TutZone | Tutorials, Design News, and Inspiration Photoshop CMYK Tips A collection of tips for working in and with the CMYK color model in Adobe Photoshop. These tips offer you some insight knowledge about working with CMYK that mostly only experienced graphic designers can tell you. Better printed gradients If your working on a image that will ultimately go to a printing press in CMYK mode ( to be used in a Adobe Indesign document example) and it's going to contain one or more gradients, you'll get better printed results (less color shifts) if you create those gradients after you convert to CMYK mode. Once you go into CMYK mode, don't go back Once you convert to CMYK mode do not go back to RGB or Lab mode for any reason. Better flesh tones in CMYK When your sharpening CMYK images one of the toughest areas to sharpen are the flesh tones. Are your colors press ready? If your working in CMYK mode and you sample a color that's outside of the range what CMYK press can reproduce you'll get Gamut Warning right within Photoshop's color picker.
The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Although web design is everywhere nowadays (even when we’re not at the computer it still manages to squeeze it’s way in to our everyday life), print design is still a huge part of the design industry and is everywhere we look: newspapers, posters, prints, manuals, restaurant menus, business cards – the list goes on and on. So how do you make sure that you leave a good impression on people holding your piece of art in their hands? This is where experience and advanced print design skills come into play. Below we present 25 useful print design tutorials as well as a collection of inspirational links at the bottom of the post to improve your skills and get your imagination running wild. Print Design Tutorials Printing and Prepress Basics (Ps, Ai & Id)1 Learn about four-color process printing (CMYK)Find out the differences between plain & rich black Making a Print-Ready Business Card (Ps)2 Create a Magazine Cover Design (Id)3 Design a Super Cool Retro Poster in 10 Steps (Ps)4
Tutorial: Design A Killer Fashion Model Poster Introduction: This tutorial will show you how to make a killer Fashion Model Poster using basic Photoshop functions like Layer Styles, Vector Masks and Filters like Motion Blur. At a time when there’s more DOWNLOADING of source material than actually USING it, this tutorial will get you through the end with only three stock images—two if you have experience with Cinema 4D. Also, instead of the monotonous step-by-step form of tutorials you find all over the net, I’m using a different approach. This tutorial has two main divisions. Part One – The backgroundPart Two – The model & effects. Each effect will be explained separately. So let’s get our hands dirty! Part One – The Background Lets start with a new document, sized 1200 x 1600 px. Above this make a new Group, and name it ‘clouds’. Within this new ‘clouds’, Group make a new layer . Above this make a new layer. Next, Merge (Ctrl+E) the group. Set the Blend Mode to Soft Light. Name the layer ‘city’. Make 2 COPIES of ‘city’. On ‘city_colour’:
40 Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation Since our last Photoshop tutorial, Photoshop Tutorials: Compilation of some stunning text effects, we got so much positive feedback that we decided to put together another collection of tutorials concentrating on photo manipulation. In this post, you’ll find everything from Pencil Sketching Effect to Creating A Slow Motion Bullet Shot Effect in Photoshop. Now the hard part will be deciding which of these amazing tutorials you will use in your next creations. Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop. How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits ... if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you'll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz! Adding Texture to the Skin AHHHHH!
Logo Design: 40+ Must Have Tutorials Logos a very important part of building your brand’s identity. “Branding” yourself, is the best way to represent who you are and what you are all about. If designed properly, logos can have an enormous impact on your company’s success. Want more articles on useful tutorials? Web Layout Designs: 60 Must Have Tutorials 30 Must See Character Illustration Tutorials 40 Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation EURO 2008 Logo design Hello and welcome in making of the EURO 2008 Logo design. Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough A personal project I’m currently working on with a developer friend is a website called myNiteLife. Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways I recently finished up a project with Scott McIntyre of Vivid Ways and Jon Phillip of Spyre Studios. Volks Logo Tutorial Today I’m going to teach you how to recreate the Volkswagen logo. How to Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop Google Chrome Logo Design Tutorial Google Chrome Logo Design Tutorial
The Soft Sea Light | PSDTOP Blog On 06.24.08, In Photo Effects, by sergio This lesson is about how to create by three pictures only a tender collage of sea-piece. A peculiarity of this collage is that we will do the effect of soft light. For work I took pictures from the Internet, to the authors – thank you. Resources: Planet: Sky: Background: Step 1. This lesson is about how to create by three pictures only a tender collage of sea-piece. Resources: Planet: Sky: Background: Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. Step 6. Step 7. Step 8. Step 9. Step 10. Step 11. Step 12. Step 13. Step 14. Step 15. Step 16. Step 17. Step 18. Step 19. Step 20. End. No related posts.
Summer Cottage Tube Painting - Paint Shop Pro tutorial by Arizona Kate - Page 1 Paint Shop Pro Tutorial by Arizona Kate 'Fine Tuning the Picture Tube' One of Paint Shop Pro's popular painting tools is the Picture Tube ....commonly called 'Tubes'. With a small collection of Tube files (*.tub) we can create a tube painting similar to the one above. (reduced in size) Items needed: Paint Shop Pro This tutorial was written for Paint Shop Pro version 8, however, many versions of PSP include the Picture Tube tool. Experience level This is a moderately easy tutorial. Clip Art You will also need some clip art of a house or cottage and any other finishing details you might want to add to your 'Summer Cottage' painting. Tubes We'll be creating a landscape scene, so we will need tubes for flowers, grass, Clouds, trees, etc. These are the scenery tubes used in this Summer Cottage painting. If you don't have the Picture Tubes listed above, download this zip file which contains all 8 tubes. download scenery tubes (zipped) Continued on page 2... Table of Contents:
Photo Enhancement with Adjustment Layers - Page 1 Paint Shop Pro Tutorial By Ron Lacey Photographic Enhancement with Adjustment Layers Layers are analogous to the acetate sheets or cells used by animators to add elements onto a background. For straight photographic enhancement purposes the most useful layers are Adjustment layers. Adjustment layers come in a variety of flavors but the ones most commonly used for strait photography are Brightness/Contrast, Colour Balance, and Hue/Saturation/lightness. There are a couple of ways to create an adjustment layer. If you've done any exploring around PSP you'll notice that most of these functions can be addressed in the various Adjust submenus but performing these operations from there will forever change your original image while doing them using adjustment layers will let you revisit or delete the changes in the future if you so desire providing you saved the file in the PSP format. Continued on Page 2...
Create a Werewolf Warrior Wielding a Flaming Sword in Photoshop Create a Werewolf Warrior Wielding a Flaming Sword in PhotoshopReviewed by Michael Vincent Manalo on Oct 3Rating: Preview of Final Results Download the PSD Werewolf Warrior.zip | 37.18 MB Download from Website How to Create a Werewolf Warrior Wielding a Flaming Sword in Photoshop Resources Stock 5 – UmbraDeNoapte Stock Knights – jmjvicente Wolf 2 – dyet Flame Brushes – Sugar Breezy Step 1: Create a New Image File We will start by creating a new image file, go to the Menu bar and click File > New, and then input the following values on their respective fields: Presets: International Paper Size: C6 Width: 114 mm Height: 162 mm Resolution: 300 pixels/inch Color Mode: RGB Color; 8 bit Background Contents: White Step 2: Create the Background In this step, we will be creating the land for our background. Move and position it in this manner: Once you’ve done that, rename the layer you had just created/moved to “Background”. See sample below: Next, we will then resize the layer to fit our canvas.
Simple steps to photo touch-up | In Photos dot Org In this post I’m going to show you how to go post-process this image: By the end, we’ll have an image that looks like this: This tutorial was created using the GIMP, but it’s equally applicable to your favourite editing software as long as it has the same tools. First of all, I came across this photo on Flickr through my contacts page. After you load the image, the first thing to do is use Auto Levels from the Layer->Colors menu. The image is a little noisy so let’s clean it up a bit. Let’s brighten it a bit and add contrast. Open the Layers dialog and duplicate the background layer. Select the new layer (called “background copy” here) and use the Curves tool again to brighten this layer a lot. With the same layer selected (the top one, the “background copy”), we’ll apply some blur. We’re going to change the “mode” of the top layer now. Even with the nice glowing effect, the image looks indistinct. All that’s left is to save the image, save it with a quality setting of 92%. Like this:
Ultimate Rock & Stone | Photoshop Tutorials | Domen Lo In this tutorial you will learn everything it takes to create totally belieavable rocks and stones in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we will exercise on drawing rocks, stones, cliffs or anything made of stone. There are many ways to achieve this… I will just show you my favorite one. depending on their structure, rocks look very different. For this tutorial I decided to make sharp reefs in the water … but you can use the same technique for anything stony!Step 1 First, we will start with a white canvas. Step 2 Now I add some details. Step 3 Continue with doodling, until you paint all of the rocks. Step 4 Now we take a soft brush again, with opacity set to about 15% and start with shading. Step 5 When you are finished with shading, use a smudge tool to smooth the surfaces. Step 6 Keep smoothing until you feel satisfied with the result. Step 7 Usually rocks aren’t smooth … So, we’ll add few details and textures to it! Step 8 We are now done with drawing the rock! Step 9 Step 10 We are finished now!
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