Adobe Photoshop Tutorials : 2013

How to create amazing sunset Effects in Photoshop

Open you image in Photoshop
Duplicate the background layer
Create New Adjustment Layer - Gradient Map
Then, your photo will turn into black and white,

Double-click on the left thumbnail on its layer to open up the Gradient Editor dialog box.In the Gradient Editor dialog box there are two squares on the bottom side of the gradient’s color bar. Double-click on the bottom left square black) and right square (red) and set the color accordingly

Please follow below color setup

Change Layer blending mode from Normal to Overlay

Below is our photo, now we need to add some lights

Create New adjustment Layer- Curves to add light into your image

Then you are done

How to create a colorful artistic Image with Blending Options

Open your Image in Photoshop

Duplicate Background Layer

Desaturated the Image
Image - Adjustment - Desaturated

Open New blank Layer
Layer - New - Layer and name it as you desire
With New Layer selected Grab Brush tool and set
Choose Soft Brush and paint on the air, color as you desire

With New layer selected
Go to Filter - Blur -Sulface Blur and Set Threshold to 255, Radius to 100

Right click on the new Layer and select Blending Options
Check on texture, While Holding the ALT key,drag the white slider input to the left ( it should be 170/255), then click OK ( Settings varies depending on your image)

Open Open light brush and drag it into your image, set it as you desire
Download it here
Press Ctrl+T for handles to re-size the photo

Well, That's it

Add digital lighting effects to a photo

Open up your image in Photoshop

Duplicate background layer and name it as you desire

Open up effects you are going to use and using Move tool drag them into your image .This will create layers for each new effect to drop into your image

Arrange them accordingly

If you want to use my effect please download them here Brushes

To achieve final effect simply go to Image - Adjustment - Levels and play with sliders until you get desired effect

How to create colorful and amazing effect

Open your image in Photoshop

Duplicate background layer and name it as you desire

Go to Image- Adjustments - Shadow\Highlights ( to remove shadow in the image)

Then go to Image - Adjustments - Threshold
Adjust slider until the shadow of the model is black and background is white

Create a new Layer and name it as you like

Select new created later, and right click on it then choose Blending options

While holding down the Alt key, drag the white input slider from the Underlying Layer settings towards the left. You won’t see any effect yet but this will help us preview the final results when we add color to the image in the next step.
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Adjust the input slider so that most the background disappears and only the shadows of the model is in bla
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While Holding the ALT key,drag the white slider input to the left ( it should be 128/255), then click OK

Start painting over your Image as you desire
Note: use soft brush

Well, that's it

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How to add lightening effects

In this tutorial we will learn how to add lightening effect to a picture, But in we wont be creating the effects, have just downloaded them from the internet, simply go to Google and search by image.. search lightening png and you will get plenty of effect.
Have come to understand that creating this effect in Photoshop takes a lot of my time so have come up with alternative way

download them here Photoshop Effects you can use this as brushes!

After downloading the effects, open your image in photoshop

Then go to Image - Adjustment - Desaturated ( this will turn the whole photo into black and white)

Then grab history tool brush and paint over areas you want to retain its color, in my image i will paint over the dress

Now open all the effect into Photoshop and using drag tool, drag them over your image, this will create a separate layer for each effect

Arrange them as you desire, but remember the effect should be behind the girl, if they appear infront simply grab eraser tool and erase accordingly

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After

Have fun

How to create Photo Collage with Photoshop

In this tutorial we will learn how to create Photo Collage in photoshop,
I know there are a lot of ways to create Photo Collage but its more fun when using Photoshop as it gives you
a wide opportunity to edit your picture nicely and separately .

This is a very simple tutorial and i hope you have fun

First open all the photos that you want to create a Collage

Then create a new document and specify the size and height as you desire. This depends on how big you want your Collage to be or mostly depends on the size of the pictures you are going to use to create the Collage, so i advice the document to be big

After that, now with Move tool selected drag all your pictures into the new created document, each image will now be on its on Layer. The created document will be the background

To make changes and reposition your images you need to select the concerned Layer first, to position it use Move tool, to resize it simply click hold Ctrl and t at the same.

Well that's it,

How to give you image a Comic Book effect

Open you image in Photoshop

Apply halftone pattern to the image to give the it old comic book printing effect.
Go to FILTER > PIXELATE > COLOR HALFTONE. Set MAX RADIUS: 4 and leave the rest with the default values. Press OK and then go to the LAYERS PALETTE and set the BLENDING MODE to DARKEN.

As simple as that

How to create a Rainbow Lips

Open you Image in Photoshop

Make it black and white
Image- Adjustments - Black $ white

Make a new Layer and name it anything you like
With a new Layer selected, choose gradient tool from tool palette

Choose Rainbow gradient from the list and draw a line on your image
Select reflected Gradient

Then the whole image will be covered with Rainbow effect

Now change blending mode to Overlay

Take Erase tool and erase on areas where you don't want rainbow to appear

well that's it

How to create Rainbow effect photo

Open you Image in photoshop

Make it black and white
Image- Adjustments - Black $ white

Make a new Layer and name it anything you like
With a new Layer selected, choose gradient tool from tool pallette

Choose Rainbow gradient from the link and draw a line on your image

Then the whole image will be covered with Rainbow effect
Now change blending mode to Overlay

Well as simple as that

cheers!

How to Colorize your Image with Multiple colors

Open your Image in Photoshop

Create a new Adjustment Layer Hue\Saturation
Set Hue to 0, Saturation to -70 and Lightness to 0

Create a new layer and then set blend mode to Soft Light .
Choose hard bush, brush depends on the size of your image
With a new Layer selected Paint on your image with colors you like

Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur > 90 pixels.

That's it, have fun

How to Colorize a Photo with Multiple Colours

In this tutorial we will learn how to colorize a imagine with multiple colors

First open your Photo in Photoshop and then remove all the color ( it should be black and white), then unlock the background layer or you can simply create a duplicate of background layer so that changes does not affect our original photo

Then we need to section our image in three parts using Guide. Simply go to VIEW - NEW GUIDE, Then set position to 30 or when Move tool is selected after creating a new guide you can set the position you desire by dragging the lines. Repete same procedure to create as many guides as you like

Note: Make Sure Snap To Guides Is Turned On

Once done, Grab the Rectangular Marquee Tool to start dragging a selection around our first section

Now create a new adjustment Layer Hue/Saturation for the first selection, Check colorize and preview box
Change Blend mode of this Layer to color

Repeat same procedures to colorize second and third Sections

Go to View > Clear Guides to remove the guides from your photo

Well that's my final photo

How to create Film Strip Photo Collage with Photoshop CS6

In this tutorial we will lesrn how to create photo collage In Photoshop
Howerver, am not going to create film strip instead i will upload them from the internet
My collage will contain Three pictures and one background image

As usual, i will start by opening background Image
Then open film strip downloaded from the internet then using Move tool drag them to your background image
To have more strips just duplicate strip layer to your desired number
Arrange the strip as you will like them to appear

Start opening other photos into Photoshop and place them careful on top of film strip
You can decide to edit your photos as you desire...

Well that is!

How to Install Brushes in Photoshop CS6

Download Brushes,Check my previous tutorial for the list of free brushes for Photoshop CS6

Save your brushes to (C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6\Presets\Brushes) folder in your computer. If the simply is not in that path then simply locate Brush folder in your machine

After Saving Brushes then simply open your image in Photoshop

The brushes should now appear in your list and be able to be selected and used. They should also appear the next time you fire up Photoshop.

That's it

Download Free Explosion Brushes For Photoshop CS6

There are plenty of brushes that you can download and install them in Photoshop in very easy step

Following below link to download brushes

Explosion Brushes These brushes allows you to add fire and to manipulate your images

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