Archives - Photoshop (Easy)

This is a quick and relatively easy way to cover your image with colored squares of varying degrees of shading and equal in size; something you may have seen in magazines. These grid patterns are great for creating both a stylish image/graphic and for use as templates to lay out the text

We are going to create the effect of an object swinging through the air. This raises a couple of challenges, The object will be rotated from one end rather than the center and we want to create the illusion of the object slowing down. No problem Lets do it! Begin with an object that is separated from its background. There are plenty of tutorials that show you how to do that. Place the object on its own layer.

This one is for the Glamor Shots people. We are going to take a picture of a model and soften up the image in a fuzzy kind of way, but still keep sharp detail.

So what makes the difference between an ordinary image that you take with your digital camera and a really great image that you may see on a good website or magazine. The answer... not much at all. You would be surprised at how easy it is to take an plain image and spice it up to make it look like a professional took it. Here is a quick image effect that can really help out when you're in a bind and you need something fast.

Are you ready to shred with Photoshop? This week we will be creating a dynamic edge effect using the eraser tool and one of the cool brushes that shipped with Photoshop 7.

Begin with an image. Here I used part of a background I created earlier.
Make sure that the background is converted to layer if it isn't already. To do that, double click the background name in the layers palette and accept the name that Photoshop offers you.

Well this time I wanted to take a step back from all of that stuff and have a little fun. Since its Halloween I thought a nice effect you can use to spice up the Halloween pictures you send to your family would be appropriate. You don't need Photoshop CS for this - heck, you could do this with Photoshop 5 or 6 if you wanted. All you'll need to start with is a picture of a pumpkin.