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 [...]
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Airbrush, Touch Up & Heal Face / Photo in Photoshop
May 22nd, 2009 | by Dave | 1 CommentTagged in: Airbrush CS4 Design Tutorials Photoshop
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, [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Flowing Water
February 9th, 2008 | by Dave | 8 CommentsA Photoshop tutorial to show you how to create realistic looking water which you can then apply to a tap, hose, or even with some tweaking, a waterfall.
Tagged in: Adobe CS3 Design Tutorials Photoshop
