How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

How to Enhance Photos With a Pen Tablet Have you ever come across a photo where all the highlights and shadows seem just too good to be true? If it's not HDR processing, it's pen tablet magic. Find out in this tutorial how to give a regular image a subtle, artistic feel with some clever brush work. Read more after the jump! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Video Tutorial I created these videos to compliment this text + image tutorial. Step 1 The first thing you need to do is download this photo of a tiger. Step 2 Now it's time to separate the tiger from the background. To avoid any damage to the photo though, we'll do that through a Layer Mask. It's important that you do this with a tablet and at very low levels of Opacity. Step 3 Eliminate as much as you can with the background, but don't go over the tiger itself. Step 4 Reduce the brush size and go right up to the outline of the tiger. Step 5 Now use a large brush and cover the left side of its face and the top of the body. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9

Digital Photography Tutorials Learn how to take and edit digital photographs using visual tutorials that emphasize concept over procedure, independent of specific digital camera or lens. This is a complete listing of all tutorials on this site; click the drop-down links in the top menu to see particular topics. Photography is going through an exciting transition period as many film photographers are beginning to explore the new capabilities of digital cameras. While the fundamentals have remained similar, other aspects are markedly different. This is a great time to get involved with digital photography. These tutorials are rarely influenced by changes in image editing software and camera equipment — due to their unique concept-based approach. View in other languages: Português Русский Deutsch Français Italiano

Installing And Managing Brushes And Other Presets | Tips & Tricks Step 1 We’ll be talking specifically about Photoshop Brushes in this tutorial, but the process is exactly the same for adding and managing Swatches, Gradients, Styles, Patterns, Contours and Custom Shapes as well, so just know that even though I’m talking about brushes, the information shared here applies the all these. Before we get into the meat of the lesson, lets start by taking a quick look at how Photoshop stores and uses these things. Photoshop allows us to keep as many brushes in the Brush palette as we’d like, but the more stuff you pack into the palettes the slower those palettes will load (because every brush takes a little memory) and the harder it’ll be to find the brush you’re looking for. I find that organizing and properly naming my brush sets in an external Brushes folder and then loading only the brushes I need for a specific project makes my life much easier. Step 2 Step 3 (*note: For this example I’ve cleared out my Brushes folder so it’s easy to see the new brush set.)

Using Lighting, Atmospherics and Digital Illustration Techniques for Matte Painting - The Making of Golden Sunrise in a Fairy Land by Stas Lobachev | CG.CreativeFan To create a realistic matte painting, or any artwork for that matter, it is important to understand the properties of light, atmospherics, color and perspective. Proper perspective and use of light can bring out the true scale and depth to any image, while using the wrong lighting or perspective can make the artwork feel pasted together, or make it seem as though it is a miniature model instead of a realistically scaled image. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take a concept, develop it using linear perspective, then add in value and color perspectives, and then apply photographic references to achieve a realistic matte painting. You’ll then learn how to apply adjustments to achieve realistic scale, and understand the properties of light and atmospherics for realism. Lastly, you’ll learn some great compositional techniques. Let’s get started. Tools used: Photoshop Final Image Preview: Hi everyone! Step 1: Idea and Concept Development So, in the first place was the idea. Step 2: Sketch Work

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

Create a Colorful Cake Illustration in Photoshop Photoshop is a very powerful illustration tool and today we will make a wonderful, tasty, and colorful cake without having to do the dishes afterwards. I had based this tutorial on the cake from my set of icons that I created earlier and which enjoys great popularity. This illustration was created using Photoshop shapes and a bit of painting. Tutorial Assets The following materials were used during the production of this tutorial. Step 1 Create 1000x1000px document in Photoshop (Cmd/Ctrl + N). Step 2 I made a quick sketch in Photoshop and choose the color palette. Set sketch layer opacity to 10%, blending mode to Multiply, put it above all other layers and lock it. Step 3 Create an ellipse on the top of the cake using Ellipse Tool (U) and color #2. Duplicate the ellipse to the bottom of the cake, scale it and set color #3. Step 4 Create a new shape as shown below with color #1 and create a clipping mask (hold alt and click between the layers or choose Create Clipping Mask from layer menu). Step 5

40 Fundamental Illustrator Tutorials You Must Know Learning a new software application can be a difficult task, especially when there is an application that is as deep as Adobe Illustrator! Fortunately, Teresa illustrator colection veterans who are generous enough time to take the basic document, so that new users of the first activities to capture and gain knowledge of tools and basic techniques. This collection of tutorials covering various dialer tools and provides many useful tips and advice. Together, they constitute a very useful tool for all beginners who work with their heads, put up in Adobe Illustrator. 1. Many things can be in Illustrator need not be the tool Pen, as evidenced by the recent Hourglass tutorial. 2. A great looking abstract designs can be created from the simplest form. 3. This tutorial will show you how a Western-style primary treatment with Illustrator to achieve results. 4. 5.Illustrator Tutorial: Surprise Gift There are times when you need to make a gift box and effects for special occasions. 6. 7. 10. 11.

Photoshop Watercolor Painting Effect Tutorial Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you'll be losing a lot of detail with this effect. Creating the effect is as simple as duplicating some layers, applying a few filters, and using a few different layer blend modes, and the whole thing takes only a couple of minutes from start to finish. Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial: The original photo. And here's how it will look after applying our watercolor painting effect: The final watercolor painting effect. Let's get started! Step 1: Duplicate The Background Layer Three Times With the image newly opened in Photoshop, if we look in our Layers palette, we can see that we currently have one layer, the Background layer, which contains our image: Step 2: Turn Off The Top Two Layers

Basic Image Adjustment 101 | Photo Effects Step 1 The following photograph was taken by my wife a few years ago of a landmark barn near our home. Shot with an old Nikon D100 in JPEG mode, I dismissed the photo for years feeling that it was too muddy to ever produce a good fine art print. Unlike today’s digital SLR cameras, the D100 wasn’t very good at producing a print quality image straight off the chip, which is why when shooting it I insisted on shooting RAW files so I’d have more to work with. Step 2 Levels With the image open in Photoshop start by clicking on the adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette (*note: if you don’t see the layers palette, open it from the main menu Window>Layers), the icon is a circle that’s half black and half white. The graph is called a Histogram and it describes the tonal range of the photo starting with the blacks on the left and continuing right to white. Step 3 (*note: by moving the endpoints in the Levels dialog the center point will automatically adjust. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6

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