How to create an Intense & Dramatic Portrait Effect Photoshop

How to create an Intense & Dramatic Portrait Effect Photoshop

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Make eyes equal in Photoshop (Part1)

Open and image

Her right eye is smaller. In Photoshop we can easily fix this!

Select her left eye with the lasso tool 

Feather the selection with 10 px

Hit Ctrl or Cmd J to get it anohter layer

Now hit Ctrl or Cmd T to open the Free Transform   Ctrl Click in the middel and  Flipt it horizontal 

Move the eye over the right eye  (lower the opacity to see if it fits)

Add a layer mask anad remove part you dont want with a black brush

Now the eyes are eagel

Now you just have to clonestamp the softbox from her right eye to the left eye and 

now the eyes are eaqal

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How to create a beautiful sunset effect in Photoshop

How to create a beautiful sunset effect in Photoshop 

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Colorise your black and white images in Photoshop

In Photoshop its easy to colorise and black and white image.

Here is how it works. First open an image

In this case I want to make the water a little blueish.  So i add a Solid color Adjustment layer and choose a light blue color

Change its blending mode to Color.

Now the picture is completely blue.  So fill mask with black and paint with a soft white brush over the water.  Lower the Opacity of the layer and you get this.

You add more sold color adjustments layer and fill it with other colors to give other parts of your picture also some color.

Cool and simple !  And by double clicking on the solid color you can easily change the color.

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How to use the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop

Watch this movie to see How to use the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop.

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One way to color hair in Photoshop

In Photoshop their are several things to do something.  For example change the color of hair.

This is a very simple way.

Open your image

Add a new empty layer and paint with a soft brush over the hair. Be as accurate as you want.

Change the blending mode to soft light. Now you can see the hair of the woman is lighter.

Now add a Hue and Saturation adjustment layer and clip it to the underneath layer.  Click colorize and change the hair in the color you like.

Easy and fast way to change the color of someones hair.

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How to add a black border in Photoshop

This post is about quickly adding a black border round your picture.

1. Open your border 

2. Open the picture

3. Move your picture to the border using the move tool (V)

4. Select the image layer and use Cmd or Ctrl T to scale it, so it fits the border

5. Unlock the background layer and move it on top.

6. Change the blend mode of the border layer to Darken or Multiply. Voila! 

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Add a vignette in Photoshop using the Lens Correction Filter

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.  

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How to remove a tattoo in Photoshop

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

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How to create patterns for Photoshop with Adobe Capture

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.

Here's a clip on how to do it: 

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Lots about Color Grading in Photoshop

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.

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How to Make Caricature in Photoshop

After a fab summer we've just had a few autumnal days and what better to do than to brush up on your Photoshop skills. 

I really liked this clip from Photoshop Tutorials on editing an image into a caricature. 

And ofcourse I had a go at it myself. I started with this image: 

And transformed it into this caricature:

When you follow the steps in the video you learn how to use the liquify filter and how to use the warp tool. I had great fun figuring it all out, I hope you too!

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