Create a Vibrant Blueprint in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a blueprint that is based off another image. The techniques used are simple and can be used on a lot of designs. What We Will Be Creating The tracing technique that we are going to be using to create the final result shown below can be used in a wide variety of designs. Getting Setup To begin, create a new document in Photoshop (mine is 590x350px since the image I’m tracing is small). Document Size and Guides Keep in mind that the blueprint will be larger than the image being traced.
An easy way to create guides at the center of your document is to make a selection of the entire document: Select > All (Ctrl+A). Let’s create a background for the design. Foreground: #333333 Background: #111111 Once the colors have been selected, grab the Gradient Tool (G) and, on the background layer, drag from the bottom left corner to the top right corner. Color Selection Starting the Blueprint Foreground: #6fb6ff Background: #4d98fd Layers Stroke Tracing the Image.
Everything you need to know about Parallax - Productivedreams.com. If you are looking for a definition of parallax, here it goes. As far as the web (especially design) industry is concerned, parallax is the arrangement/animation of images in a way that lets you feel the distance between them. For example, imagine that you are looking through the window of a moving vehicle. You will see the objects closer to you moving faster compared to the distant ones.
The sun stays still while the trees, buildings and other objects move. In this post I would like to walk you through different posts, examples and tutorials that would help you achieve this effect. This technique was initially used in 2d video games and now mostly seen in single page portfolio websites and website headers. I would like to show you a few hand-picked websites that uses parallax before I proceed. Eric J – This is one of my favorite websites using Parallax in the way it should be. Markus Neidel – This is an awesome 3d vertical parallax (flash). Create a Parallax Website Header. Create James Cameron’s AVATAR Movie Poster in Photoshop Tutorial - Web Design Blog. Creating posters with Photoshop can be a lot of fun and there are unlimited opportunities. Anyone who knows me knows that I love movies. I recently was overcome with inspiration when I saw the new James Cameron's Avatar Movie Posters, they are pretty sick.
In this tutorial I will show you guys some simple but efficient techniques that will help you make your own Avatar movie poster from a portrait picture of yourself. This tutorial should be used with many variants and additional techniques unique to the artist. Note: The version of Photoshop that I've use is CS4. You can buy it from Adobe.com (buy it, not download it for free).You can also download a 30 day trial from here. I've got a lot of emails from people who wanted me to 'Avatarize' their pictures.
The first step is to show you from what pictures i get my inspiration: Step two is preparation. Download the photo that we'll be using for this tutorial: Download link Now we are going to make the shadows for the nose. Amazing Retouching Tutorials In Photoshop | Graphic and Web Design Blog. As graphic designer retouching photographies is essential skill You need to master. You could talk about principles, but at least I started with simple photo editing on Photoshop, trying to take off red eyes, lumps and change backgrounds of pictures I was using. In this You’ll find everything You need – facial and portrait, teeth, lips, eye retouching, background remove as well as simple color adjustments in video and image-based tutorials. In fact for color adjustments I would suggest You look for some premade actions available on deviantart, very handy if You’re just starting out.
This list is not so big because it is carefully picked, I am starting to think it’s better to get quality than quantity. Enjoy! 1. Facial And Portrait Retouching Professional Photographic Retouching Tutorial (40Mins, Start-To-Finish) This is the second tutorial in a series on photographic retouching. High Quality Portrait Retouching Part 1 Glamour Model Complete Retouching Super Fast and Easy Facial Retouching. Learn SEO basics. Photoshop Tutorials | A Scrap Of Notebook Paper. Step 1 Lets begin by opening a new document in Photoshop by selecting File>New from the Main Menu. My file size is 540x300px at 72ppi for those of you following along at home. Because our notepad paper will be white, lets begin by changing the document’s background color.
With the new document open, click on the foreground swatch in the Tools palette to bring up the color picker. Pick a background color that you like and that will be easy to see the white paper against (I chose #e9dfb8, which you can type in the box at the bottom of the color picker). Step 2 Lets go ahead and assume that we’re going to use this scrap paper to hold a note to our readers in the sidebar of our imaginary blog. Create a new layer by clicking the Create New Layer icon at the bottom of your layers palette.
Step 3 Now it’s time to create the initial shape of the paper. Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool from the Tools palette by pressing the M key, then drag out a rectangular selection onto the stage. Step 4. Photoshop Tutorials | Electrifying Glow Album Art. Introduction This tutorial is a bit involved and assumes that you are proficient enough in Photoshop to follow along without me holding your hand. That being said, lets jump right in. Step 1 I took this photo at a show The Killers played at Madison Square Garden in New York this past summer… packed house, great crowd… anyway, here’s the photo. Lets first start by drawing a nice curvy path with the pen tool that we’ll use as our main wrapping glow line.
Step 2 Create a new layer called "First Stroke" and switch to the Brush tool. Step 3 With your tool of choice remove the sections along the stroke that should be behind your subject. Step 4 Add an Inner and Outer Glow as shown below. Step 5 Duplicate the "First Stroke" layer, clear the layer styles and add a 6px Gaussian Blur. Step 6 Create a new layer called "Particles", activate the Path we created earlier and switch to the Brush tool. Step 7 Copy the layer style from the "First Stroke" layer and paste them into the "Particles" layer. Step 8. Photoshop Tutorials | Sticker Edge Peel. Step 1 First let me say this is not a sticker making tutorial so you’ll need to have your own sticker prepared or download the source files at the end of the lesson where I’ve added a second file with a pre-made sticker for you. How nice am I! Ok, so I’m starting with a new document 540x300pixels at 72ppi, then filling the background color with a light gray so we can see the difference between the stage and the edge of our white sticker.
Click on the foreground swatch in the Tools palette and enter the color code #e4e4e4 in the field at the bottom then click OK to set this as your new foreground color. Press Command-Delete (PC: Ctrl-Backspace) to fill the Background layer with the foreground color then open your sticker file and drag your sticker onto the new documents stage. (Go on and download the source files at the bottom of the lesson so you’ve got my sticker.pdf file with these steps already done for you if you want.) Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11. Photoshop Tutorials | Electrifying Text. Step 1 Open a new file 600 x 300 at 72dpi and fill the background with black. Select the text tool (T) and type the lettering you want to effect on the stage. I’m using Helvetica 80pt Bold in this example. Now right click on this type layer in the layers palette and select Rasterize Text.
Step 2 Duplicate the Wind layer by pressing Command+J (CTRL+J on PC) and call this new layer Text. Hide the new Text layer by clicking the little eye icon in the box to the left on the layers paette and click back to the Wind layer. Step 3 Next we are going to apply the Wind filter to our Wind layer by selecting it from the filters menu (Filter>Stylize>Wind) and choosing the Wind and From The Right options. Now rotate the layer back to normal (Edit>Transform>Rotate 90° CCW) and repeat the previous steps blowing wind in each direction twice. Step 4 While still on the Wind layer apply the Ripple filter (Filter>Distort>Ripple). Step 5 Lesson Files + Additional Resources Tell Your Friends Support A Hero. Firefish Photoshop Tutorial. In this Photoshop Tutorial, you’ll learn how to design a mascot based on the Firefox logo, and mimic the fire effect using the pen tool and gradients. Materials Needed: Editors Note: Non-English Pictures Some images in this post show a non-english version of Photoshop.
This should not affect your ability to complete this tutorial as all settings should look exactly the same. Step 1 Start with creating a document. Step 2 Draw a base shape of a fish body using the pen tool. Step 3 Open the layer styles and apply a gradient with a yellow-orange-red-kind of color to make that fire-feeling and set the gradient-style to mirror. Step 4 This is how your fish-shape should look like so far(if you did the same fish-shape as I did). Step 5 Now we are going to make the eye of the fish. Select the ellipse tool and draw a fully round circle.
Open the layer styles and apply this styles Step 6 Make another shape above our round circle and add some outerglow. Step 7 Make a firey shape. Step 8 ) to fade it out. Step 9 ). How to Make Great Fireworks in Photoshop. This tutorial will show you how to make some really great fireworks using Photoshop. It’s a great technique to use on celebration cards and posters, as well as graphics pertaining to holidays such as New Years and Independence Day.
You may have seen this effect a few days ago in Tutorial9′s New Year’s Announcement. In this tutorial, I’ll be demonstrating how to create this effect. Step 1 – The Background Go ahead and create a new document, and select the Paint Bucket Tool. Unless you plan on tweaking your fireworks color with Color Balance Layers (or by some other means) later on, the fireworks color will largely depend on what you choose your background color to be. Fill your background layer with your chosen color. Step 2 -The Burst (Stroke Paths) If’ you’ve ever used Photoshop’s Stroke Path option before, this ought to be a cinch for you. Create a New Layer. If you’re new to the pen tool, you might need some time getting used to it. Select the Brush Tool. Go back to the Pen Tool. Enhance Graphics with Easy Depth of Field. In this article, I’m going to show you some practical ways of adding depth, or a simulated “Depth of Field” effect to your graphics.
These techniques will help you create images that appear to have three dimensions by emulating how your eyes focus in on certain objects while obscuring others. Depth of Field in Photography If you’re a photographer, you may be interested in seeing our article on Depth of Field in Photography. This tutorial is geared towards people who would like to imitate the DOF effect using software like Photoshop Easy Depth of Field What is “Depth of Field”? It’s really easier to see than to explain: In the photo above, you can see how the strawberry, the bottom of the spoon, and part of the edge of the bowl are all in focus, while parts of objects outside of this plane seem quite a bit more blurry.
It’s pretty easy to simulate this effect in Photoshop. Example #1 – Depth between Objects Example #2 – Depth of Field on a Plane Trying out Easy Depth of Field. Abstract Dust And Spray Effect. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create colorful abstract spray effect for use in your graphics. This has become quite a trendy technique recently, and can be accomplished fairly easily. This technique has been made quite popular by digital artists around online communities such as deviantArt and Flickr, but my favorite example of this effect would have to be N.Design Studio’s use of it directly on their website.
Nick, the owner of said site, has put together a nice guide himself on some of his techniques, but today I’d like to elaborate a bit more on the Spray Effect. Where to use this effect This is a great post-effect for your compositions, so you’ll probably want to use it towards the completion of your works. For this demonstration, I’ve prepared a Photoshop Document (1.35 Mb) that you may choose to use to practice this technique on. This effect generally looks best when it takes on the appearance of emerging from behind an object. Setting up the Brush Playing with Color. 5 Pixel Popping Techniques. In this tutorial, I will show you 5 great ways to really make your pixels pop in layout and interface design using Photoshop. These essential techniques will really give your designs a more 3D, tangible feel to them!
I refer to these techniques as “Pixel-Poppers” because they tend to use very few extra pixels (than you would ordinarily use in a design) to make your graphics pop out a bit more. As cliche as it may sound, these different effects really do work, and many modern websites and designs use them regularly. Let’s take a look at a few: The 2 Pixel Divide The two pixel divide is a widely used effect on interface design, and layout design. Some quick examples would be Windows Media Player (Version 11), Pixel2Life.com, and 2Advanced.net. It’s very easy to accomplish, and only takes Two Pixels to really make it. Start out with a simple design, such as a header for a website, with a navigation bar underneath: That’s it! The Pixel Shadow Let’s say I’m working with the document shown below. Windows Vista Aurora Effect Photoshop Tutorial. If you’re a Windows Vista user, you’re probably familiar the eye catching graphics shown off on the box, and in some of their wallpapers/screensavers.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create that effect yourself. This Vista Lighting Effect, sometimes referred to as the Aurora Effect, can really transform an ordinary wallpaper to something extraordinary. What makes it even better is that it’s very easy to achieve. Just follow these simple steps! Step 1 Before we can actually get started on the lighting effects, we need to create a background for the effect. Step 2 From here, we need to apply a very strong Gaussian Blur to our Photograph. Step 3 Now we are going to drastically change our background by adding a Color Balance Adjustment Layer. Step 4 That’s it for the background. Step 5 Create a new Layer (Above the Adjustment Layer, mind you), and grab your Brush tool from the toolbar. Step 6 Easy enough, huh? Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 That’s really all there is too it! 11 Great Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials | Design Shard. 28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects | Web Design Ledger.
There is something about beautiful lights that can mesmerize an audience. Take a fireworks show for example. It’s been around for thousands of years, yet still has the power to put looks of amazement on faces of all ages. That’s why lighting effects make such powerful design elements. They are a great way to grab the attention of your audience and leave a lasting impression. Below is a collection of the best Photoshop tutorials for creating powerful lighting effects. Amazing Photoshop Light Effect In 10 Steps A smokey light effect complete with glowing particles. Fire Lines Tutorial This tutorial teaches you how to create stylish fire lines in only 10 steps. Luminescent Lines Iron Man View Interface Effect In Photoshop This is very close to the amazing effects seen in the movie.
Luminescent Lines Advanced Glow Effects A Cool Lighting Effect In Photoshop End of the World Photo Manipulation Creating Smoke A popular effect explained very well. Design a Coldplay/Apple Inspired Portrait in Photoshop. Pixlr. How to Make Patch on Clothes » Free Photoshop Tutorials | PhotoshopStar. Video Screencasts. Using Style Sheets. Internet Explorer and the CSS box model. 15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should) Emma Alvarez Site: Most Useful 50 CSS Tips And Tools For Webmasters. 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding | CSS. Hands on css tutorial. Introduction. Front Page - css-discuss. CSS Tutorial.
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