A Helpful Collection of Digital Post Processing Tutorials | Resources Resources by Bill Jones 26inShare More times than not after we download a memory card full of images and sort through the “keepers”, we want to fire up Photoshop and start correcting, enhancing or playing. Obviously I’m sure I missed a few great tutorials out there so please feel free to share a link in the comments below and if its a good one I’ll will add it to our list. Quick & Flexible Photo Colour Manipulation Black and White Photoshop Conversion Techniques Combining Different Exposures in Photoshop Image Retouching: Advanced Skin Softening Quick Selective Sharpening Technique In Photoshop CS3/CS4 The Photoshop Lens Correction Filter – Basic Exercise Add Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph Photo Enhancing Using Dragan and David Hill Effects How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing Creating Digital Frames and Borders Remove a Person From a Photo With Photoshop CS5’s Content Aware Feature Like Our Site? 6 Comments Leave a Reply
50+ Beautiful Patterns & Useful Tools for Web Designers On 03.26.10, In Freebies, Patterns, Web High quality free seamless vector and pixel patterns that you may need for your web projects, prints or any other design related works. Feel free to use any of these patterns and also consider giving back the credit to the authors. 50+ beautiful patterns and useful tools, enjoy this great stuff. Advertisment Feel free to use any of these patterns on your own site. Pattern8 was created to make it easier to find high quality free seamless patterns. Huge collection of free high quality patterns. As the name implies, this section of K10k is a resource for deliciously pixellated patterns. PatternCooler is a a free Seamless Pattern Background Design Resource. Great site with simple navigation, providing about a hundred patterns, allowing you to get a full page preview of each pattern. Patternhead started life as an ecommerce site selling high quality vector patterns to designers around the world. Just small useful tool to create patterns. Paulius Rašytinis
Massive Collection of Best Photoshop Tutorials from 2010 - Noupe Design Blog Dec 14 2010 Photoshop has given new pinnacles to creativity of designers all around the globe. They are free to create astounding effects that can accomplish almost anything one can imagine. Photo Effects & Color Abstract Photo Manipulation Here we’ll learn how to create an abstract photo manipulation that looks like you’ve just painted the subject; the artist has included lots of useful techniques for creating impressive abstract pieces. Playing with custom brushes to create magical scenes In this tutorial the artist will show you some powerful features of brushes. Apply a Vintage Effect to Several Images Using Actions In this tutorial the artist will demonstrate how to create an action and apply it to several images using Photoshop’s batch process function. Giving your Photograph an Antique Look In this tutorial the artist will show you how to make a photograph look aged. Different Ways to Remove Color Cast in Photoshop Color cast is a very common problem in digital photography. Drawing
Abstract smoke art tutorial Step 1 - Setting up and taking the shot Setup explained Camera (with manual focus lens) Tripod External flash gun Remote trigger Off-camera flash cord Black backdrop (any matte material) Incense stick Lighter (There is no smoke without fire) Tray (to stop your house burning down) Cardboard to direct the light from the flash Setup your shot as shown in the photo above. Make sure you have setup the shot in a dark room so that you don't get any light pollution. You need to be able to control the light that hits the smoke for the best detail. Set your camera to 'Manual' on the dial and also "Manual" on the lens. Aperture: f11 Shutter speed: 1/250 Focal length: 50mm ISO Speed: 100 Now you are ready to take the shot. There is no definitive way to take the shot once its setup. Step 2 - Post processing in photoshop Here comes the fun and creative part. For this tutorial I have chosen the following image... I chose this image for the tutorial. The three sliders you see are as follows. And thats it!
50 Japanese town logos with kanji ::: Pink Tentacle Here is a collection of 50 Japanese town logos that incorporate stylized kanji characters into the design. Fujinomiya (Shizuoka): The kanji 宮 (miya) inside a cherry blossom with Mt Fuji petals Fukuyama (Hiroshima): Bat-shaped 山 (yama) denotes old name of Kōmoriyama ("Bat Mountain") Ibaraki (Ōsaka): The kanji 茨 (ibara) in the shape of a pigeon Nishino-omote (Kagoshima): The kanji 西 (nishi) Ōme (Tōkyō): The kanji 青 (ao) and plum blossom (ume) signify 青梅 (Ōme) Kanazawa (Ishikawa): The kanji 金 (kana) inside a plum blossom, the Maeda clan symbol Okutama (Tōkyō): The kanji 奥 (oku) Hachinohe (Aomori): The kanji 八戸 (Hachinohe) in the shape of a crane (head and wings) Kitami (Hokkaidō): The kanji 北 (kita) shaped like a sash weight Yūbari (Hokkaidō): The kanji 夕 (yū) inside a hexagon representing coal Hitachi (Ibaraki): A flower-shaped 立 (tachi) kanji inside a circle representing the kanji 日 (hi) Seto (Aichi): The kanji 土 (tsuchi, or "soil") in a clay pot represents the local pottery industry
How to Draw the Head From Any Angle | Stan Prokopenkos Blog - StumbleUpon The Basic Forms To draw the head from any angle you must first understand its basic structure. Look past all the distracting details and visualize the underlying forms. This ability to simplify can be applied to the features of the face, but when starting the drawing you could look even further. Ignore even the features and simplify to the most basic form of the head. I use a method taught by Andrew Loomis in his book, “Drawing the Head & Hands”. The head deconstructed into its basic forms, is a sphere as the cranium and a block as the jaw and cheek bones. A Sphere as the Cranium The sides of the head are flat, so we can slice off a piece from both sides of the ball. A Block as the Jaw and Cheek Bones Attach the shape of the jaw. Constructing From Any Angle Step 1 – Determine the angle of the ball The angle of the head is established at the very beginning of the drawing with the ball. X Axis - The up and down tilt is established by the angles of the horizontal and vertical lines in the oval.
How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography The following tip on getting digital images to look like Lomo Images was submitted by DPS reader – Frank Lazaro. You can see his photography at his Flickr page and see some of his Lomo shots here. From the first time I saw a photo that looked like this, I wanted to shoot one of my own. Low and behold I went out and bought 2 of these babies. I searched and searched and after trying several different Photoshop methods, I finally came up with my own using a mix of different techniques. Get Free Weekly Digital Camera Tips via Email Here is my step by step on how I take a digital photo and make it Lomoified. Getting Started – Creating a Vignette The first thing you want to do is create the classic vignette that the Lomos are well known for and I achieve this by doing a freehand lasso of a circle around the photo. Once you have set the feather (shown above) and have drawn the circle, you must invert the selection. Now to achieve the vignette, I add a Levels layer. Now you have a vignette.
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