Old Worn Effect in Photoshop
August 5, 2008
In this Old Worn Effect in Photoshop Tutorial I hope to explain how you can create the similar effect.
With the below image I wanted to create a dream like, in the past effect, and in this tutorial I will attempt to explain what I did and how you can also do it. This technique is very simple and can be used and manipulated for lots of other things.
Below you’ll see I used a motion blur - although this tutorial is on blurring, you can adapt it to change the background colour but keep the girl the same. All you have to do is think outside of the box and play.
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Old Worn Effect in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial (you can use the image above to try this out), if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Photo Filter - once you’re there click on this for my settings and change your settings to match mine. The colour in the box that I used was 663708 - You can have any colour but it’s important to keep it a dark orange/brown colour.
- Now duplicate your photo filter layer -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer…
- You should now have two image layers and two
Photo Filter layers. Click on your first (e.g. bottom)
Photo Filter layer and then go -> Layer -> Merge Down - Once that’s done you should now have two image layers and one
Photo Filter layer! Set your second image layer to Overlay.
- I hope the above makes sense… it’s a bit tricky to explain. Moving on, go to your remaining
Photo Filter layer and change the Opacity to 70%
- Now press M on your keyboard and you should be using the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Once you have that at the top of Photoshop you’ll see a toolbar and there you will find a little box that says ‘Feather’ next to it. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, Take a look here. - Now inside that little box I want you to replace 0 with 5 (ignore the fact that mine has 55 in it, old screen shot).
- Go to your image and create a rectangle in the middle of your image. Take a look at what I did.
- Once you’ve selected your shape go -> Select -> Inverse - Once that’s done you’ll notice a change to your image.
- Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… on this image I picked black, but you can do anything really, I feel black works best here.
Select your colour and click OK!
- Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Old Worn Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.
High Pass Effect in Photoshop
August 5, 2008
In this High Pass Effect in Photoshop Tutorial I hope to explain how you can create the similar effect.
With the below image I wanted to create a dream like, in the past effect, and in this tutorial I will attempt to explain what I did and how you can also do it. This technique is very simple and can be used and manipulated for lots of other things.
Below you’ll see I used a motion blur - although this tutorial is on blurring, you can adapt it to change the background colour but keep the girl the same. All you have to do is think outside of the box and play.
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High Pass Effect in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial (you can use the image above to try this out), if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Firstly you need to make sure you have your layers palette open. To do that go -> Window -> Layers - “Layers” should be ticked - Once you have done that, locate your layers… look at mine!
- Now go to your layers palette If you look at it closely you’ll see three small tabs; Layers, Channels, Paths - Select Channels you’ll see four channel layers, just like mine here - now you can select one of the layers; I selected red but this was just because it suited the image best.
- Once you select red you’ll notice a change in your image… so then go to your image and use these shortcuts: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + A (selects the image) - CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + C (copies the image) - then click the RGB layer, and then click the layers tab (before you selected “channels”)…
- When you see your normal layers and your image in colour, use this shortcut CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + V (this then pastes the red, grayscale layer onto your colour one).
- Now, still in your layers palette, change the mode to screen
- Now merge your layers together. Layer -> Flatten Image.
- You should now only have one layer - now duplicate it. I always use the shortcut: CTRL (wind) / Command (mac) + J
- Now go -> Filter -> Other -> High Pass - High pass is basically a sharpening tool - I changed my Radius to 4.0 but you can do more or less. Your image should now look very odd… now go to your layer and set it to Softlight - with high pass I sometimes set the layer to Overlay, Screen, Hard light or like I have done this time, Soft light… whatever works for you.
- Aaandddd you’re done. It’s simple but useful, I find. I hope this High Pass Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.
Dreamy Selective Colouring Effect
August 5, 2008
In this Dreamy Selective Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial I hope to explain how you can create the similar effect.
With the below image I wanted to create a dream like, in the past effect, and in this tutorial I will attempt to explain what I did and how you can also do it. This technique is very simple and can be used and manipulated for lots of other things.
Below you’ll see I used a motion blur - although this tutorial is on blurring, you can adapt it to change the background colour but keep the girl the same. All you have to do is think outside of the box and play.
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Dreamy Selective Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial (you can use the image above to try this out), if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Now duplicate your layer. To do this, I use a shortcut: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J
- Now desaturate the image. I use the shortcut: Shift + CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + U
- Then go -> Image -> Adjustments -> Exposure… and once the little box appears change your settings to match my own here.
- Once you’ve applied the settings press OK, then go to your layer palette, locate the layer mode and set it to Overlay. Once that’s done you need to
duplicate your top layer (The overlay one). Leaving you with three layers
- Then go to your middle layer (E.g. Select your middle layer.) Then go Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur and set your settings to 3.0
- Now go back to your top layer and change it from Overlay to Soft light & change the
opacity to 50%
- Simple enough. That’s the main steps, anything after this will turn your image into the “Additional Steps” image that you can see above… so either save your image or carry on
Dreamy Selective Colouring Effect Additional Steps:
- Now press M on your keyboard and you should be using the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Once you have that at the top of Photoshop you’ll see a toolbar and there you will find a little
box that says ‘Feather’ next to it. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, Take a look here. - Now inside that little
box I want you to replace 0 with 30 (ignore the fact that mine has 55 in it).
- Go to your image and create a rectangle in the middle of your image. Take a look at what I did.
- Once you’ve selected your shape go to Select -> Inverse. Once that’s done you’ll notice a change to your image. Take a look at what I did.
- Now go Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… on this image I picked black, but you can do anything really, I feel black works best here.
Once you have your first black layer,
duplicate it! And then change the top black layer to Overlay… which will leave you with two black layers.
- You need to merge all of your layers now. Layers -> Flatten Image.
Once that’s done,
duplicate your layer and then go Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate.
- This is the more tricky part… select your eraser tool, select a soft round default brush, the size should be 30/40 and
opacity at 100%
- Once you have your brush ready you need to go to your top layer and begin to ‘remove the grey’, by that I mean… just erase whatever you want and you’ll see that it turns to colour…
While doing this, if you’re not used to erasing and doing things like this then I suggest you zoom in when it gets more tricky. I left the background black but I coloured her dress and the balloons.
Because I felt her skin was too pale I made my brush a bit smaller 10/20 and changed the opacity to 50% - then I very carefully and slowly went over her arms and face… I also slightly skimmed the eraser over her hair but I lowered the
opacity again… have a play it’s more personal taste.
- Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Dreamy Selective Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.
Channel Mixer Colouring Effect
August 5, 2008
In this Channel Mixer Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial I hope to explain how you can create the similar effect.
With the below image I wanted to create a dream like, in the past effect, and in this tutorial I will attempt to explain what I did and how you can also do it. This technique is very simple and can be used and manipulated for lots of other things.
Below you’ll see I used a motion blur - although this tutorial is on blurring, you can adapt it to change the background colour but keep the girl the same. All you have to do is think outside of the box and play.
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Channel Mixer Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial (you can use the image above to try this out), if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Now duplicate your layer. To do this, I use a shortcut: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J
- Then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Channel Mixer - in the tab at the very top, make sure you’ve selected “Red” and the change your settings to these:
Red: +100
Green: +172
Blue: -66
Constant: -70
- Now select your middle layer (not the original and not the channel mixer layer - the other one)… then go to your layers pallet - if you look at it closely you’ll see three small tabs; Layers, Channels, Paths - Select Channels you’ll see four channel layers, just like mine here - now you can select one of the layers; I selected green but this was just because it suited the image best.
- Once you select blue you’ll notice a change in your image… so then go to your image and use these shortcuts: CTRL/Command + A (selects the image) - CTRL/Command + C (copies the image) - then click the RGB layer, and then click the layers tab (before you selected “channels”)…
- When you see your normal layers and your image in colour, use this shortcut CTRL/Command + V (this then pastes the blue, grayscale layer onto your colour one). You will now have three layers - 2 coloured ones and a grayscale one (your new one).
- You’ll see that the road sign isn’t readable - so I just got an eraser tool (E on your keyboard) and erased a bit of it.
- Aaandddd you’re done. When you try this out on other images, I would suggest fiddling with the Channel Mixer - you may want to alter the sliders a bit to suit your image more as these settings are rather unique. I hope this Channel Mixer Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.
Selective Blurring in Photoshop
August 5, 2008
In this Selective Blurring in Photoshop Tutorial I hope to explain how to blur selective parts in an image.
With the below image I wanted to blur the background and keep the girl completely normal. In this tutorial I’ll explain how you can do this, on this image and others you want to in the future. I’ll be using layers, masks, the brush tool and simple blurring. It may sound complicated but it’s really very easy when you know how.
Below you’ll see I used a motion blur - although this tutorial is on blurring, you can adapt it to change the background colour but keep the girl the same. All you have to do is think outside of the box and play.
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Selective Blurring in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial (you can use the image above to try this out), if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Now duplicate your layer. To do this, I use a shortcut: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J
- Now go -> Layer -> Layer Mask -> Reveal All - your layers should now look like this! Your newly duplicated layer should have a small thumbnail of your image, and another one to the right, it should be white.
- Now on this image I used Motion Blur but in the future you can play with this effect and use any form of blur… So, now go -> Filter -> Blur -> Motion Blur - Once the little box has appeared change the angle to 0 and I changed the distance to 45
- Once you’ve got your blur, go to your layers palette and look at your duplicated layer and also the white layer mask. With your mouse, select the mask.
- Now go to your brush tool, make sure the colour you’re currently using is black. Also make sure that you also have your opacity at 100% and select a round default brush, I decided on the size 35.
- Now start to erase the blurriness that you can see on the girl - your aim is to erase all the burry effect from the girl but also leaving the background blurred. To begin with, you may find it hard, but it gets easier. The best thing to do is go slow and possibly zoom in so you can see the lines better. To zoom in, just press Z on your keyboard, then click your image - it’ll zoom in. Go back to your brush tool (press B) and continue to erase.
- You can have a look at my layer and image half way through here. If you look at my layers and then at the mask (white
box) you should be able to see the black bits… that’s what I’m doing while erasing the girl.
- Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Selective Blurring in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.
Blue, Pink Colouring Tutorial
July 21, 2008
This Blue, Pink Colouring Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and the colours you currently have.
This effect brightens your current exposure and also alters the image colours to a more blue and pink feel. Depending on the colours of the photograph/image you end up using, it can vary as to what the effect ends up looking like.
Once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it to suit your image, and discover new things in Photoshop.
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Dramatic Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial, if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Now download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again.
- Download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color when the first box appears change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Soft light” - then press OK, another box will appear, then select Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again.
- Go into the toolbar, select LAYER -> NEW FILL LAYER -> SOLID COLOR… when the first box appears change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Pin light” - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to 4763b3- then press OK
- Now you need to duplicate your layer, to do that, click on the base layer in your Layers Palette, then go -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer. You’ll see that in your layers palette another layer has appeared, left click on it and drag it to the top so it’s above all of your other lays. Then find the ‘Normal’ drop down menu, and select ‘Screen’.
- OK, now you need to download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again.
- As you may have noticed, a lot of steps in this tutorial are pretty similar, but don’t worry. Download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color…. when the first box appears change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Soft light” - then press OK, another box will appear, then select Load -> Locate the Selective Coloring file you downloaded on this step -> press Load -> OK again.
- Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Dramatic Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.
Selective Colouring: How to use it
July 16, 2008
This Selective Colouring Tutorial will explain how to enhance a select, specific colour(s) on each individual photograph.
You can alter the colours in your image by deepening them, altering the actual colour to something else, dulling them etc. You can do pretty much anything with them. In Photoshop it’s very easy to use Selective Colouring on any image, it’s just knowing how!
Below I have attempted to explain what tool to use and the easiest way of using it. If however you struggle and would like some help, please do leave a comment below or contact us.
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Selective Colouring Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial, if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Once that’s done, go into -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color…
- So, at the moment you should have the Selective Coloring window open, click here, you’ll see that I’ve highlighted certain settings in Red, make sure your settings are exactly the same
- Once that’s done, you’ll see at the top of the window there’s a ‘Colors’ drop down menu, if you click on it, you’ll see a this.
- If you’ve got a lot of Green in your photograph, and you want to change the type of green it is, then you hit the ‘Colors’ drop down menu I was showing you before and select Green. Then below you’ll see four scroll bars, all you need to do is move them to the left or right, play around with the settings.
- The same goes for all the other colours in the drop down menu.
- The same goes for all the other colours in the drop down menu. The White, Grey & Black pretty much change the effect on every image, so it’s always good to have a play with those. Yellow also changes Green, and Red changes not only red, but orange/yellow. The only way to be sure is to try it out yourself and see what happens.
- Anddd….. you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Selective Colouring Tutorial.
Cropping images in Photoshop
July 13, 2008
This Cropping images in Photoshop tutorial will explain how to eliminate something from an image in Photoshop.
In this tutorial I hope to explain clearly how to crop photographs in photoshop. It’s simple but when you’re new to Photoshop it can be slightly confusing.
If my steps are not clear enough, please do leave a comment below and I’ll try to help out more.
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Cropping images in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open Photoshop, then go into -> File -> Open, then locate the file you want to resize, left click on it, then click Open.
- Grab the Crop tool, or simply hit the button C on your keyboard. Now to crop, all you need to do is click and drag.
- How do I click and drag? Left click in one of the corners, I normally start with the top left corner of the photograph. Hold the mouse down and drag your mouse across the image, making an inside square and an outside square, The outside square is the stuff you’re cutting out, the inside of the square is what you’re keeping. Once you’ve done that, your photograph should look like this.
- This last part is pretty simple, find the File, Edit, Image, Layer…. toolbar and just below that, you’ll see something like this. Click the little tick button that’s highlighted in Red.
- Anddd….. you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Cropping images in Photoshop Tutorial.
Layer Blend Modes
July 6, 2008
This Layer Blend Modes Tutorial will help to explain what all the blend modes mean.
They’re all very important when using Photoshop and the more you understand what they do the easier you can work your way around Photoshop. It’s not complicated and a fair bit of it is trying them out as I explain what they all do.
Below I have outlined the different modes in a nice colourful image; further on you’ll see my simple explanations - if you get stuck, leave a comment below and I’ll be sure to reply and help you further.
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Layer Blend Modes - The Steps
- Pink:
The pink section contains four modes in this group; darken, multiply, color burn, linear burn. They all darken your colours in slightly different ways. The best way to see what the four modes do is to grab an image and change the layer mode in your layers palette. Note that they make no difference to white.
- Purple:
The purple section contains four modes; lighten, screen, color dodge, linear dodge. They are the opposite to the pink section, instead of darkening like the pink section does, they lighten everything; again, the best thing to do is try them out. Note that like the darken modes, these lighten modes make no difference to pure black.
- Blue:
This blue section is what some call “Light Modes”, they darken the darkest colors and lighten the lightest colors… allowing the mid-tone to intermix, so that foreground and background remain independently identifiable.
Overlay, Soft Light and Hard Light alternatively multiplies the blacks and screens the whites, but in different degrees… it’s tricky to explain and we’ve found the best way is to try it on a few images. You’ll see what they do and how the different modes can help you.
- Green:
This green section is what some call the “invert section” - these two options invert color of underlying layer depend on brightness of active layer. Sometimes they’re fantastic but they don’t always help - depends what you’re doing. Again, try it out!
- Yellow:
The last section; mode colours. This group of blending mode plays with colours, brightness and saturation.
- Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this Layer Blend Modes Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.
Exposing Tutorial
July 6, 2008
This Exposing Tutorial will explain how to overexpose and underexposed an image.
Often images aren’t quite exposed correctly - in this images below, you can see an underexposed image, along with an overexposed one. In Photoshop it’s very easy to alter the exposure on any image, it’s just knowing how!
Below I have attempted to explain what tool to use and the easiest way of using it. If however you struggle and would like some help, please do leave a comment below or contact us.
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Exposing Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial, if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Once that’s done, go into -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Brightness/Contrast…
- The best way to find out what settings to use with these Brightness/Contrast settings, is to move the two scroll bars to the left and to the right, but to start off with I’ll give you a bit of an idea of what to do. But before we start, make sure the Preview box is ticked.
- If your photograph is too dark and you want to brighten it, changing the brightness will probably help, you can go from 0 to +150, it’s likely you’ll end up with something in between that, but you can also go up to +150 if need be.
- If it’s too light, then do the opposite with the brightness, go from 0 to -150. So to make it brighter, you move the brightness scroll bar to the right, to make it darker, move it to the left.
- As for the Contrast scroll bar… unlike the brightness scroll bar, it only goes to either -50 or up to +50. The constract scroll bar basically adds I suppose depth, or I guess you could call it a type of glow. If you move it to the far left (-50), it would take away all the glow/depth to your image, it you move it to the far right (+50), it’ll add a lot of depth/glow to it, or you could move it to somewhere in between. But basically with this, you just need to fiddle with it until you come up with something you like.
- Anddd….. you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Exposing Tutorial.
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