Adobe Photoshop Tutorials : October 2013

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

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