Creating Fallen Snow in a Landscape Using Photoshop

Here is a very simple way of creating fallen snow on a landscape. It doesn't work for all landscapes, but when it does it is surprisingly effective. Graphics.com Forum

How To Use “Editorial Use Only” Images

by Angela Cho, Graphic Designer, Shutterstock

Consider this situation… you are designing a brochure that will be used to promote football uniforms and you would like to include some dynamic images in the design. You search through Shutterstock’s extensive library of over 3 million images and see a great photo of football players that would fit perfectly in your design. However, you notice that below the photo it reads "Editorial Use Only" in the release information. Read More Shutterstock.

Photoshop: LightRoom Web Gallery

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By Lesa Snider King:

If you own Adobe Lightroom, you can quickly create and upload a web photo gallery to share with friends and family (or prospective clients). Oh yes, you can make Lightroom do all the work for you. Just click the Web button at the top right, choose a design template, then tweak the color palette, gallery description, etc. using the panels on the right. Scroll all the way to the bottom, and you'll see an option for uploading to your FTP server. Simply enter the information once, then save the gallery as your own template. The next time you create a gallery, choose your template from the listing on the left, change the gallery description and FTP directory (if necessary) and click Publish.

Lesa Snider King, The Graphic Reporter, is iStockphoto's Chief Evangelist.

Web Domination Using Photoshop

If you're familiar with Photoshop, you're probably eager to toy with its many features. In this article, we'll cover some of the basic tasks that Photoshop users should master, such as resizing and rotating documents and layers, working with masks, creating curves and custom shapes, working with transparent images, and more! Sitepoint.

Photoshop Fundamentals: Using the Color Halftone Filter

This effect features one of Photoshop’s Pixelate filters—Color Halftone. The Pixelate filters clearly define a selection by grouping or clumping pixels of similar color values in cells. The Color Halftone filter simulates the effect of using an enlarged halftone screen on each channel of the image. It surrounds the image with technodots. You’ll also use two other filters to create our 'halo' effect—a Blur filter and a Distort filter. The Gaussian Blur filter adds low-frequency detail and produces a hazy look. The Twirl filter rotates a selection more sharply in the center than at the edges. View Graphics.com

Creating Cross-processing Effects in Photoshop

By Katrin Eismann & Sean Duggan
Excerpted from The Creative Digital Darkroom (O'Reilly)
Dateline: March 15, 2008
Version: Photoshop CS3
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Photoshop Tutorial - How to make a Planet

Here is a great tutorial where you can learn how to make an awesome planet with photoshop. View at Flash Enabled Blog

CREATING A WATER DROPLET

Just as you see above, this tutorial will teach you through a visual presentation as to how we can make real water droplets on any surface. They've also attached the photoshop PSD file for us to download and check:) Click here Stock.xchng

Photoshop: Quick Background Swap

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By Lesa Snider King:

If you want to swap a white background for something more colorful, don't waste time creating a selection. Place the colorful background on top of the layers stack and change its blending mode to Darken. Magically, wherever the two layers intersect only the darkest areas remain. Use a layer mask to complete the swap if necessary.

Lesa Snider King, The Graphic Reporter, is iStockphoto's Chief Evangelist.

Book Design: Covers and Packaging

Adapted from Book-Art: Innovation in Book Design (RotoVision)
By Charlotte Rivers
Dateline: February 28, 2008





















Buried
Buried features a collection of photos by Stephen Gill that were buried by the photographer, near where they were taken. Mues used this as her inspiration for the design of the book, and buried each copy before retrieving and presenting them in a clean, blind-embossed slipcase. The result is that each book has different degrees of smudging and deterioration on the cover.
“My relationship with this client has been shaped over the many projects we have done together,” explains Mues. “Stephen is very aware of design that overpowers the content, so his brief was to find a format, material, and treatment for the book that reflected the playful, hands-on approach of this particular project.”
As well as the slipcase, each book (only 750 were printed) comes with a print from the photographic series.



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Advanced Brush Techniques

This tutorial will explain some of the more advanced features of Photoshop's brushes. It will explain how to create patterns where one single brush can be used to show up in various shapes, sizes, and orientations. It also explains how to "stitch" your name or words using a brush!

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Creating a Seamless Texture

This tutorial will explain how to create an entirely seamless texture in Photoshop. This technique was made to work for textures, not patterns (things with a distinguishable "design" to them).

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Working With Photoshop CS3 Masking Tools - Video Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to take a glass bottle and make it appear in a different photo by using Photoshop's masking tools. In this Photoshop CS3 video tutorial you will learn the following:

• How to cycle through Photoshop's blend modes.
• How to use the blend modes to select the shadows and highlights of a glass bottle.
• Working with Color Range to make an alpha channel selection mask.

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Photoshop CS3 - Customizing The Menus - Photoshop CS3 Video Tutorial

A quick look at customizing the menus in Photoshop CS3. In this Photoshop CS3 video tutorial you will learn the following:

• How to find what's new in CS3 using a special workspace menu.
• How to work with the Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus control panel.
• How to individually colorize a menu item.

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Forensic Photoshop Tutorial - Info Palette - An Analyst's Best Friend

There are times, as an artist or photographer, that I want to create a certain look and feel with an image - warm, hot, cool, cold, and etc. These types of temperature issues can help set the mood and convey a certain message. Look at the images used in advertising and you'll see what I mean. Look at the colour/temperature/brightness choices of ads for vice related products (tobacco and strong alcoholic beverages for example). The majority of these will use images and colours that convey a "cool" sense, regardless of the colour choice. Johnny Walker's Blue Label is a different blue than LA Dodger Blue. The difference is in the brightness value (HSB). Dial down the brightness of any colour to cool it off.

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