vidoes: The Lomo Effect + Creating a One-Click Action! Here again we have a video of one of the tutorials in the June-July 09 newsletter! Using Photoshop we will create a very editable Lomography effect also known as the “Lomo Effect”. Using Blend Modes and Adjustments Layers we achieve a pretty cool effect that can be used on all kinds of Photography! After creating the effect we will take a quick minute and create a simple action so we can test this effect out on a photo by simply clicking a button! |
| Videos: Basic iTunes Style Illustration! Welcome to this tutorial! We are going to take a look at how to create this cool, fully customizable and editable grungy, dirty, distressed background. We will use a combo of texture, brushing, and blend modes to create a very cool background inspired by a modest iTunes Gift Card! |
| Videos: Create a Simple Poster in Photoshop! This is one of the tutorials found in the May-June 2009 Tutvid.com newsletter. We create a very simple movie post similar to the "The Boat That Rocked" movie poster. Enjoy! |
| Videos: Removing Glasses with Photoshop! In this video we will take a look at a very special way to remove an element from an image. In case we will be removing a pair of glasses from this young woman's face and it the process rebuilding parts of her eyes as well as doing some heavy retouch work to the face in general. |
| videos: Add or Remove Tattoos with Photoshop! For many photography projects removing tattoos is a must have skin, and for some fun projects knowing how to add a tattoo and knowing how to make it follow the flow of the persons skill is pretty cool. We will talk about using the healing brush in tough spots, how displacement maps allow us to make realistic changes to photographs, as well as using multiple blend modes to make a realistic tattoo on this brides back. Enjoy! |
| videos:Changing Eye Color in Photoshop! In this one we cut straight to the chase. Changing eye color is really easy to do and in this video I demonstrate my preferred method. We will talk about blend modes, hue and saturation and keeping this eye edit easy to come back to later and edit as we wish. This method is quick, easy, editable down the road, and yields great results! |
| videos: Streaking Athlete Effect!! Starting with a simple stock photograph we will transform this image into a very cool composition combining 3D motion type streaking colors to imply motion and some cool brushing here in Photoshop to create this very cool image effect. Learn about lots of cool features in Photoshop CS4 in this tutorial! |
| Videos: Composite/Combine Multiple Images! In this video we will use simple techniques to combine a couple images. We are actually using a couple image which are pretty difficult to combine and my hope is that you will take a few tricks from this video that will help you with combining images of all types-including those that have transparency in them-form this video. We cover selecting with channels, copying and pasting, masking, burning, and a few other cool little things. Check it out and get started building your own "composite images"! |
| Videos: Basics of Creating 3D Objects! 3D is very new to Photoshop only really coming into existence when CS3 was released. In CS3 however the 3D capabilities were pretty limited, but with the release of CS4 3D exploded into Photoshop and now has it's own set of tools and even it's own panel. You are now able to even create true 3D objects right from within Photoshop and texture them. In the following tutorial we will learn about creating a base 3D object and creating a few basic textures for that object. We will also take a moment to explore the 3D tools. |
| videos:Creating 3D Spiraling Light Streaks or Zips! In this tutorial I start with a simple 3D object created in Photoshop and to really show off the 3D nature of this object we will "wrap" it with light, specifically these light zips, or bands. A pretty cool effect and really as soon as you create the path(s) you can tweak and create whatever kind of effect you want. |
| Videos: Super Quick Black and White Images! When working with large numbers of photos occasionally I will try batch processing a black and white conversion over a folder of images, but my problem always was the simple desaturate command in Photoshop never really did the trick, the photo(s) always looked way to flat. Using this technique we will boost contrast using blend modes prior to our final black and white conversion and the beauty of this method is it is the same for every photo so making an action takes seconds. |
| Videos: Smoothing and Softening Skin for Portrait Retouching! Soften and Smooth Skin! This is a huge thing when working with studio photography, models, or anyone really. Smoothing skin can really add a lot to an image, but if you do it the wrong way it really can look terrible. We will also look at selective sharpening by using a mask to limit the sharpened region. We will cover: Masking, Blending, Sharpening, and Cleaning up Skin Blemishes in this video! |
Thursday, August 20, 2009
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Globe Button for Your Website
 Hungry for the new design elements for your website? I have a new one for you. Hope it will be useful in your new design. Let’s begin! Make a new document with the resolution 500×300 for this tutorial and fill this canvas with white color. Then select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (Radius: 30 px) and draw the next shape using the color of #d61d23. After that apply following layer styles to this layer : Your button should look as mine: Now, time to bring reflection to the button. Duplicate current layer using Ctrl+J, then create a new one and flip it with copied layer to get all layer styles in one layer. After that flip it vertical with Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical as on my picture below: To make reflection more transparent at the bottom of the picture apply Quick Mask Mode with gradient as below: Then go back to Standard Mode. Now we have some selected area. Press Delete to clear image into the selected area. Remove selection with Ctrl+D. Go to the next step. I would like to add some glare to the button. To do this select the Rounded Rectangle Tool (Radius: 80 px) and create a new one form using white color. Rasterize this layer with Layer > Rasterize > Shape. After that apply Quick Mask Mode one more time and fill the next gradient: Go back to Standard Mode and we received selected area again. Press Delete to clear selected part of image. Deselect chosen area with Ctrl+D and change layer mode to Overlay for current layer. We are done with the button. Now, move to the next step. I think it will looks better when we will put some design elements on it. To do this get out the Ellipse Tool and create rounded shape as on my picture below using white color: After that apply such Blending Options to this layer: • Inner Shadow • Inner Glow • Gradient Overlay • Stroke See the result below: Time to bring some picture to our rounded design element. Find some picture of the Earth on the Google Images or use mine or find it somewhere. Open it and reduce a little bit, then place the picture as shown below. Good, then make it black and white using Image > Adjustments > Desaturate (Ctrl+Shift+U) and change layer mode to Overlay for this layer: Select the Sharpen Tool (Brush: 100 px, Mode: Normal, Strength: 40%) to make this fragment more sharpen. And the last one thing that we need to do. To finish off the tutorial let’s add some text. Get out theHorizontal Type Tool and write out something with white color like on my picture below. In the above image I’ve used Segoe UI as my font of choice, and I’ve used white color. Actually, it is commercial font, but if you don’t have it, you can easily find a good alternative, for example, Arial Black. After that apply the following layer style to this layer: Now, we have something like this. Great! Our work is done! Enjoy your own cool globe button. Also you can change it color. |
