Sunday 23 September 2012

Create water reflection in photoshop tutorial

This tutorial is designed to help you add a nice water reflection effect to your city picture.
There is quite a few steps to this tutorial, but its worth it for the effect.

You can find the tutorial here:water reflection

You will learn:

  1. Filter (motion blur)
  2. Gradient tool
  3. Smudge tool
  4. Image adjustment (levels)
  5. Perspective tool
  6. Load channels tool
  7. Quickmask
  8. Opacity

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Friday 21 September 2012

Remove backgrounds and foreground objects accurately

If you want to remove a background from a picture, or remove someone from a background or foreground, then you sometimes need a real accurate way to do this. This is a great photoshop tutorial that will show you how to achieve this with a couple of ways.

You can view the tutorial here:remove backgrounds in photoshop

You will learn:


  1. The quick mask
  2. The quick selection tool
snoop lion

Thursday 20 September 2012

Photoshop tutorial: Change lips or face color

If you want an easy way to change the color of someones lips, then you can watch this great photoshop tutorial and learn how.

You can view it here:change lip color photoshop

You will learn:
  1. Quick mask mode
  2. Hue/saturation
  3. Apply adjustments to layer below feature



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Photoshop cs6 skull feature tutorial

If you have a photo of someone you want to add a skull onto, and give them a freaky demon look, then this is an easy and quick way to do it in photoshop.

You will find this tutorial here:skull face tutorial

In it you will learn:


  1. Background eraser
  2. Perspective tool
  3. Blur tool

mona lisa skull

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Photoshop cs6 Fireglow demon effect tutorial

If you want to turn a photo into a flaming fire demon outline, then this is a great tutorial on how to achieve that in photoshop cs6 easily.

You can watch the tutorial here: fire effect

You will learn about:

  1. Image adjustment(desaturation)
  2. Filter(find edges)
  3. Group layers
  4. Blend (screen)
  5. Gaussian Blur
  6. Smudge tool



Photoshop cs6 pencil effect tutorial

If you want to take a photograph, and turn it into a nice pencil effect photo, then this is a great way to do it in photoshop cs6.

You can view the full tutorial here: photoshop pencil effect


The tools you will learn are:
  1. Image adjustments (desaturate)
  2. Image adjustments (invert)
  3. Blend options ( Color dodge)
  4. Gaussian blur
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Photoshop cs6 red eye tool


If you have any photos where you get the unwanted red eye effect, you can easily get rid of it with this great tool in photoshop cs6, the red eye tool.

You can view the tutorial here: red eye remove

Here is a before and after:
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How to combine images with different ways in photoshop cs6

This is a great tutorial looking at the different methods that you can use to combine multiple images together into one. There are a variety of techniques you can use to achieve this and we look at them here.

You can find a video of this tutorial here: Combine images in Photoshop

The tools you will learn are:


  1. The eraser tool
  2. The quick mask tool
  3. The magic wand tool
  4. The pen tool

Sharpen skin tone and images with photoshop cs6

If you have a picture that you would like to have sharpened up, then this is a great way to do it with a couple of easy clicks, and a filter application. Its a great way to highlight more light into your photo.

You can watch the tutorial here: Cheryl Cole sharpen image

You will learn about:

  1. Duplicate layers
  2. Filter (unsharp mask)
  3. Layer masks
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Wednesday 19 September 2012

How to change skin tone & lighten in photoshop cs6

If you have a picture, where you want to lighten up the skin tone, or even darken the skin tone, then this tutorial will help you get the desired effect. This is for the lighten of a skin tone, but you can do the opposite, if you want to darken.
You can watch the tutorial here: change skin tone in photoshop cs6

You will learn about:
  1. Adjustment layers (levels)
  2. Image adjustment invert
  3. Brush size adjustment (Keyboard shortcuts are [ ] )


Photoshop Tutorial CS6 : how to change hair color


If you want to make a funky photoshop hair color change then this is an easy way to do it.
You can check out the video tutorial here: Change hair color

You will learn about:

  1. Adding a new layer
  2. soft light blend
  3. brush opacity
  4. adjustment layers (Hue/saturation)
  5. apply layer below tool


If you want to apply adjustments to a single layer in photoshop cs6, you will need to make sure that you click on this icon as shown here. Otherwise your adjustment is applied to all layers below.


3D Cheetah jumping from picture design

Here is a great tutorial on how to create a 3d like picture with an animal jumping from a scene.
You can view the tutorial on how to do this here: 3d effects
You will learn to:
  1. create layer masks
  2. perspective tool
  3. quick mask selection
  4. merging layers
  5. blending options (drop shadow)

You can try this on the original cheetah picture I used, or your own.




Tuesday 18 September 2012

Water Goddess photoshop cs6 image

This is a Photoshop tutorial about how to create a cool and watery water goddess.
You can watch the photoshop video tutorial here: Water goddess effect

Here are the water splash images that you need for this tutorial, and also the female woman I used.