Entries for the 'Adobe Photoshop/Camera RAW/Bridge' Category

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Use alpha channels as texture channels (also know as bump maps) inside Photoshop's Lighting Effects dialog. Create alpha channels to be used as interesting textures with the clouds and add noise filters

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Use an alpha channel, which is nothing more than a grayscale mask (think layer masks), to remove a subject from a background.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Add some finishing touches to your digital painting by painting in some more texture with a low flow brush setting and adding a canvas stock image for added realism.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Turn a photographic image into a realistic, digital painting. This photo painting technique uses the smudge tool in conjunction with various brush presets.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. In the last part of the globe exercise, we tweak the brush settings for the standard round, soft brush and create a starry backdrop for the globe to sit on.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. In Part 2 the text gets a cosmic makeover with layer styles and various filters.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. We finish up the simple globe graphic we started several months ago and turn it into a realistic-looking, 3D celestial body. Part 1: We give the globe a dramatic makeover.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. You can apply many filters directly to the color channels. Here I've quickly applied a gaussian blur to the blue channel and desaturated the image for an interesting softening effect.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. A quick and dirty trick using channel mixer to simulate the look of infrared film.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Add varying amounts of noise to each color channel to achieve a tighter film grain than just adding noise to the entire image in Layers.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Build your own color wheel from scratch and learn a little color light theory along the way.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. As requested, we go through the entire Glamour Shot Retouch video and give step by step instructions.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. We show you how to turn a scan of an ink splotch, into a Photoshop brush! Use your custom brushes to create an infinite amount of backgrounds.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. This time we get rid of a red color cast in our image by analyzing our histogram and making the necessary adjustments in Levels.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Utilize the histogram palette and the Levels histogram to correct low contrast images. Set a new black and white point to correct a narrow tonal range.

In this video we go over some basic shortcuts, settings and workflow ideas. Tab key, caps lock, brackets, CTRL+J and ALT click on the layer eyeball just to name a few.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Three methods of appying split tones, different tones in the highlights and shadows, in Photoshop. Hue/Saturation adjustment layers, Hue/Saturation + Solid Color adjustment layers and Color Balance adjustment layers.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Gradient map is a fun and easy way of achieving "popping" black and whites.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. One of the most popular methods of black and white conversion, adjusting the individual channels in Channel Mixer is like shooting with red, green and blue filters.