50 The Most Spectacular Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 In our previous posts we showed you the most interesting tutorials by a particular topic. For example 10 Best Typography Tutorials or 15 Best Smoke Tutorials. In connection with the end of the year we decided to remember the most spectacular and the most interesting Photoshop tutorials of 2009, regardless of its topic. How to Create a Realistic IES Lighting Effect in Photoshop by Psdtuts+ Making of a Scary Mental Hospital Scene by 10Steps How to Create an Ice Text Effect with Photoshop by Psdtuts+ Create a Shiny Earth with Photoshop 3D Layers by Psdtuts+ Creating ‘Broken Link’ by PSDFAN Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images by Psdtuts+ Design a Grunge-Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop by Psdvault How to Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene by Psdtuts+ Design a Surreal Floating Eiffel Tower Scene In Photoshop by Psdvault How to Make a Dark, Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration by Psdtuts+ Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper by 10Steps
Inspired Magazine - daily graphic design inspiration The Web Design Elements That Should Never Be Overlooked Articles, Resources October 1, 2012 Whilst those who work in web design understand that it is a long journey to take an idea from paper to a fully functioning website, clients often have no concept of the time it takes to do this. Their demands to receive the website faster and faster often result in many of the smaller details being left out simply because they don’t have much of an effect on the look and feel of the site. Links There are actually a number of ‘states’ for a link in web design, which must be accounted for across all pages. Forms You would think that any forms being created in the web design process would feature in the forefront of designers’ minds, yet this is not always the case. Buttons There are a number of uses for buttons in web design, but their various ‘states’ are often overlooked (similar to those of links). Status Messages Animations When you are working on a web design for a site that is not Flash-orientated, it can be very easy to overlook animations.
Photoshop Color Replacement Tool Tutorial Written by Steve Patterson. 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! 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. Selecting The Color Replacement Tool In Photoshop CS3 and CS4, the Color Replacement Tool is nested under the Brush Tool. How The Color Replacement Tool Works Use the Color Picker to choose a new Foreground color. Hmm.
Photoshop - Correcting Color Shifts First of all, before we get into correcting color shifts, we have to understand them. Most cameras these days have an automatic white balance setting to control this issue, but everyonce in a while it can be inaccurate. Color shifts are caused by different color temperatures in light, we call these "Kelvin temperatures." Daylight has a Kelvin temperature of 5000, and is the most neutral you can get your photo to look. Have you ever photographed something in your house under a typical house bulb and the whole photo turned out orange or yellow? That's because typical household lights have a Kelvin temperature of about 3000, which can look yellow, but because the human brain is so sophistocated, it corrects this to daylight temperature for us. Tungsten bulbs tend to have a magenta shift to them, while fourescent bulbs can turn a photograph green.
80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look Photoshop actions are great. With just a click of a button you can apply a complicated effect to a photo instantly. One of the most popular type of actions is the vintage or retro style. With the popularity of vintage-inspired Instagram filters and film emulation, the older style is desired with many photos. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality Photoshop actions that will help you to get vintage effects quickly and easily. Instagram Filters (13 actions) Lomocam (10 actions) Lomo Action Hard Lomo Action Holgarizer Vintage Light Leak Action Vintage Heaven Action Vintage Dream Action Retro Cross Action Vintage Matte Action Faded Film Action Old Film Action Retro Style Actions (10 actions) Instant Hipster (10 actions) Prestalgia (10 actions) Vintage Gold Action Aged Black & White Action Glory Days Vintage Actions (7 actions) Muted Colors Vintage Action Old Tones (6 actions) Vintage-Inspired Actions (4 actions) Minty Tint Vintage Action
Free Wood Textures Categories Colors Bookmark Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced Green screen films | Greenscreen films collection Photoshop CS4: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words I love Photoshop techniques that offer all kinds of possibilities for experimentation—and the following tutorial is a perfect example of one of those techniques. In this issue, we’re going to take a portrait and replace the person’s image with text (think 2009 Grammy posters). Pick a portrait that offers good contrast—a photo that’s very dramatic and dark probably won’t work as well. Create a new document (File>New) in a size that’s smaller than your photo: the specifics don’t really matter. Switch back to the photograph. Then, press Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J) to copy the selected pixels onto a new layer. Go back to the Select menu and choose Color Range again. Click the Eye icon next to the Background layer in the Layers panel to hide that layer from view. Click the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. 8 COPY THE PORTRAIT Create a new layer and drag it above the black-and-gray portrait layer.