May 28, 2005 | Painting Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a few simple steps to simulate ocean or water texture using Photoshop CS ‘Fibers’ filter combined with the ‘Liquify Filter’ and various Blend Mode and Adjustment Layers. First, start a new document, I used an equal size preset of...
May 28, 2005 | Painting Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a few simple steps to simulate ocean or water texture using Photoshop CS ‘Fibers’ filter. First, start a new document (File > New), I used an equal size preset of 450×450. Create a new empty Layer (Shift + Ctrl + N (Mac: Shift +...
May 24, 2005 | Painting Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a simple trick to create a colored pencil sketch effect. First, open the image you want to ‘pencil sketch’. (Me) If your using Photoshop 7, use a ‘Layer Set’ for organization. Next duplicate, the original photo/image layer( I...
May 11, 2005 | Automation, Photoshop Tutorials
The Problem: When you use a color profile different than sRGB, the color of your images do not look right when opened in a non color managed application, like a web browser. A solution is to convert your images to sRGB before you use Save For Web. But doing it...
Apr 28, 2005 | Layer Blending Styles, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s simple ‘Style’ applied to an Ellipse Shape. This gives the appearence of a glass eye or camera lens affect. Most effective style’s are created using extreme combinations. Follow along this series, you’ll see just what I mean. Start...
Apr 25, 2005 | Automation, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a few simple steps to automate crop and straighten from scans. To begin place a few images on your flatbed scanner. My scanner is a HP Scanjet 3570c. Note: My scanner has a Slide/Negative slot at the roof of the Scanner lid so I placed a white sheet on...
Apr 25, 2005 | Automation, Photoshop Tutorials
Here is a great way to automate Optimizing a folder of images uses an ImageReady Droplet. (Requires a pre-set of images in a distinct folder) Open any image in ImageReady, or if you already have an image open in Photoshop, click the last icon on the Toolbar to...
Apr 25, 2005 | Layer Blending Styles, Photoshop Tutorials
Combine some prefab shapes and some layer styles helped create this minesweeper meta ball effect. Start a new document (your preset choice) Set a foreground color of your choice. I used a dark color #4A515D. Select the ‘Ellipse Tool (U)’ from the Toolbar....
Apr 25, 2005 | Knockout Tricks, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a few simple steps to achieve a background knockout on an image in which the background is a solid color. Photoshop offers plenty of ways to achieve this same affect through various Toolbar tools and Layer Masking techniques. Each technique is most...
Apr 25, 2005 | Color Manipulation, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s some simple technique’s to adjust or manipulate elements of color within a given photo. Tools used will be some adjustment layers and the extract tool, so follow along and have fun. Below is the original picture I will be using, courtesy of...
