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50 Portrait Retouching Tutorials To Take Your Photoshop Skills To A New Level. Email Is it something that often happens to you? You just sit and keep on looking through your photos on the computer screen trying to take a closer look at your full-size pictures. And then it occurs to you that they didn’t really suck that much during the actual shoot?

Of course, what you see during the shoot with your eyes and what you get after the photo session is not the same thing. Photoshop is capable of making slightly imperfect photo into an awesome shot. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. . \24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast-Paced Work Environment.

Are you a designer on a deadline? If you are, then I’m sure you can recall the last time you thought to yourself, “if I had a little more time, I could…” what? Polish that button? Find a better hero image? Reevaluate that color palette? Take some time to do a little more QA? The truth is, however, that we designers will always be looking for more time to polish the one pixel that got away. Of course, since our go-to design tool in the office is Photoshop, we thought we’d share with you 50 simple Photoshop tricks and shortcuts we love using that can help trim excess spent time in your workflows. Important Note: The following require Photoshop CS5 and a Mac OS X. The Usual Keyboard Shortcut Suspects Memorize these shortcuts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.Keyboard shortcuts for flipping foreground and background (X): Use this to switch between your current foreground and background colors located in your toolbar. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Customized Must-Have Keyboard Shortcuts 11. 12. 13. Photoshop, the Word Processor. 25 Adobe Photoshop actions for Photography Touch-Up and Enhancement. PRO Photoshop Actions Bundle – Film & Special Effects These actions are not simple, filter-playing actions. The steps they take have been studied and thoroughly tested, making these actions true image enhancers. The results of these actions are realistic re-creations of traditional effects, without any gimmicks. Bundle – 50 Top Adobe Photoshop Actions for photographers Manu color techniques were combined in order to achieve these top notch image and photo actions.

HDR Legendary Image Action Unlike any “Image Effects” you may have used, this set of FANTASTIC HDR effects identifies every microscopic and even invisible detail and bring them to life. Adobe Photoshop Displacement Action Create awesome shatter and displacement effects, with just a single click of the mouse. Photo Retouching PSD Action Do professional retouching in a fraction of the time. Photograph to Sketch Art – Photoshop Action A Photoshop Action that will turn any picture into a full-blown hand-drawn sketch! Autumn PS Action. 70 Best Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials | Tutorials. Creating photo manipulations using Photoshop isn’t as easy as you see here. But it’s a passion for many designers out here including me.

One should have lots of patience and creativity to turn a simple photo into an amazing visual art. Sky is the limit when you open image in a photo editing too. Just imagine a different world and put the character over there. You simply have to experiment and play with different effects by making use of huge free brushes and textures collection to create your own world. Here we tried to pick and showcase 70 best photo manipulation tutorials of all time. For those, who don’t know what is Adobe Photoshop? The next generation, representing two decades of excellence. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may find helpful. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates.

Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials of All Time 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pod : fora & tutorials &photoshop : Free Transform Fractals. - StumbleUpon. I have been playing a lot with the Displace filter in Photoshop and I still get impressed with how powerful it is. Even though I have written some tutorials using it, I decided to try to recreate a different effect that I saw in one of the images submitted for the Daily Inspiration. It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth. So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain. To do that we wil use a few stock photos, layer adjustments and the Displace filter in Photoshop CS5. The technique is pretty simple and the tutorial won't take you more than 30 minutes to go through it.

Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Let's import another image, now of a girl opening the curtains. Step 3 With the Lasso Tool (L) or the Pen Tool (P) select the empty white. Step 5 Now select the hands/arms of the girl and the curtains. Step 6 Step 7 Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide Selection. Step 8. Making Complex Selections in Photoshop - DesignFestival » For Web Design Trends | Inspiration | Design Theory | Colors | Web Fonts | UX | Photoshop | Tutorials and more. Making precise selections in Photoshop is an essential skill that every designer needs. As a print designer, you will find yourself using selections to remove objects from their background to place within ads. As a web designer, you might extract an image and place it on a website with no background.

If you are a photographer, you might make a selection to remove blemishes or other unwanted features from an image. You can’t get around it; everyone uses selections, and if you make excellent selections, you’ll end up with excellent work. So, what do you do when you have something that is extremely difficult to select with normal selection tools? Even with the masking and channels, you can’t make a precise selection consistently. You can try the quick selection tool, which does a great job of making a selection of the bulk of the image, but making a more refined selection is difficult with this method. In comes Refine Mask to the rescue.

We can fix this by using the Smart Radius Slider. Seamless compositing in Photoshop. 20 Fantastic Photoshop Manipulation Tutorials -2010 - Photoshop Website. Create a Stunning High Key Portrait Photo. Colorization Using Optimization. Flash MX Tutorials - StumbleUpon. The 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009.

By Callum Chapman Looking back this year (2009), we have had some incredible tutorials that have taught hundreds and thousands of people new skills in Adobe Photoshop. We’ve been searching the web from America to Germany to the UK and have managed to compile a list of the 50 of the very best Photoshop tutorials this year. Happy learning and wishing you all the luck in 2010! 1. How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop Use various tools such as the Cloning tool to remove facial features and the Brush tool to create a realistic splatter merged with professional blending techniques to mould the paint splatter over a face. 2. Learn how to combine vector art with pixel art in this superb tutorial here at Six Revisions. 3. Learn to apply the Warp tool effectively (as well as a few other tricks) to manipulate real smoke to look like a skull. 4. 5. 6.

Learn how to combine vector art with pixels, add texture to clean artwork, and play with blending modes. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Web Design Review of Philosophersnotes.com. I came across this site while doing research for GuruShot.com, our new Web2.0 quotes project. I simply love it, and I want to share it with you. PhilosophersNotes is a site that provides incredibly concise summaries of top personal growth books in just a couple of pages. Philosophersnotes.com is one of my very favourite designs of the moment. In this post, I’ll break down its design features and explain why it’s so darn great – and hopefully inspire you to apply some of the following six techniques in your own web design.

Here’s the home page of PhilosophersNotes. Here are the features I see in its design (and the approach to design) that I think make it work. SimplicityPixel-savingDesign the contentFocusCall to actionPersonality Simplicity First of all, and most importantly, this site design is simple. Simple sites work better because (as “Save the Pixel — The Art of Simple Web Design” teaches), “Success is a function of Attention divided by Stuff”. Pixel-Saving Design the Content Focus. 50+ Excellent Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials. Making a photograph of a person look amazing adds an extra dimension of professionalism to your design. These photoshop body enhancement tutorials will help you transform your people pictures to stunning models in next to no time. Most techniques involve similar use of the photoshop tools. Inspiration and Full Makeover Tutorials Digital Cosmetic Surgery This complete transformation is explained in simple steps.

Enhacement Examples Video showing virtual make overs on lots of different subjects. Eyes Changing Eye Color Change the color of a the eye something more appealling. Making Seductive Eyes This finishing effect can be used around the eyes once other eye touch ups are complete to make the person look sultry using shadows. Red Eye Removal Shows how to move from normal red eye removal to non distructive red eye removal. Apply Eye Makeup Apply eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara. Non Destructive Eye Color Changing This technique is flexible using a mask and a hue and saturation adjustment layer.

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