Holiday Lights Bokeh. I am a huge fan of bokeh (the blurring of background objects of lights in photos) and with an abundance of holiday lights at this time of year, bokeh light sources are readily available. Here are some examples with the boys, taken in front of our Christmas tree and at an outdoor light display. (Looks like Camo does the same pose everywhere, huh?) Regular old round bokeh is great, but have you seen pictures with shaped bokeh? So cool. I Heart Faces has some great tutorials on taking bokeh photos, but also on how to make your own shaped bokeh filter.
And all it takes is basic supplies you already have laying around. I have been meaning to do this for the whole of December and now that I've been threatened with the tree coming down, I finally got around to it. I went about it a little differently because my paper punch didn't go far enough across the page to put the hole in the center of the circle I cut out. Here is what you need to do: Measure the width of the glass part of your UV filter. Photo Tips and Techniques for Beginners DIY Fashion and Craft Tutorials | Stars for StreetlightsStars for Streetlights.
I remember the day I got my DSLR camera in the mail-- I had saved up for months to buy my little Nikon D40 and I watched the postal tracking code like my dog waits for her food in the mornings. (So. Excited.) :) When my brown Amazon box finally came, my heart was beating so fast that I could barely cut open the tape. I took out the Nikon and held it in my hands-- that weight and feel is so familiar to me today.
I started taking pictures right away, the same photos that everyone takes with a new camera: everything that is in direct sight. My hands, the countertop, the microwave, my feet, the cat, a pile of newspapers. Back then, I didn't have a clue as to what in the heck I was doing. I had video experience and I've always been that person who carries a camera with them... This photo: ISO: 400, f/2.8, Shutter: 1/30, taken in Wyoming at the Grand Tetons National Park, summer 2011. I think that composition is the first, easiest, most fun, and most important lesson to learn in photography.
100 free textures for photo editing in Photoshop | Techniques | PhotoRadar - StumbleUpon. Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS - StumbleUpon. By Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look.
Vintage photos also have an element of noise or grain that can be achieved through textures, and also a certain amount of vignetting around the edges of the photo. In this tutorial, we will look at adjusting color tones and adding vignettes. This photo is the result of adjusting the color curves, adding two vignettes, and a color fill, which we will walk through step-by-step. First, open your photo in Photoshop and make sure your foreground color is set to white in your side tool bar. You will see the above dialogue box. As you can see here, there should be three layers – your Background image, then your two gradient layers. 8500+ Free Photoshop Brushes. Weekly Roundup from DesignFloat | DesignFloat Blog - StumbleUpon.
Hey guys, the time for Friday roundup has come and we want to share some useful resources featuring free Photoshop brushes with you. We all know that brushes turn out to be the essential tools for web designers and help to add the desired atmosphere and create stunning websites. Using this Photoshop tool, it is possible to give the design the impressive touch and make it catchy. Of course, you have seen a vast amount of brush sets all around the web, but here you can find the top-notch collection of the most popular among them. We have decided to compile 8500+ various brush sets for our readers and we hope that this post will come in handy and add inspiration for your future designs. Additionally, we’d also recommend you to check out the compilation of 60 free Photoshop gradient sets, which you can easily use to improve your graphics. 1100+ Abstract High Quality Free Photoshop Brushes High Quality and Useful Photoshop Brushes 22 Free High Quality Doodle Photoshop Brushes Set.
CoffeeShop Vanilla Latte B&W Action UnWrapped! First, I wanted to mention that my amazing sister Heather has a great logo sale (premade and custom) going on this month! Just click on her button below to read all about it. She also designs business cards, headers, and other goodies AND she is a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom just like me. :-) Second, if you have been following my blog, you know that even though I love writing and using actions, I really enjoy teaching my readers to edit. Actions are fun and great time-savers, but I think it is important to know what is going on "behind" the scenes so you can edit on your own if you want. If you take apart actions (I call this UnWrapping), you can learn new editing steps and even tweak the results to get your own perfect edit.
Today I am unwrapping the CoffeeShop Vanilla Latte action. 1. 2. I learned this method from Amanda from EveryDay Elements. Click on Channels and then click on the little thumbnail by Red. Make a new layer. Edit, Paste. Put this layer in Soft Light. 2. 3. 4. CoffeeShop Vanilla Latte Action! I am excited to release my newest action, CoffeeShop Vanilla Latte! This is a fun little action that gives you a nice smooth, bright, vanilla-tinted B&W. Just run this action on a flattened image and then adjust each layer's opacity to get your own custom Vanilla Latte effect! Check out my Vanilla Latte Action UnWrapped tutorial where I take apart the action so you can see exactly what is going on "behind the scenes" as the action runs. This is a wonderful way to learn new editing techniques.
Download the free CoffeeShop Vanilla Latte action (runs in Photoshop and PSE)! Want all of my favorite CoffeeShop Actions or Design Elements in one simple download AND help support this blog? Mouse over to see the Before and After. Chasing Dreams Texture Tutorial! Colleen of Chasing Dreams is a dear blogging friend of mine and I can't tell you how thrilled I was when she sent this amazing texture tutorial my way to share with you. She also sent a special coupon code for my readers. Just pick your texture set(s) of choice from her blog and enter the coupon code COFFEE25 at checkout for 25% of your entire order!!! I really love the new Mishmosh set. Colleen's textures are really beautiful, so please go check them out. Colleen has a really clever trick she uses to paint out texture on parts of the image that I have never come across before. So, now on to Colleen's tutorial. I am Colleen, wife, and stay at home mom for almost 29 years to six children.
In this tutorial I will be using textures from my new Chasing Dreams collection "Mishmosh". I placed the texture(County Fair) on top of my image by going under the file tab...clicking on place and then clicking on the texture that I want to use. Grab the eyedropper tool.