In this tutorial, we will look at creating a magnifying glass from scratch. You can use this guide for any underlying image or text, to make it look as though it has been magnified somewhat. We migrated our web sites to Server Intellect over one weekend and the setup was so smooth that we were up and running right away. They assisted us with everything we needed to do for all of our applications. With Server Intellect 's help, we were able to avoid any headaches! We will start with a blank canvas with the text or image we will have underneath the magnifying glass: Next, make a selection with the...

As with allowing us to create our own brushes and gradients, etc. PhotoShop allows us to create our own Custom Shapes. A Custom Shape in PhotoShop is a vector graphic, which means it can be scaled without any loss in quality. The Shape has no major details or color, but can give us a great basis to start from, or even to use on their own in vector compositions. Once added to our document, we can rasterize the vector shape, and apply filters and styles to them. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create Custom Shapes from any graphic you open in PhotoShop. Yes, it is possible to find a good...

There are many many brushes to download for PhotoShop to use in your digital compositions. But you can also create your own, too. PhotoShop provides the amazing extensibility to create custom brushes, gradients, shapes, styles, etc. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your own brush preset so that you can easily replicate shapes and/or patterns. Need help with Windows Dedicated Hosting ? Try Server Intellect . I'm a happy customer! We will start off with this royalty-free image we downloaded: Now, our aim is to create a black and white image, with the correct contrast to make a successful...

A more advanced way of making a selection and extracting images is to use the Pen tool. The Pen tools is more a way of working with vector shapes, and let's us get some really nice curves. It's a lot more useful than using the marquee selection tool for smooth selections/extractions. If you're looking for a really good web host, try Server Intellect - we found the setup procedure and control panel, very easy to adapt to and their IT team is awesome! In this demonstration, we will extract this boy's face from the background using the Pen tool: We can either use the Pen tool or the Freeform Pen tool...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a desk-top arrangement that can be used as an interface. We will be creating a wooden table-top, and then place sheets of paper on top, and also a stickynote pad. If you're ever in the market for some great Windows web hosting, try Server Intellect . We have been very pleased with their services and most importantly, technical support. The first thing we will be doing is creating the wooden desk-top. We can use an earlier tutorial for this, Creating a Wood texture : Once we have a table, we will begin to add the sheets of paper. Make a selection like...

Creating a Web Navigation Bar is relatively stragiht forward in Adobe PhotoShop. In this tutorial, we will look at how we can create a simple navigation bar for a website, and how we can use slices to export the images and HTML. Server Intellect offers Windows Hosting Dedicated Servers at affordable prices. I'm very pleased! We start with a blank canvas. In this tutorial, we will be using a small canvas to demonstrate just the navigation bar, but in a real world example, you'll probably design the whole website in PhotoShop on a larger canvas. The first thing we will do is to outline our nav bar...

High Resolution images are becoming more and more popular and easier to create, but the Web isn't really keeping up. With transfer speed limitations, it's not as logical for us to display hi-res images as easily as we may want to. PhotoShop have added a feature into CS3, with the help of Zoomify, that will allow us to export hi-res images and display them on our web site. The process makes use of Adobe Flash Player to display the hi-res image with the ability to zoom in on different areas. This allow the loading of the hi-res image as needed. In this tutorial, we will look at how we can export...

In this tutorial, we will be using the Starry Sky we created in an earlier tutorial and we are going to add a planet into the scene. 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 start with the image we created earlier, which is a starry night sky: We will then make a perfect circle selection with the Elliptical Marquee tool and holding Shift as we size: We then choose two colors in our palette that we want our planet to be. Then we goto Filter > Render > Clouds. Next, we want...

Removing unsightly blemishes in photos is one of the biggest uses for PhotoShop, particularly in the media. PhotoShop makes it easier to do this with every release. This tutorial will show you how you can touch up your own photos by removing bumps, spots, moles, scars, etc. Server Intellect offers Windows Hosting Dedicated Servers at affordable prices. I'm very pleased! We will start with the following image: We are going to use the Heal tool ( ) to clear the skin in this photo. We will use a brush Diameter of 15px and a Hardness of 0%, and zoom in to the problem areas. Once we are zoomed in, we...

This tutorial will show you an easy way to create a random starry night sky, using just a few of PhotoShops tools. You can make the document any size you want, and can decide how many stars you want! First thing we do is create a new document and fill the background black. Make sure the background layer is active (not locked). If it's called Background , double click the layer and press Ok. If you're looking for a really good web host, try Server Intellect - we found the setup procedure and control panel, very easy to adapt to and their IT team is awesome! Once we have our black background, we...