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35 Fresh and Excellent Photoshop Tutorials from 2010 - Noupe Design Blog. May 19 2010 With the release of CS5, Photoshop has become even more power-packed with features more simplified, and with better characteristics. Its features are so user-friendly such that even newbies can produce quality effects, and for professionals launching of CS5 is like getting box of Pandora with which they can get awesome results.

Today we present 35 Latest Photoshop Tutorials from this year, which will showcase you techniques used for text effects, lightning effect, photo manipulation, web design and some general tips. All tutorials are quite innovative and modernistic and will help you learn fantastic ways to improve your skills and amplify your artistic know-how. Fresh Photoshop Tutorials From 2010 Create a Stylish Grunge Poster with 3D Typography in Photoshop In this tutorial author will show you how to create a cool grunge poster in Photohop.

Creating an Impactful Disco Party Poster This tutorial will show how we can create an impactful disco party poster. Smashing Magazine. The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Photoshop’s wide array of cloning tools is the cause of many of the absolute best and worst works created with the application. In a skilled and experienced hand, these tools lead to phenomenal results. In the hands of a careless artist, Photoshop cloning can be disastrous to the credibility of the result. This article introduces the several cloning tools available in Photoshop and goes over the proper usage and best practices of each. The Clone Stamp Tool The Clone Stamp tool is the oldest and most widely known of the cloning tools.

The basic concept is that you duplicate certain portions of an image using a source, destination and brush. Use the “Option” key (“Alt”) to set the source. To clone out the name on the tombstone above, you would select a source that shares the texture of the area you want to replace. To begin, simply click on the preferred source area while holding down the “Option” key (“Alt” on a PC). Basic Settings: Brush The clone stamp’s basic settings. (al) LIFE Manifesto. Photoshop Shortcuts ? The Fun Way. In this post I’m going to focus on several Photoshop shortcuts that I tend to use more often than others.

Sure I could sit here and spell out every single shortcut available, but why reinvent the wheel? Here is a list of 10 of my favorite and most used Photoshop shortcuts delivered to you via Mr. Stickman. Zoom with scroll Sure you can use the zoom tool straight off of the tool bar, but there is a much easier way. Individual font scaling If you’re looking to change the individual font size for a particular word or word-phrase within the text of your Photoshop document, simply highlight the text and hold Ctrl + Shift while using the > or < key to change the size of the font in 2px increments. 100% zoom Often times when I’m working on a project, I’ll zoom in particularly close to handle detail-oriented aspects of the design.

Brush size I’m a fan of the brush tool, as most people are. Layer opacity The amount of transparency that a particular layer displays is know as it’s opacity. Super nudge. Photoshop Fu. 28 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know. The 30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorize. TypeNavigator. Web Form Factory (v0.1.3 beta) - Open Source Web Form Generator. The Tao Of Programming. Translated by Geoffrey James Transcribed by Duke Hillard Transmitted by Anupam Trivedi, Sajitha Tampi, and Meghshyam Jagannath Re-html-ized and edited by Kragen Sittler Last modified 1996-04-10 or earlier Table of Contents Book 1 - The Silent Void Thus spake the master programmer: ``When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave.'' Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void.

If the Tao is great, then the operating system is great. The Tao of Programming flows far away and returns on the wind of morning. The Tao gave birth to machine language. The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Each language has its purpose, however humble. But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it. In the beginning was the Tao. Programmers that do not comprehend the Tao are always running out of time and space for their programs. How could it be otherwise? The wise programmer is told about Tao and follows it. The highest sounds are hardest to hear. Fonts | Free Fonts, Buy Fonts, Windows Fonts. Free CSS templates - Download Free CSS Templates. Tutorials [ photoshop, flash, pov-ray & polar graphing tutorials ]

CSS3.0 Maker | CSS3.0 Generator | CSS 3.0 Generator. How to Remove a person from a photo by using cs 5 Content Aware. May 29 2010 With the launch of the new Adobe Suite of programs comes the long awaited Adobe Photoshop CS5. Packed with new features to speed up your workflow it truly is the most advanced edition of Photoshop to date. One of the new features we will be looking at today is called Content Aware. This feature allows you to quickly fill in a selection with surrounding content making it look like a part of the original image. Before we begin, download the image that we will be working with. Using the content aware tool on different images produces different results. We are extracting the person on the left from this photo. Notice in the image below how far I am drawing the path from the subject. Once you complete the path around the subject, turn it into a selection. A dialog box will pop-up, make sure the feathering is set to 0px.

Now we have an active selection around our subject. A dialog box will pop-up, make sure the Content Aware option is selected. How To Give Your Photos a Dark Processed Lomo Effect. This post was originally published in 2010 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Follow this step by step post processing guide to give your photos a dark lomo style effect with high contrast, blue tones and vignette burns.

The effect is based on the popular lomographic technique and is similar to the processing effect used in many fashion shots and advertisement designs. Overall this effect does a great job of adding impact to a plain photography with cool colour casts and unusual saturation. View full size photo effect Begin by opening your photograph of choice into Adobe Photoshop.

Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and tweak the tones of the image. At the bottom of the Layers palette, click the Adjustment Layer icon and select Curves. Change the drop down menu to Green and tweak the graph for the green channel to further alter the tones of the image. Finally alter the Blue channel, creating an inverted ‘S’ shape to enhance the blues to give a cool colour cast. Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop. Matte paintings are images commonly used in the film industry to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build. In this tutorial I will show you how to turn a single stock photo into a realistic panoramic scene. Click to enlarge the image. Resources The following images were used during the production of this image. Step 1 Download the following stock image in order to follow this step-by-step tutorial: if you choose to work on a different plate, try to find a photo with a mostly clear sky so it will be easier to enlarge the photo in the following steps.

Now open your stock of choice in Photoshop and increase the canvas size in all directions except for the ground. Step 2 Now we will start to fill the new transparent area with life. Next we have to get rid of the sharp edges in the upper layer. Step 3 The left area now obviously looks duplicated, so we will use the Clone Stamp Tool (S) to fix that. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9. Yet Another Colorization Tutorial. Resources For Web Design.