Separating Complex Objects from Background Welcome to PhotoshopStar.com! If you find this site useful, you might want to subscribe to our free newsletter for updates on our new Photoshop Tutorials and Articles. You can find a lot of tutorials how to separate complex objects from the background. In the beginning you should find some appropriate picture to work with. Apply Filter > Extract with similar settings to these: This is where we start to extract the image first of all zoom into the image with Zoom Tool so you can clearly see the outline and set the brush size to a suitable size and then simply draw around the outline of the woman’s hairstyle with Edge Highlighter Tool. Now press OK in the top right of the window and you should go back to the normal Photoshop window, and if you did the last steps correctly you will have an image without a background, if all done correct the edges will look fine, if not then you may find some discrepancies which can simply be erased. Now, move to the next step. We are done on this step.
How To Draw Hands - Tutorials - Draw As A Maniac So everybody knows that the hands and the fingers are one of the hardest things to draw. So here is a personal collection of different hand references, hope to enjoy it and never stop practice. Hogarth hand poses from Iron Giant (middle of page) Mickey Mouse Hand Model Sheet by Les Clark ca. 1932 Merlin hand poses via Deja View Hand drawing tut by uchuucacahuate on deviantart. Excellent hand tutorial by alexds1 on deviantart.com Mr. Useful collection of hand poses by Chrissy Fellmeth Collection of female hand poses by artrush73′s Study of the hand in minimal style
Creating a Vertical Navigation Menu in Photoshop A few weeks ago we posted a Vertical Navigation Menu freebie on Creativeoverflow so I decided to do a tutorial on how I created the menu. Its a detailed tutorial and not just for those starting in the web design industry. In the tutorial you will learn how to setup guides, use a layer mask and make simple gradients look beautiful. Let’s get started. Author: An1ken CreativeTools: PhotoshopTime Needed: 45 minutes Final Preview Step 1 Firstly it’s time to open Photoshop and create a new canvas with a size of 1000×600 with a 72dpi. Step 2 Now that we have a background to work on go to View>New Guide… make sure the orientation is Vertical and set the position to 50% (Not 50px) and hit OK. Orientation: Horizontal | Position: 125pxOrientation: Horizontal | Position: 475pxOrientation: Vertical | Position: 350px Orientation: Vertical | Position: 650px You should have something like this below. Step 3 Now that we have some guidelines setup for the menu. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Now to create the hover effect.
A Simple Novel Outline – 9 questions for 25 chapters « H.E. Roulo Just as every tree is different but still recognizably a tree, every story is different but contains elements that make it a story. By defining those before you begin you clarify the scope of your work, identify your themes, and create the story you meant to write. At Norwescon 2011 I sat in on a session called Outline Your Novel in 90-minutes led by Mark Teppo. I’ll give you the brief, readable, synthesized version. Here are the 9 questions to create a novel: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) Now, with those 9 questions answered to your satisfaction, try to fill in a 25 chapter, 75,000 word outline. Chapters 7-18 are the middle of your book. Chapters 19-25 depict the heroic act to victory. Wasn’t that easy? Okay, sure, the work isn’t done yet. Using the idea that there are 25 chapters, I outlined my current work in progress. I hope that was helpful. Tell me what works for you. Related 6 Steps to Masterful Writing Critiques June 7, 2013 In "Writing Tips" Writers love to write. In "News"
40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design A few weeks ago, I showed you some of the best fonts for use in grunge style design. Creating grungy designs can be fun, but sometimes a site requires a cleaner approach, one where artsy design elements take a back seat to clear presentation of content. Typography plays a big role in this type of design. If you have been struggling to find the right font for your clean designs, here are 40 of them that are both clean and beautiful. Museo Sans Geo Sans Light Duepuntozero Oregon LDO Sansation Engel Light Comfortaa Forgotten Futurist Walkway Steiner Eurofurence Baar Metanoia Existence Light Asenine Anna Cicle Aubrey Waukegan LDO Qlassik Bebas Mank Sans Yorkville Redring 1969 Aldo Blue Highway Steelfish Opticon One Y2K Neophyte Jacks Font Swansea Vegur Albertino Print Clearly Liberation Yoxall Lois Ann SF Arborcrest Medium APHont Fertigo Pro Anivers About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 1651 shares 25 Fresh Examples of Minimalist Web Designs
20 Extremely Useful Freeware Apps For Blogging - The Link Medic - Free Blogging Resources Whether you use WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger in order to get the most out of your blog it helps to have some tools by your side. Even just to manipulate images or upload files, some are downright essential to maintain a functioning blog. I’d be willing to be bet you use a few of these already but I hope to show you some new FREE software that could potentially make your life easier and your blog even better. If you need even more helpful tools check out: Over 120 Free Blog and SEO tools for a ridiculous amount of handy resources. Graphics Programs I use Photoshop for almost every post and anytime I’m working on a template design. It’s one of the most crucial aspects of my process. Features a lot of support and installs on many operating systems and languages. Here’s another worthy PS alternative. Multi-language support. Perhaps the most user-friendly graphics program out of the bunch. Easy to use and has a host of useful and fun features, definitely worth checking out. Great for simple tasks.
50 Fresh Free Fonts of 2010 | Template Monster Blog - StumbleUpon Though there's a broad variety of fonts available for download online, designers keep on tracing the fresh ones to enhance their design copy, a website, brochure, or even an advertisement in a brand new an' awesome way. Still, the free stuff could not always boast of good quality – premium goodies always demand some kind of money investment. However, now it's possible to find the appropriate font that's free, clear, beautiful, and effective for design purposes. Many great designers are now offering professional quality fonts completely for free. Today's round-up actually goes outside the standard font variety. We've managed to gather a collection of 50 novelty styled free fonts which you can instantly download and use to add a powerful impact for your designs. Geomancy Kilogram Tribbon Quadranta Adec Teardrop St Marie Dekar Code Cube Piron Glide Planer Paranoid Circled St Ryde Danger Pincoyablack New Garden Titillium Text Sylar Scriber Mentone Circula Sansation LT Oksana Font V4.0 Lintel Frgmnt Amsterdam Sol Pro Zag
English 50 Exercises for Story Writers English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers Basic Theory: What is a short story? As soon as someone delivers a definition, some good writer will write a story that proves the theory wrong. Short stories have a narrator; that is, someone tells the story; have at least one character in them; have some action occur (or perhaps fails to occur); take place somewhere; that is, there is a setting for the action; and someone either learns something or fails to learn something (theme).With these five characteristics in mind, we can create an almost endless supply of exercises to help sharpen our techniques of story telling. Narrative Voice Twenty or so years ago, voice was the "rite of passage" into a successful writing career. Nevertheless, a narrative voice that sounds like it could be anyone's voice or is bland and boring, or riddled with pointless clichés will fail to capture and hold the reader's attention. If you've written a story in third person, try it in first.