Posts tagged as photoshop

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Created 2 cartoon versions of this stock photo I have. Highlighting different elements created 2 images with their own look and feel. For instance, one has fuller lips than the other.

Created 2 cartoon versions of this stock photo I have. Highlighting different elements created 2 images with their own look and feel. For instance, one has fuller lips than the other.

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Align Objects to the Canvas in PSD

You can center objects on the canvas in Photoshop really easy. Just select the object layer and the background layer. Under the Menu bar you can then click the different alignments.

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The Back Story Have you seen those different “Milk” designs floating around? (Milk Poster Examples) I decided to put my own little spin to it. Take it a step further. Seemed easy enough in my mind to do— Yea, well come to find out not so much. I took some sample low res images to quickly judge how difficult, and how exactly to carry out my idea. The above photo is what came out of it. Take Aways I now have a new respect for using the Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer. Changing the color of milk is a bit of a chore. Notice the differnce between the “C” & “M”. After playing around with the “M”— for a freaking hour— I totally know how to go about this now. ———————————————————————————————————————- Hypothesis (starting out): Quick & easy, an hour tops. Grab some stock images of milk splashes, change the color, place it on the letters and done. (SO WRONG) Conclusion (after taking the first pass): Each letter can take a good 15 - 30 mins each (not including hunting down the right photo for each letter) “I’m a perfectionist, big whoop, wanna fight about it?” Tell me what you think?

The Back Story

Have you seen those different “Milk” designs floating around? (Milk Poster Examples)

I decided to put my own little spin to it. Take it a step further. Seemed easy enough in my mind to do—

Yea, well come to find out not so much.

I took some sample low res images to quickly judge how difficult, and how exactly to carry out my idea. The above photo is what came out of it.

Take Aways

I now have a new respect for using the Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer. Changing the color of milk is a bit of a chore.

Notice the differnce between the “C” & “M”. After playing around with the “M”— for a freaking hour— I totally know how to go about this now.

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Hypothesis (starting out):

Quick & easy, an hour tops. Grab some stock images of milk splashes, change the color, place it on the letters and done. (SO WRONG)

Conclusion (after taking the first pass):

Each letter can take a good 15 - 30 mins each (not including hunting down the right photo for each letter) “I’m a perfectionist, big whoop, wanna fight about it?”

Tell me what you think?

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Often times CREATING the actual design is not the most time consuming - it’s laying it out & figuring out what the hell you’re going to do.
— Shala
Link Get rid of unwanted powerlines in photos using #Photoshop CS5

Keep in mind the beauty of design software. You can take this technique and apply it in other ways. Use it to delete other unwanted elements in your photos. Think this may be my next vid-

Link Design bundle worth checking out from @envatophoto (great value for 20 bucks)

- Product Mockups

- Graphics

- PSD Add ons

- Print Templates

*AND A LOT MORE*

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In this video I show you how to change the color of your shirt mockup / template. Also, learn a cool trick for giving your shirt mockup a little something extra.

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I created the “after” photo using the Grunge Overlay Texture from wegraphics.net, and one of their torn paper brushes to create the torn affect. The goal was to make the “Before” image look worn, faded, and torn. (Watch out for the video tutorial - TBA)

I created the “after” photo using the Grunge Overlay Texture from wegraphics.net, and one of their torn paper brushes to create the torn affect. The goal was to make the “Before” image look worn, faded, and torn.

(Watch out for the video tutorial - TBA)

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I show you how to change the color of your shirt mockup templates. Plus, for those shirt mockups that have wrinkled tees, learn how to wrinkle your design so the whole shirt (including the design you place on it) looks wrinkled.

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So I checked out this tutorial Typographic Portrait. It shows you how to take a portrait and have text wrap around the subject (in mine a woman) using some blending tools and the displace tool in Photoshop. Overall the tutorial was good, it heads you in the right direction. However I did notice in the comments people having trouble with following the tutorial so I decided to give it a shot.


Around Step 5 is when it started to get a little hairy for me, so I ended up carrying out techniques that I already know for Steps 5 - Step 8, to complete the final photo.


I plan to do a video tutorial on it hopefully today and get that posted, and that way you all can try completing this project again.


What I like about this, is notice how the text only appears her skin, not in her hair or on her dress. This gets accomplished by the displacement tool as well as changing the blending mode of the layers.


Something else that would be fun, would be to go and remove the tattoo from the back of her neck, so that there is skin all the way down. This would be fun because there are a lot of shadows going on in that area, so I would have to pay close attention to shading and lighting when removing the tatt.