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  • Striking light effects digital art in Photoshop

    In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make a dancing girl surrounded by colorful lights and other elements.

  • Shooting Silhouettes

    While Rick speeds his way across Idaho and Montana, I thought I’d share a great little tutorial I recently found: How to Photograph Silhouettes in 8 easy Steps.
    I personally have lots of silhouettes in my photo library—sadly, most of them are the unintentional result of incorrect metering or forgetting to turn on my flash when the subject was backlit. But when done with a little forethought, silhouetted shots can make a strong statement. The trick is learning how to outthink your camera’s natural imperative to properly expose the subject. In this eight-step tutorial, Darren Rowse goes over the basics of setting up the shot and getting the right camera settings. I hope you find it inspiring!
    Kelly

  • Digimarc for Images 4

    The Digimarc for Images 4 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (Windows only) embeds your own unique copyright information invisibly, then their Web crawling service constantly looks for watermarked images on websites, and reports the results back to the owner.

  • Scenery Scrawl PS Brushes

    As per the request the set includes lots of elements loosely based around a jungle theme. Including:
    Trees, Leaves, Grass, Clouds, Rocks, A dead fish, A waterfall, volcano, cactus and more!
    So.. Enjoy!

  • Enhance a poor backlit photo

    In this Photoshop Elements video, learn how to fix a dull backlit photo to punch up the color and contrast.

  • Create an Intense Apocalyptic Photo Manipulation

    Learn how to create this amazing apocalyptic photo manipulation with Photoshop! You’ll learn how to blend elements such as water and moon, create seamless structures with the Clone Stamp tool, and finish it off with a cold movie photo effect.

  • How To Create a Gothic Blackletter Typographic Design

    Blackletter or gothic script fonts are hugely popular in a range of modern cultures. Metal bands, tattoo artwork and extreme sports brands all make use of the awesome blackletter style. Often the sharp letter shapes are enhanced with elaborate swirls and decorations. Follow this step by step guide to customizing your own gothic typographic design, we’ll be modifying the original vector letters in Illustrator before moving over to Photoshop to add a cool distressed and metal effect finish to the artwork.The design I’ve been working on features the word ‘Cobra’ – Simply because it sounds pretty bad-ass! The blackletter type has been customised and modified with additional swirls, curls and various pointy bits which add plenty of visual interest while disguising the original wording.View full size artworkThe first stage of the design process will be in Illustrator, here we’ll create and tweak the gothic script lettering. The first step is…

  • Bronze toning tutorial, email newsletter posted

    I’m packing for a week-long motorcycle ride into the wilds of Idaho, Montana and Eastern Oregon with my good buddy Ben, but, before I took off, I wanted to get Matt’s latest video up on to the site.
    Getting a Bronzed Skin Effect shows you some different methods for adding that special toned look to your portraits, and it’s another great tutorial to help you get comfortable with layers. Even if you don’t like the look, you’ll want to watch, just to see Matt’s awesome tip for adjusting the opacity of a layer mask — it’s near the end of the video, and it’s pretty cool! (There’s also a cheatsheet for the video, check the “Related Links” section of the page.)
    While you’re on the site, don’t forget to check out Matt’s previous video, Using Lens Flare as an Artistic Effect. Lens flare is one of those things we’ve been…

  • 15 Well-Explained Photoshop Tutorials with Fantastic End Result

    Anyone ever attempts to write Photoshop tutorial knows that to be able to produce a good result is one thing, to write an excellent tutorial based on that result is another. Sometime it’s difficult to explain in detail how to achieve certain effect in Photoshop, although the writers tried their best.
    In this post, I collected 15 fresh, Well-Explained Photoshop Tutorials with Fantastic End Result. These are high quality tutorials that would surely impress you, take a look :) I’m sure you will learn lots!
    Here goes the list, enjoy! (You can click on the title or the image to view the tutorial)
    Create a fantasy-horror scene in Photoshop
    Today I’ll drive you through the process of making a fantasy horror scene in Photoshop. We will use some of our grunge textures to realize the background scene, several Photoshop filters to create light effects and we will turn the…

  • Halftone Grunge

    A new brush set; in grunge style, but with some mixed elements: swirls, halftones, abstract.

  • Win New Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, Free!

    With the official release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 looking to be just around the corner, it’s time to launch our September contest… This month we’re giving away three free boxes of PSE 9 (estimated value $100 each), and all you have to do for a chance to win is enter your email address [...]

  • Create an Abstract Cloud Jumper in Photoshop

    In this tutorial, we’ll manipulate a photo with abstract elements to make it more interesting and active.

  • Making Photoshop Selections More Visible in Screenshots.

    If you’ve ever needed to take screenshots of a Photoshop, or Photoshop Elements technique that demonstrates making selections, you’ll know how difficult it can be to get their marching ant border to show up properly, especially against a low-contrast background.
    In this article we’ll use a little trick to make selections stand out better. This will be of particular use if the resulting images are destined for print, where they will only be a couple of inches across.

    1. Although it’s not strictly necessary, it’s useful to turn off the Zoom Resizes Window option in preferences as it will make the procedure easier to work with. This can also be done by unchecking Resize Windows to fit in the Options Bar when the Zoom tool is selected.

    2. Before starting to make the selection, create a new layer above all the rest. Bring up the Fill Dialog from the…


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