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How to Break Sunlight Through the Clouds
In this tutorial I will show you how to turn an overcast day into a stunningly dramatic scene with sunlight breaking through the clouds. This technique can be used for other applications as well. I originally came up with it when I needed to create shafts of light coming through a canopy of trees. The
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Quick and Effective Facial Photo Retouching
Whether it’s for a friend, family member, or client, retouching images is very common these days. In this tutorial, I will lay down the basics of retouching and take you through the entire process, layer by layer. Sadly, I spent my money made from tutorials on ‘Long Island Iced Tea cocktails’ and therefore I am
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How to Photo Comp up a Killer Room Full of Objects
In this tutorial, I’ll show you a really simple effect that together with good photography can be used to make gorgeous results. We’re going to compose a room using photos of objects. This room can then be used in Flash to build a Web site or simply as a graphic. How to Photo Comp
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Photoshop Up Your Own Money
Ever feel like making your own money? Well you probably shouldn’t actually make any, because I don’t think the law would appreciate it very much. But if you feel like just making some Photoshopped money for a design, then read on to find out how to stick your own face on a dollar bill!
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Beyond The Healing Brush – Removing Objects From Photos
The healing brush and clone tool are fine for fixing blemishes or removing certain things in an open area, but get near a hard edge and these tools become less useful. To realistically remove a large object, it takes careful attention to detail, its just The Healing Brush and Clone tools are fine for fixing
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Applying a Realistic Tattoo
There are lots of tutorials on the Web that claim to achieve a realistic tattoo effect. Usually these tutorials instruct the user to import an image they want to use as a tattoo and to set it to overlay. Out of experience I can say that this does NOT look like a tattoo. It looks
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Creative Photo Composition: Get More Out of What You’ve Got
It would be lovely if every client gave you perfect photos to work with, but all too often this isn’t true. When you get photos that are too small, not visually interesting, or of poor quality you have to get creative. In this tutorial, I’ll take you through an instance where I had to make
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Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop
One of the best sites around for desktops has to be Desktopography. I’ve been inspired by their amazing work, so today we are going to put together a sunset image mixing some vector shapes and dusky lighting effects to produce a slick image that would make a nice album cover for a chillout mix! Super Slick
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Photoshop Button Maker
In this simple tutorial, we’re going to create a clever little way of making little buttons using a couple of layers and one interchangeable image layer. As always you can download the sample PSD at the bottom of the tutorial to follow along and copy layer styles out of. Photoshop Button Maker
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Souping up a Photo
There are times when a regular photo just doesn’t cut it and you need your photo to pack a punch. Here is one technique that you may find useful. As with all photo-based techniques, it doesn’t really make up for having a crappy photo though, so if you are trying to rescue something ugly don’t
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