Effective Facial Photo Retouching

Whether it’s for a friend, family member, or client, retouching images is very common these days. In this tutorial, I will lay down the basics of retouching and take you through the entire process, layer by layer.

Sadly, I spent my money made from tutorials on ‘Long Island Iced Tea cocktails’ and therefore I am forced,yet again, to live in a box with a broadband connection and a computer. Therefore, I would like to thank Jean Scheijen for providing me with this beautiful free stock image. Free stock images, I love ‘em!

Here’s a before and after (just roll over the image to see the before):

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Text Effect in A Slick Supernatural

In this tutorial we’ll be creating a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. It’s a good exercise in using the Wave distortion filter…Here Look The Final Image

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Create Photoshop Realistic Water Reflection

In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to easily add a realistic water reflection to any photo. It's a very easy effect to create and you can add it to any photo you like, although it tends to work best with images that don't already contain water in them.
We'll be using a simple filter and a displacement map to create the water ripple effect, and a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to give our water a little color.

Here's the photo that I'll be working with throughout this tutorial:

The original image.

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Photoshop Metallic Styles

In this tutorial, we’re going to create a metallic effect using layer styles and gradients that you can apply to different objects. We’ll put it on a nice background and create a style for lettering that makes it look like it’s embedded into the metal. You can download the sample PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial if you’d like to simply copy paste the layer styles.

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Photo Souping up By Photoshop

There are times when a regular photo just doesn’t cut it and you need your photo to pack a punch. Here is one technique that you may find useful.
As with all photo-based techniques, it doesn’t really make up for having a crappy photo though, so if you are trying to rescue something ugly don’t get your hopes up too high!

Before and After

Before we get started, lets compare the original with the result. As you’ll see we’re taking a great photo and making it really punchy by getting it really contrasty and changing the color palette.

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Photoshop Glossy Highlight Effects

In this simple Photoshop tutorial we’ll be looking at a simple technique that’s quite popular at the moment. The technique is using gradients/brushes to make soft highlights/glows on things, it’s particularly popular with some styles of forum skins. You can see the end result of this tutorial below.

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Fashion Shot Photoshop Tutorial

Find out how this amazing image was created with Photoshop. This Photoshop tutorial will teach you many techniques that you can use to enhance your photos.

Preview of Final Results

Fashion Shot Photoshop Tutorial

This tutorial will be slightly different from the majority of the tutorials on the web, firstly because it is not aimed at beginners and secondly it will be giving the techniques and why I used them rather than telling you exactly what buttons to press. However I think I've explained most things to a high enough degree to be understood by people with quite a low knowledge of Photoshop but I haven't gone in to details such as how to create a layer etc.
As with most of my tutorials I try to show as many useful techniques in one tutorial as I can fit in even if the final image isn't something you've been dying to learn how to make. I also try and explain my regular workflow as its probably more useful to know why I want to add something to the picture rather than just telling you to do it, for this reason the tutorial may not be in the most sensible order for example I go foreground, background, foreground, background but I assure you this seemed this most sensible way to tackle this image at the time. Lastly I want to say that I got a lot of my inspiration here from Nik Ainley, a very talented digital artist.

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Designing a 3D Vase Using Illustrator CS2

See how you can create a 3D vase in 5 minutes using3D Revolve Tool in Illustrator CS2.

1. Creating a Path

First you have to crate a path as shown below using the Pen Tool. Navigate to the menu Effect > 3D > Revolve




3D Revolve Option

3D Revolve Option window will appear (see he image below). If the lower part of the window is not visible, click on More Options. Leave the settings as default. But you need to add an extra light spot by clicking on the New Light icon and drag it the lower left corner. Enter 35 for Blend Steps. The maximum Blend Steps is 256. Higher Blend Steps will provide better rendering quality but will result in the increase of file size.

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