Photoshop Tutorial for beginners -Tilt shift technique
By Lebdesigner - August 02, 2018
Photoshop Tutorial for beginners -Facial Retouching
By Lebdesigner - May 31, 2018
Photoshop Tutorial for beginners -Facial Retouching
Kyle Pero on Mar 25th 2008 with 140 comments
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to repair some image noise from a low-quality
shot, and I will show you an extremely quick and easy way to smooth out a person’s
face. The woman in this shot is not a model, and she has a lot of character so we don’t
want to overdo it with the smoothing. We will make it look real and natural.
Step 1
If you look at the blue channel, you will notice that it doesn’t look so good. There are
a lot of JPG artifacts that you don’t really see when looking at the RGB composite,
but it’s good to fix it for a variety of reasons. Importantly, it will reduce the color
noise in the image and give us more flexibility when making corrections later down
the line.
Duplicate the Background layer. On the new layer go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian
Blur. Enter 10 for the radius. Hit OK. Set the layer’s blending mode to color. Double-
click on the layer to the right of the name to open the blending options. Under
Advanced Blending, uncheck the R and the G. This makes the layer only affect the
blue channel no matter what we do to it. Now go back and check out the blue channel.
Looks better.
Step 2
Now I will use Curves to balance the color in the image. I suggest using Curves over
Levels for everything. Curves just gives you much more control.
Download my curve preset to your hard drive.
Create a new Curves Adjustment layer at the top of the layers palette, then click the
little button to the right of the Preset control, and select Load Preset
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to repair some image noise from a low-quality
shot, and I will show you an extremely quick and easy way to smooth out a person’s
face. The woman in this shot is not a model, and she has a lot of character so we don’t
want to overdo it with the smoothing. We will make it look real and natural.
Step 1
If you look at the blue channel, you will notice that it doesn’t look so good. There are
a lot of JPG artifacts that you don’t really see when looking at the RGB composite,
but it’s good to fix it for a variety of reasons. Importantly, it will reduce the color
noise in the image and give us more flexibility when making corrections later down
the line.
Duplicate the Background layer. On the new layer go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian
Blur. Enter 10 for the radius. Hit OK. Set the layer’s blending mode to color. Double-
click on the layer to the right of the name to open the blending options. Under
Advanced Blending, uncheck the R and the G. This makes the layer only affect the
blue channel no matter what we do to it. Now go back and check out the blue channel.
Looks better.
Step 2
Now I will use Curves to balance the color in the image. I suggest using Curves over
Levels for everything. Curves just gives you much more control.
Download my curve preset to your hard drive.
Create a new Curves Adjustment layer at the top of the layers palette, then click the
little button to the right of the Preset control, and select Load Preset
Hope you like it, kindly for any questions, ask me in the comment, or by email: Khaterbruno@gmail.com.
Photoshop Tutorial for beginners - Surreal Effect
building image into Photoshop and cut out the building portion of the image, paste it
onto our document, resize and position it as shown below:
Now we want to fade the edges of the building a bit so it blending into the
background. So load the selection of this building layer, hit Ctrl + Alt + R to bring up
the refine edge tool, apply the following settings:
Apply the refine edge settings, then inverse the selection and clear it, now you will
have a slightly fade-in edge for the building:
Now use the blur tool with around 30% strength, blur the following areas: (this will
shift the focus to the man and the upper side of the building)
Hope you like it, kindly for any questions, ask me in the comment, or by email: Khaterbruno@gmail.com.
Photoshop Tutorial for beginners -surreal floating effil tower
By Lebdesigner - May 30, 2018
Photoshop Tutorial for beginners -surreal floating Effil tower
Load the “Misty Ocean” stock image into Photoshop. Duplicate the background layer
once and set blending mode of the duplicated layer to be “Soft Light”.
We can see the overall image become darker a little bit and the colour contrast
increases comparing with the original image:
Rename this layer as “soft light” and make a duplicate of this layer, set the duplicated
layer blending mode to “overlay” and this will further increase the light and contrast
of the image:
Rename this layer as “light overlay”.
Step 2
Now you will see the ocean portion disappeared and we don’t really want that. To
reveal the ocean portion, add a vector mask to the “light overlay” by clicking the
following button on the layer palette:
Click on the mask thumbnail to select it, grab a big soft brush (I chose a 300px round
brush), erase the ocean portion off the “light overlay” layer.
You will now see the ocean become more visible:
Optional: I feel the colour tone of the image is a bit dull and a bit more variation will
make the image looks a bit more lively. So I add a new Adjustment layer (Color
Balance) and apply the following settings:
once and set blending mode of the duplicated layer to be “Soft Light”.
We can see the overall image become darker a little bit and the colour contrast
increases comparing with the original image:
Rename this layer as “soft light” and make a duplicate of this layer, set the duplicated
layer blending mode to “overlay” and this will further increase the light and contrast
of the image:
Rename this layer as “light overlay”.
Step 2
Now you will see the ocean portion disappeared and we don’t really want that. To
reveal the ocean portion, add a vector mask to the “light overlay” by clicking the
following button on the layer palette:
Click on the mask thumbnail to select it, grab a big soft brush (I chose a 300px round
brush), erase the ocean portion off the “light overlay” layer.
You will now see the ocean become more visible:
Optional: I feel the colour tone of the image is a bit dull and a bit more variation will
make the image looks a bit more lively. So I add a new Adjustment layer (Color
Balance) and apply the following settings:
Hope you like it, kindly for any questions, ask me in the comment, or by email: Khaterbruno@gmail.com.
Photoshop Tutorial for beginners -Tilt shift technique
By Lebdesigner - May 28, 2018
Photoshop Tutorial for beginners -Tilt shift technique
I discovered the Tilt Shift technique perusing the photography of Drew Wilson, anuber talented young photographer here in Sarasota. I asked him about the process and
he was kind enough to share it with me.
Tilt shift lenses focus on a single part of the photo and shift (blur) the surrounding
area to create an optical illusion of miniaturized scenery. Real tilt shift lenses are quite
expensive, but a similar effect can be achieved by using Photoshop after you take the
photo.
....
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Photoshop Tutorials for beginners - Typographic Profile
By Lebdesigner - May 27, 2018
Photoshop Tutorials for beginners - Typographic Profile
Step 1
Open Photoshop and create a new document. I used 2560x1440 pixels for the size.
Then import a photo of yours, I'm using a portrait taken by a John Arlington, a great
photographer friend of mine. The photo I have is with white background, so extract
the background.
Step 2
Duplicate the layer and go to Image>Adjustment>Desaturate. You will have a
black and white photo. Add a white background. After that save the file, it has to be
PSD otherwise it won't work with the Displace filter.
Step 3
With the Horizontal Type Tool (T) create text boxes and start adding texts. The idea
is to play with the texts, they don't have to be readable, or at least with normal
legibility, so play with the line-heights, reduce that so the lines overlay one another.
Also make some keywords much bigger and bold, like in my case I highlight some
words like Photoshop Tutorials, Illustrator, Inspiration... Also, play with italic, regular
texts as well as alignments and text sizes. Tip: I used Garamond for the font, I
think serif fonts look much better for this effect.
Open Photoshop and create a new document. I used 2560x1440 pixels for the size.
Then import a photo of yours, I'm using a portrait taken by a John Arlington, a great
photographer friend of mine. The photo I have is with white background, so extract
the background.
Step 2
Duplicate the layer and go to Image>Adjustment>Desaturate. You will have a
black and white photo. Add a white background. After that save the file, it has to be
PSD otherwise it won't work with the Displace filter.
Step 3
With the Horizontal Type Tool (T) create text boxes and start adding texts. The idea
is to play with the texts, they don't have to be readable, or at least with normal
legibility, so play with the line-heights, reduce that so the lines overlay one another.
Also make some keywords much bigger and bold, like in my case I highlight some
words like Photoshop Tutorials, Illustrator, Inspiration... Also, play with italic, regular
texts as well as alignments and text sizes. Tip: I used Garamond for the font, I
think serif fonts look much better for this effect.
....
Hope you like it, kindly for any questions, ask me in the comment, or by email: Khaterbruno@gmail.com.
Photoshop tutorial how to use mask
You can download the images needed to work along with this tutorial. Visit Mark Galer's site (link opens in a new window) for instructions on how to access them. The images are high resolution and will make it easier to reproduce the exact effects from this tutorial.
Original Venice image by Craig Shell (sky by Mark Galer)
Drama in Venice
Venetian classical painters had a passion for moody and tempestuous skies (just Google the Tempest by Giorgione to see one such example). I now find it hard to look at an image of Venice with a featureless sky.
The sky is an essential ingredient of any memorable landscape image. Unfortunately it is not something the photographer can control unless we have limitless time and patience. The commercial photographer is often required to deliver the goods on a day that suits the client rather than the photographer and weather forecast. In these instances it is worth building a personal stock library of impressive skies that can be utilized to turn ordinary images with bland skies into impressive ones. The digital compact set to a low ISO is ideal for capturing these fleeting moments. The most useful skies to collect are the ones that include detail close to the horizon line, i.e. captured without interference from busy urban skylines, such as can be found at the beach or in the desert.
A stock library of skies is included on the DVD of the new Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills book (published by Focal Press) to help you start, or add to, your own collection. In this project we explore how a sky can be adapted to fit the landscape so the montage is not immediately obvious.
Original Venice image by Craig Shell (sky by Mark Galer)
Drama in Venice
Venetian classical painters had a passion for moody and tempestuous skies (just Google the Tempest by Giorgione to see one such example). I now find it hard to look at an image of Venice with a featureless sky.
The sky is an essential ingredient of any memorable landscape image. Unfortunately it is not something the photographer can control unless we have limitless time and patience. The commercial photographer is often required to deliver the goods on a day that suits the client rather than the photographer and weather forecast. In these instances it is worth building a personal stock library of impressive skies that can be utilized to turn ordinary images with bland skies into impressive ones. The digital compact set to a low ISO is ideal for capturing these fleeting moments. The most useful skies to collect are the ones that include detail close to the horizon line, i.e. captured without interference from busy urban skylines, such as can be found at the beach or in the desert.
A stock library of skies is included on the DVD of the new Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills book (published by Focal Press) to help you start, or add to, your own collection. In this project we explore how a sky can be adapted to fit the landscape so the montage is not immediately obvious.
Hope you like it, kindly for any questions, ask me in the comment, or by email: Khaterbruno@gmail.com.
Water color city Photoshop tutorial
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:
Dirt Brushsets
Cloud Brushsets
Cloud Texture 1
City
Stroke Brushsets
Step 1
Create a new document sized 1200px * 700px with White Background. Create a new
layer on top of the background layer called “background texture”, and load the Dirt
Brushsets into Photoshop, choose a mixture of those brushes and paint over this
newly-created layer:
Make sure to set the brush flow and opacity to around 30-40% and colour to be Black,
since we only want a light cover of the dirt texture as a background:
Hope you like it, kindly for any questions, ask me in the comment, or by email: Khaterbruno@gmail.com.
Windows Vista Aurora Effect Photoshop Tutorial
If you’re a Windows Vista user, you’re probably familiar the eye catching graphics shown
off on the box, and in some of their wallpapers/screensavers. In this tutorial, I’m going to
show you how to create that effect yourself.
This Vista Lighting Effect, sometimes referred to as the Aurora Effect, can really
transform an ordinary wallpaper to something extraordinary. What makes it even better is
that it’s very easy to achieve. Just follow these simple steps!
Step 1
Before we can actually get started on the lighting effects, we need to create a
background for the effect. We can’t simply use any background we choose, but rather
create an appropriate canvas to begin with. Find a photograph to use as the basic palette
for your background. It can be any image really… just make sure it has a lot of lights and
darks in it. Alternatively, you can Download the Attached Photo Sample and work with
the same photograph I’ll be using....
Step 1
Before we can actually get started on the lighting effects, we need to create a
background for the effect. We can’t simply use any background we choose, but rather
create an appropriate canvas to begin with. Find a photograph to use as the basic palette
for your background. It can be any image really… just make sure it has a lot of lights and
darks in it. Alternatively, you can Download the Attached Photo Sample and work with
the same photograph I’ll be using....
Hope you like it, kindly for any questions, ask me in the comment, or by email: Khaterbruno@gmail.com.
Photoshop tutorial for beginners - Arabic version
By Lebdesigner - January 27, 2018
Photoshop tutorial for beginners - Arabic version
How to open a new document
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Graphic Design tutorial - Photo effect - photoshop
By Lebdesigner - January 07, 2018
The goal of this Photoshop tutorial is, in a very simple way teach even the Photoshop beginners how to add a very immense, beautiful photo effect to your cherished photos. In my experience this is great for the wives that want to add a special effect to their wedding photos!
What we want to achieve with this tutorial/effect is focusing more on the couple or focal point, and blurring away the background and unimportant details. We’ll be using a few different tools and basic Photoshop settings in this tutorial, so it’s best if you’re at least a little acquainted with the Photoshop tools and interface.
Preface
Step 1
You should start by opening up a photo you want to work with for this tutorial. I used the picture that Daniel emailed me (thanks again!)
Now, this is optional, but maybe there are some spots or something you want to touch up on either of the faces, if there is you can get out the brush tool and use a similar color as the skin to brush away the spots, or you can use the Healing Tool or Clone Stamp Tool.
Step 2
In this case, get out the Dodge Tool and set the range to highlights. Have the exposure set to around 50%.
Start clicking on your background area and moving your mouse around, not over your focal point too much though.
After you’ve dodged up the background a little bit, you may want to try something else and blur it up a little bit (just the edges, that is).
You may have to adjust the strength of the blur tool (around 40% should do).
You could even completely cut out the characters if you want, and if the corners weren’t too complex. If you think you’re finished with the general adjustments, move onto the next step.
Step 3
In your Photoshop menus (right at the top), go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map, and set it to a black to white gradient map. By default it should be on a white to black gradient, but if your image looks inverted, click the ‘reverse’ button.
Step 4
Now it depends on what size your image is. If the image you’re working with is small, then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and use a setting of around 10-20 pixels (or whatever is suitable in your case).
Yep, we wanted the new layer blurred. Now it’s time to mess with the various layer modes and opacities to get an effect you like. Even leaving the layer mode as Normal but lowering the opacity to around 50% looks good.
I find using a combination of one layer using Normal layer mode and one layer using Color Dodge layer mode is quite effective.
Now, we can substitute the Gaussian Blur filter for something else for a different effect. I always love using the Film Grain filter, so if you want to give that a try, create a new layer and apply the image again, then go to Filter > Artistic > Film Grain and use a random setting.
Looks lovely to me!
Just remember though, you need to get creative, mess with different layer modes and filters. If you need anything at all though, please leave a comment and I’ll get back to you.
Completion
We’re done for this tutorial! I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions at all, please fill out the form below and submit a comment, I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible.Featured Post
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