Site archive for PS-Tutorials
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
You’ve seen them in movies, and at tech shows. Where multiple TV screens are used to show a single image. While there are few real world applications for this, it’s still a pretty cool looking effect.
It’s easy to achieve using Photoshop, so here’s the easy steps. First, find an image with multiple screens. Or you [...]
in Design, Photo Effects, Photoshop
Friday, December 11th, 2009
There’s a whole lot of bad superimposing out there in the world of Photoshop. If you’d like to learn some techniques to better place yourself into a photo, then this is a good tutorial to have a gander at.
Just for kicks and giggles, we’re going to use George Bush as our base photo.
Now, we need [...]
in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Transform a man into a torture victim with a couple tricks and some basic tools.
Step 1: Put Him in Stitches
This man will soon have a life-changing experience.
The color in this picture is a little intense, so first thing we’re going to do is lower the saturation. CTRL+U and drag the Saturation slider down to [...]
By: Kirin Knapp in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Use some easy photo manipulation skills to make a surreal landscape scene.
Here are all of the images we’re going to use.
Open a new file and make it oversized so you have plenty of room – I made mine 800×800px.
Since we are working with a couple smaller images and we want the area to be larger, [...]
By: Kirin Knapp in Design, Landscape, Photoshop
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Find the perfect photo but you don’t like the gappy teeth the person has? This tutorial will show you how easy it is to fix someone’s teeth.
We’re going to take this photo below of this lovely lady and fix her teeth. They look a little too small, and we’re going to fill in the gap.
By: Kirin Knapp in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Learn how to make your text into an image like all the other layers, so you can edit it freely.
Type out your text. Notice you can only change the colors, size, font and if you want to apply a filter to it.
By: Kirin Knapp in Design, Photoshop, Text Effect
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
This tutorial will show you an easy way to make text look furry.
You can use this tutorial for anything you’d like to make look furry, but for this tutorial we’re going to make the word “FUR” resemble its definition.
We’ll start with a darker bluish-grey color.
By: Kirin Knapp in Design, Photoshop, Text Effect
Friday, April 17th, 2009
This tutorial will show you how to add realistic cracks to an eggshell in Photoshop.
We have our beginning images here:
By: Kirin Knapp in Design, Manipulation, Photoshop
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
This tutorial will show you how to make an easy background, with a gradient, a couple brushes and some blending options.
Since we are making a background, my canvas size is set to 1680×1050, which is my computer’s current resolution. You can make the background whatever size you want, but starting too large and cropping [...]
By: Kirin Knapp in Design, Photoshop, Wallpaper
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
This is a quick reference guide to some of your most useful Photoshop shortcuts. If you already know them, great! If not, I highly recommend at least this grouping of shortcuts to be stored away in that brain of yours. They come in quite useful, making your job a lot easier and quicker to [...]
By: Kirin Knapp in Design, Photoshop, Shortcuts