Turn Photo into a Canvas Painting

Eh, finally a new tutorial today. It's a simple and easy one on how to turn your image or photo into a canvas-style painting. This canvas painting effect will look nice on a scenery image with lots of colors blended together. You can try it on a portrait as well and see how it turns out. For those with not so much talent in drawing the scent on your own, Photoshop is here to save the day. As

Black and White Image with a Hint of Color

This is an extension to our previous black and white tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to have a black and white image but at the same time, you can have one or more object in red, blue or any other colors. It's a good way to keep the focus on the main subject while leaving everything else black and white. Some people may call this a selective color effect. Guess it's from the fact that

Create Professional B&W Photography

There are several ways to get the Black and White effect on your picture. I'll show you one way to do it using Channel Mixer and Gradient Map in Photoshop. Don't worry, it's not as complicated as it sounds. With only 3 easy steps, you'll get a high contrast black and white picture that looks rather professional. So, if you feel like going back to basic today, let's try this black and white

Glamorous Glowing Model Effect on Your Image

Remember reading a magazine and wishing you could somehow apply that glamorous glowing look on the models to one of your photo? Well, now with photoshop..you can. This beginner friendly tutorial (I hope it's friendly enough) will show you how to get that smooth glow effect on your photo. Do you have what it takes to be America's Next Top Model?..Well, maybe not everything but at least now you got

Soft Blue Coloring Tone on Your Image

This soft blue, slightly greenish coloring tone was inspired by the cover image of Amy Lee from Evanescence's first album, Fallen. However, it doesn't follow exactly the blue tone on the album because I kind of like my image to be a little bit greenish blue plus that glowing effect. This coloring effect is suitable for portrait. And if you're innovative enough, you can use this tutorial to get

Colorful Thin Stripes Textures

Download 20 colorful thin stripe patterns to be used as textures, background or decoration for your graphic project and website. Right click and save image to download the pattern individually. All patterns are 200 x 120 pixels in size. For larger size, you can save this image as Pattern in Photoshop and use it as repeated pattern. For more info, read our guide on: saving and using these texture

White Stripes Pattern and Textures

Another free resource for you. Download 22 simple and clean white stripe patterns. A combination of white stripes and two other colors. Right click and 'Save Image As' to download texture image. All pattern images are 200x120 pixels in size. If you want to use these stripe textures for background on a larger canvas, read our guide on saving and using these texture images as patterns in Photoshop.

5-Colored Stripe Patterns and Textures

Free stripe textures or patterns..fully ready to be used as website background, design project or any element of your choice. This set of five-colored stripe patterns, as its name would suggest, uses five random colors striped together to form a lovely pattern. Right click and 'Save Image As' to download patterns.All 42 textures are 200x120 pixels in size. If you want to use these stripe textures

How to Save and Use Patterns in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to save an image or picture and use it as a new pattern in Photoshop. This is very useful when you download a small pattern image but wanted to use it as a background for a bigger canvas. Most patterns downloaded from the web are repetitive in nature. Once you know how to sort of install it in your pattern palette, the size if the pattern image shouldn't be a

Single-color Stripe Textures and Patterns

Download stripe textures for your website background, fanarts or desktop wallpapers. This texture set contains 42 stripe patterns. Each pattern uses monochromatic, or single-color palette achieved by varying the hues (how light or dark the color is) and intensity (how bright or dull the color is). Right click and 'Save Image As' to download the textures.All textures are 200x150 pixels in size. If

Create Sunburst Pattern or Rising Sun Effect

This tutorial will teach you how to create that famous sunburst effect you often see in retro or pop art design. Also known as the Rising Sun effect. And it's not complicated at all. You can probably have the sun rising on your canvas in less than a minute. It's a great way to get this funky stripe texture as a background for your poster design. Another way would be to download a sunburst brush,

100+ Grunge Textures Collection

This is the ultimate grunge textures collection (just because I said so) with more than 100 grungy textures in one post. We have individual texture and also some texture packs including black and white grunge, vintage grunge textures, scratch textures, dirty textures, old paper textures, flaky wall textures, grunge paint textures and many more. Credit to the talented artists who made these for us

50+ Coolest Grunge Fonts on the Planet

My list of 50 Coolest Grunge Fonts on the planet. Not only grunge fonts, I also included some eroded fonts, distorted fonts or even the stencil ones..whatever fits my grungy mood nowadays. All of them are free fonts..thanks to all those cool font-makers. So, if you're into grunge right now, go ahead and check out this list of my favorite grunge fonts..who knows, you might find something you like.

Smart Guides in Photoshop

I just found out about Smart Guides in Photoshop. I know...shocking right? I should have known about this amazing function in Photoshop a long time ago. For those who already knew about Smart Guides..well, good for you. For those who have no idea or whatsoever, I'm gonna enlighten you today..spread the knowledge so that everyone's lives will be so much easier after this..well, at least when

How to Make Stencil Art in Photoshop

You don't need a template or a spray-paint to create your own stencil art. I'm gonna teach you how to achieve this stencil art effect on your regular image just by playing with the filters and adjustment layers in Photoshop. I try to keep things simple here. Just remember, this tutorial is just a guideline on how to get this stencil effect. Different photo might need different settings. So, while

Free Blood Splatter Brushes for Photoshop

The title is blood splatter but really, these brushes can be anything...paint splatter, ink splatter, dirt splatter..just use your imagination, we've got all kinds of splatters here. This compilation of 15 splatter brush sets is no doubt a useful resource if you're thinking of making some dark arts or a bright, funky one. Download link will take you to the artist download page. And some artists

30 Cool Geometric Pattern Textures

Another black and gray texture set available for you in the next installment of our 2-color-schemes texture project. This time, it's a combination between floral and geometric patterns. The available download size is 1024 x 768...but if you're using it for website background or any project that needs a larger size, you're not doomed just yet. All these textures are 'repeat-friendly'...let's just

Download Background Pattern Textures

This background pattern set contains 24 different patterns in a simple and cool 2-color-schemes, black and gray. However you want to use it, it's up to you..as design texture, desktop wallpaper, website background or whatever you can think of. Patterns include Floral Ornaments, King and Queen symbol, Ying Yang, Fleur De Lis, Club, Heart, Spade, Diamond, Rising Sun etc. Size: 1024 x 768

Sepia Tone Coloring Effect in Photoshop

At some point in our lives, we have this inexplicable desire to make new things look old. To make your new jeans look old, you'll have to figure that out by yourself. But to make your picture looks old, that's what I'm here for. Today, I'm gonna teach you how to give your picture that old vintage look by applying this famous effect called sepia toning.Here's some samples of sepia tone photos.1.

Make Photo Looks Like Miniature Models

This tutorial will teach you how to get that mini architectural model look on your picture. This cool miniature effect, or some people will refer to it as tilt shift effect...will make a real train looks like a toy train, make a city looks so tiny that you can imagine yourself stepping on it, or turn whatever object and scene into a fake model.Here's a few examples of this effect:You can see more

30 Color Enhancement Photoshop Actions

Great resource for those who love making fanart and icons just for fun. Enhance the tone and color of your images using this Photoshop coloring action set. This auto-coloring adjustment action set does a great job in boosting the color of your image, enhancing a certain color like red or blue and making your image more interesting to the viewers. These actions are created in Photoshop CS2 and

Free Hi Resolution HQ Paper Textures

Download free high quality paper textures for your design. This set contains 19 textures of old paper, grunge paper, stained paper, black and white paper, underlined paper and many more..all in high resolution size, 1280 x 1024 pixels.Download Options:Link 1 or Link 2Continue reading to see preview of all textures included in this pack.PreviewNote that some of these preview pictures are resized

Turn your Image into a Pencil Sketch

This is a pencil sketch tutorial for Photoshop. There are various techniques to turn your photo into a pencil sketch and this is one of the simplest techniques you can learn. It doesn't take a lot of hard work to do a pencil sketch of your favorite people nowadays. Try finding a good portrait of them and fire up Photoshop. Follow this tutorial and you'll get a perfect (I hope) sketch at the end

Get the Comic Style Effect on your Image

This tutorial will teach you how you can get a comic style effect on your ordinary image or picture. This tutorial is merely a preliminary guide for you to achieve this comic or cartoon effect. You can always play with the settings to achieve more than this. It's recommended to start with a high resolution image. This comic effect works well for portrait but you can always think outside the box

100+ Fonts for Icons and Avatars

This post contains 100+ recommended fonts that can be used to decorate your icons, banners, graphic or whatever it is you decided to do with it. Clicking on the font name will take you to the download page of that particular font. Most of the fonts here are available for free (since people tend to love free stuffs) and only a couple of them are commercial fonts (don't hate me for this..but I'm

Download HQ Grunge Paint Textures

High Quality Grunge Paint Textures for downloadSize: 1074 x 768Available in zip file and individual downloadPreviewZip download -- Grunge Paint Textures SetIndividual Download1. Click on thumbnail for larger view of the texture2. Right click and 'Save Image As'

How to Use Coloring PSD Files

This tutorial will guide you on how to use the coloring psd files downloaded from this blog. It will also include some tips and tricks to fully utilize those psd files not only to get the coloring you want but also generate new coloring for your image. When we created the psd files, we tried to use only adjustment layers. So that, when you downloaded them, you still have the flexibility to adjust

Download Image and Icon Coloring PSD Files

This collection of 25 .psd files will help you get the coloring you want on icon faster than reading an icon coloring tutorial and following the steps one by one. Not just for icon-sized image, these PSDs can be used on image of any size. If you have no idea how to use these coloring PSDs, might wanna read How to Use Coloring PSD post first.Download Zip files -- 25 Coloring PSDs SetPreview of

Photoshop Decorative Text Brushes

Download 15 sets of decorative text brushes for Photoshop. Includes tiny text brushes..never meant to be read..just for deco purpose only..so, don't complain if you can't see the words =) . Also, we have a collection of old text brushes, swirly text brushes, grunge text brushes, newspaper text brushes and many more. Read more and find out..PreviewTiny Text Brush SetCreated by forpumpkin @

25 Sets of Swirl and Curl Brushes for Photoshop

We present to you this awesome collection of Photoshop brushes featuring various swirl and curl designs. Whether it's curly brushes, foliage swirl brush, twirl brushes, fractal brushes or whatever you call them, you can find them all listed in the compilation. Download links will take you to the artists' pages. Please read and follow their terms of use if there's any. We hope you find something

Photoshop Actions - 20 Cool Text Effects atn Files

Looking for some unique and cool text effects? Not in the mood to read those long and confusing tutorials? Get them in actions instead. Download these Photoshop Actions and get the text effect you want instantly. Never heard of Photoshop action before?...Well, it's about time you learn more about Photoshop ActionsNotes:1. These actions are created in Photoshop CS2. Therefore, I'm not sure how

Download Free Grunge Paper Textures

Download 5 Large-sized Grunge Paper TexturesSize: 1280 x 1024 High Resolution Textures for PhotoshopPreviewAvailable in zip file as well as individual downloadPaper Textures Individual Download1. Click image thumbnail for larger preview2. Right click and 'Save Image As' Download zip fileDownload the Paper Texture Set

Download HD Grunge Textures

Photoshop Resource Download:Dark Grunge TexturesSize: 1280 x 1024 High ResolutionPreviewAvailable in zip file as well as individual downloadGrunge Textures Individual Download1. Click on image thumbnail for larger preview2. Right click and 'Save Image As' Download zip fileGrunge Textures Set

Download Colorful HQ Stripe Textures

Download 5 large sized colorful stripe textures. Size: High Definition 1280 x 1024Available in zip file or individual downloadPreviewIndividual Download1. Click on image thumbnail for larger view2. Right click and 'Save Image As' Zip fileStripe Textures Download

Photoshop Action: Glowing Neon Text Effect

Download the action file for this shining neon text effect. Cool, right?Download -- Photoshop Action: Neon Text EffectRead more for a short tutorial on how to use this action.How to use this Action1. Load the Action file into your Photoshop. If you don't know how to do this, here's an instruction on how to load action file in Photoshop.2. Open a new document. Set the background color to black or

20 Lovely Romantic Fonts

Looking for a cute font to express your love and romantic gesture. Maybe you're browsing the web for a nice script/calligraphy font for your wedding card (or for a friend if you haven't found your soul-mate yet). You could be in a situation where you're designing a valentine day card and just wish you had a selection of several romantic fonts to choose from. Well, today isn't a bad day after all

How to Use the Icon Coloring Actions atn Files

The action files (.atn format) is included in some of my tutorials to simplify your life. You can load this file in your action palette in Photoshop and hit the Play button to achieve the coloring effect with just one click of a button. Further instruction below..Note: This tutorial is written specifically for the action files available with my icon coloring tutorials. If you wanna know more

How to Use Photoshop Actions Tutorial

Looking for some actions in your life? Well, here's one...a Photoshop action. Then you ask, 'what's that?' In plain English, what Photoshop action does is, record the steps you do in Photoshop and then you can replay these steps over and over again with just one click. Essentially, it's like having a robot..first, you show it what to do. Then, whenever you want to do the same thing, you just

Coloring Tutorial - Soft Cyan with Light Yellow Layer

Let's learn another coloring tutorial for your image - soft cyan with a light shade of yellow on the image. Icons below are made in Photoshop CS2. PSD file for this tutorial is included at the bottom of this post. 1. Open your image. Duplicate this layer. Set it to screen.2. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color. Apply these settings:Reds: -80, 0, 7, 0Yellows: 7, 0, -20,

25 Inspirational Cat Photos

How about some inspiration from our furry friends. Enjoy a compilation of 25 beautiful cat photos taken by talented photographers all around the world. Today's inspirational photos also includes other powerful big cats such as tiger, lion, leopard and cheetah. All pictures are linked to the photographer’s pages. If they have pretty cats, you may want to explore their other works too. Hope this

adding a texture to a photo

Textures are cool, fun, and can take an otherwise "blah" photo and turn it into a work of art! Beware, they are addicting! ;)















Happy texturizing! :)

Color Tutorial: Soft Orange on the Skin and Lip

Get the soft orange color on the skin and lips with this simple coloring tutorial. PSD file is included with this tutorial to simplify your life even more. Sample icons with this coloring effect are shown below: 1. Open your image. Duplicate your image and set the duplicate layer to screen with 75% opacity. Later, after you're done with all the steps, you can adjust the opacity of this layer or

Shades of Orange and Green Icon Coloring

This coloring tutorial will teach you how to achieve the soft orange color effect on your image while enhancing the appearance of green on the image. PSD file is included at the end of the post. Sample result of this coloring tutorial is shown below: 1. Open your image. Duplicate the image and set the duplicate layer to Soft Light with 50% opacity.2. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer >

Soft Blue and Greenish Icon Coloring in CS2

Learn how to get the coloring effect shown below in Photoshop. Soft coloring with shades of blue and green. Any confusion, you can download the psd file at the bottom of this post. 1. Open your image. Duplicate the image and set the layer to Screen.2. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color. Choose this color #4681e1 (blue) and set this layer to Soft Light with 84% opacity.3. Go to Layer >

Bright Red Lips Icon Coloring Tutorial

A new image coloring tutorial in Photoshop CS2. Get the bright red lips with the use of Selective Coloring. PSD file included at the bottom of the post. Sample results are shown below: 1. Open your image. Duplicate the image layer and set to soft light.2. Go to layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color. Pick this color #fffe94 (yellow) and set this layer to Soft Light.3. Next, go to Layer > New

Create a Dreamy Angelic Effect on your Photo

Well, everybody knows you're not an angel..but at least your picture looks like one. Today I'm gonna reveal to you how to create a dreamy glowing angelic effect using Photoshop. Who knows it's so easy to look like you're just came down from heaven. In 4 easy steps you'll be glowing all over like there's no tomorrow. Here's a sample of the effect we're gonna learn from this tutorial:1. Open your

10 Awesomest Wing Brushes for Photoshop

Don't go flying without wings..unless you're Superman or a (hot)vampire. Check out our recommendation of 10 Awesomest Wings Brushes to choose from if you're planning on putting a pair of wings on someone's back anytime soon. Includes a great selection of angel wings, demon wings, butterfly wings, bird wings, faerie wings, bat or dragon wings. Download links will take you to the artist's page.

Turn a Photo into a Water Color Painting

This tutorial will teach you how to turn a photo into a watercolor painting. It might not be as perfect as the real painting done genuinely out of water color, but it's pretty cool (I think). We will try to imitate the smoothness of watercolor painting, eliminate unnecessary textures and get a nice, vibrant coloring for the image. The steps are pretty simple to follow and you're recommended to

Halftone Retro Effect in Photoshop

Let's go retro today! This tutorial will teach you how to get the halftone retro effect, a funky effect with bright coloring image. It's a very simple photoshop effect and we're just taking advantage of the various filters in Photoshop and playing with the blending modes to get the comic book look with that dotted halftone on your image. Let's start working on your not so funky picture hidden

Image Coloring - Enhance the Blue Eyes

Hello again! Another image coloring tutorial for you. This time we're enhancing the effect of red and blue in a picture. This tutorial will also help to enhance the blue color in somebody's eyes... if they have blue eyes of course ;) If you follow the tutorial carefully, here's some example of your final outcome: 1. Open your image. 2. Duplicate image. Set to screen. (Repeat this step depending

Image coloring with Channel Mixer and Selective Color

Get the high contrast brown/red/yellow coloring in Photoshop using the Channel Mixer and Selective Color. Some examples shown below: 1. Open you image. Duplicate the image. Set the duplicate layer to Soft Light. 2. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color. Change to this settings for the Reds only:Cyan: -100Magenta: 0Yellow: 100Black: 703. Next, go to Later > New Adjustment Layer >

Get a Scorching Red Coloring on your Image

This coloring actually reminds me of Red Lobster..because of the red of course. Here's the final image for this tutorial. If you love to make icons or avatar, might wanna try this new coloring. 1. Open your image. Next, go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color. Choose this color #020521 (dark blue). Set this layer to Exclusion.2. Then, create another Fill Layer. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer >

Remove Background Using Extract Filter

Another way to delete background out of an image in Photoshop is by using the Extract Filter. It may not be the most precise tool for background removing but it gives you a pretty decent selection that you can clean up afterward. With some images, the clean up process might not take that long. If you're not really familiar with the Pen Tool, then the extract filter technique is a simple and easy

Download 10 Extraordinary Floral Brushes

Feeling kind of flowery today? Check out our list of 10 extraordinary floral brush set to download for Photoshop. The sets include floral frame for your photo too. They are awesome and they are free. What more could you ask for. The download links will take you to the creators' page. Thanks and credit for their awesome work.Floral Brushes for PhotoshopCreated by hawksmontDownload HereFlower

Black & White Watercolor Painting Effect

Okay, honestly I don't know what to call this photo effect. It kind of looks like a watercolor painting in black and white (coz who does watercolor painting in b&w right)..or maybe I should call this a pencil sketch. In today's photoshop tutorial, we're gonna use the various Filter available in Photoshop CS2 to achieve the two effects shown below. It's a very simple effect to do in Photoshop but

Turn a Photo into a Pen Sketch

You know what would be cool? If you have Photoshop and feel like trying something new today. Let's figure out how to Turn a photo into a pen sketch (without wasting so much ink in the process). And then make it looks like a drawing in samurai comic..well sort of. Anyways, here are the results of the effect we're gonna learn today. Get the sketch effect with only 4 steps then we add another 3

Cutting Image Out of the Background Using Pen Tool

Today I'm gonna teach you a technique to cut an image out of the background in Photoshop. Though there are several ways to get the background out of the way, today's tutorial will involve just the Pen Tool (P). Now, don't run just yet. I know, some people said, the Pen Tool is not for beginners, but I don't agree to that. It's so easy to use once you've tried it. So really, you don't have to be

Simple Image Blending Technique in Photoshop

There are many ways to blend images together in Photoshop. But as a start, let's find out the easiest way to do this for all the beginners out there who just discovered Photoshop. Of course, as you move forward, you'll figure out how to use brushes for extra impact on your blended image or add textures for interesting result. But Layer Mask and Gradient Tool are two basic techniques to get you

Reflection Text Effect in Photoshop

I guess it's time for another text effect. This tutorial is gonna show you a very simple way on how to get a reflective text effect. In other words, there's your text and then on the surface or the floor, there's a reflection of that text tilted to the left or right. The image below would better explain what I'm talking about: 1. Open a new document. Select the Text Tool (T). Select your font,

Glowing Demon Eyes Effect in Photoshop

It's halloween again and you're thinking of the Red-eyed demon effect or maybe the yellow-eyed demon. And what would be cool is to turn a portrait of you or one of your friend into one. Or you just finished an episode of Supernatural and suddenly get this sudden desire to turn everyone into a yellow-eyed demon. Well, in today's tutorial you're gonna learn how to get this glowing demon eyes effect

3D or Out of Bound Photo Effect

Everything's in 3D now. Why not your picture too. If you read this tutorial until the end, you're gonna find out how to change your 2D photo into a 3D photo. Some people may call it Out of Bounds effect. We have a frame and then a focus image which will slightly go outside the frame...hence the out of bound, I guess.You don't have to exactly follow this tutorial to achieve the effect you want.

Create Old Photo Sephia Effect

Feels like reminiscing the past?..err, maybe not now. How about we learn this special photoshop effect on how to turn a new photo into something that was taken years ago with a sephia tone coloring? Somewhere out there, someone may have a patent pending for a time machine. Until it gets approved, I'm afraid we have to rely on Photoshop to get the old photo effect. Sounds good? Let's start then..

Icon and Avatar Cropping Tips

The crop tool allows you to select an area of an image and discard everything else outside this area. When making icon, some people like to crop first then proceed to do the coloring from there. If you ask me, I do cropping in the end. Why? well, because I can do the coloring on one image and just crop them differently to get 4 to 5 icons...maybe more. So now, the question is...what is a good

20 Awesome Grunge Brushes for Photoshop

Because sometimes between life and art, we stumble into one of those angsty state and in need for some good grunge brushes to express our creativity. Hence, we have searched the web and compiled for you 20 Sets of the Most Awesome Grunge Brushes for Photoshop. Thanks and credit to the maker for sharing these brushes for free. And please follow the artists' term of use if there's any. The download

Image Coloring Tutorial in CS2 for Icon Makers

Icons...avatars, whatever you call them..would be prettier if you take some times to adjust their coloring, right?. Here's a tutorial that will teach you how to get the coloring below: 1. Crop and sharpen your image2. Duplicate image. Set to screen 100%. Repeat this step depending on your image.3. Add a new adjustment layer. Layer > New adjustment layer > Hue/saturation.Set master saturation: +

25 Beautiful Handwriting Fonts to Download

Today, I've selected 25 most beautiful handwriting fonts you should have in your computer...of course it's not a rule or anything. But still, it feels good to have them everytime you use Photoshop, if you're a font freak like me. Plus, they're all free fonts. My favorites are Notepad, Pea Alesa, Marka, Desyrel, Bobcat and Trashhand. You can pick yours.1. NotepadDownload Font Here2. King Cool

Butterfly Brushes for Photoshop

Some people have a thing for butterfly. So, here's a selection of butterfly brushes for you. Do you realize that if we flip the b and fl in butterfly, it will become flutterby? I know, that is so yesterday right..of course everybody knows it. But I just have to write something as an intro and it's 2 in the morning, me babbling is unavoidable. Anyway, enjoy the brushes..good night and good

Icon Coloring Tutorial - Enhance the yellow and red in your image

This tutorial will guide you through the steps to achieve the coloring below. Using Selective Color in Photoshop CS2, we're going to increase the intensity of red and yellow in a picture. Note that this tutorial might not work for all image though. Use it as a guide to create your own coloring ;) 1. Duplicate image. Set to screen 100%. Repeat this step if your image is still too dark.2. Add a

Simple Text Glow Effect in Photoshop CS2

Another cool glowing text effect tutorial for you. This text effect will look good on your site header or banner.This is going to be our final result.1. First, open a new document. Go to File > New.2. Next, fill the layer with whatever background color you want. Go to Edit > Fill. Choose your color and click ok. I choose black. Type in the text with the Type Tool.3. Then, duplicate the text layer

10 Cool Vector Brushes for Photoshop

Our choice of 10 beautiful vector brush sets, we think might interest you. Credits and thanks to the talented people who are generous enough to make and share these with us for free. What exactly is a vector brush? You can Google to find out or you can just take a look at the preview below. Is it something you're looking for? We wish you luck in creating colorful vector art.Vector Brush SetCreate

Change Image Color in Photoshop

Today's photoshop tutorial will guide you on how to change the color of a certain part of an image. Let say you have a picture of a black car, but you want it to be a red car instead...this tutorial will help you do just that in several easy steps.These are the before and after images. Using Photoshop, we're gonna change the color of Lois' dress from pink to white. 1. Open your image. Duplicate

Create Borders in Photoshop, Beginner's Guide

It's just a very simple tutorial on how to create a border around your picture in photoshop. It's very easy..you can probably do this in less than 30 seconds.1. Open your image.2. Go to Select > All.3. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool, or press M on your keyboard.4. Right click on your image and choose Stroke. The stroke window will open. Set the width (how thick you want the border to be)

Create a Glowing Apple Mac Text in Photoshop

This simple photoshop tutorial will teach you how to achieve that glowing and shining text effect you always see on Apple text or logo.Before and After:1. Select the Text Tool. Type something. Set the font size too 100 or larger.2. Now go to the layer palette (usually at the bottom right) put your cursor on the text layer (the one with the big T symbol), hit CTRL+ click on the text layer (again

How to Add Rain Effect to your Picture

It's one of those days, when you have this kind of melancholic feeling and wish that it's raining outside but it's not. So, you pick a picture and decide to do a rain effect on it. Or maybe today your design theme is inspired by that Rihanna's song...'You can stand under my umbrella...ella..ella' and you have your model, an umbrella but sadly no rain. No matter what your situation is, this

Turn Image into Cartoon in Photoshop

So now, we're gonna learn how to turn an image or photo into a cartoon or comic-like style. This effect will make your image appear smoother if it's a little bit grainy in the first place. It's a very easy effect to achieve in Photoshop. I'm working with the CS2 version, but I think any version will do fine for this cartoon style effect.1. Our starting image is the one below. As you can see, it's

Image Colouring in CS2 using Selective Colour

Selective Color is a powerful tool in Photoshop CS2. But if you have no idea how to use it, might be useless for you. This tutorial however, will help you to get the coloring effect like the images below (kind of greenish/reddish)...even if you've never use selective coloring before. 1. Duplicate image and set to screen. Adjust opacity as needed. Repeat this, if image is still dark.2. Add a new

Creating a patterned background using brushes

There are SO MANY cool things you can do with brushes! Including making your own patterned papers to use in digiscrapping, making cards, photobooks, storyboards... the possibilites are only limited by your imagination!

Here is a quick & dirty tutorial on how to make a patterned paper, using Sharon's beautiful damask brushes she so generously shared on 2peas.

Cropping and Composition Tips For Icon

So, you just discovered Photoshop? Congratulation. Welcome to the awesome world of photoshopping. I hope you stay long. If you've been to LiveJournal, at some point, you probably got caught in the icon-making fever in there. It's so contagious and fun. I'm sharing a few tips for the icon-makers out there or photographers looking for a different composition for their photo. I'm not a professional

Icon Coloring Tutorial in Photoshop CS2

How to get the orange-red coloring like the images below: 1. Open your image, crop..etc.2. Duplicate the image, set it to Screen.3. Duplicate the image again, this time set it to Overlay.4. Layer > New adjustment layer > Selective color. Use the settings below:Reds: -100, 16, 85, 0 Yellows: -70, 0, -50, -33Neutrals: 19, -11, -16, -19 5. Layer > New adjustment layer > Selective

Puzzle Effect and Rounded Edges in Photoshop

How to achieve this effect in Photoshop CS2. Kind of like rounded edges with puzzle-like effect. Well I don't know the exact term but the picture below can explain it perfectly for you.Instructions are printed on each image. Text below just explain further what you should be doing in each image. For larger view, click on the image. I'm aware that there are other methods to achieve this effect...

Colorize your image with Hue Saturation Layer

How to achieve one-colored image like these and get the sephia tone in Adobe Photoshop: 1. Open your image and crop.2. Duplicate your image and set it to screen. If the image is too bright, you can lower the opacity of this layer or just skip this step altogether.3. Duplicate the image again, this time set it to overlay. Adjust the opacity, depending on how dark you want your image to be. Just

Glowing Image Effect in Photoshop CS2

How to get this glowing, smooth and angelic effect in PhotoshopGoing from to 1. Open your image. Crop, resize..etc.2. If the image is too dark, duplicate the image and set it to screen. Repeat this step if it's still too dark. Adjust the opacity of this duplicate layer to your liking. If the image is just fine to you, skip this step.3. Press CTRL+E to flatten the image.4. Duplicate the flatten

Photoshop Coloring Effect Tutorial

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Selective color (or, how to turn a photo b&w and keep one area in color)

There are several ways to actually do this, but I'm going to post the way I know is compatible with both full photoshop and photoshop elements. :)

Open the photo you wish to do selective color on.

Duplicate the layer by choosing Layer>Duplicate.


No need to name the layer, but you can if you want, and click OK.

Go into Image>Adjustments>Gradient Map.



Choose the Black/White gradient. This will turn your entire photo b&w but don't worry! We'll bring the color back in the next step!



Now select your Eraser tool. Adjust the size according to the area you wish to bring the color back on. I set the hardness of the eraser to 0 and I usually lower the opacity of the eraser (at the top of the page) to around 50% because bringing back 100% of the color is usually "too much", but it's up to you and your taste!



Start erasing over the area of the photo you wish to return to color (I normally zoom in while I do this to be more accurate). Take your time, it's a bit tedious but if you take your time and be more precise it will look much better!



Once you are done erasing and you are happy with how it looks, just flatten your image and save!