This Airbrush and Touch-Up tutorial covers one of my favorite Photoshop tools; the Heal tool. We are about to demonstrate the power of the healing brush using a photo of an old cracked statue, but you can gain the same effect on a human face, covering spots, blemishes, lines and wrinkles.
Often under used, it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Design Tutorials’
Airbrush, Touch Up & Heal Face / Photo in Photoshop
May 22nd, 2009 | by Dave | 1 CommentTagged in: Airbrush CS4 Design Tutorials Photoshop
Light tracing and glow photography technique
May 16th, 2009 | by Dave | 1 Comment This tutorial shows you how to create amazing photography lighting effects using a maglite torch and your camera.
I’m about to show you one of the simplest – but most fun techniques for creating amazing photographic effect.
There isn’t even any need for computer editing!
Tagged in: Design Tutorials Photography
How to make an iPhone application icon in Photoshop
May 10th, 2009 | by Dave | 3 CommentsAnother tutorial request, this time for an iPhone style icon!
This simple tutorial covers the basics of using Photoshop CS4 to create lighting effects to give your graphics depth and shine.
We’ll also show you how to use your new iPhone icon in your iPhone application project.
Tagged in: CS4 Design Tutorials Photosop
Planet Exploding – Fireball in Photoshop CS4
May 7th, 2009 | by Dave | No CommentsThis tutorial was requested by blog reader Matt – who wanted to create the effect of an exploding planet which didn’t look like a cartoon. We’ll show you how to go from a photo of some cracked ground, to a planetary fireball.
This tutorial will make use of Photoshop CS4’s clever polar coordinates tool, combined with [...]
Tagged in: CS4 Design Tutorials Photoshop
Photo Touchup in Photoshop CS3
May 13th, 2008 | by Dave | 3 CommentsThis tutorial will take us back to basics using some of the simplest yet most effective Photoshop CS3 tools available to us. The Burn, Dodge and Sponge tools.
Using these tools, we will turn an otherwise dull image into something far more beautiful.
Although they are examples of ‘destructive’ Photoshoping, when dealing with small areas of images, [...]
Tagged in: CS3 Design Tutorials Photoshop
Mac Style Background in Photoshop
March 3rd, 2008 | by Dave | 3 CommentsIf like me you are a bit of a Mac enthusiast then you’ll no doubt be a sucker for their graphical styling as well. This tutorial aims to give you of one possible way to emulate the Mac OS X desktop background style.
In this tutorial we will be using vector paths, blend modes, gradients and [...]
Tagged in: Design Tutorials Mac Photoshop
Remove Windows Search Indexer (Disable)
March 3rd, 2008 | by Dave | 4 CommentsRemove or disable Windows Search Indexer: If like me you are unfortunate enough to have to work on a machine with Windows Vista from time to time – then you may also be annoyed with Windows Search Indexer which will happily munch up your RAM and CPU whenever it feels like it!
It took me a [...]
Tagged in: Design Tutorials Microsoft Vista Windows
Mosaic Transition Tutorial in Photoshop
February 27th, 2008 | by Dave | 3 CommentsA fantastic Mosaic effect that can be achieved with Photoshop. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a mosaic from a photo and then fade between your photo and the mosaic to achieve a really great looking transition that can be used on headers or other web graphics.
I used CS3 for this tutorial [...]
Tagged in: Design Tutorials Photoshop
Photoshop CS4 Tutorials
February 20th, 2008 | by Dave | 1 CommentThe following Photoshop CS3 Tutorials describe some of my favourite techniques for creating and modifying both photos and graphics for web use. Whilst not all the tutorials require Photoshop CS3, having a CS version or above is recommended.
During the series the Photoshop CS3 Tutorials will cover; Touching up photos, Use of light and shadows, The [...]
Tagged in: CS3 CS4 Design Tutorials Photoshop
Celeb Airbrush in Photoshop
February 9th, 2008 | by Dave | 6 CommentsOne of my favourite tutorials which will show you how to take a fairly average / bad photo of a person of your choice and turn them into an airbrushed model.
This tutorial will cover the basics of face selection, blending, masking and explore briefly how burn and saturate can be used to bring out colours [...]
Tagged in: Airbrush Design Tutorials Photoshop
