Photoshop Tutorials: October 2007

Make a Realistic Tattoo

Description: Lastly i was reading a tutorial on making a realistic tattoo and i was a great one. But i forgot the url. Just today i came across this great photoshop tutorial on making a realistic tattoo. It is also as great as i was mentioning. This tattoo tutorial is from Psdtuts.com. Written by Arik. and he says:

There are lots of tutorials on the web that claim to achieve a realistic tattoo effect. Usually these tutorials instruct the user to import an image they want to use as a tattoo and to set it to overlay. Out of experience I can say that this does NOT look like a tattoo. It looks like...well...an overlayed image.

In this tutorial I will be demonstrating an advanced technique to achieve a realistic tattoo. We will be using masks, adjustment layers, displacement maps and several brushing skills will be applied.

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Labels: Special Effects

Posted by Unknown at 11:29 AM | Permalink | Comments

Adding Sunlight Through The Trees

Description: Another good photoshop tutorial by Photoshopessentials.com. In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to add beams of sunlight through trees, which is not only a great way to make an image look more interesting, it's also a lot easier to do than you might think, as we'll see. We'll even finish things off by making the sunbeams appear to be shining on the ground after they pass through the trees, which adds more realism to the final effect.

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Labels: Special Effects

Posted by Unknown at 11:34 AM | Permalink | Comments

Fast And Easy Photo Retouch

Description: Fast and easy photoshop photo retouch tutorial is great. Sometimes we don't need to do the whole process of photo retouching like reduce noise, color corrections and levels, sharpening etc. Sometimes less is great and creative as well. This tutorial is all about speed without losing the beauty of a picture. This tutorial is originally published at ps.herjern.com. Author says:

Today I’m going to teach you how to create two great effects for photo retouch. The first can actually be used on almost every photos and maybe other graphics to. The second is best suited for portraits or other pictures where there is an object that’s in focus so… Let’s start!

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Labels: Basic, Retouching

Posted by Unknown at 11:08 AM | Permalink | Comments

Dusky Lighting Effects

Description: Another super photoshop tutorial by psdtuts.com. By following this photoshop tutorial you will learn several effects and techniques. After that you can achieve this kind of awesome result as in the picture shown here. Site writes:

One of the best sites around for desktops has to be Desktopography. Inspired by their amazing work today we are going to put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix!

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Labels: Special Effects

Posted by Unknown at 10:48 AM | Permalink | Comments