I’ve done many articles about Photoshop in this blog. And many of them concern photo montage where a composite photograph is created by joining two or more other photographs. However, this article has come from something I’ve seen in studying my Google Analytics. An awful lot of people arrive at my site having typed the [...]
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Article filed under: Photoshop on September 21st, 2009 2 Comments
I have created an identity for IMG Associates who are a China based contract manufacturer and distributer of fine kitchen and bathroom furniture. This is for business stationery, online catalogues, print material and eventually a website. The company is committed to manufacturing high quality products and strives for design excellence in every facet of its [...]
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Article filed under: Design on July 25th, 2008 35 Comments
A client of mine was illustrating an article about the World Economic Forum whose annual meeting is usually held in scenic Davos in Switzerland. My client was keen to stress the importance of interconnectivity within both the forum and the wider business community and gave me an image of connected wires of light to marry [...]
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Article filed under: Photoshop on March 12th, 2008 21 Comments
This is a quick technique to even out blemishes in a model’s skin. I came across this by accident but I think it’s a really good way to instantly make people pictures look more eye-catching and professional. It also has the effect of brightening and adding contrast. Very simple. Get the layer you want to [...]
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Article filed under: Photoshop on January 27th, 2008 10 Comments
The above picture is one of my snaps taken very quickly at the end of clearish autumn day. I have improved this picture with Photoshop by selecting certain areas and altering the colour, brightness and contrast. I first thing I did was to copy the photo to a new layer (Cmd/Cntl-J) I then use my [...]
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Article filed under: Photoshop on December 2nd, 2007 14 Comments
Here, as promised, is a short tutorial about creating montages. Here is a montage of three different images which gel together without having to laboriously cut anything out. Layer masking with a brush I sized the cityscape image over the picture of the girl and played around with layer blend modes until I chanced upon [...]
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Article filed under: Photoshop on November 27th, 2007 30 Comments
I used a slightly different technique for the above picture of David Beckham than my earlier pop art example. This time I put the Threshold layer (Image > Adjustments > Threshold) on the top and set it’s Layer Style to Multiply. Some of the underlying image was coloured in, some was Posterized (Image > Adjustments [...]
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Article filed under: Photoshop on October 6th, 2007 7 Comments
Due to extremely large demand I am only making pop art images for people who are prepared to pay £200 first. If you really want a pop art picture you can read the tutorial below and do it yourself. Most pop art pictures in the public’s imagination contain a photograph that has been reduced to [...]
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Article filed under: Photoshop on July 13th, 2007 42 Comments
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