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Thursday, 16 February 2012

How to Create a Chocolaty Valentine’s Day Card for Your Girlfriend

This Valentine’s day, show your true love with a Valentine’s Day card! Whether it’s for your partner or yourself, you’ll have a fun time making it. This tutorial will show you how to create an easy swirling background and how to use layer styles to create a chocolaty text effect. Once you’re done, feel free to customize it with personal photos or just a few cute hearts.

Resources

Cherries Germanstock - Deviantart

Amazing Landscapes using Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop

Step 1 - Photo Selection

Select the photo you'd like to edit. This is apparently the obvious, but there are some important criteria here. Photoshop is an image enhancer, not Jesus Christ, meaning that it makes good pictures look astonishing, mediocre pictures look good, while bad images will just look mediocre. A good landscape shot, is a shot that keeps the maximum detail possible inside the digital color and exposure range. The biggest problem when shooting landscape is the exposure difference between sky and ground if you are not using filters on your camera to prevent this. This difference can be huge in bright noon daylight, up to 12 stops, while it gets smaller during sunrise or sunsets, up to 6 stops. Here in this tutorial we will work on a mediocre picture though, taken during a sunset, in order to perform a lot of enhancing actions regarding exposure, contrast, white balance and vivid colors. But the important fact is that the exposure difference between the sky and ground was not vast, 6 or maybe 7 stops. This picture was taken with a net lens, without any polarizing filter or graduated nd filter attached. Also note that we are working on a JPG, not a .CR2 image.

Resources

Background, sky, clouds, rock, woman, hand- Pelleron-Art
Flames - 1, 2, 3
Helicopter
Cloathing
Sword
Moon
Mist Brushes
Smoke Brushes
Hair Brushes
Bird Brushes

Step 1 - Preparing Background

Download the picture of background and open it in Photoshop. Double click on the name of the layer and rename it to BACKGROUND. It's a good habit to name all your layers properly because it's easier to orient in them later.

Let's make the very first adjustment. Right now the picture has very low contrast. To fix it add new adjustment layer Levels. You can find the button Add new fill or adjustment layer in the bottom part of the palette Layers. If you don't see this palette go to Window > Layers or simply press F7 on your keyboard.

Set the Input Levels on 43; 0,80; 216.

Your image should look like the one below so far.

How to Create an Out of This World, Medieval-Fantasy Themed Photo Manipulation

Resources

Stormy Sea - darkrose42 stock
sky III - nestrstock
Digea Rain Brushes - Jelena Jovovic Photoshop brushes
Tall Ship PNG stock - Alegion-Stock
Dragon T1P1 stock - Shoofly-Stock
Flames Fire Photoshop Brushes - redheadstock
Grungy Paper Texture v.5 - bashcorpo
Canvas Texture White Paper - Enchantedgal-Stock
Waves-Brushes-Sampler - FrozenStarRO

Create a Surreal Arctic Scene in Photoshop

Resources

Step 1

Open the image "Sunset in Finland" and resize it to: 2000 X 1333 pixels. This step is optional but for the needs of illustrating a tutorial this size will be sufficient.