Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
I always thought the effect in the movie “White Noise” was pretty neat (and creepy). I thought I would create a photoshop tutorial that would show how to create an effect that is similar to the one in the movie.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open a photograph of your subject in Photoshop.

2. Goto Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. (This turns the photo into Black & White).

3. Goto Filter > Add Noise. Set Amount to something high such as 60. Check Uniform and Monochromatic.

4. Click Ctrl+A to select the entire canvas.
5. Click Ctrl+C to copy the image.
6. Open another photo of a Television in Photoshop.

7. Click Ctrl+V to paste the static photograph onto a new layer over the television set layer.
8. With the static photograph layer active, click Ctrl+T to enter Free Transform mode.
9. Adjust the shape handles to fit over the television.

10. Click the “Eye” icon next to the static photograph layer to hide it.
11. Click the “Television” layer so that it is active.
12. Select the Magic Wand tool and click the white area inside the television.

13. Click the “Eye” icon next to the static photograph layer to unhide it.
14. Make sure the static photograph layer is active.
15. Goto Select > Inverse.
16. Click the Delete key.
17. You should now have your creepy white noise static effect in the television.

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
Here is a Christmas theme tutorial. We will learn how to create Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, so that he can be used in cards, websites, or whatever other graphic projects you are working on that involve Christmas.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open an New document in Photoshop. Apply the following Gradient: From color 92CAE9 to 0086CB.

2. Select your Pen Tool and draw the shape as show in the picture. It dosent need to be very similar, but something mountain.

3. Now again with your pen tool draw the shape Rudolph. See picture.

4. Now Fill #CF8D47color to the Rudolph. Now add little noise to the shape, filter-Noise-Add noise with the following setting:

5. Shape is not completed as you can see. Again with pen tool draw the rest shapes, see picture below:

6. Now that you have the few more shapes done, we need to apply the layer style by double clicking the layerand set following settings:
Gradient: FFE8AF to B7AC8E.
Stroke Size: 1
Color: 968863
Place the shapes as in the picture.

7. Now add a little detail to the mouth and to hear by drawing the following shape with your pen tool. And place it as in the picture.

8. Now with you Ellipse tool draw a small cricle for the nose kind of thing and apply the following layer style setting:

(The result of the nose should look like the following)

9. Now We would draw the eye for the Rudolph again with the pen tool. Draw the shapes as in the picture and them according.

10. Now you need to draw few more shape that is the shoe part. And apply the following layer style
Gradient: 000000-847B7C (at 50%)-000000
Place the shapes as in the picture.

11. Now we would add little outlines, again you need to draw few more line with you pen tool. See picture below:

12. Now merge all the outline shape layer that you have drawn just now and apply Gaussian blur with the following setting:
Radius: 0.5 px

13. Now we will add little snow to it draw the shape as in the picture which is avalible in the custom shapes and place them randomly and reduce the opacity to 40%-50% which ever you find perfect.

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
Here is a useful photo manipulation tutorial. Basically, this tutorial shows how to apply a skin disease or acne type condition to a skin surface in a photograph. Great for special effects editing.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open a photograph of your subject in Photoshop.

2. Create a new layer over the photograph. Name it “Texture”.
3. Goto Edit > Fill. Set “Contents” dropdown box to Pattern. Choose Wrinkles pattern. Click OK.

4. You should now have the overlapping layer with the following bumpy texture on the “Texture” layer.

5. Set the Blending Mode for the “Texture” layer to Overlay.

6. With the “Texture” layer active, click “Add Vector Mask” from the Layers Palette.
7. Click the Vector Mask in the “Texture” layer so that it is active.

8. Select the Gradient tool. Set the gradient so that it is White to Black. Also be sure that the gradient is set to a Radial Gradient.
9. With the Vector Mask box still active, click and drag on the canvas over the cheek area of the subject’s face.

10. Click the “Texture” layer box so that it is active (not the Vector mask).
11. Set the Opacity for the “Texture” layer to 50%.

12. “Texture” layer still active, goto Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the RED sliders to the right for Shadows/Midtones/Highlights. This will give the texture a redish tint, so that it looks more like a rash or ugly skin disease.

13. Finally, goto Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Move the Saturation and Lightness sliders to the left so that the texture blends better with the subject’s face.

14. You should now have your skin disease effect.

Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a romantic style glow around a person in a photograph.

1. Open the image you want to apply your effect to:

2. Duplicate the background layer (Ctrl+J) and name new layer “blur”:

3. Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. The trick here is not to be afraid to overdo it – we’ll change the blending mode in the next step and the blur will not be so prominent. It took me few tries but I finally got the effect I was looking for with blur radius set to 3 px.

4. Now go to Layers palette and set Blend mode to Lighten. That’ll take care of most of the excessive blue effect we’ve applied in the previous step, leaving image with nice soft glow.

5. We are almost done now! The only thing is when I zoom in to the face, I can see that some of the small details (especially eyebrows and eye lashes) on the picture lost depth and look sort of like a painting rather then a photograph:

6. It is easily fixed! Go to Layers palette and click on the icon “Layer Mask”. Select black fill color, choose the brush you’ll be most comfortable with and paint over the areas you want to “come out”.

7. And now we are done!

Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial we will see how to remove love handles (or the extra fat around the waist).

1. Open the image that you want to remove the excess fat around the waist.

2. Now with the Pen tool, draw a round curve shape so that the extra fat part in hided behind the shape. See picture below:

3. Now that the extra fat part is gone but still you will find that it doesnt look very realistic. To make it look more real we would use Smudge tool. With the image layer selected, drag/pull from the extra fat part which is behind the shape which we have drawn towards the right.

4. Try doing the same step until you get something like this or until you find the result satisfied.

5. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
Did you ever want to change a sunny photo so that it looks like it’s raining, dark, and gloomy? In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to apply a realistic looking rain effect to any photograph.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open the image you want to apply this effect to. In my case it is a nice small southern church on warm sunny day:

2. Goto Layers and create a new layer. Fill the entire layer with black fill:

3. Goto Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Put noise amount up to 400%, check Gaussian and Monochromatic:

4. Goto Filter>Blur>Gaussian and set the radius to 1px. Your image will look close to this:

5. Go back to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. At this time use the settings as shown on the image but you can also experiment with them and set it according to the strength of the rain effect you want to set:

6. Goto Layers palette and set blend mode of Layer1 to Screen:

7.We now have applied the rain effect over the image, but it looks more like a sun-shower than a heavy gloomy rain we’re looking for:

8. In Layers palette click on your background layer. Go to Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast. Set Brightness to -25 and Contrast to -10. You can also go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation and drop the Saturation done a little to create gray overcast effect:

9. We are now almost done but there are still some parts of the image that look a little too bright. Go to Layers palette, create new layer and set the blend mode to “overlay”. Select comfortable size brush and black fill color, set the opacity of brush to 50% and paint over the parts of the image that appear too bright:

10. As a last step you can select layer with rain effect on it, press Ctrl+M to call Curves dialog and make your rain a little more or less prominent. The finished image will look close to mine:

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
Often you will have an object that has a white limbo background, but no shadow. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the steps required to add a realistic shadow to any object or item in a photograph.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open the image you want to apply the effect.

2. Now we need to extract our plant from the white background. Use Lasso or Magic Wand tool of your choice to select your object. Since my image is pretty clear and has good contrast settings, I’m using the magic wand. Delete the background and now you should have a nice clean image:

3. Go to Layers palette and create new layer. Name it “background”, fill it up with white color and drag it underneath your plant’s layer.

4. We need to free up some space for our shadow, so we’ll move the plant more to the right:

5. Make sure your plant layer is selected and press Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer. This will be the layer we’ll use to create our shadow, so why don’t we name it “shadow” as well. Drag it underneath plant layer.

6. Time to have fun!!! Make sure that layer “shadow” is selected and press Ctrl+T to call free transformation tool (you’ll see the bounding box appear)

7. Press and hold Ctrl button and drag top left corner until your plant “lays down” at about 45 degrees angle.

8. Press Enter to set the effect. You can experiment with your shadows angle as you get better – different angles can make your effect look absolutely unique from our tutorial!

9. Go to Layers palette and double click on the layer “shadow” to call the layer’s properties window. Go to “Gradient Overlay” and use the settings as shown on the image below (you can experiment with these setting as well to create different effect):

10. Ok the properties dialog and you now have great looking 3d shadowed image! As a last step you can drop the opacity down in your layers palette to make shadow more transparent (I used the opacity of 75%). We are now done!

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
This is a fun tutorial. We will learn how to create a picture cube from a photograph. What’s nice about the tutorial is that it also gives off a cool 3D appearance to your artwork or photography.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Create new RGB document. Create new layer by clicking on “new layer” icon. We will use this layer to create out cube effect.

2. Goto Filter > Render > 3d Transform. In new window that will popup, choose instrument “cube” and draw a cube, while holding the Shift button. Choose instrument “trackball”. Keep scrolling the cube until the transparent part goes to the background, leaving 3d white surface.

3. Click OK button:

4. Open image you want to use for this tutorial:

5. Each side of the cube is a perfect square, so now we need each side image to fit the side of the cube. Use “Select” tool and, while holding button, draw a selection on your image. You will get “perfect square”. Press Ctrl+C to copy, return to your cube document and press Ctrl+V to paste.

6. Drop the Opacity for your image to 20%. Press Ctrl+T to call free transformation tool. While holding down Ctrl key, select top left corner and move it until it fits perfectly into the top left corner of your cube. Repeat this step with each corner of your square until the image is aligned perfectly with that edge of our cube:

7. Return back to your image document. Select perfect square from another point, Copy and Past into the document with the cube. Repeat step 9 to align this image with the left side of the cube.

8. Repeat previous step to create bottom side of cube. Raise the opacity of the cube’s sides back up to 100%:

9. Press Ctrl+E twice to merge all of the sides into one layer.

10. Press to call Move tool and drag cube onto the document with original image:

11. Double click Layer1 to call layer’s property dialog and select Outter Glow. Use the settings as shown on image below:

12. Now select layer “background” and go to Image> Adjustment > Brightness/Contrast. Decrease the brightness and contrast for background image:

Enjoy your new effect!

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
So you would like to see what your nails look like if they were a different color? Here is a tutorial that will show you how to color the nails in a photograph. Great for fashion magazine graphic design projects.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open a photograph of the nails that you want to paint.

2. Choose the tool “Pen Tool” and, as you see in picture, follow the outline of the nail. Then with the tool “Add Anchor Point” , then modify the outline so as to make it more curved.

3. Once you have modified the outline, click on the layer “Shape 1” keep the CTRL button pressed. This way you select the outline, then you cancel the layer “Shape 1”. After this, press CRTL+U and insert these values:
Hue: 285
Saturation: 34
Lightness: 0
Colorize: Enabled

4. Repeat these steps, you can colour the remaining nails.

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
You might come across the scenerio that you are working on a photograph for a project where the woman’s nails are short, but you would like them to be longer. This tutorial shows how to do that. It’s also useful if you want to see how your own nails would look if they were longer.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open an image of the hands that you want to make the finger nails longer.

2. Select your Pen Tool and draw the shape as show in the picture. It dosent need to very similar but little close to it, so that we will get the proper nail shape.

3. Once you have created the shape, click on the layer “Shape 1” keeping CTRL button pressed. This way you select the outline, then you cancel the layer “Shape 1”. And select the image layer.

4. Now that we get the outline of the longer part of the nail, we need to fill it. To do so and to get the realistic look we will use Clone Stamp Tool. Now with this tool Set the sampling point by positioning the pointer on the nail as shown in the image and Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking (Mac OS) you pointer would change to this one when you press Alt.

5. Now drag over the inner area of the outline we have. Repate the same process untill you have fill the whole area properly. Remember we can always zoom-in and zoom-out(Ctrl + and Ctrl -) to get the closer look.

6. When you have finish with it, press Ctrl+D to deselect. Now that you will see it is not very perfect and doesnt look realistic and looks very odd. To make it little more better we will use the Blur Tool.

7. Set the blur tool size by simply pressing these keys on keyboard [ or ] to your convience. Now click and spread over the area which is little odd, you will find things getting little better. keep doing it till you find it perfect.

8. Now repeate the same steps for the rest of the nails.

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
This technique can be a great special effect in your photography. We will learn to create eyes that appear to be glowing. It is also possible to apply the same technique to any object that you want to emit a bright glowing light.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open a photograph of your subject in Photoshop.

2. Zoom in on the eyes.
3. Click the “Edit in Quick Mask Mode” toggle button.
4. Select the Brush tool. Choose an appropriate size brush.
5. Choose black as your foreground color.
6. Begin painting over the eyes in the photograph. (When you paint in Quick Mask mode, it will be a transparent red.)

7. Click the “Edit in Standard Mode” toggle button.
8. Goto Select > Inverse.
9. Create a new layer. Name it “Glow”.
10. Select the Paint Bucket tool. Fill in the selected eyes with white.

11. Click Ctrl+D to deselect the eyes.
12. Right click the “Glow” layer from the Layers Palette. Choose “Blending Options” from the pop-up list.
13. Set the properties for “Outer Glow” to the following:

14. You should now have your glowing eyes effect.

Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial we will learn how to create faded scan lines for your projects.

1. Open a New Document in Photoshop. 250×250 hieght/width.
2. Choose black as your foreground color.
3. Select the Pencil tool and set the pencil size to 1px.
4. Create a new layer. Name it “Scan Lines”.
5. Zoom in on the canvas. Draw horizontal lines across the canvas, while holding down the SHIFT key to keep them perfectly straight. (Once you draw a few lines across the canvas, you can copy and paste the lines to cover the whole canvas with lines. Just make sure you merge them all onto one layer when you’re done.)

6. Create a new layer under the “Scan Lines” layer. Name this layer “Photo”.
7. Paste an image onto the “Photo” layer. You now have the scan lines overlapping the photo image.

8. Select the “Scan Lines” layer so that it is active.
9. Click the “Add Layer Mask” button from the Layers Palette.
10. Select the Gradient Tool. Make sure the gradient is the default black to white.
11. With the Layer Mask selected in the Layers Palette, drag across the canvas at an angle.

12. You should now have your faded scan lines.

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a cell phone. This cell phone graphic can be used in the design of applications as well as graphic design projects. I hope you find it useful.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
In this tutorials we will learn how to make the stylish “chocolate” phone from LG.

1. Open a new document, 500×500 pixels and name it LG chocolate. The background can be any color, but white would be good.

2. Now We need to make a base for the phone. We will make it with the Rounded Rectangle
Tool with Radius 0.2in. You would have something like this. Fill with any color you like.

3. Next, in the layers toolbox, select this layer, and call it “phone base”. Now, double click on the layer in the toolbox, to bring up the layerstyle box. We need to give it a Bevel and Emboss and gradient to it. These are the setting we used.

For gradient we used the following settings:
The color of the right side needs to be: “3A3736”. The color of the left side needs to be: “141414”.

(The result should look like this)

4. Now draw another rectangle with the same Rounded Rectangle Tool but a little samller than the early one. Place it in this way so that we can fell the depth.And fill black color in it.

5. Now draw another rectangle for the screen with the Tool. And place it how we have palced.
Now fill the following gradient setting:
The color of the right side needs to be: “000000”.
The color of the left side needs to be: “61605C”.
The angle of 110 degrees.

(The result should look like this)

6. Get your Rounded Rectangle Tool again and make a small, wide selection. Also, use Inner Shadow in the layer style box, to make it similar to the one in this image.
The settings used for Inner Shadow:
Distance: 2 px
Size: 2 px
Angle: 120

7. Once again, make a shape with the rounded rectangle. This time, it needs to be more like a square instead of a rectangle. Place it in the empty space below the screen, in the middle. Give it the standard black-to-white gradient, with a 150 degrees angle.
Bring up the layer styles menu, and give the following Bevel and Emboss settings:
Depth: 250
Direction: UP
Size: 5 px
Soften: 0

8. Now draw once again the same rectangle but this time a little smaller. And fill it with black color. Place it on the pervious rectangle. This is how it should be.

9. Ok so now your next step would be placing the red buttons. The first buttons we will make are rounded rectangles and its very easy to make them. Get your Rounded Rectangle tool once again and make small rectangle and place them like this:

10. Now we will make the arrow. First up are the arrow buttons. Get your free shape tool (you can find it in the shapes menu) and pick the hollow arrow. Now make a small arrow to the right. Copy this layer, and rotate it by pressing crtl+t. Follow the same step for the other arrows.
11. Now with your Text Tool write OK of font size12. And place it in the center, as we have place:

12. At last, the two other buttons. These are the most annoying buttons on the phone.
We will start with the one in the left corner. I have drawn them with Pen Tool.
If you find it difficult to make a shape like these buttons, I suggest you copy
them into your own piece. The button I mean, is the one in the left corner.
Same way will make the last button, the one in the right corner.

13. Last thing that will finish this phone is the LG logo. Now, we can make it ourselves but due
to time, we can just got the logo from internet and use that one. I suggest using the last
option. You need to place the logo in the middle between the top of the screen and the rectangle
above the screen. Like this:

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Photoshop Tutorial

Summary:
In this tutorial, we’ll learn to create depth with curves. This is especially useful for when you want to enhance a photograph.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open the image you want to improve:

2. Press Ctrl+M to call curves dialog:

3. Under button “Options” there are three droppers. We’ll start our adjustments from them. But before that we’ll need to find out the darkest and the lightest areas of your image. While the lightest areas are usually easy to find, the darkest ones can cause a problem if the image quality is really low. In that case you can take this easy step: go to Image>Adjustments>Threshold. Move the slider to the left and you’ll see the image disappearing as the slider moves. And here’s the secret: the last areas to go are the darkest ones on your image! Take a mental note on their locations, cancel the Threshold dialog and return to Curves by pressing Ctrl+M.

4. Select the black dropper and click on the darkest area of your image. You’ll notice the improvements in image immediately:

5. Now select the white dropper and click on the lightest area of your image.

6. Now we’ll work with the middle dropper, which will remove overcast color, if we have any. With this dropper selected, click on the grey area of your image (or at least the closest to the grey you can find). It might take few trys before you’ll find the point that would be just right for you but it really worth it!

7. Now we can move on to our last step! Click in approximate center of that diagonal line and slightly move it up or down. The trick here is not to overdo it so watch your image changing very close while you making this adjustment.

8. OK the curves dialog and enjoy your new and much better looking image!

Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a fruit basket.Summary:
Creating a ghost in a photograph is a great special effect technique that can be used in your graphic design. It’s also a very simple technique that involves some very basic edits. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the process of creating a ghost in a photograph.

Step-By-Step Instructions:
1. Open a photograph of the person that you want to be a ghost. In this case, we will use a young girl.

2. Using the Polygonal Selection tool, draw a selection around the person. Press Ctrl+C to copy the girl from the photo.

3. Open a background photograph of a scene that looks creepy or erie. Black and white photos work the best.

4. With the background photo active, click Ctrl+V to paste the person into the photo. Click Ctrl+T to enter Free Transform mode. Use the shape handles to resize the person to the size you want.

5. Select the Polygonal Lasso tool. Zoom in and begin drawing points around the person to get as close to the edge of the person as possible.

6. Goto Select > Inverse. Click the Delete key to get rid of any of the old background around the person from the other photograph.
7. Goto Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Adjust the Saturation slider to the left so that the person (girl) blends with the new background photo.

Goto Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set the amount to 4 pixels. Click OK.

8. Goto Layer > Duplicate Layer. Click OK. This creates an identical layer of the person (girl).
9. Make sure duplicate layer is active.

10. Lower the opacity of the duplicate layer to 50%.

11. Right click the original layer with the person (girl). Choose “Blending Options” from the pop-up list.
12. Click “Outer Glow” and apply the following properties:

13. Goto Layer > Flatten Image. The Layers Palette will show everythign incorporated into one layer.

14. Goto Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast. Adjust the sliders to get the level brightness that you desire.

15. Finally, goto Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the sliders to get a brownish tint to the photo, so that the photo looks old and authentic.

16. You’re done! You should now have created your ghostly image.