Vector Open Stock :: Free Vector Graphics and Vector Art for download! Dramatic Black And White Effect. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create more interesting black & white versions of images by using focused, dramatic lighting to bring attention to the main subject. Here’s the original photo I’ll be using: The original full color image. Here’s how the black & white version would look if I simply desaturate it. Desaturating an image removes the colors but usually creates lifeless black and whites.
And here’s the more “dramatic” black & white version we’ll be creating in this tutorial, bringing much more emphasis to her face and hair: The final result. Let’s get started! Step 1: Find The Channel That Has The Best Tonal Range The first thing we’re going to do is inspect our three Color Channels to see which one contains the highest quality image with the greatest amount of contrast. Photoshop’s “Channels” palette showing the Red, Green and Blue channels, plus the composite RGB at the top. Step 2: Paste The Channel As A New Layer.
Light Streaks To A Photo. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we’re going to look at how to add colorful streaks of light to a photo. You’ve probably seen these light streaks used in ads for everything from shampoo to cellphones, and in fact they were used most recently in a cool ad for a new cellphone from Sprint and Samsung. Creating them is as easy as drawing a path with Photoshop’s Pen Tool and then stroking the path with a brush, with a couple of simple layer styles used to add the actual color and light effect. It’s all fairly easy, but if you’ve never used the Pen Tool before or you’re not sure how to draw paths, you might want to check out our Making Selections With The Pen Tool tutorial first, where I cover everything you need to know about drawing and editing paths with the Pen. Here’s the image I’ll be working with in this tutorial: The original image. And here’s how it will look after adding our light streaks: The final effect.
Let’s get started! Step 1: Add A New Blank Layer. Text Portrait Effect. Step 1: Crop The Image Around The Person's Face Before we begin, I should mention that you'll probably want to work on a copy of your photo for this effect rather than on the original image, since the first thing we'll be doing is cropping some of it away. To save a copy of the image, go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choose Save As. Give the document a different name, such as "text-portrait-effect" or whatever makes sense to you, and save it as a Photoshop .PSD file. This way, you can do whatever you like to the image and not worry about damaging the original. Let's begin by cropping the image so we get a nice close-up view of the person's face. Photoshop's official tool for cropping images is the Crop Tool, but for simple crops like this, you'll often find that the Rectangular Marquee Tool is all you really need.
I'm going to grab the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the top of the Tools panel (panels are called "palettes" in earlier versions of Photoshop). Colorize Images With Gradients. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to add complex colorizing effects to images using custom gradients! Specifically, we’ll look at the Gradient Map image adjustment and how it allows us to apply different colors to different brightness levels in the image. We’ll see how easy it is to create our own custom gradients in Photoshop so we can colorize our images with any colors we choose.
As always, we’ll be using the adjustment layer version of the Gradient Map so we avoid making any changes to the original photo, and so we can easily adjust the intensity of the effect when we’re done! Here’s the image I’ll be working with: The original image. Here’s how it will look after colorizing it with a gradient and then reducing the intensity of the effect. The final result. Let’s get started! Step 1: Create A Custom Black And White Version Of The Image Click on the New Adjustment Layer icon and select Black & White from the list (Photoshop CS3 and higher). Watercolor Painting Effect. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you'll be losing a lot of detail with this effect.
Creating the effect is as simple as duplicating some layers, applying a few filters, and using a few different layer blend modes, and the whole thing takes only a couple of minutes from start to finish. Any recent version of Photoshop will work just fine. Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial: The original photo. And here's how it will look after applying our watercolor painting effect: The final watercolor painting effect. Let's get started! Step 1: Duplicate The Background Layer Three Times The Layers palette in Photoshop showing the image on the Background layer.
Step 2: Turn Off The Top Two Layers Step 3: Select "Layer 1"