This is a wonderful collection of tutorials sent in by the great folks out at www.Watch And Learn Photoshop.com -- thank you guys, keep this great stuff coming!
- PictoSketch: Photo to sketching - In this tutorial, you will learn how to take a digital photo and convert it into a realistic sketched drawing. You will learn how to give the effect of a hand drawn picture by using filters and layers.
- Create Ripple backgrounds in Photoshop - In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a classic background image of ripples on water. Photoshop makes this easy and fun to create and you can use this on banners, webpages and splash pages.
- Taming the Skies - Ever have one of those photographs where the sky is too bright and harsh? In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you an amazingly effective trick for toning down and recoloring an overly bright sky.
- Illuminating a light bulb - In today's tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will teach you how to take an image of a light bulb that's turned off and add a glow to it to make it look like it's illuminated.
- Flawless Black and White Photos - How many of you just convert your images from RGB to grayscale when you want to create a black and white image? How many of you turn to your Hue/Saturation adjustments and completely desaturate the image? Well, in this video, you'll learn how to take control of your black and white images in a much more effective way.
- Making a Panorama with Photoshop - Ever wanted to take a panorama but couldn't find your wide angle lens? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to make a panoramic image out of a few separate images using a little recoloring, retouching and blending.
- Using Layer Masks - A layer mask in Photoshop is basically a way of hiding and revealing certain parts of a layer. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create, edit, delete, and modify layer masks in Photoshop.
- Creating a Grid with a Custom Pattern - In today's video tutorial, Geoff will show you how to create and define a custom pattern in Photoshop and then use that pattern to create a grid background for your Photoshop file.
- Linking Effect - interlinking objects - Ever wanted to link two objects together in Photoshop so that they seem to weave in and out of each other, kind of like the Olympic rings? Well, it's easier than you might think! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create this linking effect in just a couple very easy steps.
- Making Changes Across Multiple Photos - Ever wanted to resize a group of images or add a watermark to a group of images, but you just didn't have the time to do it? Well, with Photoshop's Batch processing capabilities, you can make changes to multiple images all at once. In this video, you'll learn how to add a watermark to a collection of images all at once.
- Posterizing Images - Turning your images into illustrations isn't as difficult as you might think. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to make your images look cartoonish in just one simple step.
- Turning Pictures Into Statues - Today's tip is a two-for-one for those of you who want to know how to extract a person from an image. After learning how to do this, you'll also learn how to turn that person into a statue in just a few simple steps.
- Using Clipping Masks - You've all seen postcards or advertisements with a picture of something inside a block of bold text. In this tutorial, you'll learn just how easy it can be to achieve this effect.
- Adding Smoke to an Image - Want to make your motorcycle photo gallery a little more exciting by adding a little smoke to your pictures? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create smoke in Photoshop using filters and blending modes.
- Making a Vignette using Channels - Today's video is a relatively simple tip on two different ways to create a vignette for your photographs. A vignette is basically a soft-edged border around a photograph. Rather than usuing the usual feather selection, this method uses a channel for more flexibility. Enjoy!
- Rubber Band Pen Tool - The pen tool can be a little tricky to use, and until you get used to it, you might not always know where your next anchor point is going to leave you. In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to use the Rubber Band option with your pen tool, which will allow you to see hints of what your shape will look like.
- Perspective Cropping- Video Tutorial - If you've ever tried to take a flash photograph of a framed picture straight-on, you've probably noticed that it's impossible to do so without planting a large reflection of the flash right in the center of the picture. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to avoid that unwanted reflection by taking the picture from an angle and then adjusting the picture using perspective cropping.
- Making A Photo Old and Weathered - There are lots of methods of aging a photo. Instead of just weathering and roughing it up, Brian Harber shows us the basic properties of old photo exposure, and how to achieve the same look in Photoshop.
- Red, Black and White Colors - Who knows where the new style of a single-color (usually red) contrasted with black and white came from? Regardless, Brian Harber shows us in this video the various methods of capturing that vibrant red or other color while desaturating the rest.
- Creating Clear Skies in Photoshop - In this tip, Brian Harber explores the wide potential in sky replacement and subsequent color adjustment. If you've ever had a picture that you loved, but it was unfortunately very cloudy or dull, here's an easy way to spice up that picture.
- 3D Angled Text - Have you ever wanted a line of text to pop off the page? In this tip, Brian Harber shows a 3D angle effect that will make your text standout.
- Using Photoshop's Bicubic Sharper - When resizing an image in Photoshop, if you use all the default settings, the image will end up with a little bit of a blur to it--hardly distinguishable, but it is there. In this tutorial, you will learn how to customize the way your image is resampled when you resize it in order to maintain the sharpness of the image
- Ripple Effect in Photoshop - In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a classic background image of ripples on water. Photoshop makes this easy and fun to create and you can use this on banners, webpages and splash pages. (You'll also learn about the Gradient tool)
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