Take Out Da Noise
Sometimes a little texture and a little film grain, or “noise” in an old photo is not a bad thing! Seriously, if you start taking everything out of old photos they end up looking worse than when [More]
Tutorial
Creating a Jack-O’Lantern Carving with Layer Styles
Written By Mike Hoffman – Mike On Twitter – On The Web Click To Enlarge With Halloween imminent, here’s a quick way to create spooky, scary or silly Jack O’Lanterns starting with a [More]
Creating a Jack-O’Lantern Carving with Layer Styles
With Halloween imminent, here’s a quick way to create spooky, scary or silly Jack O’Lanterns starting with a simple image of a pumpkin, and a cutout shape of the face you want to use. We’ll [More]
3D Glass Ball using Layer Styles
By: Rebecca Fryer In this tutorial it’s my aim to take you through the process of creating a convincing 3D Glass Ball using basic layer styles and gradients. Step One: Basic Shape & Fill [More]
Color (Wheel) Correction (Pt. 2/2)
You’ve done your color correction, via whatever method you prefer or the one that worked best for the photo at hand, but it still doesn’t look quite right. Here’s a way to [More]
Combo Color Correction (Pt. 1/2)
Today I bring you the first part of a two-part tutorial. The first will go over a combination method of color cast correction, and the second half will deal with correcting tints. This photo, [More]
Shading vectors in Photoshop
Over the last couple of tutorials we have been gently introducing ourselves to vectors, firstly adding the lines then some colour. Today we are going to work on details. Step 1. Firstly download the [More]
Ask A.J. About Photoshop #1
Today's guest post is a little different. To kick off the new "Ask A.J." series I thought it best to respond with a video answer to the questions posted. Little did I know the adventure awaiting me as I tried to render out the screencast file, then upload to YouTube, then to Vimeo. Needless to say, I'm a bit tired from the early AM recording, but it's all for you dear readers. Watch the video, leave some comments, and spread the word if you think this is a good thing. Oh, and forgive me if I drift off a bit towards the end, I made it through the night without so much as a drop of caffeine. [More]
Smoothing Texture (Redux)
This weeks post is a re-post of a tutorial I had on my blog, Janinealogy, way back in…well, way back. I beg everyones forgiveness for this bit of laziness on my part, but with my home network [More]
It’s a Knockout: the Magnifying Glass Effect
To begin with it’s wise to collect a good source image of a magnifying glass which I did via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnifying_glass.jpg, this is Wikimedia Commons which is a [More]
Color Grading with Gradient Maps
by Richard Harrington – RHED Pixel – @rhedpixel Like many folks, I like to experiment with color. Duotones, like ‘em. Romantic color effects, check. Crunchy color, I’m game. There are times [More]
Texture Matching
Something I’ve noticed about digital photo restoration tutorials: we do seem to love our “good old dependables”! We embrace our Clone Stamp and Patch Tools, revere our healing brushes and [More]
Magazine Wrap Around
When BBC Wildlife magazine came out I was intrigued by the cover. Everything was standard except that it looked like there was an added cover. I’m sure there is name for it. Anyhoo, on [More]
Filling In With the Pen Tool
Last week we worked on line art using the pen tool, this week we will work on filling it in. We will be using our old friend the pen tool again. Step 1. Download the source file we created last [More]
Make Them Shine!
I love pretty eyes – just ask anyone who knows me, if you have pretty eyes, I’ll let you know! In photos I like to make them shine! Soo… how do you do it? 1.Open up an image, with [More]
