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Hi all,

Here is a quick tutorial on Photo manipulation, hope it will help you.



Download source images - http://www.zumodrive.com/share/dfReNjhlNm

1. Open image_01.jpg in Photoshop, copy and paste image_02.jpg.
2. Add or erase unwanted part from image, only keep left mountain as shown in the image.




3. Add image_03.jpg (cloud) on the top and change the blending mode to "Luminosity" and opacity to 80%. Erase bottom part with soft brush to merge with the composition as show in the image.





4. By using Lasso selection tool or pen tool make a selection of the statue, to merge with the composition use "Grass brush" to eraser bottom part.

5. Select brush tool and paint some shadow to the bottom left of the statue.




6. River painted with the brush (I draw the shape with Lasso tool and painted over that with brush) composition will look something like this -





7. Create new layer and use Elliptical marquee tool to draw moon, duplicate the layer and add Gaussian Blur (as per the requirement) I keep 8 radius. Change the blur layer mode to Linear Dodge (Add) and decrease opacity to 80%.



8. By using soft big brush I added haze. For waterfall I choose small brush and painted on new layer.





Layers stacking order -


9. Time for using Adjustment layer, rather than explaining each of them following image will tell you in detail.



10. Composition will look like this -


11. Painted some birds to add life in the composition -


12. Press CTRL+A and then CTRL+SHIFT+C for Copy merged, press CTRL+V for paste on the top of every layer.
13. Press CTRL+J twice it will add two duplicate layer.
14. Select top layer then go to Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur, keep radius 8.0 pixel. Change blending mode to Soft Light and decrease opacity to 40%.







15. Select bottom layer (2nd in stacking order) go to Filter - Other - High Pass







16. Create a new blank layer add white color then go to Filter - Lense Corrections and keep the value as below. Change blending mode to Multiply and opacity to 50%.





17. Final result will look something like this!

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Hi All,

Here is tutorial on creating glowing text effect in Photoshop.





For this tutorial we have to create a custom brush by using very basic shapes in Photoshop.

1. Create a new document with 640 x 480 resolution, fill it with black color name this layer as Background then create a new layer on top of this layer.

2. Go to Custom shape shortcut is "U" key then select line tool increase the width of line as 10 px.



3. Draw three lines on different layer as shown.

4. Go to Filter - Distort - Shear, keep same setting as show in image or as you like.





5. Select all 3 lines layer and merge them down.



6. Go to Edit - Define Brush Preset - Name it as you like.



Hurray! Our cool brush is ready now try to use it.

7. Create a new document of 1600 x 1200 size and fill it with black color.

8. Press keyboard "T" key for Type tool, Horizontal type tool.

9. Type "Photoshop", I use "Forte Font" for this tutorial which I downloaded from http://www.fontyukle.com/en/Forte.ttf

10. Ctrl + mouse left click for making selection of text.



11. Go to Windows - Paths - Click on Make Work Path From Selection, this create work path.



12. Delete text layer but work path should be active or not deleted.



13. Press "B" key of your keyboard by default our new created brush is selected if not select that.

14. Press "F5" or click on Toggle the Brush Palette and Keep 30 px as diameter and spacing 1%.



15. Create new layer and select Pen Tool by pressing "P" key change foreground color to white.



16. Right click on on Path and select stroke path - Stroke Path - Brush



17.Follow the same step for 4 or 5 times. Image will look something like this -



18. Press delete key to Delete path, create new layer on top rename it as color and change its blending mode to Color.



19. Use gradient as you like, I am using blue color gradient show in image.



20. For more fun add black to light black color to background layer.



21. Create a New layer under text, go to Line tool and create horizontal line about 20 px under the text.



22. Go to Filter - Gaussian Blur - Keep Radius amout as 12 px.



23. Decrease the opacity of layer to 65%.

23. Make a duplicate of Text layer and flip it Vertically, decrease it opacity to 10%.

24. Use marquee selection give it 10 feather (Shift+F6) and delete some text as show in image.





Hope you enjoy this Tutorial.

Few samples -

Hi All,

A very quick tutorial on how to create dotted line, circle and any other object.

1. I have created a new document in Photoshop size about 1600 x 1200.

2. Fill with any color, I filled with white color.

3. Press "B" for Brush and from brush select drop down select Basic brushes.



4. Press F5 or click on Toggle the brush palette.

5. Go to Brush Tip Shape option and increase the spacing as per your requirement. I have kept 150 as amount. Now if you use this brush by Holding shift key you can draw straight line.






6. Remember before drawing an object please select Paths option shown in image. If you want in circular dotted line then draw a circle by using Ellipse Tool (Shortcut is U).



7. Draw proper circle by holding shift key.

8. Then Press "P" key for pen tool.



9. Right click on circle shape and select Stroke Path option.



10. Select Brush in this option.



11. Now press delete key to delete that path.



You can create your own brush or try this option on path using pen tool and drawing any shape.


You can create brush as per your requirement (Straight line or curve line) and can apply using same trick.

Hi All,

Few quick way to create backgrounds in Photoshop from Scratch.

So lets start.

First of all lunch "Photoshop"

We will go one by one step so lets do it!

Tutorial 01[/FONT]

1. Create new document with any size (depend upon you), press keyboard "D" key for default ket and fill it with Black color.

2. Go to Filter - Render - Cloud.



3. Then go to - Filter - Render - Fibers - keep Variance and Strength amount as 4.0, press OK. Name this layer as "Fibers"



4. Make a duplicate of Fibers layer name it as Fibers_02.

5. Go to Filter - Texture - Mosaic Tiles - keep Tile size as - 100, Grout width as - 1 and Lighten Grout as 10.



6. Create New layer on the top of Fibers_02, Set layer mode to color (We are try to color our B/W image, I fill this layer with "R - 183, G - 205, B - 209", you can fill this with noise gradient.



We can use this background to create scary scene background and tiles.









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Tutorial 02

1. Create new document with 1600 x 1200 px size (depend upon you).

2. Fill it with white color (press "D" for default color and press "Ctrl+Backspace" on keyboard to fill it with white color)

3. Press keyboard "B" for brush then select "Basic brush" from drop down (you can select any brush preset), select 60 number brush. I have increased its master diameter 200 by right clicking on workspace and putting 200 value in master diameter.






4. Press F5 or press Toggle the Brushes palette. In palette press on Brush tip Shape and in spacing keep the value to 200%. Go to Other Dynamics option and set control to Fade, 100 amount.



5. Now time to use this Brush. Create a new layer name it as circle.
By using this brush I have created this background. Hmmm.... not that good... Ok time to improve this!



6. Double click on circle layer and go to gradient overlay, I have choose following color you can choose as per your choice.



7. Then on background layer and choose Noise samples as shown in following image.



8. Select second number Noise samples gradient.



9. Keep Linear gradient on it half fill it as shown in following image.



10. Then go to Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur.



11. Set Gaussian Blur Radius to 224.0 pixel.



12. For more soft glow we will make copy of Circle layer and then go to Filter - Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur and Set Gaussian Blur Radius to 20.0 pixel.



I have reduced the opacity of layer to 50%.

Few examples of this trick -