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So you’ve seen those trendy “tentacle” designs in your favorite wallpapers and splash pages, but were disappointed to discover that the usual way to create them is with a 3D modeling program. Never fear though, with a bit of effort you can create a similar effect with just Photoshop… no 3D app necessary. A slight drawback is that the final product of this technique never comes out quite the same—what you’ll end up with will be random, but will definitely look cool. Read moreMuse beta 6.0.2 (Feb 23) Muse (codename) enables designers to create websites as easily as creating a layout for print. Design and publish original HTML pages using the latest web standards, and without writing code.
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A Complete Guide to Digital Makeover in Photoshop
Fake images are all around us. Almost every fashion model or artist photo is digitally beautified prior to its public release. Sometimes this goes too far and the photos are so fixed that leaves almost no traces of the original natural beauty of the subject being retouched. This digital enhancement of human faces and bodies is called Digital Makeover .
About Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and, in addition to Adobe Acrobat, is one of the best-known pieces of software produced by Adobe Systems. It is considered the industry standard in most jobs related to the use of visual elements. Photoshop is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Mac OS; versions up to Photoshop 9.0 can also be used with other operating systems such as Linux using software such as CrossOver Office.
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This portion of the site is loaded with free Photoshop Actions, Scripts, and Tool Presets. Feel free to download anything you feel might help with your digital photography. If you find the resources helpful, please consider a donation or the purchase of a print from one of the galleries. Your support will help keep the resources in the Digital Darkroom free to all. Never used a Photoshop action set?
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This is a 1917 photo, somewhat faded and damaged with a crease. It has been cut into an oval shape, and has the back of an old cardboard frame glued to it. The original is on the left, and the restored image is at the right. The important tools are the histogram for restoring contrast, and the Clone Tool for repairing damage. I scanned this at 600 dpi, not for detail, but for image size to aid working with the Clone Tool at enlarged size. The plan was to resample it smaller at completion (resampled to 25% size above). 300 dpi would really have been quite sufficient, and you can always work on the image when zoomed-in to 2X size (that's what I do to clean everyday scans of dust spots).
Restoration of genealogy photographs
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop
High dynamic range (HDR) images enable photographers to record a greater range of tonal detail than a camera could capture in a single photo. This opens up a whole new set of lighting possibilities which one might have previously avoided — for purely technical reasons. The new "merge to HDR" feature of Photoshop accomplishes this by combining a series of bracketed exposures into a single image, which encompasses the tonal detail of the entire series. Image above courtesy of Kyle Kruchock (albeit in a heavily modified form). There is no free lunch however; trying to broaden the tonal range will inevitably come at the expense of decreased contrast in some tones.
It used to be that the extract tool was the way to go in Photoshop for masking photographs. In CS4 it started dissapearing. Now the extract tool is gone in Photoshop CS5.Fear not! Refine Edge and Quick select are the fastest way to remove an object from it's background in Photoshop. Not only fast, but the results are great.
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Making brushes is an important part of the chopping process for me, and it is an art all on its own you should master. Over the time I went from making normal little quick brushes to some rather intense and advanced ones, so I thought I would share some of this info with you guys and gals here. Whether this is your first time creating a GIF animation or not, this tutorial will be able to help you with the concept and technique of how to create them. In this first theorical part of this four part shadow tutorial, shadows will be explained using 3D software.
