Photo with Photoshop From Underexposed Photo to Professional Illustration

As part of the photoshop tutorials for beginners series, here is a simple tutorial to show how to turn an underexposed photo to professional illustration. Given that most users tend to edit or touching up photos with photoshop, we hope this easy tutorial will be useful to beginners.

PREPARATION

For this tutorial I used a photo done with an old analogic camera (Canon AE-1), you can download this photo  or you can use your own photo and use the same techniques obtaining the same beautiful result, obviously the better the image the better  our final work will be.

Adjusting the colors
First of all you need to open the image (File > Open) you want to modify, duplicate the layer using CMD

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Making a Message Strip in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’re going to make a little message strip in Photoshop that you can place in the top-right corner of a design. These little strips look very trendy and Web2.0-y, particularly in Web designs! It’s quite an easy effect to do, and in this tutorial we’ll add some shadow and light to make it pop!

Step 1:

To begin this tutorial as always, we will start with a nice radial gradient. I am addicted to radial gradients, so you should be too! I’m using a combination of nice blues. Here are the exact color codes:

Color 1 – #0e324f

Color 2 – #062033

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