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Easy Photo Grunge Effect In this tutorial, we’re going to explore some non-destructive image editing. With these techniques, you can bring out the best in an image, or absolutely destroy the graphic, but still keep the original photo intact. So to begin, find a photo that you’d like to make dirty. Something that might feel bland as is, and could use more of a grungy feel. Here is what I’ll be using: How To Run Photoshop Actions in Photoshop Elements 3, 2 and 1 Actions are procedures (sometimes referred to as scripts, or macros) built in Photoshop that allow you to play back a series of events. In Photoshop, actions are built by simply recording the steps you make during corrections. Just turn on the Record feature, and Photoshop records your steps as you make them, and stores them in the actions palette. When you are done recording, the set of steps can be saved as an Action, and you can play back the series of events on any image, just by playing the action. In this way the steps can be easily repeated from image to image. Actions are useful if you find a particular way to make corrections or changes to an image that are universal, or if you create an effect that you would like to repeat.

Photoshop Essentials Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we’re going to learn how to turn text into gold using Photoshop’s Layer Styles. We’ll even throw in some sparkles at the end to make our gold letters really shine. Change Eye Color In Photoshop Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photo Retouching tutorial, we’ll learn a very simple technique for changing someone’s eye color in a photo using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer! Of course, there’s no shortage of ways to change colors in an image with Photoshop, but whether you know which color you want to use or just want to play around and experiment, a Hue/Saturation image adjustment makes changing eye color easy, fast and fun! Here’s the image I’ll be using:

Six revisions Adobe Photoshop is the tool of choice for most web designers. From creating a website template to objects and components such as content boxes and buttons, Photoshop doesn’t fail to deliver. In this collection, you’ll find 25 excellent Photoshop tutorials geared towards web designers. You’ll find a variety of tutorials that include creating full web page templates, navigation menus, headers, and content boxes. If you know of a good Photoshop tutorial for web designers – why don’t you share it with all of us in the comments.

30 Beautiful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials There are thousands of Photoshop tutorials out there, but few that are top-notch in terms of instructions, presentation – and of course – outcome. In this post, you’ll find 30 beautiful, high-quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials from top tutorial sites and designers like PSDTUTS, PSHERO, and Abduzeedo. 1. Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect Use the Pen Tool and a lot of patience to create this excellent grass effect. 2. Soft Focus Glow Tutorial Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll look at how to quickly and easily add a soft focus and glow effect to a photo, which also happens to do a nice job of boosting the image’s contrast and color saturation. I’ve been using this technique with my photos for years and it’s still just as popular today.

How to Add Additional Widgets to a TwentyTen Child Theme Adding more widget areas is a very handy WordPress skill to have in your toolbox. Perhaps you have found the perfect TwentyTen child theme but it it doesn’t have as many widget areas as you’d like. This tutorial will show you how to create your own custom widget areas and add them to your theme. Technically this process is pretty much the same for any other WordPress theme. 50 Free Photoshop Brush Sets for Modern Design Trends By Jacob Gube Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross were right when they sang, “the best things in life are free”. There are many talented designers out there who choose to help the community by providing free and useful Photoshop brush sets that you can download and use on your artwork.

Photoshop vs Elements That’s a simplification, in that Photoshop Elements isn’t just a cut down Photoshop, it really is a different program. That will hopefully become clear below. The differences between Photoshop CS4 and CS4 Extended are much smaller relatively speaking. If you decide to get all or part of a Creative Suite bundle, you should consider which one would suit you better. Add Light Streaks To A Photo With Photoshop Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we’re going to look at how to add colorful streaks of light to a photo. You’ve probably seen these light streaks used in ads for everything from shampoo to cellphones, and in fact they were used most recently in a cool ad for a new cellphone from Sprint and Samsung. Creating them is as easy as drawing a path with Photoshop’s Pen Tool and then stroking the path with a brush, with a couple of simple layer styles used to add the actual color and light effect. It’s all fairly easy, but if you’ve never used the Pen Tool before or you’re not sure how to draw paths, you might want to check out our Making Selections With The Pen Tool tutorial first, where I cover everything you need to know about drawing and editing paths with the Pen.