3-Minute Makeovers | Ella Publishing Co. Easy ways to enhance your photos eZine image: As a professional photographer and mother of three, I snap thousands of photos every month, and I want those photos to look great, whether they end up on a wall or in a scrapbook. The first step to a great photo is capturing a meaningful moment, and my new eBook, 40 Top Tips for Better Photos, shows you how to make that moment look even better by paying attention to lighting, background, and perspective. The second step to a great photo is post-processing. To play around with the actions that come pre-installed in Photoshop, go to Window > Actions. Now that you know a bit more about what actions are, here are a few examples of what actions can do for you!
Make the Colors Pop Even a well-exposed photo can benefit from a simple color boost that lightens shadows, improves contrast, and increases saturation to produce a brighter, more vibrant photo. 1. 2. Apply a Special Effect Create a Custom Action Voila! Need More Editing Tips? Adding background textures. This tutorial was featured over at Ucreate a few months back and I thought I'd share it here with all of you today! The photos I took here, and here were all edited using this technique.
So lets jump right in shall we? I'm going to show you how to take a photo like this: To this in just a few simple steps: 1. 3. 4. 5. You can now see the photo through the texture layer. 6.What we want to do next is remove the texture from any areas on the photograph where we don't want it to appear, ie. skin, clothing. 7. Now that you know how to add a texture to your photos, try experimenting with different textures and see what fun things you can come up with. I hope you enjoyed this photo tutorial. Customize Picture Package Layouts in Photoshop CS.
In previous versions of Photoshop, you had to go through a somewhat non-intuitive process if you wanted to customize the default layouts in the picture package feature. Fortunately, Photoshop CS now offers a dialog box for visually editing and creating new picture package layouts. I like to use a layout of 4x6 prints, placed three on a page with no margins to maximize my paper use when printing 4x6s on 8.5 by 11 paper. Since this layout doesn't come with Photoshop, here's how to create it yourself: To access the picture package feature, go to File > Automate > Picture Package.
In the Document section of the dialog, choose "8.0 x 10.0 in" for the page size, then choose "(1)5x7 (2)3.5x5" for the layout. Note: You will need to crop most digital camera files to the correct aspect ratio for 4x6 prints if you don't want extra white space. Focus With Light - Photoshop Effect. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to add focus to an image with light using Photoshop’s Lighting Effects filter.
We’ll see how easy it is to add multiple light sources to the same photo, rather than limiting ourselves to a single light source, so we can control both where the light is coming from and its reflections. Here’s the image I’ll be working with: The original image. I want to bring more attention to the flower and the woman’s face while reducing the importance of the rest of the image. There’s lots of different ways to do that with Photoshop, but in this tutorial, we’re going to focus attention using light.
The final lighting effect. Let’s get started! Step 1: Duplicate Your Background Layer The first thing we need to do is duplicate our Background layer since it contains our original image data and we always want to keep that safe in case we need it. Press “Ctrl+J” (Win) / “Command+J” (Mac) to duplicate the Background layer. Fantasy Look to your Picture - Stunning Mesh | Stunning Mesh. Here is another Photo Effect, this time I’ve chosen Fantasy Look or Dreamy look, hopefully you will like it. It is not a lengthy tutorial, so it will not be boring I guess. 1.
Lets start with a new file and put your desire picture in it, so I’m using a Model Picture, having light colors around her: 2. Press Ctrl+J three times to duplicate this picture (for your convenience I’ve given the names from 01 to 03): 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. See the result: 8. 9. 10. 11. Here is the final look of our work: Powered By DT Author Box A professional Web/Graphic Designer, working as Freelancer since 2000.
Author’s Website Glamorous Look to your Photo (2) Photo Retouch Modern Effect (0) Under Water Room in Photoshop (6) Bubbles Background (0) Dreamy Picture (0) Easy Soft Focus And Glow Effect In Photoshop. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll look at how to quickly and easily add a soft focus and glow effect to a photo, which also happens to do a nice job of boosting the image’s contrast and color saturation. I’ve been using this technique with my photos for years and it’s still just as popular today. Whether you’re a wedding photographer, nature photographer or you simply enjoy taking photos of family and friends, give this effect a try and see if it doesn’t make your images look a bit more magical.
Here’s the photo I’ll be working with in this tutorial: The original image. And here’s how it will look after adding our soft glow: The final result. Let’s get started! Step 1: Duplicate The Background Layer With our image newly opened in Photoshop, we can see if we look in our Layers palette that we currently have one layer which is the Background layer. Photoshop’s Layers palette showing the original image on the Background layer. The Layers palette now showing two layers. Tutorial - How to Design Feathered Edges in Photoshop. This tutorial will explain how to create soft edges on an image in Photoshop so it will blend into the background. We will be using a photo of a 72 Chevrolet Nova and giving it a black background as shown below. 1. Copy the original image: Copy the image so you still have the original, and work from the copy. 2. Consider the finished size: Before cropping the image leave enough background so you can feather the edges. 3.
Blot out areas in the background that will distract from the quality of the image with the rubber stamp or smudge tool. 4. Use one of the selection tools to highlight the area you want to feather. 5. In order to highlight your border evenly on all edges turn on the ruler and measure the same amount in the numbered guide on both width and height. The image of the Nova with the border selected: 6. You will be copying the image and pasting it onto another background but first you need to set the background color of the new image. 7. 8. Now choose "edit / copy" and then "new". Blog Archive » Convert a Day Time Photograph into night time.
This tutorial will teach you how to convert a Day Time Photograph into a night time photograph in a very simple way. Step 1: Open any High Quality Photograph in Photoshop. Step 2: Now we will make a Duplicate of this layer so that if any step goes wrong then we can restart the whole process without any problem. Pages: 1 2. Create A Starry Night Sky In Photoshop. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to easily add a star-filled sky to a night time photo. I’ll be using Photoshop CS5 throughout the tutorial but any recent version of Photoshop will work just fine.There’s nothing quite as peaceful as being outside at night, looking up a cloudless sky and seeing an endless display of stars sparkling and twinkling above you, stretching far off into the horizon in all directions.
It really makes you stop and realize just how tiny we are compared to everything that’s out there, far beyond our reach, and even beyond our imagination. Unfortunately, something else that’s usually beyond our reach is our ability to capture those stars when we take photos at night. Lucky for us, Photoshop makes it easy to add the stars back into our photos. Here’s the image I’ll be starting with: A dark, star-less night. It’s a nice photo showing all the city lights at night, but that sky above the city sure looks empty. No? Soft Focus Lens Effect. Written by Steve Patterson. In a previous Photoshop effects tutorial, we looked at how to add a soft glow effect to a photo using a method that gave us the added bonus of increased image contrast and color saturation (see our Easy Soft Focus And Glow Effect tutorial for more information).
What if you’re already happy with the contrast and color saturation in your image and all you want is to recreate the sort of effect you could achieve with a soft focus camera lens or diffusion filter? In this tutorial, we’ll look at a fast and easy way to add a more traditional soft focus lens effect to an image. The nice thing about creating this effect in Photoshop rather than with an actual soft focus lens is that Photoshop gives us complete control over the final result.
Here’s the photo I’ll be using in this tutorial: The original photo. And here’s how it will look with the soft focus effect applied: The photo with the soft focus effect applied. Let’s get started! Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Misunderstood Photoshop: Clipping Masks | Clipping Mask Basics. The Photoshop clipping mask feature is a quick way to create effects such as text filled with a photograph.
Helen Bradley points out more handy uses for clipping masks, such as limiting the effect of adjustment layers, or simplifying the process of editing a portion of an image. You can follow along with the accompanying video tutorial to see exactly how it's done. In this series, Helen Bradley discusses some handy Photoshop tools that are often overlooked or misunderstood, either because they’re hidden away or because their use isn’t immediately apparent. Yet these tools provide smart and useful ways to perform various tasks in Photoshop, so they’re worthy of adding to your Photoshop skill list.
In the third article in the series, we consider the clipping mask feature, which is often incorrectly referred to as "clipping paths" and sometimes called a "clipping group. " A clipping mask is created using two layers of a Photoshop image. How to Correct Green Color Cast in Photoshop {Before & After Photo Editing Tutorial} We are happy to welcome Kara Wahlgren, owner of Kiwi Photography in South Jersey as our featured photographer in this week’s “Before & After” photo editing tutorial. Follow along as she demonstrates how to correct a green color cast in Photoshop.
“Before” Photo The image above was taken at one of my favorite locations. The rich, green foliage makes a perfect backdrop—but it also creates a green color cast. Since I shoot here often, I’ve had to come up with a pretty fast technique for getting rid of greenish skin. This image was shot with a Canon 5D Mark II with the 135mm f/2L lens at f/2.2. Get Rid of Green Your first line of defense is to tone down the green tint using the “tint” slider in ACR or Lightroom. To tone down the green even more, I go into the Hue tab and move the yellow and green sliders to the left just a bit (in this case, I moved both to -10). Once the white balance looks good, I do a basic exposure adjustment.
Eliminate Stubborn Color Casts Add Some Pop Fine Tune It.