Lighting Effects Using Photoshop CS4

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

One of the best sites around for desktops has to be Desktopography. I’ve been inspired by their amazing work, so 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! 

                    

Photoshop Lighting Effects

Steps and Assets

As always you can download the PSD file to follow along at the bottom of this tutorial. It’s a pretty large file so be warned! Additionally we are using a few assets including a photo from iStockPhoto and some vectors from Arsenal’s Freebie Section. Note that in the sample PSD, I’ve merged some text onto the original image to protect its copyright since it’s such a large copy.

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I’m calling this effect the ‘IceCream Retro Effect’ because it reminds me of an icecream commercial I once watched, the colors also suit icecream in my opinion.

Photoshop Ice Cream Effects

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Final Image Face to Movie Poster

You can find a lot of tutorials how to paste another face to the picture. Here I’m planning to show you my own way how to do this step by step and explain how to process every small detail in this design. You will look as a real real star!

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Color Correcting Overlay with Photoshop

This technique produce the best results and is extremely fast and easy. Use this whenever possible for non-raw photos. 

Step 1

Download and save the following JPG file to your computer then open it inside Adobe Photoshop.

Color Correcting Overlay with Photoshop

This is one of the techniques I've developed probably over a year ago when I wasn't very good with Photoshop. It worked very well on some photos, but not on all. If you're unable to fix the white balance with the Levels technique, give this one a try.

Step 1

Download and save the following JPG file to your computer then open it inside Adobe Photoshop.

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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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