Black & White Dreamy Effect

First find the image that you would like to apply this effect too, I am going to use an image that I took when I went to Florida this past summer.

1. Open the image in Photoshop.
2. Apply the following; Image > Adjustments > Auto Levels.
3. Next; Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.
4. Duplicate the layer and with the top layer selected apply the following; Filer > Blur > Gaussian Blur with a radius of about 4 pixels.
5. Finally change the Layer mode from Normal to Overlay.

Please view the bottom images to see if you had a similar effect.

Nice Web 2.0 Button

So let us begin by opening up Photoshop and creating a new document about 350 x 350 pixels.

1. Select the Rectangle Tool and draw a square by holding down shift and dragging the rectangle tool from one corner to the next.
2. Next go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options
3. Apply a Gradient Overlay with the following settings this can vary depending on the color of you chose but for this example I am going to use #860909 at the start and #e60909 at the end.
4. Apply a Bevel and Emboss with the following settings Depth 21%, Size 117px, Soften 3px, Angel of 90 degrees, and both opacity at 55%.
5. Finally a drop shadow with the opacity of 45% and all of the default settings selected.
6. Once this is finished add a nice text and you done.

Until next time happy Photoshopping.

Eye Color Changed…

First find an image that you would like to apply the effect to, once you have found an image open it in Photoshop.

1. Create a new layer.
2. Take you Ellipse Tool and create several circles filling them with a different color each time you may do one color but for an added effect you can add multiple.
3. Next apply a Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with a radius of 14.
4. Finally change the layer’s type to Overlay.
5. View images below to see if you had a similar outcome.

Easy enough!

Comic Photo Effect

This is a quick and simple way to make your photos look like they are from a comic. First find a photo that you want to apply the effect too I found this one on Google.

1. Open the photo using Photoshop.
2. Filter > Texture > Grain and use these settings: Intensity 0, Contrast 52, and Grain Type select Speckle.
3. Filter > Artistic > Film Grain with these settings: Grain 3, Highlight Area 0, and Intensity 2.
4. Now duplicate the layer.
5. With the duplicated layer on top and selected Filter > Pixelate > Color Halftone. Set Max Radius: 4 and leave the rest with the default values.
6. Finally change the layer from normal to darken and apply what ever cool texts you want to apply.
7. View the image outcome of the steps below.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial until next time.

Heroes Volume 2 Finale

The volume 2 finale of Heroes was that of shock. We had the possible deaths of two main characters along with the resurrection of one other character that was shot all in the same episode. Finally Peter came to realization that he was being duped by Adam who was put to his final resting place, literally, or so it seems with Hiro bringing closure to his father’s murder. Claire finally finds out that he father really isn’t dead but alive and well thanks to her blood but he doesn’t stick around for long he is taken back to the company so that Claire would not expose the “Company”. At the end of the episode we have Peter and Nathan’s mother talking to someone who I personally think did the hit on Nathan, and who could forget Sylar is BACK!

Photo Sharing with TiVo

If you have TiVo then this is for you according to cnet, “TiVo announced on Monday that users of select photo-sharing services are now able to access their image collections through its set-top boxes.” TiVo has partnered up with Picasa Web Albums and Photobucket to help users not only browse through their photos but theirs families and friends as well as long as they TiVo boxes are broadband connected. This is a pretty cool idea stay connected with your friends and family through photo browsing while being able to record you favorite television shows.