Tutorial Photoshop - Web 2.0 Logo
Here is another web 2.0 logo design tutorial! Here is
another popular style with a shiny box. A good tip with doing web 2.0 designs,
and logos is try to keep the shiny/3d/etc effects on one to two elements of the
page. Over doing it wont be good for usability and it will make
it look very cluttered. There is a general rule to use about one or two shiney
elements and leave the rest not so done up. With light shadows here and there to
create the realistic effect. Adding subtle drop shadows will give the polished
effect, and will make your designs look great. Well, lets get started!
Open a new canvas of any size really. If you are going to create a very
detailed logo the bigger the canvas the better. I just added a nice blue effect
on the top just to add some interesting effect.
Typography
Most of this logo is typography, most good logos are. There
are some really well done graphical logos been done (firefox), but simple
typography effects can go a long way! You can use any fonts you have, I used a
font I paid for. What I did to position the text is to use the guide lines
(rulers) to get it perfect. You can see it in the psd if you download it.
Creating the logo design
Here are the blending effects I did for the rectangle box.
White border
I added a white border inside of the box. CTRL+CLICK on the layer of the box,
On a new layer fill the selection in with white, and go to
Select>Modify>Contract and contract it by one pixel. Than contract it by a
pixel again, and press delete again. Now you will have a nice white inner
border.
Final touches
I put a “?” on the box with the text tool, and I added this blending effect
on it:
To add a nice shiny effect I used the round marquee tool and made
a round selection above the box in a new layer. I turned down the opacity about
30% and deleted the bottom have with a another round marquee selection.
I hope you enjoyed this! You can download the PSD here
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Tutorial Photoshop - Stunning Effect
A simple but effective lesson to stun your photo.
1. Open and Duplicate Layer
Open image and duplicate the background
layer ( layer/duplicate layer ) or left click in background
layer and duplicate
2. Apply Gaussian Blur
Select the duplicated layer (background copy ) and add “Gaussian
Blur” (filter / blur / Gaussian blur )
It hast to look rather blurry similar to the example , but don’t worry too
much about this step you can add more blur at any moment of the process
3. Reduce Layer’s Opacity
Set the layer’s opacity value to 70%. (layers / layer
style / blending options ) slide to 70% the opacity slider in the top of
the layer palette.
The opacity can go from 30% to 70% it will determine how
soft the pic will be
4. Add Mask sharpen items
So far we have achieved to get the softness and most part of the process is
done , but there may be some items that look rather blurry and a bit of
sharpening will make it look more real . For this image I will mask some
branches and the trees
Add a mask in the layer we have been working into
(Background Copy)
Set the soft brush tool with at least 50 %
of opacity and black color and then brush the details you want to
sharpen (trees, leaves, etc)
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Tutorial Photoshop - Fake model photography
With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday
scenes and make it look like they’re actually of miniature models. It doesn’t take much to fool the mind of the viewer, but there
are a few basic rules you can follow to help convince your audience that they’re
looking at a railway set rather than the real world; see the section on picking
the right photo at the bottom of this page. You’ll need a copy of Photoshop CS
or later to follow this tutorial.
Step 1:SET GRADIENT
MASK
Open up your chosen image, press Q to switch to Quick Mask mode,
then click on the Gradient tool. Set the colours to the default black and white
by pressing D, then switch them around by clicking on the double-headed arrow
next to the colour chips. Next, set up the gradient as shown above. Make sure
you select the repeating gradient type – fourth icon along, looks like a
cylinder.
Step 2: APPLY MASK
Choose where you want the focal point of the photo to be – usually
about halfway between top and bottom – and click and hold at that point. Drag
the line of the gradient tool upwards, then release it towards the top of the
frame; it doesn’t hurt to be a little off the pure vertical. You should get
something like what’s shown above. Press Q again to switch back from Quick Mask
mode.
Step 3: APPLY LENS BLUR
Chose Filter → Blur → Lens Blur to bring up the Lens Blur filter
pane. It can take a little tinkering to get the settings just right, but try the
above values as a starting place. The Iris section controls the shape of the
virtual iris in the lens; a hexagonal iris is most normal, and you could try
rounding out the sharp corners of the geometric shape using Blade Curvature.
Rotation controls the angle of the hexagon. The Specular Highlights section adds
little glints to bright areas, but it’s usually not a good idea to drop the
value of the Threshold much below 250. Click OK to apply the effect, then clear
your selection.
Step
4:ADJUST
CURVES
To add to the feeling of artificiality, bring up the Curves palette (go Image
→ Adjustments → Curves) and drag the RGB curve to something like the example
above. It blows out the colours in the image, and makes it look more as if it’s
built from polystyrene and lichen. Click here for some more examples.
NOTES ON PICKING THE RIGHT PHOTOGRAPH
We’re used to seeing models from above, so the
mind can more easily be fooled by pictures taken looking down than those looking
up or at eye level. But almost as important is the lighting in your photo.
Models are usually lit by a lamp, so you’d expect to see sharp, directional
shadows and bright, almost harsh light. That’s partly why the picture of Charing
Cross station (left), with its dull, omnidirectional light, doesn’t work as well
as the picture pointing towards the London Eye (right). Plus, building the model
on the left would be the work of years, so the mind tends to be a little more
sceptical. Below is the original of the photo used in this tutorial.
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Tutorial Photoshop - Tunning your car easily
You will learn how to quickly tune a car of your choice. This tutorial is
specially designed for tuning companies. We will show you some good techniques
for painting and styling.
Step 1
Start
with opening your favorite car image, choose whatever car you like and would
like to tune it with Photoshop. We will choose an old russian national car Lada
model 2111. Our main goal is to change the car color, tint the windows, add some
cool stylish rims and some simple spoilers.
So, let’s begin, here is the
image we choose:
Step 2
So, you have probably opened up your image in
photohsop. First thing we will do, is to change the color of car. To do that you
must make a clipping path around a car and cutout everything you want to paint
or change color. So, simply choose PEN TOOL from tools palette (
).
You must now draw an outline around your car’s body.
When you make an outline
of your car, start then drawing outlines of inside objects like windows, door
handles or such stuff, that you don’t want to change color on… So we have just
made outline of our car and it look like this:
Now
continue adding these paths around objects on car that your DON’T want to paint
later… like this:
Step 3
Now look at your layers
palette, noice that there is Paths pallete near the right side, click on it to
reveal it. Select that Work Path there. Now press Ctrl+Shift+N and press Enter
to create a new layer. Then, hold Ctrl and left-click on that WorkPath to make a
selection. Press D on keyboard to reset colors, choose Paint Bucket Tool and
click into the selection somewhere to fill that black color in. (If you wish to
colorize your car into some other color than black then choose your foreground
color before using Paint Bucket Tool).
Step 4
Now change blending mode of that new layer (Layer
1) to “Color” like on this image:
Now
hold CTRL again and while holding it left-click on Layer 1 to make a selection
of that layer.
Next thing you will do is to select Backgournd layer and add
new adjustment layer. To add new adjustment layer click on this icon: 
and choose Levels. Make the settings on Levels window like on this
next image:
Click
OK and your car is now colored to your favorite color.
You will now notice how your original image is not destroyed with this levels
effect so you can easily toggle off visibility of all other layers to see your
original image.
Step 5
We will proceed now with
tinting the windows on car. Click on Paths, select WorkPath. Choose Path
Selection Tool (
) and select
the windows that you want to tint or colorise. To select more than one window
hold SHIFT and leftclick on windows you like to tint.
Now on the bottom of
Paths palette click on icon: “Load path as a selection”. (
). Deselect
the WorkPath (just leftclick on empty gray area of the paths pallete).
Click
back on Layers palette select Background layer and press CTRL+C and then press
CTRL+V to copy&paste windows to new layer. Now move that layer on top of the
“Levels 1″ layer like this:
Double
click on that Layer 2 (your copied windows there) to open Layer Style window.
Check there Gradient Overlay. Make the settings for Gradient Overlay like on
this next image:
Click
OK and you have just tinted the windows.
Our car now look like this:
Step 6
Notice now how that front driver’s window has too
much blue color on it. It’s time to correct that now. If you did exactly as I
said before, and you have outlined all the windows this should be a simple task.
All you have to do is to go to Layers palette, then switch to Paths palette.
From there select the Work Path, and use Path Selection Tool from tools palette
()
and select only front window outline.
Selection must look like on this image
above.
Now as you selected front window in Paths palette click on
“Load Path as a selection” button ().
Then, head back to Layers palette select highest layer in palette
(because you will create a new adjustment layer now) and create a new adjustment
layer by clicking on this button: and
choose Hue/Saturation… Enter the options in window like on next image:
Click ok and you have just tinted the front window, as it should
be for real.
Step 7
Now it’s time for change the tires and new rims.
We have found this image on Google
image search very fast, just use some popular rims manufacturer name as a
keyword for search (like dotz, allessio, rcdesign, aez, dezent…)
Now you must cutout this image, transfer it on your car, and rotate, resize
and move it to fit on your car.
Let’s start with cutting out this image. Open
it up in photoshop, and using the Elliptical Marquee Tool cutout the rim. You
only need the front side, now cutout with magic wand tool inner holes in rim.
You will get something like this when you are finished with selection:
Now click on -> Select -> Feather -> Enter amount of 3
pixels.
Using the Move Tool (
)
click on the selection - hold and drag the rim on your other document where you
car is (drag’n’drop).
Press CTRL+T and resize and rotate your rim to fit on the tyres. Here it is
fitted on tyre:
Now you must paint black color under the rim, to make it look a bit more
realistic.
Make your Foreground color Black, using a Brush Tool (
) sized around 20px smooth, create a new layer on top of the Background
layer, and paint on that layer on position under the rim, if you pain too much,
just use eraser tool (
) to
delete what is not needed.
After that set the blending mode of that layer to
Multiply like this:
And it now looks like this:
Repeat the same procedure on back wheels.
For the wheel on the other side of vehicle you can use just rim, and with
erase tool delete unneeded parts and just set it’s blending mode to Luminosity
and Opacity: 23%.
Step 8 (final image)
Here it is,
before and after image:
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Tutorial Photoshop - Pattern/silhouette tutorial using a layer mask
- Made in/for Photoshop CS, compatibility with earlier versions dependent on
availability of a certain filter. - May not be translatable to other software due to the above dependency.
- Skill level: intermediate (layer mask, saved selection, filter use)
- The results of the tutorial are highly dependent on the source
image possessing certain characteristics. Expect your results to be different if
your source image doesn’t have lighting and color qualities very similar to the
source image in this tutorial. - Dialup users should be able to load this tutorial without difficulty. Most
images are linked to rather than loaded inline.
I stumbled upon an image of one of the Olsen twins (don’t know which one,
don’t normally pay enough attention to them to be able to tell them apart)
different from the source for olsen_systa’s
sample
image, but well suited to this task. Note the white background, good range
of highlights/midtones/shadows, and the lack of a shadow obscuring any part of
the face. This image is ideal because it requires no manipulation prior to using
the Threshold command (coming up soon). Other images may need a lot of color
correcting before they could be made suitable for use in this tutorial,
especially as regards shadows on the face. Choose your images
wisely.Step 1: Open your image. Duplicate the background layer
and give it a useful name. (I named mine ’olsen, threshold’.) Save to PSD to get
your working file established.Step 2: Make sure your new layer
(not the background) is highlighted and run menu option Image » Adjustments
» Threshold… The default value in the Threshold dialog box is 128. For this
image I increased it to 151 and, satisfied with the way it looked, pressed
OK.
At the end of step 2 you should have something resembling the image to the
left.Step 3: With the threshold layer highlighted, run menu
option Filter » Stylize » Diffuse… Select Anisotropic
mode and press OK.Step 4:Run menu option Select » Color
Range… Use the eyedropper to sample the black portion of the image, then
run the Fuzziness slider in the Color
Range dialog box up to 200. Press OK. The black portion of the image should
now be surrounded by marching ants.Step 5: Run menu option
Select » Save Selection… Give the selection a name and press OK. Press
CTRL-D to deselect. We’ll reload the selection later.Step 6:
Make a new layer on top of the others. Select the Paint Bucket tool. Set
the tool to fill with a pattern rather than a color and fill the new layer.
I used one of Photoshop’s built-in patterns. You may use any pattern you like.
(See the Layers
palette at the end of step 6.)
Step 7: Make another new layer on top of the others and fill
it with white. Add a layer mask to this layer by pressing the Add Layer Mask
button on the Layers palette.
Step 8: Run menu option Select » Load Selection…
Choose the selection you saved earlier from the dropdown menu in the Load
Selection dialog box and press OK.
Step 9: Run menu option Edit » Fill… Fill the
selection with black (which should correspond to your current background color
if the mask layer is highlighted). Though you’ve filled the selection with
black, you won’t see black in the image. What you should see is the pattern fill
from the layer below showing through where the selected mask was filled. Press
CTRL-D to deselect. (See the Layers
palette at the end of step 9.)
At the end of step 9 you should have something resembling the image to the
left.Step 10: With the mask layer still highlighted, select the
Brush tool and choose a large, hard-edged brush. (I used the size 19 brush.)
Painting on the mask with white as the foreground color, paint over those parts
of the image you might not need, assuming you see extra stuff that doesn’t need
to be there. In this case, I cleaned up the lower part of the image. Here’s
my image after cleanup.Adding text which shows the same properties as the
image is done in much the same way the image itself was made.Step
11: Select the Text tool, get a font you like and add some text. I
chose Porky’s and added
a silly comic sound effect word to the image.Step 12: Run
menu option Select » Load Selection… The correct entry will already be
selected by default in the dialog box, so just press OK. The text should now be
surrounded by marching ants.
Step 13: Turn off visibility of the text layer. The text
will disappear but the marching ants will be left behind. (Deselecting right now
would be bad.)
Step 14: Highlight the mask layer and make sure the mask
portion of the layer is selected. Run menu option Edit » Fill… Fill the
selection with black (which should correspond to your current background color
if the mask layer is highlighted, just like the last time we did this). Once
again the pattern fill should show through the mask, making the text look just
like the rest of the image. Press CTRL-D to deselect. (See the Layers
palette at the end of step 14.)
Step 15: Save the PSD, then Save For Web in your preferred
format, and you’re done!
Translation note: The Diffuse (anisotropic) filter may make
translation difficult, but you might be able to replace the use of that filter
with Gaussian Blur, which I think is more widely available. When I tried using
Gaussian Blur it didn’t work particularly well due to my source image being
relatively small. If you use a very large, high quality image and leave it at
the very large size while working on it, Gaussian Blur may work
well.Copyright @ Chris Carter 2006
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Tutorial Photoshop - Easy image contour extraction
We’re going to use for this example a human face, taken, with thanks, from imageafter.com.
OK, let’s get to it.
1. Open the image
2. In the Layers palette, double-click on the Background layer, to
unblock it.
This will
open up a confirmation dialogue - just click OK to move on.
3. In
the same Layers palette, click the Create a new layer button,
to… uh… create a new layer
4. Then
move this new layer below the first one, and fill it with a strong colour, that
will help us later better see what’s going on. We should now have something like
this in the Layers palette:
5.
Click again on the layer containing the photo, to re-select it, then from the
main menu of the application choose Select > Color
Range…
This
will open up a dialogue, which I’ll want you to set up as presented in the image
below:
6.
You’ll notice 3 eyedropper icons, of which the first from the left should (and
must) be selected. Ok, now we’ll want to select, from the image, the color
that’s the most prevalent in the background that we want to eliminate. In this
example, for instance, we’ll want to select the strongest blue from the sky. You
get this by moving the eyedropper cursor over the original image and click on
the spot that best matches the color I was talking about. By doing this, you’ll
see the resulting selection as white in the popup preview, with the “unselected”
image marked as black. Fiddle with this a bit, untill you get the most
convincing white-dark contrast around the edges of the object. Then, ofcourse,
click OK
The result: a selection marquee (those pesky marching ants) marking
the selection we’ve just made:
7. Now,
with the layer containing the foto selected, click on the Add layer
mask button:
8. This
will mask, from the photo layer, everything but the selection we’ve made,
something like in the image below, WHICH IS OK
9. Now,
in the Layers palette, make sure that you have selected the MASK, and NOT THE
LAYER. Once you’re ok with that, choose a brush, set a WHITE foreground colour
and start wiping out any “greens” left out in the sky. We’re after something
like this (a green alien on a perfectly gren-free sky):
10 Once
you’ve done that, all you have to do now is to invert the MASK (CTRL+I) and hide
the green layer below. The rough result should look something like this:
That’s
it! You’ll probably ask “what was all that about the green layer? does it even
have to be green?” My answer to you is that such a “wild colour layer” does
nothing but help better contrast what must go and what must remain in our image.
It’s, as I was saying, just a helper, to be discarded in the end.
Welp, I
made this with a human face, which is fully opaque. If you’re planning to “do” a
car instead, for instance, you’ll probably get empty spots in the green shape of
the car (what with highlights and so on). You guessed it: you’ll have to fill in
those gaps in the mask with a BLACK brush (resulting in green on the image), so
that the final result may be exactly like here: fully-green object on fully
green-free background.
Enjoy.
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Tutorial Photoshop - Three girls posing in the night Illustration
Let’s create a new document with dimensions 500×400 and 72 dpi. Using the
instrument 
, create a
triangle (colour code is indicated with red).
Continue using the same instrument and create
triangles on all the backgrounds - one triangle to one background:
All of them having the same colour:
Continue create triangles:
We’ll get the next picture.
On a new background create a nice star using this instrument 
:
The colour code is indicated again with red.
Make several stars of different dimensions, but of the same color.
And several stars of different colors:
We’ll combine our stars with the triangles and we’ll have the next
picture:
We’ll add some luminescent stars using the instrument Blending Options where
we’ll choose Outer Glow and set out like in this picture:
We’ll get luminescent stars:
Add some extra-effects. We’ll use a big brush of white color on a new
background and make the upper part of the picture brighter. The brush’s
dimensions: hardness – 0% and opacity – 10%:
Also we’ll dark out the edges of the picture by clicking the next instrument
and choosing Curves on a new background:
The menu is open and we can install the next parameters. Seizing the left
point from the bottom.
If anything is done correctly we’ll see the next:
Let’s take the girl’s photo and using the instrument 
, move off
the background:
Applying Blending options and parameter Colour Overlay on the girls’
background set out the black colour.
We’ll get the girls’ silhouettes:
Add the girls’ silhouettes to the result we got before and we’ll see:
Add also a shadow under the girls. We need to copy the background with girls’
silhouettes and use Free Transform (by clicking the right button of the mouse on
the background) and display the silhouettes on 180* vertically. Don’t forget to
change the opacity – 55% on the background.
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Tutorial Photoshop - 3D car in motion
Start by opening a picture you want to use or use the picture I used lambo.jpg
Open the picture and then select the Rectangular marquee tool.
Make a selection like I did below.
Then go to Select>Transform selection.
Now rotate the selection a little bit to the right.Press CTRL+C.Now create a
new layer for it by pressing SHIFT+CTRL+N.And now press CTRL+V to paste the
selection you made.You should have something like this.
Using the Polygonal lasso tool.
Select only the first half from the car,only the car!Again repeat the steps:
CTRL+C to copy it,SHIFT+CTRL+N to create a new layer,CTRL+V to paste the new
selection. Like I did below.
Now you should have something like this.
Now right click the Layer 2 and select Blending options.Like I did
below.
There you only need to select the Drop shadow leaving the default
settings.
Now select the Layer 1 like in the picture below.
Go to Filter>Stylize>Wind.
There make these settings.
Make the same thing for Layer 2.
You should obtain this.
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