19
2011
Alien Text Effect
In this easy tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a really cool, high-tech, alien-like text effect (wow, long name!) Mostly just using layer styles, but also some filters to finish it off nicely. You can see my result image below, which you’re going to be making something very similar to! 1. Creating a Background First thing’s first, create a new document in which you can make your text, use a size [...]
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19
2011
realistic pearl in Photoshop
In one of my previous tutorials, we learnt how to create a shiny orb and then went on to create a shiny earth. This tutorial pretty much uses a few of the similar techniques used in the former one. In this tutorial, we will be learning how to create a shiny, glowing realistic pearl. We will be learning a lot of interesting stuff in layer styles. Layer Styles is definitely one of my favorite features [...]
19
2011
interesting photoshop effects
Halloween is near, this means plenty of costumes and wigs to try on! The dear boyfriend, Johnathan, decided that I should show some skin this year and picked out an adorable Little Red Riding Hood outfit. Later on that evening, we found an adorable red wig that was just too cute to pass up. But when we got home, we didn’t know if the red wig was such a good idea, I mean…it was RED. [...]
10
2011
Free Transform photoshop
F: Free Transform Don’t confine your size and orientation adjustments to numbers tapped J in a box- use free transform to free up your creativity . Free Transform (Command-T} is the editing mode you use to stretch, rotate and distort layers or selections in Photoshop. Once you’ve entered Free Transform, you can then use the Image Warp controls, which allow you to apply preset shapes and custom envelope distortions to your layers- and we’ll come [...]
26
2011
Diablo text tutorial
Diablo III Inspired Text Effect. I was looking intended for a number of design inspirations on the disposable and I bumped into the Diablo III website. I was intrigued by the design of the title text and I deliberation: What did you say? Come about if I add something mega to it? What did you say? Determination the finish end result like if I apply a cracked touch on top of the text? The story [...]
22
2011
Layer blending
Layer bending Working in Photoshop is all about making layers interact with each other. In the next section, we’ll look at how to use Layer Masks to control the visubility of a layer selectively, but you can achieve a lot without touching any of the painting tools. The two main ways to control a layer’s visibility is to use different layer blending modes and to use the so-called ‘advanced blending’ controls, and it’s these we’ll [...]
14
2011
Bevel and Emboss section
Photoshop’s Layer Styles have the ability to add a range of effects to both regular layers and live type. They can be used to quickly add glows, neon and other effects to text, with the minimum amount of effort. Because these are live effects, rather than pixel-based filters, they’re fu lly editable and can be tweaked, adjusted- or even turned off altogether – at any time. One of the most useful effects is embossing, found [...]
13
2011
dark colour corrections
Get the colour balance wrong and you can drain all of the life and realism out of your work. Get it right and youJII produce stunning results.There are many ways to change the colour of a layer or a selection in Photoshop – so many, in fact, that the choice often seems bewildering. But then there are many reasons why you might want to change an item’s colour.
12
2011
Coolest photoshop cs tutorials
![One way to adjust the curve is to drag a control handle. Here, we've shortened the length of the handle, dragging it from point A to point B [03]. The original curve is shown in pale blue: note how the new curve is much shallower near the anchor point that has been adjusted. As well as changing the length of a handle, you can also change its direction. Here [04], dragging the handle from A to B makes the curve rise rather than fall as it leaves the anchor point. The handle still forms a tangent to the curve, which is reshaped accordingly. Bezier curves can also be adjusted by dragging the curve itself [os]: you can grab it anywhere and pull it to a different location. Here, moving or dragging an arbitrary point A on the curve to point B has the effect of changing the length of the control handles. Note, however, how dragging a curve in this way doesn't alter the direction of the handles, just their strength. it is defined solely by the handle leaving the anchor point above it. The corner point E has no handles; the curves touching it are both defined by the control handles on the anchor points on either side. USING BEZIER CURVES AS CLIPPING PATHS It's standard practice in Photoshop to define a clipping path using Bezier curves, and then to delete the area outside the path to create a cutout object on a white background. The path is maintained even when the image is saved as a flat Jpeg file, so it's easy to load the path and retrieve the cutout later. The trouble is that when the object is cut out and placed onto a dark background, the anti-aliasing process means that a certain amount of the white background will creep in, creating a white fringe. The solution is to draw the path just inside The fin al way to adjust a curve is to drag the object's boundary. To achieve this, turn one of the anchor points. The direction and strength of the handles remains the same - the curve here has been shortened, and skewed up slightly [oa], but it's essentially the same curve.](http://www.texttutorial.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cool-explosion-photo-effect-photoshop-tutorial.jpg "One way to adjust the curve is to drag a control handle. Here, we've shortened the length of the handle, dragging it from point A to point B [03]. The original curve is shown in pale blue: note how the new curve is much shallower near the anchor point that has been adjusted. As well as changing the length of a handle, you can also change its direction. Here [04], dragging the handle from A to B makes the curve rise rather than fall as it leaves the anchor point. The handle still forms a tangent to the curve, which is reshaped accordingly. Bezier curves can also be adjusted by dragging the curve itself [os]: you can grab it anywhere and pull it to a different location. Here, moving or dragging an arbitrary point A on the curve to point B has the effect of changing the length of the control handles. Note, however, how dragging a curve in this way doesn't alter the direction of the handles, just their strength. it is defined solely by the handle leaving the anchor point above it. The corner point E has no handles; the curves touching it are both defined by the control handles on the anchor points on either side. USING BEZIER CURVES AS CLIPPING PATHS It's standard practice in Photoshop to define a clipping path using Bezier curves, and then to delete the area outside the path to create a cutout object on a white background. The path is maintained even when the image is saved as a flat Jpeg file, so it's easy to load the path and retrieve the cutout later. The trouble is that when the object is cut out and placed onto a dark background, the anti-aliasing process means that a certain amount of the white background will creep in, creating a white fringe. The solution is to draw the path just inside The fin al way to adjust a curve is to drag the object's boundary. To achieve this, turn one of the anchor points. The direction and strength of the handles remains the same - the curve here has been shortened, and skewed up slightly [oa], but it's essentially the same curve.")
Bezier curves are the building blocks of graphic design. They’re used in vector applications such as Adobe Illustrator for drawing shapes, in page layout applications such as lnDesign and OuarkXPress for reshaping picture boxes and fine-tuning text runarounds, in 30 modelling applications for defining revolve profiles, and even in pixel editing applications such as Photoshop for creating clipping paths. Indeed, without Bezier curves, it would be impossible to create the rich and varied designs with [...]
10
2011
Build a blog in iWeb
Getting yourself online is easy thanks to a simple little app that comes with every new Mac – and you won’t need to learn HTML to use it. T here are many places to have a presence on the web – Facebook, Twitter and various popular blogging sites – but if you want to take full control of your appearance on the Internet, you’ll need to turn to a web editor and publish to your [...]
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