Photoshop Tutorials
Original Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Tutorials
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Aug30
Using Photomerge for Stunning Panoramic Photos (and some tips for shooting panoramics)
Filed under: Basics, Landscape, Photography Tutorials, Photoshop Tutorials; Tagged as: landscape photography, panoramics, Photography Tutorials, Photoshop Tutorialsby Chad Neuman
My wife and I went to Crested Butte, Colorado, recently for spring break. We snowboarded for a few days and enjoyed the outdoors, taking a few photos along the way. One sure thing to do when enjoying the outdoors is to take panoramic shots. You don’t need a wide-angle lens to capture the vast expanse of outdoor landscapes photography. A technique I and many other photographers utilize is to take overlapping shots of a landscape and merge them later in Photoshop. Photoshop CS3 has a few new features and options to consider.
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Aug28
Magazine Design with InDesign, part 2 of 3
Filed under: Illustrator Tutorials, InDesign Tutorials, Magazine Design; Tagged as: Illustrator Tutorials, InDesign Tutorials, Magazine Design -
Aug27
by Chad Neuman
to save some time so you’re not doing repetitive things in Adobe Photoshop? Look no further than the Actions palette. Let’s say you to need to adjust settings, add a filter, resize, or any of the other many options in Photoshop to a large number of photos. Instead of having to go through each photo one at a time, applying effects, resizing, or adjusting levels for example, it’s much easier to edit one photo and record the actions. Then, we can apply that action to an entire folder of images.
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Aug26
Eight Tips for Landscape Photos, with Horizon Leveling Tutorial
Filed under: Basics, Landscape, Photography Tutorials, Photoshop Tutorials; Tagged as: feature articles, landscape photography, Photoshop Tutorials, rotate1. Shoot about 30 minutes before and after sunset.
A sunset is a great thing to capture, but even if you’re not shooting the sunset but instead shooting at a 90-degree angle to the sunset or even shooting with the sunset at your back, having that subtle light brings out the colors in landscape photos. Most outdoor photography magazines won’t even consider shots that haven’t been shot around this time, as well as before/after sunrise. -
Aug26
Magazine Design with InDesign, part 1 of 3
Filed under: Illustrator Tutorials, InDesign Tutorials, Magazine Design; Tagged as: Illustrator Tutorials, InDesign Tutorials, live trace, pagination, publication design -
Aug25
Blending Two Images Seamlessly with Photoshop
Filed under: Photoshop Tutorials, Special Effects; Tagged as: layer blending modes, pen, Photoshop Tutorials, selectionby Chad Neuman
Let’s say you need add an image to another one, but it needs to look seamless. The image we’ll be adding to the other needs to have the same angle and texture of the other one. We can use the lens distortion tool and a layer blending mode for this example, and it’s also a fun way to learn the lens distortion tool and layer blending modes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Aug24
Floating Clothes with Photoshop
Filed under: Photoshop Tutorials, Special Effects; Tagged as: clone stamp, Photoshop Tutorials, special effectsby Chad Neuman
A fun way to learn the Clone Stamp tool (as well as adding a virtual drop shadow) is to create an invisible man or woman. We can transform an ordinary portrait or action shot to make the person disappear, leaving floating clothes around a space. Adding shadowed wrinkles also adds realism.
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Aug24
Subtle Changes with the Liquify Tool
Filed under: Basics, Photoshop Tutorials; Tagged as: liquify tool, photo adjustments, Photoshop Tutorialsby Chad Neuman
If you have a nice photo of a model, but she or he wasn’t smiling and you want the photo to feature a smiling face, or vice versa, you can use Photoshop to slightly tweak the facial expressions. The key is to be subtle in your approach, unless you are creating a caricature or cartoon. With the Liquify tool, we can create some subtle changes to model photos that can affect the overall mood of the face and therefore affect the mood of the photo.