Category Archives: Photoshop Basics

Add Depth of Field to a 3D Scene with Lens Blur

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In today’s quick tip Tutorial, we will demonstrate how to add depth of field to a scene that we will be creating with 3D objects to help improve a presentation to a client.

Screen Jumping Effect In Photoshop

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In a previous Tutorial, we learned how Photoshop’s Paste Into command lets us easily place one photo into a selected area of another photo. In that Tutorial, we recreated the same effect seen every week in electronics store flyers where the latest movie or video game is displayed on all the latest big screen HDTV’s. In this Tutorial, we’ll add more action and excitement to the effect by making a person or object appear to be leaping right out of the screen!

Gallery Style Photo Frame Layout

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In this Photoshop Tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a simple gallery-style photo frame layout, complete with a text caption below it, as if the photo was on display in an art gallery. This can be a very classy and elegant way to present your work, and creating the layout is easy. Here’s what the final result will look like (of course, your photo and text caption will be different):

Photo Mount Corners – Part 1 – Creating The Photo Mount

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In this Photoshop photo effects Tutorial, we’ll learn how to create and add simple photo mounts to an image, a nice finishing touch for displaying wedding or engagement photos, family portraits, travel photos and more! Since there’s quite a few steps involved (all of them easy), and most of them will only ever need to be completed once, I’ve divided the Tutorial into two parts. In this first part, we’ll create the actual photo mount itself and save it. Then in part two, we’ll add multiple copies of the photo mount to our image! After you’ve completed this first part of the Tutorial, you can jump straight to part two any time you need a refresher on how to add the photo mounts to your photos.

Use the Mixer Brush in Photoshop CS5 to Turn a Photo Into a Realistic Painting

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Before Photoshop CS5, transforming a photo into a realistic-looking painting was quite tricky. Now that CS5 has been released we now have some new tools to help achieve this effect a bit more realistically. In today’s Tutorial we will demonstrate how to use Photoshop CS5’s new Mixer Brush tool to transform a photo into a masterpiece in minutes.

Quick Tip: Use Puppet Warp in Photoshop CS5 to Tweak Your Images

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Photoshop CS5′s new Puppet Warp feature can be extremely useful if you need to make minor adjustments to your photos. In today’s quick tip Tutorial we will demonstrate how to correct a Photo with this new tool in minutes. Let’s get started!

Create an Abstract Light Streaks poster in Photoshop CS5

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In today’s Tutorial you will learn how to create an abstract light streaks poster from scratch using Lighting effects, Noise, and Wave Photoshop CS5 filters. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!

Take 10 Years Off a Male Portrait Via Photo Retouching

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Learn how to use a variety of professional retouching techniques such as various healing brushes, the liquify tool, adjustment layers and more in order to take off 10 years from a male photographic subject.

A Comprehensive Guide to Photoshop’s Liquify Tool

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The Liquify filter may be one of the most commonly used filters in Photoshop’s arsenal. The Liquify filter allows us to distort the pixels in a given image without losing quality. Some designers are a bit intimidated by the Liquify filter, others may use in improperly. Today, we will explain the features of this very powerful filter in detail so you can use it in your work.