Halloween Photo Effect

In this tutorial we are going to show you how you can add a realistic fang to someone’s mouth easily.

Step 1.) Use your polygonal lasso to cut the tooth and paste it on a new layer. You can do this using ctrl+c to copy and ctrl+v to paste it.

Step 2.) Now drag your new layer to lengthen the tooth.

Step 3.) Use the Edit > Transform > Perspective to shape the cut-out piece so it is now looking like a real fang. Also you might want to use the eraser to help you shape the fang.

Step 4.) Merge both layer (ctrl+e), and use the Clone Stamp tool to cover the joints and uneven areas and give the tooth more form.

Step 5.) You can use the soft paintbrush (capacity around 20) to make sure it really blends in with other teeth.

Colorize Portions of Black and White

This tutorial is to help you learn how to make certain spots color after you have converted a color photo to black and white. OK after you have the picture that you want to work on open in Photoshop:

1. Convert the photo to black and white using a Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer, If you need help with this step please refer to our Conversion to Black and White Tutorial.


2. Make sure you have Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer selected in the Layers menu.


3. Click on the Brush Tool,


4. (make sure the colors you are working with are black and white).


5. Using the color black, carefully brush over the parts of the picture that you want to be in color, (you made need to adjust brush sizes for the small details). When you do this the parts that you brush should turn back to color.

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Adjust Hue/Saturation Without Losing Exposure

This tutorial is to help you learn how to adjust the Hue and Saturation of a photo without burning out colors. This tutorial uses a different technique that will prevent you from losing your exposure settings.

1. Adjust the Levels, (Image>Adjustments>Levels).


2. Make sure the levels range is set to fit the range of color, for this photo I had to move the right end of the levels range in to fit the colors.


3. Change the Image Mode to Lab Color, (Image>Mode>Lab Color).


4. Create a New Curves Adjustment Layer, (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Curves).


5. Change to Channel a


6. Move the corner adjusters in approximately one square, you may wish to adjust them more or less depending on the photo.


7. Change to Channel b


8. Move the corner adjusters in approximately half a square, you may wish to adjust them more or less depending on the photo.

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Between Color and Black and White

Once you do the basic color improvements, here's what you do:

1. Create a new Channel Mixer Adjustment layer (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Channel Mixer).


2. Then click to check the box that says Monochrome to make the picture black and white (but don't click OK yet).


3. You may want to adjust the weights of each color in the black white configuration depending on the picture, then when it looks good to you click OK.


4. Then make a duplicate of your first layer (the layer containing the picture, not the adjustment layer), make sure you have the right layer selected when you try to make the duplicate. (Layer>Duplicate Layer).


5. Then move the duplicate layer above the channel mixer layer by clicking on it and dragging it.


6. Then while you still have that layer selected, change it's mode from Normal to Overlay.
   

After you made those changes your layers should look something like this.

Your picture should now look like its somewhere between color and black and white. If it looks a little too intense try downing the opacity on the top layer a little bit to let more of the black and white through.

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Photoshop Fast Track For Newbies Now Fully Updated For Photoshop CS3

We've just added the very latest updates to the member's area for "Photoshop Fast Track For Newbies!".

If you're already a customer then you'll see them when you scroll down the main tutorial / download page in the member's area.

If you don't yet own "Photoshop Fast Track For Newbies!" - then now's a good time to grab yourself a copy :-) !

Adding Sunlight Through The Trees

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to add beams of sunlight through trees, which is not only a great way to make an image look more interesting, it's also a lot easier to do than you might think, as we'll see. We'll even finish things off by making the sunbeams appear to be shining on the ground after they pass through the trees, which adds more realism to the final effect.

Step 1: Find The Color Channel With The Highest Contrast

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With our image open in Photoshop, the first thing we need to do is find out which of our three color channels (Red, Green and Blue) contains the highest amount of contrast. To do that, switch over to your Channels palette, which by default is grouped in beside your Layers palette. You'll see the "Red", "Green" and "Blue" channels listed, which combine to create all the colors we see in our image. You'll also see what appears to be a fourth channel, the "RGB" channel at the top, but it's really just the composite of the Red, Green and Blue channels ("RGB" stands for "Red, Green and Blue") and isn't a channel itself:

We're interested in the three color channels, and what you want to do is click on each channel while keeping an eye on your image to see which one of them gives us the highest amount of contrast in the image.

Click on the Red channel first and you'll see your image turn black and white. Remember what it looks like, then click on the Green channel. You'll see a different looking black and white version of the image. Again, remember what it looks like, then click on the Blue channel for a third black and white version of the image. You want to choose the version that offers the highest amount of contrast, and chances are, if the image you're working on looks similar to mine, it will be the Blue channel with the highest contrast. Here's what my Blue channel looks like. The sky in the background is nice and bright while the trees and ground are very dark, exactly what I was looking for:

Step 2: Make A Copy Of The Channel

Now that I know my Blue channel is the one that offers the highest amount of contrast, I need to make a duplicate of it. To copy a channel, simply click on it and drag it down onto the New Channel icon at the bottom of the Channels palette (it's the second icon from the right):

Release your mouse button and you'll see the copy of the channel below all the other channels in the Channels palette. Since I copied my Blue channel, Photoshop named the duplicate "Blue copy":

Adobe Photoshop tutorial: Drag the black slider towards the right until all the dark areas in the image appear filled with solid black.

Click OK when you're done to exit out of the dialog box. Here's my image after dragging the slider. The dark areas now appear filled in with black while the sky in the background remains nice and bright:

Adobe Photoshop tutorial: The copy of the Blue channel after darkening the dark areas further with Levels.

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How To Create Rain Animation

This Tutorial will show you how to add realistic rain to your photo. you will do that using Photoshop And ImageReady.

1. Open an image and create a new layer and place the new layer over the image layer in the layer palette.
   choose paint bucket tool and fill the new layer with black.
   choose filter>> noise >> add noise and adjust settings as follow.
   Amount 60%
   Distribution - Gaussian
   Monochromatic
2. Next choose filters >> blur >> motion blur and adjust settings as the following:
   Angle 80%
   Distance 30 pixels
3. Now create anew layer and place it over the other layers in the layer palette and fill it with black as we do before in the other layer.
   Also Apply the add noise filter but increase the amount to "61" instead of "60" and then apply the motion blur filter with the same previous settings.
   try this step 2 times but when u apply the noise filter you must increase "1" to the amount (i.e. the 3rd layer "62" and the 4th "63".
   Now change the mode of all 4 layers to screen and then change the fill of all layers to 60.
4. select file >> Edit in ImageReady .
   in the imageready show the animation palette and layers palette if they are invisible:
   To do that :
   choose Window >> Timeline
   Window >> Layers.
   in the animation window at the first frame go to the layer palette and make all layers invisible except the basic image layer and one layer.
   After that create a new frame in the timeline. by clicking the "Duplicate current frame" button.
5. Select the new frame and go to the layer palette and hide the already visible layer and make another one visible.
   
   Repeat this process until you have 4 frames each one contains the basic image layer with only one rain layer.
   After that set the time of the frames to 0.1 second
   Select file >> Save optimized as .
   

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How To Edit Your Digital Photos

Right now over on my other blog I'm busy getting ready for the launch of "Photoshop Fast Track For Digital Photographers!".

This will be the next video tutorial series, and is a perfect follow up to "Photoshop Fast Track For Newbies!"

Be sure to learn all about these awesome 22 video tutorials that I hope to release next week, and learn how you can use Photoshop to edit your digital photos like the pros.

Here's a link to the blog to learn more: http://www.edityourdigitalphotos.com/blog/

Speak soon!

How To Create Smooth Skin and Nice Hair

1. Open a picture in photoshop
2. Now duplicate that layer (layer - duplicate layer) and add a gaussian blur (filter - blur - gaussian blur) with a radius of 5 pixels (higher or lower radius when you have a big or small photo)
3. Now just change the blending mode of the top layer to overlay and suprise yourself of how nice your pictures can be with a little photoshop trick!
4. And this is how it looks when you compare the pictures!

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Photoshop Tutorial - Glass Text Effect

Demonstrates how to quickly and easily apply a glass look to text and 2D objects in Photoshop.

Setting the Black and White Point

It's important when we work in Photoshop that we set our black & white point, to be able make accurate Photoshop corrections.

The grayscale below presents 24 shades of gray from pure white to solid black. The pure white block at the far left should merge with the pure white bar along the top, while the second block of very light gray should display a bit darker than pure white. The solid black block at the far right should merge with the solid black bar along the bottom, while the block just to the left should display a bit lighter than solid black.

In the 2x2 table below, are four colors. One should be absolute black. Nothing on your monitor should be darker than the black square. Look at the black border around your monitor. It should be as black as this square. Next check the white square. Nothing should be lighter than it. The gray boxes and the white box should have no tints of other colors in them. No pink or blue!

Blending Channels

The are no blending options in the channels palette, but is it still possible to blend? Yes, you can use Image / Apply Image, but I would like to show a different way.

In this example I have a copy of the green channel at the bottom of my channels palette. To blend this copy in overlay, I need to select the channel first with Ctrl+A (Command+C on the Mac) or in the menu: Select / All.

I then copy the image with Ctrl+C and paste it with Ctrl+V (Command+C and Command+V on the Mac).
As expected nothing happens. But it does allow us the use the fade command: Edit / Fade….

The fade command allows us to set the blending mode to overlay and after clicking on OK we’re blending the channel in overlay mode.

Note: blending channels can be very useful when you use channels to extract images from their background.

How To Create Quick Model-Quality Photos

This video is straightforward. It was originally intended for newbies. Therefore, it's quite basic. This tutorial should show you how to create model quality images.

Photoshop CS3 Red Eye Tutorial

The following tutorial will explain how you can take scan photos and digital images and reduce or remove the red eye that may occur when taking pictures. Currently, new cameras and even cheaper ones have technology that already reduce or remove red eye that may case red eye. If you follow the short tutorial below you should be able to remove any harmful red eye within your old or new pictures.

1. Open up Adobe Photoshop CS3

2. Click and hold the bandage icon on the left side of the screen and select the option (Red Eye Tool) that slides out as an extra feature.

3. With the Photoshop Red Eye Tool you get the ability to select the area that you want the red eye tool to look for a circle object that represents the eye.

4. Once you release the area that the eye will be in the program will instantly cover the pupil with a darker color. From close up it may look a little weird but from the original zoom distance it looks good.

5. Now you will do the same for the other eye

6. Now both have been automatically filled by the Red Eye Tool

7. Now you have your finished image


This tutorial is a seemingly easy process to do to any picture that you may have in your possession. Whether you are a mother or a Adobe Guru, you should find this quick tutorial on how to use an old feature in Adobe Photoshop CS3. If you want to be a great Adobe Photoshop user all you have to do is try your best. If you can do this even you can unlock the Adobe guru in you!

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Photoshop LAB Color

I consider LAB color space and it's use to be one of the most important subject when it comes to the whole image processing concept.

And why is that, you ask? because the LAB color space is the only "device independent" color space in Photoshop, and when used correctly, it is the only one that will allow the user to have the best color match from capture to display to print.

Simply put - the LAB color space is the only one representing the way the human eye sees color. And that is the most important thing when it comes to ensuring color match throughout the process.

Let me explain what "device independent" means:

Simply put, "device independent" color space is one that regardless of which device is used the human eye will always see the exact same color.

RGB an CMYK color spaces are component based spaces. Whet it means is that when a color is "created" it is made up of certain amounts of each component. The problem is that different devices use different components. Take for example two monitors. Their RGB phosphors will be different, so despite the fact that they may display same quantities of RGB components, the human eye will see two different colors. The same is true for CMYK - take two printers, and same CMYK amounts will result in the eye seeing two different colors.

That is not the case with LAB. When the same LAB value is measured on any number of devices (which will probably require different component, RGB or CMYK, to do that, which is what device profile do), the human eye will always see exactly the same color.

A great book to read about Photoshop LAB color is Dan Margulis's "Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace"

Which makes it the most powerful color space!

This book is outstanding! It's not for beginners, and it is not an easy read for advanced user either - you need to have a solid understanding of what you're doing with RGB or CMYK color adjustments, and basic retouching first. Working in Lab is an incredibly powerful way to pull out very natural and vibrant colors with much less effort.

Dan Margulis's knowledge of color runs deep. This book is nothing short of amazing. If color matters to you as it is to me, this is a must read book.

Dan essentially advocates color correction and image improvement through LAB, and he advances compelling evidence to support the concept. The trick is to get a grasp of what kinds of images LAB excels at, and where it falls short (in which case Dan points out which of the remaining color spaces, RGB or CMYK, is the better option). He also demonstrates image correction in as few steps as possible, often without selections (rather, he generates what he needs by employing more useful channels... which helps avoid obvious selection edges that do not match).

As I said, it's not an easy read. I keep picking it up and read out a few pages here or there, trying out techniques as I go along. And by now I use LAB almost exclusively for color corrections.

On top of that, even though this is not one of the free Photoshop downloads, it is very straight forward to turn a lot of the book techniques into Photoshop actions, which I did. Just go through the motions and record them - that's all it takes.

As far as I'm concerned, if you are serious about color match throughout the process, LAB is the only way to go. Give it a go, and you'll realize that yourself.

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