When it drops | helping you keep track of the newest releases 10,000 Words :: where journalism and technology meet Alex Goh and the team at Imgembed are onto something. They launched this year at SXSW and already have one million images loaded into their platform for sharing, using, and, most importantly, monetizing photos online. It goes something like this: if you are a professional or amateur photographer, you can upload your photos via Instagram, Flickr, or any other social photo sharing platform. If the footer bar with the creator’s name doesn’t work for your layout, you go premium. Every time a photo is embedded, the platform generates a unique jpeg with the creator’s name attached, so the photos are easier to track. It gets to the heart of digital copyright and Creative Commons licensing. There’s a big misunderstanding about Creative Commons licensing.
100 Best Photoshop Tutorials of All Time that Yield Professional Results |... Photoshop tutorials are one of the most popular subjects on the web, as the digital art community continues to grow and new designers bring their unique skills. However, quality Photoshop tutorials that teach you a useful effect, have a quality finished result and are well explained are harder to find, and with the large number of tutorial sites available, it can be hard to sort the quality from the mundane. In this massive roundup, we’ve collected the top 100 best Photoshop tutorials that have ever been created, that yield professional results, teach you a useful effect, are well explained, and will have you designing like a pro in no time. These tutorials are collected from niche tutorial sites around the web, and range in age from creation in 2008 to a few tutorials that were created just last week. So, if you think you’ve seen all there is to see from Photoshop, guess again and check out this post. If you liked this post, check out our other design tutorial roundups:
Eyes body language Techniques > Use of body language > Parts-of-the-body language > Eyes body language Up | Down | Sideways | Gazing | Glancing | Eye contact | Staring | Squinting | Blinking | Winking | Closing | Damp | Tears | Pupil size | Rubbing | See also The eyes are often called, with some justification, 'the windows of the soul' as they can send many different non-verbal signals. For reading body language this is quite useful as looking at people's eyes are a normal part of communication (whilst gazing at other parts of the body can be seen as rather rude). When a person wears dark glasses, especially indoors, this prevents others from reading their eye signals. Looking up When a person looks upwards they are often thinking. When they are delivering a speech or presentation, looking up may be their recalling their prepared words. Looking upwards and to the left can indicate recalling a memory. Looking down Looking at a person can be an act of power and domination. Looking sideways Lateral movement Damp
Free Adobe Tutorials | Photoshop | Layer Mask | Free Transform | Perhaps one of the most satisfying gratifications of designing with Photoshop is the ability to create the impossible—making unrealistic things look possible. Here we’ll combine dancers with splashes to create a unique “splash dance.” 1 [WHITE BACKGROUNDS WORK BEST] Like many techniques in Photoshop, this one will be easier if the photo you choose is on a white background. We’ve chosen this istockphoto.com image of a leaping dancer. (Toward the end of the tutorial we’ll look at what’s involved if the background isn’t white.) 2 [FIND SOME SPLASH PHOTOS] A quick search of “splashes” and “paint splashes” on istockphoto.com provides a bunch of nice splashes. 3 [DRAG-AND-DROP] Drag-and-drop the splash photo onto the photo of the dancer. 4 [FREE TRANSFORM; LOWER THE OPACITY] With the splash layer active, press Command-T (PC: Ctrl-T) for Free Transform. 8 [REUSE THE SPLASH WITH WARP] We’re going to reuse the same splash on the dancer’s hand, but we’ll make it look different.
Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Two weeks ago we published the first part of Photoshop tips and tricks for photo retouching. Today, we’ll be presenting the rest of the article. We hope that these techniques will be quite useful for your workflow. Here is a short overview of the techniques we’ll be covering in this follow-up: Defining Colors If you want to redefine the foreground and background colors, use the Eyedropper tool to select the foreground color, and then switch the position with the background color, maybe by using the shortcut X, and pick up the next color. Define foreground and background colors. Controlling Folders Folders give structure to layers, which is especially important if you’re working on demanding compositions. Hold the Control/Command key to expand the folder. Split-Toning Effect Create two new gradient maps via Layer → New Adjustment Layer → Gradient Map. Blending Options: This Layer Split-Toning Effect Flexible Vignette Adjustment Layer: Levels Skin Retouching In Camera Raw Bright Eyes
100+ Outstanding Photoshop Actions to Enhance your Photography | Freebies by Bill Jones 5inShare If your like me you enjoy enhancing your photos in Photoshop. It’s a lot of fun to take your shots and experiment with them. Have you ever seen photos in magazines or on the web and wondered how they achieved that look. Union Actions Cross-Processing ATN Portrait Actions Action Pack I Actions Clyck Caitlins Actions Colors Actions Cool Photo Effect Action Enhancing Skin Color Eye Color GuteCharlotte Color o2 Kalifbanane – Cross Coloring Lovely Action NoiseLess RetroFit Actions Pack Actions 01 Photo Coloring 11 Photo Coloring 11.2 Photoshop Action: Diabolic Photoshop Action: Dim and Jade Photoshop Actions 101 Photoshop Actions 96 Photoshop Actions 68 Photoshop Actions 99 Photoshop Actions 78 Rather Large Set of Actions PS Actions Dark Sepia 5 Black and White PS Actions Black White Sepia PS Action Show everybody how you use these actions. Like Our Site? 17 Comments Ant West said:Loved this – so much to try out! Leave a Reply Topics
30 Poster Design Tutorials for Photoshop Photoshop allows designers to create amazing posters that can be used for a variety or purposes like movie promos, product promos, event promos, as well as just for fun and practice. There are a lot of quality tutorials out there that teach the process of designing a poster in Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 30 poster tutorials from a variety of different designers. In this collection you should find at least a few tutorials that teach something that could be helpful in your own work. Looking for hosting?
The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008 Under Articles Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines. As most of time, almost all tutorials would label themselves to be good, high quality or even the best photoshop tutorial you can find. In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for you. Under Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect In this tutorial It will show you how to create a sort of grunge poster. In this tutorial we’ll be creating a smokey night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. In this tutorial, the type-effects shows how to create the above image. Under Abstract Effect, Photoshop Tutorial In this Photoshop tutorial, it will let you learn how to take a single photograph and turn it into a collage of polaroids, with each polaroid containing a small section of the overall image. Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial