Post processing: Digital to fake Black & White Film

Simply desaturating a photograph doesn’t really represent a true black & white film photo. The film has more impact, more puch and more life. A digital photo converted to black & white just doesn’t cut it, it doesn’t look real.
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Create a scene with flying bombs on fire in photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll make a scene with flaming bombs pouring from the sky. This tut is made to show some down and dirty Photoshop tricks that beginners can quickly pick up. It also includes some relatively advanced techniques to help budding designers enhance their workflow. Let’s get started!

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Design a Post-Apocalyptic City Illustration with PhotoShop

In this tutorial, we’ll change a full of sunshine, ordinary photograph into a gloomy image of the world after destruction of mankind. Using simple tools, we’ll turn lively streets into abandoned ruins overgrown with weeds. A number of stock images and a few little tricks will let us optimize our work and make this job more interesting and spectacular.
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Create a Flying Land Illustration On Fire

This tutorial is about creating a fantasy illustration using some dragon images and a few cliffs for creating the land. We also add lava and fiery effects. So, let’s get fired-up for this one!

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How to Create a Water Effect on Text and Graphics

One of the many great things about Photoshop is that you can start with a basic idea and then just start experimenting (a.k.a. playing) to see what you get. Although the following technique was originally designed to make water droplets (and discovered through playing—I mean experimenting), it’s easy to apply the same idea to type and graphics of any kind.
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How To Work With Displacement Maps for Graphics in Photoshop CS4

One of the most creative ways to use the Displace filter in Photoshop is to “map” an imported graphic so it follows the contours of an object in a photo; for example, adding an Illustrator logo to a photo of a T-shirt in a realistic way. Add the editability of vector smart objects and you have a match made in heaven.

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Avanced Skin Softening Retouching with Photoshop

In this article, Jean-Sébastien offers advice on how to achieve skin softening using low and high pass filtering. The article is enhanced with illustrative figures and screen shots, and includes example images from Jean’s portfolio. Read more

Using Smart Objects for Multimask Effects in Photoshop

Let’s start things off with a photograph that requires sharpening. I captured this image with a Leica D-Lux 3 out the window of my car. In the course of touring the back roads of South Dakota’s Black Forest, we were suddenly surrounded by a few hundred mostly peaceful bison, and this guy in particular was close enough to touch (were I endowed with really stretchy Mr. Fantastic arms).

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Coloring a black and white image with Photoshop

Heres a quick and easy way to color black and white images in Photoshop.

1. Open your black and white image in Photoshop

2. Copy the image onto a new layer

3.Select the paint brush tool and set the mode to “color”. I set it at 80 percent opacity. You can use whatever opacity setting you like however.
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Impressive Photo Effect with PhotoShop

There’re so many methods to change your photo’s color, but I will show you some best ways to do that, easy to edit.
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Working with Levels in photoshop

When considering adjusting the black and white point levels of your histogram, ask yourself: is there any region in the image which should be completely black or white, and does the image histogram show this?

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Turn a daylight photo into a night shot

This tutorial will show you how to take a low quality, lifeless and dull shot and turn it into a vivid night shot, with street lamp lightening.
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