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Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao's heads put on babies' bodies with Photoshop

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 [...]

September 21, 2009 2 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
Tagged With: curves, cut out, montage, Photoshop, technique

New logo and identity designed

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 [...]

July 25, 2008 37 Comments Filed Under: Design
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Using Photoshop channels to create cool montages

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 [...]

March 12, 2008 22 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
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Photoshop trick for smoothing a model’s skin

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 [...]

January 27, 2008 11 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
Tagged With: background layer, double click, gaussian blur, high resolution, model, opacity, palette, Photoshop, portrait, smooth skin, software company, technique, trick

Improving photos with Photoshop by a Graphic Designer

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 [...]

December 2, 2007 14 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
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How to design a montage in Photoshop

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 [...]

November 27, 2007 35 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
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Pop art effect turns photos into icons

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 [...]