How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode). Video Tutorial Our video editor Gavin Steele has created this video tutorial to compliment this text + image tutorial. Step 1 Job number one, as ever, is pooling your assets together. Step 2 Cut out the face using the Pen tool (set to Paths not Shape Layers). Step 3 Use the Clone Stamp tool to fill in the rest of the texture. Step 4 Turn the visibility of the "Bark" layer off (clicking the eye icon next to the layer thumbnail will do this). Step 5 Apply a 2 pixel Gaussian Blur to your new document and then adjust the Levels as in the screengrab below. Step 6 Reselect the "RGB" channel (so all channels are selected and the image is now back in color) and return to the Layers palette. Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
Create 3D Displacement Effects in Photoshop Today I'll walk you through the creative process of applying some cool halftone and 3D displacement effects. The main focus of this tutorial is to explore Photoshop's often-misunderstood Displace Filter and how it can be utilized to re-create a popular style of illustration. Tutorial Assets You'll find some files in the "source" folder. You'll also need the following stock images and fonts to complete this tutorial. A Brief Breakdown Here's a quick summary of how the final image was created. Making your own brushes can be both fun and rewarding. Step 1 Press D on your keyboard to reset the foreground / background colors to black and white, then press X to swap them, so black becomes the background color. Step 2 First, we'll use some textures to build up the background. Step 3 Add "stainedpaper9.jpg" from this texture pack as another layer. Step 4 Place "colorfulgrunge7.jpg" from the first texture pack as a new layer. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13 Step 14 Step 15
Reader Tutorial: Create Vintage Traveler Diary in Photoshop In this reader tutorial Nikola Lazarevic aka Colaja from Nis, Serbia will show us how to create a very stylish vintage traveler diary in Photoshop. We will mix brushes with stock photos and blend modes to achieve the effect. Let's take a look at our final image. Let's start by creating new document in photoshop. Mine is 1680x1050 pixels. Name this file diary.psd. Download soft grunge texture from Bittbox. Now download Waterlogged Map Brushes by ~Arbenting. Select all three layers (background, background texture and map) by holding the command key (or control on PC) and left mouse click on every layer, then hit command + G (ctrl + G on PC), and group these layers in Group and named this Group "BACKGROUND". I found excellent picture of old Notebook. Now, we want to have same pictures between pages. Duplicate "notebook" layer (Command + J); Name this layer "notebook top"; Now pick up the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) and start selecting around notebook pages. Lower the opacity to 50%.
40 Photoshop Illustration Tutorials While Adobe Illustrator is the preferred tool by most designers for illustrating and drawing digitally, Photoshop can also be used for some types of illustration. This post includes a selection of tutorials that cover the process of drawing various objects in Photoshop. Looking for hosting? How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop In this tutorial, we'll learn how to take splattered paint Photoshop brushes and apply them to the contours of a model's face. This is a relatively simple technique, which yields excellent artistic results. Let's get to it! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Video Tutorial Our video editor Gavin Steele has created this video tutorial to compliment this text + image tutorial. Preparation First thing you will need to do to create this effect is find some nice paint splatter/spray brushes. Step 1 Copy the background and paste it onto a new layer. Create a new layer labeled "Extra Skin." For this I usually just play around with the Cloning Tool until I get close to something that looks right. Step 2 Once we have covered all the facial features, select the "Extra Skin" layer and the "Subject" layer, then press Command + Alt + E on to merge the layers into a new layer. Step 3 Now we can start building our paint splatter area. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of Advertisement Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of paper into lively and colorful digital images. However, to master Adobe Illustrator isn’t easy; and the creating process of professional illustrations requires both time and patience. Therefore tutorials can turn out to be real life- and time-savers as they show exactly what needs to be done in order to create professional illustrations and how masters of illustration actually manage to do their magic. In this post we present a collection of excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials for beginners and advanced designers. Please notice that Illustrator Tutorials Sources and Resources
Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS by Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. Vintage photos also have an element of noise or grain that can be achieved through textures, and also a certain amount of vignetting around the edges of the photo. This photo is the result of adjusting the color curves, adding two vignettes, and a color fill, which we will walk through step-by-step. First, open your photo in Photoshop and make sure your foreground color is set to white in your side tool bar. You will see the above dialogue box. As you can see here, there should be three layers – your Background image, then your two gradient layers. Now, let’s adjust the color curves. Use the drop down menu to adjust each color channel.
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