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Web Sites Are Difficult To Create

It is no easy task to actually build a working site that matches a visual design created in a tool like Photoshop. Photoshop is designed to give total freedom to the artist. The web, on the other hand, is built on top of many confusing technologies and standards that place other concerns ahead of preserving visual design integrity.

This situation has understandably intimidated many users who are good at Photoshop but don't want to spend months or years learning the gory details of the internet such as XHTML, CSS, javascript, etc.

SiteGrinder 2 successfully turns Adobe Photoshop into an easy-to-use and powerful website design and production tool.

While SiteGrinder is not aimed solely at the web neophyte, a SiteGrinder-equipped designer with no previous web experience can use only their Photoshop skills to go from concept to deployment of a professional, standards-compliant site in mere hours with no slicing or programming.

Create web 2.0 label

Creating a web 2.0 label is simple enough to do when you follow these easy steps:

1) Create the canvas. A large size will give the room for a lot of detail, while the final image can be made smaller when complete.

2) Draw a shape, any shape! Any size, any color! You can use the ones found in Photoshop or download new ones off of the internet.

3) Apply a layer style to the shape. You can use the Web 2.0 layer and gradients pack for this, or make your own.

4) Try using a bevel and emboss here. Use a large size and reduce the opacity of the shadow.

5) Now add your text using the character palette to place the letters to appropriate spacing.

6) Use one of the white layer styles in the pack and apply this to the white text.

7) That’s it! Now you have a Web 2.0 label for your web pages.

8) Okay, almost it. One suggestion is to add a drop shadow to add a lifted effect to your label.

9) Make the final step by flattening and removing the background, and save as a .png. Now this can be a great addition for any web page.

Be Gone Acne!

Nothing can make you want to toss a photo aside like the presence of acne on the subject of the picture. Don’t delete or cast aside that image yet, as you can fix that by touching up that photo in editing.

First, select the picture with the offending acne. Then click on the “Healing Brush Tool” and set the brush size to 5px for an example.

As you choose the brush size, set the “Hardness” to 100% and the “Spacing” to 25%. Press ALT while you click the mouse over a non-blemished area and click over the acne area to “clear up” the skin.

To remedy the areas with two different colors of blemishes, set the “Hardness” to 66% in order to blend the areas for a much more realistic effect. Finally click on Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation to balance the colors out. The Hue slider for example can be adjusted to even out the reddish colored blemishes.

Shine or Not to Shine?

You too can eliminate the shine that can result when you take a picture. All you have to do is follow these simple steps to this great but mostly overlooked trick:
After opening the image, open the same image again in a new window. Photoshop - choose Window - Arrange - New Window. Elements - choose View - New Window


This allows viewing of one window being zoomed in for detail work while the other window stays at 100% so you can judge the effects. Use the Magnifying Glass tool to place a box around the area of shine. Make the box big enough to enclose a fair amount of un-shiny skin also. Then select the Clone tool.

Choose 'Mode' from the top of the screen to 'Darken' and use the slider to set 'Opacity' to 50%. Using the Clone Tool, select an area of un-shiny skin by moving the circle over the area while holding down the 'Alt' button and left-clicking the mouse.

Try to use the area of skin closest to the shine to best match skin tone. To easily resize the circle making up the Clone tool, simply use the bracket keys, [ and ]. This is done much easier than moving the cursor back and forth between the photo and the Size slider. Just click on the shiny area and 'PRESTO" the shine is gone.

It will take a little bit of practice to master this technique for the best effects. Resample the unshiny skin often for larger areas and in the zoomed-in picture make sure to reference the 100% image regularly to track your progress, else your close up editing may become obvious.




Take a look at this video I found on You Tube...
Beauty is a product of photoshop!!

Transform Your Images Into 'Wordy' Masterpieces

Sometimes a picture alone is not quite worth a thousand words. When it is you want to convey a certain emotion or feeling, sometimes you have to go the next step. Sometimes it might be that the background theme needs to be highlighted by more than just brightness and sometimes even the focal point of your image might need a little boost.

In these cases nothing can punch up you picture better than a few well chosen words. How about a quirky caption, a thoughtful banner, or even your signature? Just about anything that adds to the importance or symbolism of the picture and the context you want to present it in can change the way it is viewed by others.

However, many photographers and editors have shied away from 'tagging' their images for years. This has come from the fear turning an art piece into nothing more than a tacky caricature, by the simple addition of a not-so-impressive effect, detracting from the picture's overall value.

The Photoshop revolution in the past few years has helped to change the thinking of these cynics by offering a vast selection of features previously unseen in more conventional digital photography editing programs.


Photoshop software not only allows you to caption your image, but also blend the text in, so that instead of standing out as a obvious addition to your picture, it can softly blend in as part of the frame.

Photoshop uses a technique called Anti-Aliasing to do this. This method consists of smoothing the edges of the text typed, by partially filling in the pixels along the edges.

You can even choose how vivid the effect of this technique appears by modifying the text options. Adjusting settings toward 'strong' will make your text appear heavier, to 'sharp' will make the letters more prominent. The possibilities are endless.

Resizing Images While Keeping Resolution

When you resize a large, sharp photo to a smaller size you may find that the new image has lost its sharpness. This is a common problem with changing the size of large, clear images. The blurry look can detract from the quality of the image.

Fortunately Adobe Photoshop has the ability to fix this issue with its advanced editing tools.

This method will only work in Photoshop CS and CS2. These versions are more powerful in a lot of ways, so if you don't have them I'd recommend that you invest in a copy as you may find that you will need the more advanced features.

To reduce the size of an image go to Image> Image Size. Select Resample Image and then select Bicubic Sharper from the menu. This is the optimal setting for reducing the blurring of the image when you resize it. Here is an image of an eye that was originally 1800 pixels across.

I reduced it to 250, and then further to 125 with minimal loss of sharpness. If you want to enlarge a photograph without losing too much resolution select the Bicubic Smoother.

This method is extremely effective in keeping the sharpness of the image. You can set this as the default to make things easy for you by going to Preferences> General where you will see Image Interpolation. Select Bicubic Sharper as the default choice and it will be set as the default from now on.

Remember that performing more than one resize on an image will give it more blur. To experiment with the size that you want, use a duplicate image as multiple resizing will ruin the original image. Once you've found the size you want, you can apply the dimensions to the original image

Abstract Art

Abstract art can be fun and entertaining. When you are working with Photoshop you can do pretty much everything from creating fire to making clouds looks as if they are calling for rain. Backgrounds with seemingly weightless, feathery looking pebbles can be quite popular. Start by creating a new document for this effect. Fill the background with the color black. Choose the gradient tool within the settings shown at the top bar. Applying it several times will result in an interesting effect.

From "Filter" menu select "Distort>>Ocean Ripple ". This will create a remarkable background appropriate for many things such as your desktop, messengers or even on the internet.

Photoshop Basics

My sister recently took a leap of faith and invested in Photoshop. With the belief that it would make things easier with her photos, she had planned this purchase into her budget, saving the extra dollar here and there. Now she would be only a few simple clicks and changes away from being practically a professional photographer. She was so excited at the idea of sending out the perfect pictures to friends and family. I’m sure you can imagine her dismay and frustration at how much she had to learn to reach her goal. Once you have the software, what exactly do you do with it to maximize results?

As with anything new, there will be an adjustment period of trial and error to realize all of the potential of the software and its feature awaiting your command. Explore what Photoshop has to offer and experiment with the tools at hand. Expand you knowledge by reading information and tips you can find on the program taking advantage of tutorials. Many are available online for review. Practice, practice and more practice will help you develop the basics and in time amazing graphics and photos will become second nature making you the envy of those you share them with.

RASTER GRAPHICS EDITORS

A raster graphics editor is a computer program that enables users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular “bitmap” or “raster” formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF. Typically an image viewer is favored over a raster graphics editor for viewing images. Some editors specialize in the editing of photo-realistic images like the well known Adobe Photoshop, while others are more focused on artist-created illustrations such as Adobe Fireworks.

Common Features of a raster graphics editor include:

• Selecting an area for editing


• Drawing lines with brushes of different color, size, shape and pressure


• Filling in a region with a single color, gradient of colors, or a texture


• Choosing a color using different color models (e.g. RGB, HSV), or by using a color dropper


• Adding typed letters in different font styles


• Removing scratches, dirt, wrinkles, and imperfections from photo images


• Composite editing using layers


• Editing and converting between an assortment of color models


• Applying various filters for effects such as sharpening and blurring


• Converting between a mixture of image formats

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