Zoom Enhanced Eyes Effect Photoshop CS6

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll learn how to give someone’s eyes an almost otherworldly “radial zoom” effect, with bright, colorful blur streaks that zoom out from the center of the eyes. As we’ll see, the effect is very easy to create using nothing more than a basic selection tool, a couple of Photoshop’s filters, a layer mask, and a layer blend mode!

This version of the tutorial has been updated for Photoshop CS6 and is also fully compatible with Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud). For CS5 and earlier, you’ll want to check out our original Radial Zoom Enhanced Eyes tutorial.

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Here’s the image I’ll be working with (glamour eyes photo from Shutterstock):

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Photo Into Pattern Colored Dots With Photoshop

In this photo effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to turn a photo into a pattern of solid-colored dots! As we’ll see, all it takes to create the effect is one of Photoshop’s filters, a layer mask and a simple custom-made pattern, although we’ll add a few extra (but still very easy) steps at the end to enhance things even further. It can take a bit of trial and error to match up the size of the dots with your specific image, so to keep things as flexible as possible, we’ll be taking advantage of Smart Objects and Smart Filters.

I’ll be using Photoshop CS6 here but this tutorial is also fully compatible with Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud). If you’re using CS5 or earlier, you’ll want to follow along with the original version of the tutorial.

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Here’s the image I’ll be working with (colorful sunglasses photo from Shutterstock):

The original image.

And here’s what the "colored dot pattern" effect will look like when we’re done:

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Create Soft Edged Border Effect in Photoshop

There are very few simple steps need to follow if you want to have fade out kind of effect which makes the edges look soft using Adobe Photoshop. This is a very popular effect when you want to merge an image to another background so that the new image fits or adapts to it’s new environment resulting a WOW effect.
I have tried all my best to keep this post simple so that even a guy who has no experience of Photoshop can do the trick. What you need to do is to walk through the procedure step by step.
Tools Needed : :) You are right !   Adobe Photoshop
Skills Needed : :( You are wrong ! Nothing
Now, without twisting the story much, let’s get started with step 1.
STEP 1:
Choose 2 Images. For this demo I have picked following two images, first is a simple one with a beautiful quote and the sweet smiling kid.

Image 2

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Photoshop CS5 Extended 3D Type with Repoussé

The new Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended is about to be released, it was announced already and among the new features there is one really special that is the Repoussé. This new feature or tool will allow us to create 3D objects extruding texts, selections, paths and layers masks. It's a really powerful tool and I had the chance to try it and now I will share with you one of my first experiments with it.

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• 3d
• cs5
• photoshop
• repousse
• tutorial

In this tutorial I will recreate an image of a tutorial I did for Digital Arts Magazine last year which I used Photoshop and Illustrator to create a 3D text with a girl on top of it, the tutorial was the CREATE MILE-HIGH TYPE ART. So this time I will do everything using just Photoshop CS 5 Extended with the Repoussé. I also want to mention that I'm still learning these new features/tools and I will try to share as much as I can with you guys and if you are using the beta of Photoshop feel free to share with us as well.

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