Photo Tuts Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorial: Plain Pic to Glamour Girl, Retouching Techniques. (part 3 of 3)

Welcome to the last of the portrait retouching tutorial series. The previous two cover blemish removal and blurring/sharpening. This tutorial will focus on using curves to ensure your image looks nice and bright and color correct. If you’ve been following the previous tutorials, your portrait subject already looks great. It still may look a little dull however, and more than likely has a very subtle color tint, so we have to make sure the color flatters the subject’s skin and is accurate. I’m... learn more

Photoshop Tutorial: Plain Pic to Glamour Girl, Retouching Techniques. (part 2 of 3)

Hello, and welcome back to our three-part photo retouching tutorial. If you haven’t seen it, you might want to check out part one, in which we cover blemish removal and eye/teeth whitening. For this part of the tutorial, we’re going to learn how to both blur and sharpen your subject to create pleasing results. I know that blurring and sharpening the image seems somewhat contradictory, but we’re going to use layer masks to paint these effects onto the image only where we think... learn more

Remove Moiré Patterns in Photoshop

A TutorialBlog.org reader writes us today with a question about how to remove a moiré pattern using photoshop. Are there any plugins for photoshop to reduce/eliminate moire patterns? — William For those of you that don’t know, a moiré is an unsightly pattern that emerges when “two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes.” (Thanks, wikipedia.) learn more  Read More →

Photoshop Tutorial: Plain Pic to Glamour Girl, Retouching Techniques. (part 1 of 3)

Greetings, pixel pushers! Today I’m going to teach you how to subtly transform a good picture into an excellent picture in just a few easy steps. By the end, you will be able to turn your pictures into beautiful portraits for business, friends, family members, even touch up your own myspace pics… This will come in handy when using your own photography on a website, or using your friends for product demonstration photos. This process is very similar to what magazines do to make sure skin... learn more

15 Places to Find Awesome Free Photoshop Brush Sets

Even the best of us creative types struggle with what I like to call “designer’s block,” staring at a blank canvas in your favorite graphics editing program for hours. It can be downright difficult to find inspiration when starting a design from scratch. I have often found that one great source of inspiration are Photoshop brush sets. Depending on the type of website, I might choose to create my design based on a set of grunge brushes. Or for a more artistic website, I could choose... learn more

25 Places to Find Awesome Stock Photos — Free and Cheap!

Whether you’re designing an artistic website or searching for images to post on your blog, sites that carry not only free but awesome stock photos may very well come in handy. Utilizing the correct set of photos for any project is key, especially if you’re designing an ad for a client, you should always put in your best effort as well as the best images you can find fit for the job. Many of the designers I’ve come across like to download most of their images from 2-3 of the largest... learn more

Photoshop Tutorial: Partial Color With Layer Masks

I’m going to show you how to make a black & white image with selective color, using a very powerful tool in Photoshop called Layer Masks, and painting on these layer masks using the Brush Tool. We’re also going to make the color really pop, and we could even change the color entirely. To start, I find it a lot easier to use an image which lends itself well to the effect. I look for one bright, solid color, fairly isolated from other bright colors. For this reason, I chose this image... learn more

Photoshop Tutorial: The Black & White Adjustment Layer

For those of us fortunate enough to have one of the latest two versions of Photoshop (CS3 or CS4), there is a new, more powerful and fun way to create black and white images and get a lot of control over color brightness. This is my favorite way to convert color images to black & white — I use it pretty much exclusively because it takes all the guesswork out of moving the sliders around and makes it easy to adjust complex colors. Ready? Load up your image and let’s go! [Note: If you own... learn more

Photoshop Tutorial: Black and White Images Using the Channel Mixer

Color just not doing it for you?  Or maybe you’re going for that classic look?  Here’s an easy way to create a dynamic black & white image using Photoshop. Let’s start with a little background information though, shall we?  You might be curious to know what channels are and why we’re mixing them.  The information in your color image is broken down into Red, Green and Blue information (RGB).  Photoshop seperates each of these three into its own layer with brightness... learn more

Web Monitors Uncover Top 100 Blogs and Platforms

Pingdom, a service that monitors Web sites and servers on the Internet, looked at the top 100 blogs on Technorati to find out which blogging platform is used most often. Pingdom distinguishes between blogs that are self-hosted and blogging-service hosted. The top two self-hosted platforms are WordPress (27 percent) and Moveable Type (12 percent). The top two platforms that sit on a service are Typepad (16 percent) and Blogsmith (14 percent). When hosted and self-hosted are combined, the top two blogging... learn more

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