63 Awesome Photography Articles, Tutorials, Blog Posts and Photos from This Week A vibrant community of talented photographers exists on the internet, and Toad Hollow Photography searches for the best links on tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone. There are some fantastic sites to view in this week’s list, and we hope you enjoy them. Check out the Toad’s photoblog and gallery of Canadian Landscape Prints. HDR Cookbook – Why you need an artistic workflow – a great and in-depth tutorial that covers why and how to create an artistic workflow into your image processing regime. This is how we use focus stacking (focus bracketing) technique in our product photography – industry leader Alex Koloskov once again shares some very in-depth industry secrets for product photography. A beginners guide to photography: ISO explained in 1000 words or less – a simple and wonderful blog post outlining how ISO works in your digital camera. View From The Top – Bob Lussier brings us along on his latest adventure photographing an iconic water tower.
41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it. So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Mental Wave Explosion EffectHow to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.
650+ Free Photoshop Patterns - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag Resources 650+ Free Photoshop Patterns May 26, 2010 by Steven Snell 71 Comments 74981 views The use of repeating patterns in Photoshop can help to produce attractive website backgrounds with very little effort, and of course patterns have other uses as well. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free patterns that are available. Seamless Subtle Patterns (15 patterns) Powered by Shutterstock Paisley Photoshop Patterns (8 patterns) Skull Patterns (2 patterns) Floral Photoshop Patterns (4 patterns) Flower Photoshop Patterns (6 patterns) Different Texture (1 pattern) Hand-Drawn Scrolls (1 pattern) Antique Engraved (1 pattern) Stylized Clouds (1 pattern) Grungy Natural Beige Patterns (6 patterns) Grungy Natural Beige Patterns 2 (6 patterns) Floral (1 pattern) Leafy Set (3 patterns) Gypsy Garden (1 pattern) Late Bloomer (3 patterns) Hexagonal Patterns (72 patterns) Damask (1 pattern) Charcoal Damask (1 pattern) Patterns by onethirtytwo (6 patterns) Tileable Classic Nebula Space Patterns (8 patterns) 0 shares
63 Impressive Website Background-Images: Trends, Resources and T Apr 14 2008 Web designers compete to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. Background images are one of those visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen. In this post you will see how web designers had carefully created background images to influence how the websites is visually distinct but considerate of their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content. We have hand-picked background image resources and tutorials one can use to create amazing background images for the next website design. You might enjoy reading these posts: Stunning Examples and Trends Let’s take a look at some great website designs that are very well engaged to the background images 1) Viget/Extend 2) Jazz Clubs 3) Viget/Inspire 4) Straw Poll Now 5) Hebatec 6) Legendary Aircraft Plain and Simple 7) Lukasz Tyrala 8 ) Subdued 9) Singularity Concepts 10) Eddidit 11) Not Your Average Joe 12) Cubeclub Chemnitz
20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience. 1. Follow this tutorial to create dazzling, multi-layered, semi-transparent lettering, with a Perspex-like quality. 2. 3D Pixel Stretch Effect File this tutorial under “simple but effective”. 3. Turn a simple cityscape into a torrentially flooded wasteland. 4. Become the master of light and glow on Photoshop with this brief, easy-to-follow guide. 5. Use masking tools, layers, gradients and lines to turn your favorite piece of 3D text into something more colorful and commercial. 6. Mental waves do not exist, but if they did they’d look rather like this. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Making a Photoshop crystal ball - Masterclass Learn how to deal with shiny surfaces, refractions and curves, with some handy pointers from Photoshop guru Mark Mayers. Although this image appears pretty simple at first glance, if you look a little closer you’ll see that it’s full of potential graphics stumbling points, such as the refraction of the hand and the buildings that appear upside-down when viewed through the glass ball – and that’s before you’ve even started trying to deal with the reflection of the sky on the curved surface of the ball. In this tutorial, Mark Mayers guides you step-by-step through some ways to use Adobe Photoshop’s filters, distortion and polar coordinates – along with opacity and blending modes – to pull off this complicated effect. Step 1Download the project files from the right, and also select some photographs of skies and buildings to work with. Step 2In Photoshop, create a new A3 landscape document in RGB mode with a resolution of 300dpi.
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12 Top Quality Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials Below are a few Photoshop light effect tutorials that have caught my eye while looking over the tutorial sites, for me these produce the best results while using brushes, blurs and other media such as textures to create a top quality effect. Create Awesome Abstract Nebula Circle Shape in Photoshop Covers using filters with textures such as the twirl filter and warp filter with a Nebula star texture making for impressive results. Create a Colorful Aged Poster With Special Lighting Effects You’ll learn how to use texture and adjustment layers to create an aging effect on a colorful abstract poster design. Create a Surreal Girl with a Raven Composition in Photoshop Tutorial Loads of great tricks in this tutorial. The Making of “Constant Slip” This is more a process description of making this illustration, than a detailed step by step how to, but is very detailed and can lead to some very creative ways of achieving light effects. Achieve Brilliant Lighting Effects in Photoshop Comments
Photoshop mask tutorial with layer style changes Main Links Tutorials Tips and Tricks Reviews Back to Homepage Sites of Interest InfinitiG37.com Moodym Homepage Tutorials: Photoshop Using Photoshop Quick Mask Car freaks like to play around with Photoshop to make changes to their cars, be it colors or even lowering and other modifications. Original Image --- Open the digital image in Photoshop. --- From the tool bar, select the paint brush icon. --- Start using the paintbrush to select the portions of the image that you do not with to utilize. --- Continue utilizing the paintbrush, with varying sizes, until the sections you wish to exclude from the image are completely covered. --- When complete, press Q again to exit Quick-Mask mode. --- At this point, select Edit/Copy from the top bar to copy the selected image, then select File/New to create a new image. --- With the new, blank canvas in place, press CTRL+V or File/Paste to paste the copied outline into the new image. --- Select the Magic Wand tool. --- Now it is time to color the car.
Free Hi-Res PS Brushes: Rolled Paint Set 2 Freebie Time! I’m thrilled to release another . As promised earlier this is the 2nd set of the hugely successful Rolled Paint PS Brushes collection. These brushes are between large which makes them ideal for both print and web projects. As always these hi-res Photoshop brushes are . I will be releasing the source textures at a later date. Hi-Res Rolled Paint Photoshop Brush Set 2 Preview & Download: contains 1.zip archive – 1 .abr file, 10 Brushes, 33.4 Mb 100 Essential Web Development Tools Mar 16 2010 By Neil Skirrow As web technologies constantly advance, the skills a developer is expected to have are constantly increasing. Web users are beginning to expect Ajax interfaces, charts and graphs and a whole host of other tricks and features. This means web developers not only have to be skilled with HTML and a server-side programming language such as PHP or Perl, but they now also need to be JavaScript gurus, Flash experts, and skilled graphic designers. When developing your applications, you simply can’t create every element yourself. In an effort to save you a few hours crawling the web in search of the perfect third-party solution, we have compiled this list of essential development resources. 1. You can find a whole array of pre-made classes and functions to help save development time. The following CAPTCHA systems can be easily integrated with your applications: SecurimageSecurimage is a free open-source PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes. 2.
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