This tutorial will create a simple and effective “zoom” effect with your image for your blogs or personal use.

The ultimate trick with this one is to have an image that is too large in the first place. You can use a smaller image, but it’s quality in the finished product will be greatly reduced. As a general rule, never scale up images, only scale down. If you scale an image down, it compresses all of those details and still appears clear, however if you scale it up it tries to fill in all of those now larger spaces with image and begins to appear blurry.

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In this tutorial i will teach you whats good about the new content aware scaling. Along with its slight downfalls that i will also show you how to overcome using some clever but simple techniques. You will require a copy of Photoshop CS4 to go through this tutorial as this is a new feature
of photoshop and will not work in previous versions.

I am asuming that you have a beginner to intermediate level of experience in using photoshop prior to following this tutorial.

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Create a new layer with a black background and add the difference cloud filter. Filters >> Render >> Difference clouds.Make sure to have your foreground and background colors to black/white which will give you the constrasty ‘vain-like’ effect.

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” Learn some light effects that give the fantasy feel to an image.

I was asked to do a couple of photo retouching using Photoshop and photos. So here is one of my 1st tutorials on these techniques. All you got to have is a photo and some skills, do let’s get going with this one.”

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In this tutorial, we’re going to make a creative illustration in a style meant for a video game cover or sci-fi book cover. We’ll create this with mostly photo manipulation techniques. With some cool Photoshop options you can turn all the photos you chose, into one stunning looking explosive cover.

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This tutorial will teach you how to add flames to your images. I’ll be discussing a number of techniques that will help you to keep your fiery images looking realistic, not just intense.

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“Turning a run-of-the-mill photo into a dazzling one is simple – when you know the right tricks. In this tutorial, Photoshop maestro Aeiko shows how to create a variety of light effects that can be applied to photography or illustration with equal impact.”

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