Comments on: Turn your client’s photos into beautiful images

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:47:39 +0000

Hello E, yes, the best thing to do is to use a great photograph in the first place! But, Photoshop is great at improving stuff that’s good already and stuff that’s not so good! Thanks for your comment.

By: E

Fri, 01 May 2009 20:15:13 +0000

Nice use of Photoshop. I’m a photographer and most of the people I work with are photographers, so we don’t generally have problems with bad images . But you’re right that in the age of photoshop, there are myriad ways ( not just those above ) to make an otherwise dull photo look compelling. E

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:39:44 +0000

Hi Nate, still CS3, I’m afraid.

Roger Hamilton, lots of ways to do the cutting out. With these I just a path and then feathered the resulting selection. I have written about cutting out (and how to get round it without taking hours) here:
http://robcubbon.com/designing-photo-montages-in-photoshop/
http://robcubbon.com/cutting-out/
http://robcubbon.com/using-photoshop-channels-to-create-cool-montages/
Let me know if you have further questions

TinyBird, I think you can do this pretty similarly in Fireworks?

Gregory, funnily enough I’m 40 as well, although it’s not something I shout about. Keep persevering with Photoshop, it’s great fun!

By: Gregory

Gregory — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:46:42 +0000

I am 40 years old and just finished taking a photoshop class and digital photography as part of my Graphic design major and you did a great job with the images.

Regards Gregory.

By: TinyBird

TinyBird — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:17:10 +0000

Wow these are fantastic! Now I have to figure out how to do it in dinosaur Fireworks.

By: Roger Hamilton

Roger Hamilton — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:44:11 +0000

That’s really amazing! I love your work! What’s a better way to cut out the photographs?

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:06:24 +0000

Are u using CS4 yet? if not what type r ya using?

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:19:33 +0000

Hello nina, Vanily and Prevajanje besedil, thank you very much for your comments and praise!

By: Prevajanje besedil

Prevajanje besedil — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:02:46 +0000

Nice tips, thanks.
Pictures looks really fantastic.

By: Vanily

Vanily — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:47:31 +0000

good photoshop work, like it!

By: niña

niña — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:18:49 +0000

very artistic!!!

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:27:28 +0000

Hi Craig. Thank you for your kind words about this Photoshop technique. I see you blog is interesting and well presented. Be sure to pop by again!

By: Craig Farrall

Craig Farrall — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:46:12 +0000

Wow, this looks fantastic, I really love this effect, I will have to try this out one day, I have browsed through your blog, and I must admit, you are very talented, keep up the good work. Craig Farralls last blog post..Firefox Addons

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:05:52 +0000

Thank you Joey, it’s not that difficult to do and makes an ordinary photo look quite special. Good luck with your e-commerce site.

By: Joey Martini

Joey Martini — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:31:48 +0000

Seriously amazing, I could really learn how to do that to input it on my e-commence site. The images you made look really techy, and it when I look at them again I don’t believe that you made them. They look like some professional photographer took them. Congratz

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:00:09 +0000

@John M
@Amy
@Ludo
Thank you for your encouraging comments.
@Henning
Thank you. Feel free to send us what you have created!

By: Henning Nielsen

Henning Nielsen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:19:27 +0000

What a great solution to spice up your pictures. I can definitely use this tip in my daily work with pictures for clients. Also, nice to see new ways to use Photoshop – thanks.

By: Ludo

Ludo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:50:13 +0000

What good pictures !! Photoshop is really good…

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:21:27 +0000

Wow, they look so real! Congrats!

By: John M

John M — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:43:48 +0000

Nice effort. Moreover We have all tools but don’t know their power. I think Photoshop and Illustrator are best tools to do that.

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:18:30 +0000

I know, Tracey, I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to find out about something like this – something pretty from something ordinary.

By: Tracey Grady

Tracey Grady — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:54:07 +0000

This post makes me smile, because so often you get design jobs that require little tricks like this to conjure up something professional-looking from very ordinary material that you are given to work with in the first place. I especially like the examples on the Talent Business website – they look great.

By: Rob Cubbon

Rob Cubbon — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:08:49 +0000

Good point, Aaron, in actual fact, somebody stole my site yesterday and in order to deter them I added a bit of code in the .htaccess file which prevents the hotlinking of images. So everytime an image is accessed from outside your server an alternative image is loaded (my carefully crafted “Stop stealing content from robcubbon.com”). That seemed to deter the thieves! At the same time you were viewing the site from a feed reading aggregator? Which meant your viewing experience was less than perfect! So thanks for letting me know otherwise I would have left it! Cheers, Rob.

Wow, Kayla! Always a pleasure to welcome my esteemed host. Thank you for your comment. Techy, moi?

By: Kayla

Kayla — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:24:37 +0000

These images look so nice, I’d even say techy. Lovely job!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:31:10 +0000

Rob,
Is there a reason that All your images for this post show up as “Stop stealing content! from robcubbon.com”

I should also chastise you for stealing content from..well..yourself…lol.

Otherwise, great post! You always lend me helpful stuff.