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The Best Vector Tutorials of 2009 | Tutorials. 10 shares The Most Popular Articles of 2009 The end of 2009 marked WDL’s first full year in existence, and what a great year it was. We feel that we’ve put out a lot of valuable content that has been helpful to our readers who we greatly appreciate. So before we start publishing new content for 2010, we thought it would be interesting… Read More 204 shares The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009 There are a few things that a designer can not have enough of in his or her design arsenal, and one of them is textures.

Separating Complex Objects from Background » Free Photoshop Tuto. Welcome to PhotoshopStar.com! If you find this site useful, you might want to subscribe to our free newsletter for updates on our new Photoshop Tutorials and Articles. You can find a lot of tutorials how to separate complex objects from the background. But I would like to invite your attention to another one unique simple tutorial how to achieve the desired effect in just a few steps. I got this method by experimenting. In the beginning you should find some appropriate picture to work with. You can use Google Images or also feel free to use mine picture. Apply Filter > Extract with similar settings to these: This is where we start to extract the image first of all zoom into the image with Zoom Tool so you can clearly see the outline and set the brush size to a suitable size and then simply draw around the outline of the woman’s hairstyle with Edge Highlighter Tool.

After that create a new layer under and fill it with color of #aed2da. Now, move to the next step. 25 New Illustrator Tutorials That Will Make You A Master Of Vect. Just because you can usually get a similar effect in Photoshop doesn’t mean the end result will be as good as using Illustrator (depending on the project).

If you are like me (and I will bet most of you are) you will go ahead and use PS because you know it much better even though the final project will not be as good or as functional as it could be. Well it’s time to buck up and get this learning curve completely out of the way so you make the right choice next time. Below are some sweet Illustrator tuts that will leave you in vector heaven once your done. Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular photo editing programs that has ever been created. This tutorial teaches you how to make a portrait of William Shakespeare in Illustrator using text. Article Link Advertisement A very interesting tutorial, from Design Instruct, that takes you behind the scenes and shows you the illustration process from start to finish. Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link. Photoshop Frenzy - Made for faster learning! » Blog Archive » Dr.

Posted in Photo Effects on December 6th, 2007 with 77 responses . In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to add a dramatic, gritty, bronzed effect to your images. We’ll convert our subject image as follows: 1. Open our project image and immediately duplicate the background layer by right clicking the background layer and selecting ‘Duplicate Layer’. With the ‘Background Copy’ layer selected, go to ‘Filter’ on the menu and choose ‘Other’ -> ‘High Pass’, enter ‘5′ pixels as the radius and click ok. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Our effect looks like this now: 6. And voila…our dramatic gritty effect is complete! A Comprehensive Intro to the Type Tool. An In-Depth Look Into Background Removal Techniques | Media Mili. Removing a background from an image is a common task that every designer needs to do on an almost regular basis. There are so many ways that you can extract a subject from its background to end up with a transparent background. With all the different ways, there is really is no exact method that you should take every time. Depending on the background or complexity is how you should determine which method you should take. If you have the luxury of being the designer as well as the photographer, then you have complete control of the contrast between the subject and the background.

Try to make the background as plain as possible with highly defined edges. This will make any of the methods below an easy process in removing the background. Most of the time you will be supplied an image or have to find one on a stock site. Becoming a master at extraction is very useful in all design jobs. Download Windows Download Mac Pros for Extract Filter Cons for Extract Filter Tutorials: The Extract Tool.