Alpha HalfTone Cut-Away Effect

Another effective tutorial showing us how to create this great effect using an alpha mask in the channels pallet. Nick at www.2gen.net was kind enough to show me this tip last night, so Thanks You! to him for the tip and now ill show you how its done.

1. Grab your image and create a new […]

Water Color Background Effect

This is a very simple effect that can be done easy with only a few steps. This tutorial will show you how to create a waterpaint effect using a couple brushes i found online as well as the gradient tool.

Slap a few brushes onto separate layers no need to be neat, I used a few […]

Post-Lomography Effect

The first time I saw a photo that looked like this, I wanted to shoot one of my own. But, for the longest time I couldn’t figure it out how people took photos look like this. Then one day searching the web, I searched and searched and after trying several different Photoshop methods, I finally came up with my own using a mix of different techniques. By all means, there are probably other ways to do this, but this method has served me well.

Rounded Corners Using CSS

Rounded corners add a nice little design to any page – using rounded corners can be image heavy; So, this post I am going to show you how to make rounded corners using only CSS! This is such a neat little trick and can be very handy.
There are a lot of different methods to make […]

Summer To Winter - Setting the Scene - Part 2

Its cold again after a short little bit of warm weather, I introduced this picture in a past post announcing the new Portfolio slash Gallery. We are going to turn a nice summer photo into a winter photo. This tutorial has a few steps that are covered in “Setting the scene - Part 1” but optional… We will be learning about basic brush functions creating the snow.

Grainy Magazine look

You probably have seen this look many time in magazines and some ads on t.v.,This is a grainy and epic looking style that is easy to achieve with photoshop and a nice Image to work with. Below are 5 pictures from a very talented artist over at www.garylandphotography.com, This look is very impressive and only takes a few steps to complete. While picking a Photo to use remember that you want a bit of texture as well as color.

Create a Rain Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will be lighting up a night scene to give it some added style, These are a few simple tricks that we have covered in the last tutorial “Day to Night ~ Setting The Scene ~ PART.1” . But we will be adding rain as well as animating it. […]

Day to Night ~ Setting The Scene ~ PART.1

This an awesome tutorial, Using a day time Photograph we will turn it into a night time picture with a few simple steps….so find your image or use the one here in this tutorial, to view the original image scroll down! this was inspired by the tutorial over at www.videocopilot.net, If you are an avid […]

Introduction to Photography

Photography is the process of recording visual images by capturing light rays on a light-sensitive recording medium (e.g. film or digital CCD). It can be thought of as two pursuits:

Technical: The science of setting up the camera and the recording medium to take images in a controlled way.
Creative: The art of composing […]

Fresh BubbleYum! ~ Text Effect Tutorial

I had a very nice x mas, Very refreshing to say the least. Kids galore! lol… odd that the font used is called strenuos . But it suites the cause : ). This is another really simple tutorial using only three adjustments to your layers palette, I’ll be getting into some really advanced […]

Cutting to the Sound of the Beat ~ Editing Tutorial

I put this video up on youtube about a year ago, The producers of the Silent Hill Movie chose my town to film part of the movie on our main street down town, I took as many pictures as I could. since the producer of the film ran an ad in our local paper to […]

CS3 “minus” ImageReady ~ Animate .gif Tutorial

First of all, there is no Imageready in CS3. It has been integrated within Adobe Photoshop CS3…quite well infact. Just abit odd to find everything, that image ready did. The process remains pretty much the same despite the change. Follow these steps and you have an awesome animated .GIF

STEP 1 : Have all your layers […]

Retro Text Effect ~ Tutorial Pt.1

This is a very simple retro effect, This is part 1,This is only a three stepper but I will be stepping this one up a notch, but for now find some cool color schemes, All you need is two. lol, I’ll use pink for this tutorial, “Pink - it’s my new obsession,
Pink - it’s not […]

3D Reflection Text effect ~ Tutorial

Create a simple refection effect with a bit of a 3d effect, I ‘ve seen this tutorial done many times but i rarely see this effect taken to the next level, also since reflections are distorted 90% of the time, they may be squeezed, bent, or swirled out of proportion , But thats a matter of taste i suppose. In this tutorial i will be adding a bit of perspective to create the illusion of 3d space, As well as shrinking the reflection for added distortion.

Image mapping ~ Tutorial

I’ve Been using Dreamweaver since the master collection came out, I was really reluctant aspcialy since I had golive, It seemed a bit more user friendly…Then I reformatted my computer and reinstalled everything but golive, Pure laziness kept me from reinstalling golive and the older version of photoshop that came with imageready, Witch allowed you to create slices from a image, Cutting it into small group of your image, then you have an option to grab the HTML code to use in you site . So i have learned the ropes of dreamwever..I found the you can do this with dreamweaver with a lot more simplicity, Here how to map you’re image…A more effective solution as well as it demands less from your server : ) Bonus!

Domino Effect ~ Tutorial

Here is a Sample example of what could be done using this effect. I will be using photoshop, We will make a single domino, but you can fill a background layer. Then select the magic wand tool and click on the text layer( the “T” symbol), Inverse the selection and Press Delete.

Draw a line half […]

Neon Sign ~ Tutorial!

I have been awaiting my internet connection and finally 9 day late, I was
going bonkers. Thankfully having two babies kept me sane…lol,Well since
i had no internet i put together a few new tutorials for us to try. Here is a
neon sign effects that we will make 3-D in a follow-up tutorial..

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