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Photography School. The Making Of 'Lust' Photo inside Text Effect in Photoshop. Photo Manipulation Tutorials: 50+ Wickedly Creative Tips. Since our last Photoshop tutorial titled: Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Collection of Amazing Tips And Tricks , we got so much positive feedback that we decided to put together another collection of tutorials concentrating on photo manipulation.

Photo Manipulation Tutorials: 50+ Wickedly Creative Tips

Cool Bleach Bypass Photo Effect in Photoshop. Free photoshop 7 brushes. 40 Really Cool Photo Manipulation Tutorials. In the art of designing, knowledge on photo manipulation and its corresponding technique is a major edge among other designers… Why?

40 Really Cool Photo Manipulation Tutorials

Because it gives you the advantage of creating world-class designs from a simple photo or image. By the simple act of manipulating an image, numerous possibilities such as styles, images and designs are opened for you to explore and influence. In continuation of collecting amazing photo manipulation tutorials, here’s another list of fresh tutorials to enhance your knowledge on image manipulation. Smoothing Skin - Photoshop CS5. How To Draw. How to draw a sheep, how to draw sheep. Depending on where you live in the world, sheep can be as common as shoes or as unusual as a lama.

How to draw a sheep, how to draw sheep

Wherever you do live, though, you've got it relatively easy if you want to draw a sheep. They are covered in wool after all, so the basic form you want to start out with is an oval lying on its side. From there you add a head, which is a modified triangle (because their mouths make a little square at the sharp point of the triangle). Then you add to long loppy ears, some short legs with black triangle hooves, and a little poof of a wooly tail. Voila! Sheep are fairly mellow creatures, like cows, but they are capable of getting into some interesting predicaments. Sheep are ideal for landscape drawings, like cows, and they ought to be drawn in groups, as sheep don't really care to be solitary, unless they're a ram. Photoshop Color Replacement Tool Tutorial. Written by Steve Patterson.

Photoshop Color Replacement Tool Tutorial

In a previous tutorial, we looked at the Background Eraser and why it’s one of the best tools in Photoshop for removing unwanted areas of an image. In this tutorial, we’ll learn all about the Color Replacement Tool and how it enables us to change the color of an object in a photo without a lot of fuss or hassle. You may be wondering what on earth a tool for erasing backgrounds has to do with a tool for changing colors, and the answer is, a lot! Both of these tools use the exact same technology for detecting the pixels in the image that need to be changed.

The only difference is that one of them deletes pixels entirely, the other simply changes their color. The Color Replacement Tool is not the most professional way to change colors in an image and won’t always give you the results you need, but it usually works well for simple tasks and it’s such an easy tool to use that it’s worth giving it a try before moving on to more advanced and time consuming methods.

Tutorial: More Texturing- Photoshopcontest.com. By: ledirlo This tutorial demonstrates an effect that gets so photorealistic it led to some cheating controversies in the past. Aside from the interest of the created effect it also gives key layer technique information. The only material needed is these two photos, the crumpled paper and what we want printed on it. Let's start by opening the two photos and moving the grass photo above the paper's layer; you can turn the grass layer into multiply mode and transform it to get the correct placement.

In this case I chose to avoid the darkest tree parts as they don't produce a great effect on the paper. Once finished, press CTRL+I so you invert the layer mask. The selection's edges have very little chance of being perfect already so I used the smudge tool with a large soft brush to push or draw the layer mask so it fits the paper edges perfectly. Now time for using the layer blending modes. You can now flatten all the texture layers to make a single object above the original background. Best Collection of Adobe Photoshop Tutorials. A Succubus... Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Steps. Last week I decided to upgrade to the new Adobe CS4 apps, as usual I did my backups and of course I forgot very important things, such as my Photoshop Brushes and Patterns.

Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Steps

I hate when that happens, but it does happen all the time. So I had to look for my brushes and I found some really cool new ones and decided to play a bit with them and with the new Adobe Photoshop CS4. Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers - Smashing Magazine. We all have shortcuts that are essential to our daily workflow.

Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers - Smashing Magazine

A majority of them are staples such as Copy (Command + C) and Paste (Command + V), but occasionally we stumble upon a shortcut we wish we’d learned years ago. Suddenly, this simple shortcut has streamlined our process and shaved quite a bit of time off our day. Collected here are some lesser known but extremely useful shortcuts. Many of these are not documented in the “Keyboard Shortcuts” menu, and some of them don’t even have equivalent menu options. Please note that all of the shortcuts listed below assume that you are using Photoshop CS4 on OS X. Layers Link Selection Link Sifting through nests of layer sets to find the layer you need quickly becomes tiresome. Changing auto-select behavior. Photoshop tutorial on dispersion effect.