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How to put one image inside another image

There is an ad campaign in London at the moment for Portuguese tourism. You can see 48-,24- and 16-sheet adverts in the tube with giant portraits of famous Portuguese celebrities (Cristiano Ronaldo, José Mourinho) with a landscape showing through the image. Something similar to this effect that can be achieved with only a few clicks [...]

May 18, 2008 22 Comments Filed Under: Marketing, Photoshop
Tagged With: ad campaign, adverts, background image, celebrities, default background colour, foreground and background, image inside an image, josé mourinho, landscape, layer icon, london, palette, Photoshop, photoshop effect, portraits, portugal, psd, ronaldo, tourism, white background

Using illustrators to help with designs

Finding a graphic element to illustrate an abstract or dry subject is a creative challenge. You find yourself being pulled in one direction to beautify your work and in the other to explain the subject in hand. I am continually searching around for images, illustrations or graphics that will compliment articles with heavy corporate or [...]

July 5, 2007 4 Comments Filed Under: Design
Tagged With: artwork, corporate, creativity, design, element, elements, email, emailing, formatting, graphic, graphics, Illustrator, illustrators, images, landscape, Photoshop, portrait, portraits, squares, trace

Improving photos with Photoshop

This is about the very basics of improving landscape photography. For years I’ve been taking rather bland photos of both natural landscapes and cityscapes and then pushing those pixels to bits in Photoshop. One of the most important things to learn in Photoshop is selecting areas of pictures. For example, in the Tower of London [...]

November 23, 2006 4 Comments Filed Under: Artwork, Photoshop
Tagged With: images, landscape, photo, Photoshop