Sunday, July 20, 2008

Free Adobe Photoshop - Photoshop Tips

By David Peters

Do you feel like creating abstract art with photoshop? Well here are some simple steps to create an oreintal flower. Create a new file with dimensions 600x600 and 72 dpi and paint it with the color ffbe00.Using the drawing instrument, draw the pattern of white color it will look like a large apostraphe. Then choosing the function Free Transform turn around the pattern's element horizontally. Turning on 90 degrees around the pattern's axe, set it out. Using the same instrument, continue creating more patterns: Using the earlier method, copy the background with the new element and using the function Free Transform turn around the pattern on 180 degrees vertically, Turning a little around the pattern's axe, set out everything. Using the same instrument, make easy pattern and set it out. Create one more element using the same instrument and also set it out. Then copy the background again with the new pattern and use the earlier method for displaying it correctly in the pattern's composition: Using the same instrument and the same method, draw everything. Make the upper part of the pattern. Now copy and enlarge (Free Transform) the upper petals. Place them under the entire pattern. Set out the opacity of 10% in the backgrounds' window. Now copy and transform on 180 degrees everything except the upper part of the figure and enlarge it a little. Set out the opacity on 33% like in the picture.

Creating a flame that moves is quite fun, in fact all animated gifs are fun to create and watch. To make a moving flame start by creating a new document. Load a candle or something with a flame into this document. ( I used this one )The candle should be in a single layer. To create the flame create a new layer.Draw with a brush a flame with a brown or black color.Duplicate the layer (Layer-> Duplicate Layer)Now use: Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur and Filter->Blur-> Motion blur. Use this filters several times for your flame. Create a new layer, again. Filter-> Render-> Clouds. Change the 'Blend mode' from 'normal' to 'Color Dodge'.

The basics of photoshop, well one major thing is learning how to save your picture history. Start by opening a file you've been working on or create a new file. Then go to Edit > Preferences > General. Check off "History Log". You then have three options to choose from. I will describe what each of them do. To begin, let's choose "Metadata". You then have three options with the "Edit Log Items". Start working on your file by creating layers, adding fills or gradients, using filters, etc. Then go to File > File Info > History. Notice how it keeps track of each step you take. Save this file and close it. Then open it back up again. Notice that the history is still there! Let's look at the second option for the history log. Go to Edit > Preferences > General. Choose "Text File" this time and save the file to a folder of your choice. I chose to save mine to the desktop. Again, work on your file by creating layers, adding fills or gradients, using filters, etc. Now go to wherever you saved your text file and open it. Notice that it keeps track of each step you take! The final option for the history log is "Both". This option saves your steps in both the History section as well as the text file. So there you have it. Three different ways to save every step you take during a design process without losing the information when closing the file. Enjoy!

When you are creating a brush you can save and delete it, heres how: To Save Modified Brush Preset: After you make a modification to you brush shape or brush dynamic, you can save brush by do one of following using Brush Palette. Using Brush Palette Menu and select New Brush Preset. Click New button at bottom Brush Palette. If you use Small Thumbnail or Large Thumbnail you can click at empty area (your cursor will turn to indicate you can click to save the brush). To Delete Brush Preset. You can delete unwant brush by do one of following option: Select brush you want to delete and select Brush Palette Menu and select Delete Brush. Select brush you want to delete and click Trash Button Select brush you want to delete Right Click or Control + Click (for MacOS) and select Delete Brush.

Sometimes you wanted that cool yellow moon effect, well its easy enough to turn a full moon into a harvest moon. Open an image of a normal looking moon in Photoshop.Select the Eliptical Marquee tool. Create a perfect circle around the moon. Goto Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. This will turn the moon to black and white. Goto Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the Yellow slider to the left to give the moon a yellowish color. Click OK. Create a new layer. Make sure the circle selection is still there. Use the Paint Bucket tool and fill the circle selection with a bright yellow. Change the layer mode for the yellow circle layer to "Multiply". Right click the Yellow Circle layer from the layers palette. Choose "Blending Options" from the pop-up list. Set the properties for "Outer Glow". Click OK and you should now have your Harvest Moon.

Adding cool effects to photos is quite amusing. A fun one is to split apart a picture like a puzzle. First find an image of Guitar. Then open the saved picture in photoshop. We are going to split the image.Go to Views>Rullers.Or simply press CTRL+R.Then using the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy and paste the selected part in a new layer. Repeat these steps until all the parts of guitar is selected.Try drawing different rectangles because we want to add this puzzle effect. Select a layer and choose the blending options. Again apply the stroke effect as needed. Now right click the layer you applied the effects and select Copy layer style. Go to next layer and right click on the layer and choose paste layer style. Paste the layer style to remaining layers. Click Ctrl+T and transform each layer. With some Gradient Effect you can get a better effect.

Folow these instructions to add a contemporary frosted pixel overlay to your photos. Open a picture into Adobe Photoshop. Next, press Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer. Change the blending mode to Overlay. Go to Filter> Pixelate> Mosaic and in the Mosaic Photoshop filter settings, set ethe pixels to the size that you want the squares to be. Then, press Ctrl+J to duplicate the top layer and change the blending mode from Overlay to Multiply. Now go to Filter> Stylize> Find Edges. Press Ctrl+Shift+U to desaturate the outline so that they don't have any color to it. Go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur and add a little gaussian blur to the outline which will add the frosty effect.

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