Photoshop's Way!: Photo Effects

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Diffusion Glow Effect

published by Kal El at Tuesday, June 16, 2009

INTRO: On this tutorial we are going to learn how to add diffusion glow effect to your images. Personally I really like the results of this effect, it gives a great touch to every picture. This effect makes light skin glow while keeping dark areas.

1-Open the picture you want to use.

2-Duplicate the "Background" Layer to get "Layer 1" and change the blending mode of the duplicated layer to SCREEN.

3-Now add a layer mask to the top layer so go to LAYER>LAYER MASK> REVEAL ALL.

4-Make sure the Layer Mask is selected (The white border will let you know if it's selected, if not just click on the thumbnail).

5-Go to IMAGE>APPLY IMAGE and use these settings:

6-At the moment my image is like this:

7-Now like we selected the layer mask on the step 4, let's select the "Layer 1" layer by clicking on the thumbnail. Remember this time don't select the layer mask but the image itself (white borders must be around the image).

8-Go to FILTER>BLUR>GAUSSIAN BLUR and with the Preview Box checked add some radius until you get the desired result.

9-It's time for us to add another Layer Mask. But we have a problem (Oh no!). Photoshop only allow us to add a Layer Mask per Layer, so what can we do? I have a solution mates! We will simply group the layer so go to LAYER>GROUP LAYERS or press CTRL+G.

10-Now we are free to go. With "Group 1" Layer selected go to LAYER>LAYER MASK>REVEAL ALL.

11- Select the Layer Mask of "Group 1" layer and go to IMAGE>APPLY IMAGE and use these settings:

12-And here are done here my friends, hope you liked it :)

Kal El

Yellow to White Teeth

published by Kal El at Sunday, February 08, 2009

1- Firstly, open your picture.

2- Now select the Polygonal Lasso Tool with Feather 2px.

3- Zoom in if you need to look closer to avoid mistakes and select the teeth.

4- Go to IMAGE>ADJUSTMENT>HUE/SATURATION or simply click CTRL+U and add these values.

5- Press CTRL+D to deselect the selection and voilá, white teeth.

Here's the difference

Kal El

Half-Sketched effect

published by Kal El at Friday, January 23, 2009

1- Open up the picture you want to apply the half-sketched effect. I will use Uma Thurman from the movie "Kill Bill".

NOTE - I'll just open a picture without a background already to make things simplier. If you want download from the internet these kind of picture without background, they are called RENDER, and I recommend you this website to download renders. www.planetrenders.net

2- That said, click CTRL + J to duplicate the layer.

3- Go to FILTER>STYLIZE>FIND EDGES. Press CTRL + SHIFT + U to desaturate the layer. And here's how the picture looks.

4- Bring up the Levels dialog with CTRL+L and adjust the sliders until you get the detail you want.

5- Here's our picture.

6- Add a Layer Mask by going to LAYER>LAYER MASK>REVEAL ALL.

7- With the Layer Mask selected, choose the Gradient Tool

8- Make sure the settings of your gradient tool are like these.

9- Drag the gradient over your image to make some parts of the mask visible.

10- Great! Don't you think? I personally love this effect.

11- Repeat the gradient until you get the effect you want.

Hope you like it, that's all.

Kal El

Censorship

published by Zé Tuga at Monday, December 15, 2008

1-Open the picture you want to work on. On this tutorial we are going to use this one:

2-Select the eliptical marquee tool

3-And draw a shape around the area you want it to be censored. We are going to censore the chest.

4-Go to FILTER>PIXELATE>MOSAIC and choose something between 5 and 10.

5-And it's done, simple and easy but cool :)

Kal El

Parts of Images standing out

published by Zé Tuga at Tuesday, December 02, 2008

1- Open the picture you want to wokr on, here we are going to use a highway sign.

2- Duplicate the layer by Ctrl+J and you'll have your layer palette like this on

3-Select

Polygonal lasso tool and drawn around the highway sign to select ONLY the sign like this:

4- While with the highway sign selected like above click Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer again, and you'll notice only the sign was duplicated because it was selected

5-Erase the layer named background(by holding you left mouse button, dragging and droping it on the trash like the picture shows:

6-Hide your layer 2 by clicking on that eye symbol

7-Click Shift+Ctrl+U or go to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate to desaturate the image

8-Unhide the layer 2 by clicking on that blank square where you had that eye symbol before

9- And it's done, great effect :)

EXTRA:

7a-Instead of doing the STEP 7 to desaturate the picture let's do 7a, 7b and 7c and continue at the normal 8th step, just replace the 7th step for this one. Let's blur it by going to FILTER>BLUR>GAUSSIAN BLUR,