Posts Tagged ‘photo retouching’

Amazing Photo-Manipulation by Michael Oswald

Photoshop is probably the greatest software for photo editing. There are many talented digital artists that make the most out of it. And Michael Oswald is one of them. If you haven’t heard of the name yet, he’s an award-winning Photoshop genius from California, USA, who creates amazing artworks from real photographs by using Photoshop. Read more »


Photoshop CS5 Guide: Advanced Features and Fun Photo Effects

As I promised before, I’ve finished writing another Photoshop Guide titled “An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop, Part 4: Advanced Features and Fun Photo Effects” for MakeUseOf.com and now it is available for free download. No matter whether you are a beginner or an advanced Photoshop user, this guide will teach you some cool things for sure.

What will you learn in this guide?

This time, I’ll show you how to make use of some amazing features that came with CS5, such as Content-Aware and Puppet Warp and some handy tools that we had before the CS5 Read more »


20 Pitiful Photoshop Disasters

Photoshop DisastersPhotoshop made photo-editing much easier and fun and is the most used image editing software today among designers. But some designers misuse the gift completely.

In normal life you probably won’t note a missing leg, some abnormal anatomy of a superstar on a magazine cover, but sites like www.psdisasters.com make things clearer by showing those faults.

Seems like photoshop disasters happen everyday and everywhere. And it makes me feel sorry for those guys behind the photo projects, who are just not careful and not responsible enough. Some mistakes are so obvious you won’t even believe they were really printed/published, but they were. Read more »


Learn How To Create a Silhouette from a Photo in Few Minutes

How To Create a Silhouette In PhotoshopWhat is a silhouette? It’s an outline of any figure filled with a solid color, most commonly a dark shade. Like when you look at something against sunset.

Silhouettes are very useful when it comes to graphics, they almost always fit the background, since they don’t have many details to interfere with the whole picture.

In this quick tutorial, you will learn how easily you can create a silhouette from almost any picture in Photoshop.

Keep in mind that the most important step in this Photoshop tutorial is to make a nice selection- the more precise it is, the better quality your final silhouette will be.

Once done with the silhouette, you can turn it into a custom Brush or Shape. How to create one I will show in next tutorial.

Let’s start. Read more »


6 Important Photoshop Tools for Basic Photo Retouching

Important Photoshop tools for Photo RetouchingWhether you are a professional photographer or just taking pictures as a hobby, you still need to tweak around with the photo to make it look better. And you don’t need a lab, as it was before digital photography, all you need now is a computer and photo retouching tools.

Photoshop, as always, is a must have. And if you are using Photoshop only for quick photo retouching you don’t need to master all and everything about the program. You will need the most essential tools. Some of them I will show you today.

These tools are the basics and I will only show the basic usage for you to get familiar with the stuff. All you will need for more advanced methods is practice.

So let’s say you have taken some nice pictures and want to make some changes, corrections and so on and on. Upload it to your machine and open with Photoshop. Read more »


New Service by TrueKolor.net

We are proud to announce the launch of our new Photo Retouching service! If you have an image that you want to be edited [black/white, change background, remove wrinkles/pimples/whatever, etc.] just drop us an email or fill the order form in Prices/Order section. Fast, low price and hi-quality!