Photoshop Tutorials Photo Effects / Dramatic Color Effects In this Photoshop tutorial, I'll show you how to use adjustment layers in order to create a dramatic effect with beautiful colors. Photoshop Tutorials Photo Effects / Dramatic Color Effects
In this video, you'll learn how to quickly turn a plain photo shoot into a fantastic one. This technique uses the Quick Selection Tool, Refine Edge, and Adjustment Layers.
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Tools used in this tutorial:
Quick Selection Tool: This selection method works very similar to a brush, allowing you to brush over the areas you wish to turn into a selection. By default, every stroke adds to your selection. If you wish to deselect some areas, hold down your Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key and brush.
Refine Edge: When you initially create a selection, it's likely to be very sharp around the edges, and likely won't contain hair or fur. Refine Edge will allow you to not only soften out those edges, but you'll be able to use Smart Radius to grab hair and fur which may not have been selected.
Layer Masks: If there's an area of your layer that you wish to hide (or bring back), Layer Masks will help you do that. Painting using a black brush will hide portions of the layer, and painting with a white brush will reveal them.
Adjustment Layers (Curves, Gradient Mask): By using an Adjustment Layers, you're able to change targeted areas of your photo without damaging the original layer. These can either be applied to the full image, or specific areas using selections or Layer Masks. At any point in the future, you can either make changes to the adjustment, hide it, or delete it completely.
Make sure to check out my other Photoshop tutorials. Links below!
IceflowStudios is run by Howard Pinsky, providing FREE Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom video tutorials to the graphic design and photographer community. As an Adobe Community Professional, Howard's Photoshop tutorials have been recognized by schools around the country, design blogs, and by Adobe. To date, the videos uploaded to the IceflowStudios YouTube channel and website have been viewed over 80 million times.
No matter what you're looking to learn in Photoshop, you're bound to find it in our library of over 350 tutorials. Topics include: Text Effects in Photoshop, Photo Composition, Photo Retouching, The Basics of Photoshop, Designing in Photoshop, Special Effects, and more! While new videos will be taught using the latest version of Photoshop, you'll find videos covering Photoshop CC, Photoshop CS6, CS5, CS4, and CS3.
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There are many reasons why you may want to composite photos together in Photoshop. At times you may want to replace someones face because they had their eyes closed in a group photo. Other times you may want to create a fantasy image or something that couldn't exist in real life.
In today's episode we show you how to add fish to an image of a girl in a bathtub. The compositing process is simple as long as you keep in mind how color, light and depth work. We show you how to make it look as though the fish are actually suspended in the murky water.
Add Bubbles and Details Above the Fish
To make it look as though the fish are really under water we add detail on the top of the water and over the fish. The perfect pieces of detail for this image are the bubbles that already exist in the photo. Using the Clone Stamp Tool we copy areas that contain bubbles, change the blending mode to Screen and then adjust Levels and Hue/Saturation to make it look as though they are transparent.
After creating the bubbles we add them over top of the fish to make it look as though the fish are underwater.
How to Add Depth to Underwater Fish
The water in the original photo is a bit soapy and murky, meaning we can't see all the way though it. It makes sense that anything in the water will be slightly obscured by the water. We also want to make it look as though the fish go out of focus as they get farther from the camera. To achieve these effects we use a Field Blur and apply a different amount of blur to different areas of the fish.
After adding the blur to the fish we use a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer and the Colorize function to make it look as though the color of the water is effecting the color of the fish.
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In today's Photoshop tutorial, learn how to give your models a 'porcelain doll' look, using Adjustment Layers, Layer Masks, and the Liquify Filter.
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Tools used in this tutorial:
Color Range: If you're looking to select all or most of a single color in your image, Color Range will help you do that. It lets you automatically target pure colors, or sample specific colors using the eye dropper. To add to your sample, hold down shift. To subtract, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac). Pressing OK will create the selection. Newer versions of Photoshop also lets you select skin tones.
Quick Selection Tool: This selection method works very similar to a brush, allowing you to brush over the areas you wish to turn into a selection. By default, every stroke adds to your selection. If you wish to deselect some areas, hold down your Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key and brush.
Refine Edge: When you initially create a selection, it's likely to be very sharp around the edges, and likely won't contain hair or fur. Refine Edge will allow you to not only soften out those edges, but you'll be able to use Smart Radius to grab hair and fur which may not have been selected.
Adjustment Layers (Vibrance, Curves, Color Fill): By using an Adjustment Layers, you're able to change targeted areas of your photo without damaging the original layer. These can either be applied to the full image, or specific areas using selections or Layer Masks. At any point in the future, you can either make changes to the adjustment, hide it, or delete it completely.
Make sure to check out my other Photoshop tutorials. Links below!
IceflowStudios is run by Howard Pinsky, providing FREE Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom video tutorials to the graphic design and photographer community. As an Adobe Community Professional, Howard's Photoshop tutorials have been recognized by schools around the country, design blogs, and by Adobe. To date, the videos uploaded to the IceflowStudios YouTube channel and website have been viewed over 80 million times.
No matter what you're looking to learn in Photoshop, you're bound to find it in our library of over 350 tutorials. Topics include: Text Effects in Photoshop, Photo Composition, Photo Retouching, The Basics of Photoshop, Designing in Photoshop, Special Effects, and more! While new videos will be taught using the latest version of Photoshop, you'll find videos covering Photoshop CC, Photoshop CS6, CS5, CS4, and CS3.
For more information on Adobe Photoshop, check out Adobe's website at: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
For the written version of most of our tutorials, check out: http://www.iceflowstudios.com/
Use the power of Adjustment Layers and Blending Options to turn a bright daytime image, into a semi-realistic nighttime image. While these settings may not give you 100% perfect results, you can use the same techniques on your images with a bit of tweaking.
This tutorial should work on all current versions of Photoshop, including Photoshop CS4, CS5 and CS6.
Tools used in this tutorial:
Adjustment Layers (Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast): By using an Adjustment Layers, you're able to change targeted areas of your photo without damaging the original layer. These can either be applied to the full image, or specific areas using selections or Layer Masks. At any point in the future, you can either make changes to the adjustment, hide it, or delete it completely.
Layer Masks: If there's an area of your layer that you wish to hide (or bring back), Layer Masks will help you do that. Painting using a black brush will hide portions of the layer, and painting with a white brush will reveal them. Black and white gradients can also be used.
Layer Styles: If you're looking to add effects to your layers, you'll likely want to use Layer Styles. Whether it's an outer glow, a few shadows, or a bevel to give it depth, the possibilities are endless!
Make sure to check out my other Photoshop tutorials. Links below!
IceflowStudios is run by Howard Pinsky, providing FREE Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom video tutorials to the graphic design and photographer community. As an Adobe Community Professional, Howard's Photoshop tutorials have been recognized by schools around the country, design blogs, and by Adobe. To date, the videos uploaded to the IceflowStudios YouTube channel and website have been viewed over 80 million times.
No matter what you're looking to learn in Photoshop, you're bound to find it in our library of over 350 tutorials. Topics include: Text Effects in Photoshop, Photo Composition, Photo Retouching, The Basics of Photoshop, Designing in Photoshop, Special Effects, and more! While new videos will be taught using the latest version of Photoshop, you'll find videos covering Photoshop CC, Photoshop CS6, CS5, CS4, and CS3.
For more information on Adobe Photoshop, check out Adobe's website at: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
For the written version of most of our tutorials, check out: http://www.iceflowstudios.com/
