In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a unique effect to your photos to make them come alive. We will be looking at creating a cutout of an object or person in a photo to create the illusion that they are emerging from the photograph. In this example, we will be using the following image: Our first step will be to cut out part of the background. PhotoShop makes this relatively easy for us, particularly when we have a background which contrasts the foreground. You can use any of PhotoShops' built-in selection tools or the extract tool for this. We will use the Quick Select Tool to make a selection...

In this tutorial, we will be looking at using PhotoShop's built-in Cloud Render filter and Quick Mask to create more realistic-looking clouds. We will start off with the following image. Let's add a more appealing sky, including wispy clouds. The first thing we want to do is extend the image, to make more room for the sky. Goto Image > Canvas size. This image is currently 400x300, so we'll make it 400x400px: We moved our web sites to Server Intellect and have found them to be incredibly professional. Their setup is very easy and we were up and running in no time. We'll move the photo to the...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a rainbow and blend it into a photograph. In the example, we will start off with the following image: We moved our web sites to Server Intellect and have found them to be incredibly professional. Their setup is very easy and we were up and running in no time. The first thing we will do is to create a new layer. Then choose the Gradient tool and create a new gradient by clicking on the current gradient in the toolbar at the top: We should get the window below. Add a gradient like the one shown below by clicking just below the color bar to add markers...

In this tutorial we are going to look at creating an infra-red nightvision effect on a photo. Server Intellect offers Windows Hosting Dedicated Servers at affordable prices. I'm very pleased! We will start with the following photo: The first thing we will do is to create a new pattern to overlay onto the image to get that scanline look. Open a new document of about 10x10px. Zoom in, create a new layer and delete the background layer so we're working on a transparent canvas. Now draw a 2px black horizontal line at the top. You can hold shift whilst using the Pencil tool to draw straight lines. Press...

Using the Vanishing Point filter in PhotoShop, we can somewhat delve into the world of 3D whilst working with our 2D images. In this tutorial, you will learn how to virtually hang a painting on a wall in an image. We will be using the Vanishing Point filter to get our perspective correct. Need help with Windows Dedicated Hosting ? Try Server Intellect . I'm a happy customer! This is the image we will be working with: The image we are going to put on the wall is this: In our room image document, let's goto Filter > Vanishing Point. Notice the tools on the left - we need to first create a Plane...

In PhotoShop, we can quite easily replace any color in an image with another. Not only this, we can replace different shades of a color in an image. This can be extremely useful when editing photos. In this example, we are going to change the color of a model's lips using PhotoShop's built-in tool, Replace Color. We moved our web sites to Server Intellect and have found them to be incredibly professional. Their setup is very easy and we were up and running in no time. This is the image we will be working with: First, we want to make a selection around the area we are wanting to change the color...

PhotoShop CS3 has built-in tools that make it even easier for us to create dynamic effects in our images. With each of our brushes, we can set values that will affect how our brush paints. In this tutorial, we will be looking into the brush dynamics to recreate human hair so that we can paint realistic facial hair onto our images. Yes, it is possible to find a good web host . Sometimes it takes a while. After trying several, we went with Server Intellect and have been very happy. They are the most professional, customer service friendly and technically knowledgeable host we've found so far. We...

In this article, we will explore how we can add effects to an image to make it look as if it is raining. We will add raindrops as well as puddles. Try Server Intellect for Windows Server Hosting . Quality and Quantity! To create a raining look, we will create a new layer in PhotoShop above our image layer, and we will fill it with 50% gray (select your new layer and goto Edit > Fill, and then choose 50% Gray. Next, we will goto Filter > Add Noise and choose 12.5%, Uniform and Monochromatic. Then goto Filter > Blur > Motion Blur, and choose your desired angle of rainfall and a distance...

Shine – you are our greatest hero, but alas you are also our greatest enemy. We want our resume to shine, we want our bathroom to shine, we even want our kids to shine. We love the shining stars, the shining sun, the shining city on a hill. Truly, shine, you are a shining example who shines through. But… look, we have to draw the line at foreheads. You cost Nixon an election when his shiny forehead advertised his nervous perspiration, and you ruined my prom by revealing to the world that a powder blue polyester tuxedo doesn’t breathe. Shine... enough already. It’s time...