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Category Archives: Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as “an industry standard for graphics professionals”. – Wikipedia

Removing image backgrounds

If you want to remove the background from your image and leave behind just one object, either just to show it off or to use in a another image then this is the way to do it.

Remove an image foreground

I will show you how to remove an object from an image with a simple background. This technique works on complex backgrounds too but also take much longer and you have to use some other tools to get it to look OK.

Planet from a panorama

To make a planet with your panoramas and photographs all you need is a suitable photo and 20 mins. This can be done with pretty much any photo.

Photo panorama

This tutorial will show you how to make a panorama in photoshop using only a few simple tools. All you need is photoshop and some overlapping images. The bigger the overlap the better.

Champion Contest

So you think your good at Photoshop do you?? Here’s your chance to lay your cards on the table and show me what you got.

Photoshop shortcuts 01

Here is a small collection of a few of the shortcut commands and keys I find very useful in photoshop. Some you will probably know about, but some you might not

Skin touch-up

I’m going to show you how to touch up skin in a photograph. This will take about 20 minutes depending on how much detail you want to go into. To start with you need a picture. I used my readily available model… me. I also used a close up but this technique will work for [...]

Multiple viewing windows

Do you want to work on a close up of your image and see the bigger picture at the same time without having to buy a 52″+ Super High definition monitor? Simple. Photoshop lets you open more than one window of the same image. With your image window selected simply go to “Window > Arrange [...]

Creating basic texture brushes

Brushes are a crucial part of every creative man and womans photoshop toolbox. Here’s how I go about making mine. Since they can be resized at will once made thay are a great way to add variation to your work at a small one off cost and all you need is 10 mins to get [...]

Creating an image mask

Layer masks are where its at. They are better than the eraser tool because the image data is still there but just hidden behind a mask, so you can always change the visable areas later in your image progress. I am going to show how to set up a layer mask so you can start [...]

Concept art

When you need to show someone how something is going to look what better way than a bit of concept art. It’s great for a early on pitch, it’s quite quick and doesn’t take up too many man hours for the results it produces. If you have the time and money you could model in [...]

Create a 360 skin

No sadly for you crazy people out there i’m not going to tell you how to take the skin off a man. For starters I wouldn’t have a clue where to start with that. Instead I am going to show you how I went about creating the 360 skin in the picture below. I tell [...]

Eye enhancement

I am briefly going to outline how I make images with altered eyes. If you get it right you should be able to create some interesting looking images. I’m not going to cover this in depth. I’m just covering the basics for now.