Photoshop Makeup » Photo Effects

Quick Trick : Blue Glow Portrait Effect

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:42:38 +0000

The first, open an image file as below:


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Quick Trick : Photo Effects Create A Photo Within A Photo

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:17:55 +0000

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’ll learn how to add excitement to a photo (not that your photos aren’t exciting enough, of course) and bring more focus and attention to your main subject by creating the illusion of a smaller, cropped version of the image within itself. We’ll be using a vector shape to create the dimensions of the smaller photo so we can easily rotate and resize it without any loss of image quality, adding a couple of layer styles to it, creating a clipping mask, sampling colors from the original photo, using Adjustment Layers, and adding a fun Radial Blur filter. Lots of good stuff. Any recent version of Photoshop will work just fine for this effect. I’ll be using Photoshop CS3.


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Quick Trick : Photo Effects Turn A Photo To A Sketch

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:13:04 +0000

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’ll see how you can impress your friends, family or clients with your amazing art skills without lifting a pencil by easily converting any photo into a sketch in just six easy steps.

A couple of duplicated layers and keyboard shortcuts, a layer blend mode, the Gaussian blur filter and about one minute out of your day are all it takes.


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Quick Trick : Creating Photoshop Templates For Photo Effects In CS2 / CS3

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:07:53 +0000

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create and then reuse a photo effect as a Photoshop template using Smart Objects and Smart Filters. Smart Objects were first introduced in Photoshop CS2, and Photoshop CS3 takes them even further with Smart Filters. Both of these recent additions to Photoshop have the potential to completely change how you work inside the program, since they give you an amazing level of flexibility that simply doesn’t exist without them.


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Quick Trick : Photo Effects With The Dissolve Blend Mode In Photoshop

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:15:08 +0000

If you were to round up a group of long-time Photoshop users and ask them to name a feature in Photoshop that they’ve never found a use for, there’s a good chance the Dissolve blend mode would be mentioned over and over again. While other layer blend modes like Screen, Multiply and Overlay are some of the most important and often used features in all of Photoshop, the Dissolve blend mode, which creates a seemingly random “speckled” pattern as it blends layers together, is usually ignored. Since no one likes to be the unpopular kid, I thought it would be fun to look at a couple of ways the Dissolve blend mode can be used to quickly add more interest to a photo. First, after applying a simple sepia tone effect to our image, we’ll add a bit more of an artistic look to it by combining the Dissolve mode with one of Photoshop’s filters. Then we’ll see how to use Dissolve to easily create a speckled photo border!


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