Mastering Complex Selections in Photoshop. Having the ability to effectively extract an image from its background is an essential skill for any designer, photographer, or creative professional. Many times we have unique challenges when attempting to separate a subject from its setting. Obstacles like poor contrast or the intricate shapes formed by hair and fur can make the process nearly impossible without the right techniques. In the first installment of Making Complex Selections in Photoshop, I covered fairly easy objects to select, such as a woman with a few wisps of hair sticking out, but this time we are going to cover making even more complex selections in Photoshop. The example image below can be found here.
To try and select each individual strand by hand would be extremely painstaking and nearly impossible. You could spend all day attempting to select this cactus with the lasso tools, and even revealing each strand with a mask would yield poor results. You can see from the image above that the selection is very loose. 200++ Photoshop Photo Effects. EmailEmail Have you ever wonder where is that photo effect tutorial you saw the other day and start searching all over the internet but couldn’t find what you saw initially? Honestly, i have. That is why i throw them all into this article instead. But i also use these article to gain inspiration on what to do with my photo image. Create a Powerful Mental Wave Explosion Effect Photo to Pencil Sketch Effect Sin City Style Effect How To Make Your Own Vector Portraits Tutorial: Good and Evil Photo Effect The Making of Mystic Effect Transform A Person Into An Alien Effect Reflective Bubbles Effect Crack and Peel Effect Expressive Lighting Effect Displacement Effect Vector Composite Effect from a Photo Easy Watercolor Painting Effect Twins Effect Apple Style Portrait Effect Compositing Effect Dimension Effect Blue Glow Dreamy Effect Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions Effect Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effect Electrifying Energy Beams Effect Eery-Eye Photo Effect Fairy Night Eye Effect Fairy tale Effect Magic Book.
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40 Awesome Photoshop Water Effect Tutorials and Brush Collections. Tripwire magazine 40 Awesome Photoshop Water Effect Tutorials and Brush Collections November 18, 2012 · 45 comments by Lars Water effects created using Photoshop can be used in various types of designs to create interesting and strong emotional effects. Advertisement Index Photoshop Water Effect Tutorials Create a beautiful under water scene in photoshop Water drops in photoshop in 5 minutes Water Drops Leaf drop tutorial Basic water drops Underwater Scene Underwater Experiment in Photoshop The Ocean’s Freshness Photo Effects Alien Water Photoshop Tutorial Create An Underwater Scene The Making Of “Our Future” Displacement Water Feather under the water Water Dress Tutorial Water Spelled with Water Create amazing water-drenched photomontages Water effect photo montage Artistic rain on an illustration The Rain Photoshop Tutorial Transform a daylight image into a dark and stormy night Underwater Dance Effects Creating Water From A Tap Designing war movie poster Artistic rain effect Realistic water running on tap Rain.
25+ Water Effect Photoshop Tutorials and Brushes. Water is beautiful, but creating its effect digitally from scratch can be dreadful, due to the complexity you have to deal with. However, there are always time when you, as a professional, have to create the water effect, be it for personal use or commercial project. (Image Source: Morteque) Well, the good news is that there are always hope for you, and the hope is always come from the Internet. Knowing the difficulty of water effect creation, many passionate designers have gone so far to create tutorials and wonderful resources to aid you in achieving artistic and realistic water effect. In this post we have compiled a list of water effect tutorials that show you the brilliant ways to create water effects ranged from droplets to rain to waterfalls. At the end of the tutorial section we also got Photoshop brushes for you to even speed up your creation process, so take a jump and get them all! Tutorials Rain, Rain, Go Away Designing A War Movie Poster The Rain Tutorial Rain Water Dress Rainy Day.
200++ Photoshop Photo Effects. 20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru. Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience. 1. Colorful Plexi Text Effect Follow this tutorial to create dazzling, multi-layered, semi-transparent lettering, with a Perspex-like quality. 2. 3D Pixel Stretch Effect File this tutorial under “simple but effective”. 3.
Turn a simple cityscape into a torrentially flooded wasteland. 4. Become the master of light and glow on Photoshop with this brief, easy-to-follow guide. 5. Use masking tools, layers, gradients and lines to turn your favorite piece of 3D text into something more colorful and commercial. 6. 7. This tutorial is so versatile. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Photoshop For Beginners: 6 techniques to extract anything from its background. This is the second of a series of tutorials thought for Photoshop beginners. I’ll explain in depth those features that can result difficult to understand for a newbi. Today I’ll show you 6 techniques you can use to extract a person/object from its background.
From now on extraction won’t have secrets for you! Extraction is one of the worst enemies for those who start using Photoshop. Do you want to learn Photoshop basics with simple yet effective tutorials? How to: Before we start: in the following exercises I take for grant you’ll unlock the background layer when you open a new image in Photoshop before start the exercise. For mac users: alt=options. ctrl=cmd. Exercise 1: How to extract simple form objects Objects with simple forms are easy to be extracted.
Open the screw image in Photoshop. Now that it’s easier to find the center of the screw head, grab the elliptical marquee tool, hold down alt and shift, left click on the center of the screw and drag until you select the entire object. The Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2010 –August 2010. 75 Excellent Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials. The first thing that clicks our mind when we talk about image editing and photo manipulation is Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is such a great tool for image editing but on the other hand it is quite hard to master. Photo manipulation is the art of photo editing. It is another name of passion and creativity.
Photo manipulation is not a cup of tea for the beginners. But it’s a passion for many designers out here including me. One should have lots of patience and creativity to turn a simple photo into an amazing visual art. There are many tutorials that help beginners to complete their passion. For those, who don’t know what is Adobe Photoshop?
The next generation, representing two decades of excellence. Excellent Photo Manipulation Tutorials The demand for Photoshop tutorials are too much in these days and finding the best tutorials from the pool with tens of thousands of tutorials is not a easy job to perform. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Water Ripples Effect. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to easily add realistic looking water ripples to an image! Photoshop ships with a filter designed specifically for creating a water ripple effect, but you’d never know it from the filter’s name (no, it’s not Ripple or Ocean Ripple, that would be too easy).
The filter we’ll be using does a decent job on its own, but as we’ll see in this tutorial, by running the filter twice, using different settings each time, then combining the results, we can create a more realistic water ripple effect. I’ll be using Photoshop CS5 throughout this tutorial but any recent version will work. Here’s the image I’ll be starting with: The original image. Here’s how it will look after adding some ripples to the water, as if raindrops are falling on the surface: The final water ripples effect. Let’s get started! Step 1: Select The Elliptical Marquee Tool Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Step 2: Drag Out An Elliptical Selection.