Photoshop Zone

One of the things I’ve seen around quite a bit lately is a transparent rainbow gradient effect on a dark background. It seems to me that flashy transparent gradients are in these days. They make me think about magic. Today I’ll show you how you can create a magical rainbow color flame. OK, maybe I’m using too many words in a row here, but it’s the best I can do to describe this. I should tell you upfront that for this tutorial basic knowledge of Photoshop is needed. Draw smoky lines First we start with the creation of the smoky lines by using the Pen tool . Use a white fill for each shape layer and an Opacity of 40% . Set the Layer mode of the layer to Overlay and the Fill to 0% . Double click on the right on one of the layers to open the Layer Styles . Add a white Drop Shadow of 100% Opacity and set the Blend Mode to Overlay . Distance and Spread is set to 0 and Size to 11 . Next, make sure to uncheck Layer Knocks Out Shadow . Now ch...

I’m finally back from vacation, armed with thousands of photos that I really don’t know what to do with. So over the next few weeks, as I’m sorting through the photos I took in London and Paris, I’ll be releasing tutorials and providing you with the images so you can follow along. In today’s image, we’re going to attempt to single out the red phone box, leaving everything else black and white. If you want to download this image, click on the image below . First, we need to single out the red in the phone box. There are a few ways that we can go about doing so, but for the sake of this tutorial, we’re going to use one of my favorite selection methods, Color Range , which can be found under the Select menu. This feature works by allowing you to select specific colors of your image, either by choosing a basic color from the dropdown, or by sampling your color of choice. In most cases, however, choosing a color from the dropdown might not be your best bet, as it...

Final Image Preview Before we get started, let’s take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Before and after images are shown below. Click the screenshot to view a large color version. As always, the full Photoshop file is available via . Step 1 Double-click on the background image to make it an active layer. Create a new group by clicking on the little folder icon located at the bottom of the layers palette and put the layer in the group. Name the group “girl”. Draw a path around all the hard edges of the girl. This includes the face and the shoulders. Don’t worry about the hair for now; we will do that separately. Save the path. Make a selection of the path by holding Command-clicking on the path thumbnail in the paths palette. Hit Alt+Command+D and Feather the selection by 0.5px. Apply the selection as a mask on the “girl” group. Step 2 Disable the mask on the “girl” group by holding Shift-clicking on the mask thumbnail. Now in the Channels palette, dupli...

Here's a great effect that will bring some energy to your subject. We'll be wrapping this singer's arm with a glowing beam of light, adding sparkles, and adjusting the colors to make it all seem magical. Firstly, create a new layer, then grab your Pen Tool (P) and draw out a spiraling path, as if you have a snake wrapped around the arm. Then select the Brush Tool (B) and set your diameter to 7px, with the Opacity and Flow at 100%, and your foreground color set to white. With your path still on the artwork, go back to the Pen Tool, right click on the canvas, and choose "Stroke Path." A menu will appear with the Brush set as the Tool. Check "Simulate Pressure" and press OK. This will make the beginning and end of your stroke thinner. Now you need to delete the parts you want hidden behind the arm. With your stroke layer selected, choose "Add layer mask" at the bottom of the Layers Palette. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool ...

Today we will have a photo edit tutorial and sure, it is simple and easy to follow as usual. I think you may see this in many music album CD cover and some artist poster or wallpaper. Ok, let’s start then. This is the photo that I found in Google image. If you wish to use mine, just. Step 1 Open the image in PS. Step 2 Go to the bottom of the layers palette and click on the Hue/Saturation option. Set the setting as below: Step 3 After that, you may get this: Step 4 Create a new layer and set it to Soft Light Blend mode . Choose a 48px hard brush and paint the new layer as shown below. You can choose the colors you like. Step 5 Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur > 90 pixels . Step 6 Yup, you’re done! It’s easy and now you can edit your photo yourself easily. Thanks!