast Moving Car with a Parked Car Picture

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:55:58 +0000

In this photoshop tutorial I will run you through some easy ways to create a fast moving car illusion with a picture of a parked car. First download this picture or use any other parked car picture you want to use Open up the picture and the first thing I am going to do is [...]

How To Create Engraved Text in Photoshop

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:48:25 +0000

A nice text effect is the ‘cut-out’ look or what is best known as engraved text. It is actually as easy to implement as to alternatively add an embossed effect to any length of text. Here is a good approach if you want it to be done quickly. Let us create a box at 300 by [...]

Apple in Disguise Photo Manipulation

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:05:45 +0000

In this tutorial I will show you how to manipulate some photos of an apple and orange to make it look like the apple is wearing the orange as a mask. First we need our materials: Apple Orange Zipper Fruit basket Open up your apple image and also open your orange image. For the apple cut it [...]

Add Depth of Field to an Image with Photoshop

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:42:01 +0000

This tutorial will show you some easy ways to add depth of field to a picture with photoshop for those of you that don’t have a high powered camera (me included). Here is the first picture I added it to: Here is the 2nd picture I added it to: First download these 2 pictures [...]

Turn a Beer Green for St. Patty’s Day

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:20:55 +0000

For a tribute to St. Patty’s Day I will show you an easy way to turn a beer green! First download this picture Open your beer picture then duplicate your layer and hide your previous one for a backup. Get your pen tool Make sure it is on these settings: Duplicate your beer glass layer so you have 2 copies [...]

Photoshop Technique: Create a Realistic Glass Reflection

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:46:36 +0000

In this tutorial I will run you through some very simple methods to create a realistic refection of someone as if they were in front of a glass window. First download this picture Start a 822X542px document and place the picture of the girls face in the right side of the canvas. Now duplicate the [...]

Create a Burnt and Melted Poloroid

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:06:10 +0000

I am going to show you how to create a burnt/melted poloroid in photoshop. First download this image Now take that photo and make it black and white by going to Image>>Adjustments>>desaturate Now go to image>>adjustments>>levels and mess with the settings to give your picture a more old look. Then add noise by going to filter>>noise>>add noise [...]

Add a Holiday Touch to Your Icons

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:53:06 +0000

I am going to run you through a quick tutorial on making an RSS icon and then adding a Christmas touch to it with a little santa hat. This should be a very easy tutorial for anyone. So I will start a 263X266px canvas with a white background. Create a rounded rectangle with a 15px radius Add these [...]

Create a MLB Icon of Your Favorite Team

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:20:08 +0000

The world series is upon us and although my favorite team is not involved I thought I would write a tutorial on making a cool icon or graphic that is similar to one I saw while watching a MLB game a few weeks ago. First you want to trace an image of the MLB batter [...]

Design a Music Wallpaper Montage

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:03:45 +0000

This tutorial will show you some techniques that can help you create cool wallpapers, advertisements, or many other graphics. This tutorial will probably be quite long but I will try to be as detailed as I can be on certain aspects. Final Result I am going to do this tutorial in steps, showing you how to make [...]

Using Filters to Create Special Effects

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:12:25 +0000

In this tutorial I am going to run you through some filters to create a cool effect for a wallpaper, but these methods can be used for other applications. 1024X768 First I am going to start a new document with an 800X600px sized canvas since that is a pretty standard monitor resolution. Fill in your background layer with [...]

Create realisitic photo prints in photoshop with this tutorial

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:25:52 +0000

Step 1: First we create the thin border of the photograph. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to draw a rectangle the shape of a photo. Create a new layer and call it frame, fill the selection with a gradient going from white to beige (#F7F2E7) like in the picture bellow. Step 2:Create a new layer and call it mask, [...]

Teeth Whitening in Photoshop tutorial

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:52:49 +0000

Easy photoshop tutorial demonstrating how to whiten teeth in photographs.Â Valuable photoshop lesson that I’m sure you will be able to use personally or professionally. 1. We will need a picture of someoneâ€™s teeth the best idea would not to get the best looking teeth because you wont see the effectâ€™s. so select the magic wand [...]

Easy Photoshop Tutorial: Optimizing grayscale images

admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:55:06 +0000

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by. â€”Akio Morita, founder of Sony When you work with grayscale images, your adjustments and corrections are limited to only tonal adjustmentsâ€”that is, changes to the brightness and contrast of the image. When you work [...]

Photoshop Tutorial Superman Style Text

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:52:11 +0000

Step 1. Start with your type on a new layer. Step 2.Â Open the warp text tool, it’s the little box in the toolbar with ABC written on it. If you dont see it, select your type with the text tool. Render the type layer: PC right click/Mac Cmd click in the text in the layers palette [...]

Photoshop Tutorial Glass Text

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:05:45 +0000

Step 1. Start with a background. 72dpi and RGB mode. Step 2. Add some text, here I used galant (www.1001freefonts.com) Step 3. Add a layer style by clicking the little “f” at the bottom of the layers pallette. Add a dropshadow and a bevel, copy the settings shown here. Note 2 things here that really make the glass “pop” 1. Change [...]

Create your own Halo 3 signature with this Photoshop tutorial

admin — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:30:34 +0000

Need a Halo 3 signature for your forum postings? This free tutorial shows you how to create a Halo 3 signature with Photoshop like this: First, create a new file with the dimensions 410×120. You don’t necessarily need this size, but I find it’s the best size for signatures. Select a white background in the new [...]

Halo 3 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:39:33 +0000

Unless you have been living in a cave, I’m sure you have heard of the Halo 3 phenom that has taken over North America.Â Get your very own set up Halo 3 Photoshop Brushes. Download a collection of 15 high resolution Photoshop Brushes of the just released XBox 360 game Halo 3 by Bungie Studios. Check [...]

Photoshop Tutorial Make your own ipod style photos

admin — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:33:35 +0000

So we’ve all seen those Apple iPod commercials on TV. Crazy silhouetted people dancing around with white iPod’s attached their ears with white strings. It’s a pretty easy photoshop effect, so I’ll show you how to create your own crazy ad. Let’s start off with our person photo. I found this one at www.photospin.com. We’re going [...]

Photoshop Tutorial Diamond Plated Brush Metal

admin — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:12:28 +0000

Brad reminded me about an enhancement on the brushed aluminium technique we discussed earlier. He added diamond plates on the brushed metal base for a more masculine and rough look. Follow the steps below to achive the effect. 1: Get a brushed metal base ready. See the tutorial linked above for details. 2: Select the rectangle tool. Make [...]

Photoshop Tutorial Create and Aurora

admin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:27:32 +0000

Creating an Aurora in Photoshop This tutorial goes through the steps to creating a beautiful skyline above a grassy field. (This tutorial requires Photoshop CS, 7.0 or 6.0.) I’d recommend making this image 779 pixels wide, so it fits perfectly on a 800×600 screen. 1 â€“ Vivid Clouds Fill the area with a tan colour. I’ve used DDCE92 [...]

Photoshop video tutorial learn the basics of curves

admin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:16:01 +0000

Photoshop video tutorial color correcting and sharpening

admin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:14:07 +0000

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