Its easy to add a vignette in Photoshop and their are many ways to do it. In this short blog we show you way to do it using the Lens Correction Filter. Open a picture and duplicatie the layer
Convert the top layer to a Smart Object (Ctrl click on the layer)
Go to Filter > Lens Correction and click on Custom
You can see the vignette section in the middle of the screen. Drag the slider to the left to create a dark vignette. Drag it to the right to create a light vignette, but why should you do that.
Set the midpoint on a place that fits best with your photo.
Easy and quick
By double click on the lens correction in your layer panel you can change the amount.
In real life, it's not an easy feat. But with what I've learned from the guys from Phlearn.com, it's relatively easy to remove a tattoo using Photoshop! Check out this clip:
It shows you how to a remove a tattoo. This video shows you how to work with the
Spot Healing brush tool (J)
Using the brush tool and sample a color
Add skin texture
Working with layers and layer masks
Overlay blending mode in combination with a 50% Grey fill
In a previous post we already talked about text effects. In this blog I show you another text effect. Have a look at this clip to learn about things like Bevel & Emboss and more layers styles.
I thought it great fun to try this out and thus improve my Photoshop skills:
One of the best tutorials I saw last week was this one of Phlearn.
It shows you exactly how to colour your highlights and shadows using two Colour Balance Adjustment layers and Apply image on the mask. I really like the way he explains it: structured and easy to understand.
Just watch this clip when you too want to understand how you to use Apply image to colour control the highlights and shadows of your image.
In a previous blogpost I used Apply image to colour balance the highlights and shadows in Photoshop. There's another way to do it: using Split toning in Lightroom. Here's how: Open a photo:
(pixabay.com)
With Split toning you can make the highlights yellower and the shadows more blueish.
Start with the box next to the highlights. By clicking on the box next to the highlights, you get a screen where you can pick a colour for our hightlights.
Pick a colour that fits your image. Then do the same thing with the shadows. The balance slider helps you to find the best balance between the highlight and the shadows for your image
Before and after (Y)
So split toning gives great results in balancing the colours in the shadows and the highlights. But the big advantage of Apply image is that you can use masks to decide where in the image you'd like to have the effect and, maybe even more importantly: where not. But split toning is a good alternative.
Just have a go, try it out and see what effect you can create in your image.
With the free Adobe Capture you can make patterns, shapes, colors, looks and brushes. In this blogpost I'm gonna show you how to create a pattern using Adobe Capture and use it as background for this photo:
So it starts with downloading the app. Then login with your Adobe Cloud ID. This must be the same ID that you're using for your Adobe Creative Cloud.
Choose patterns and make a 'picture' of something:
Now the fun begins, using the buttons under the picture.
Look: you also can rotate your pattern.
I made these patterns of just a simple plant.
Now save your pattern to a new (or existing) Library. As soon as you saved it, it's syncing it with Photohop. So the patterns from your app are available in your library in Photoshop, sweet as!
Now you can use your pattern in Photoshop. By clicking on the pattern, you create a pattern fill adjustment layer
Use a different blend mode and use a mask to change the background of your image.
If you want a cleaner selection, first make a selection of the model and then add the pattern to the image and use a clipping mask.
If you turn your pattern into a Smart object you can easily change it with other patterns from your Library.
You can tell a story with the colours in your picture. In a previous post we talked about complementary colours. This clip shows you a lot about colour grading and complementary colors.
Complementary colours are pairs of colours which, when combined, cancel each other out. This means that when combined, they produce a grey-scale colour like white or black. When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those particular two colours.
To see what the opposite colour is for, for example a skin tone, have a look at your colour wheel. Here you can find the colour wheel on the Adobe site. Watch the movie and play around with a picture and try to create another colour grade.
