Quick Pale Look Vampire

Hey in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a pale look. Alright first I went over to Skins.be and grabbed a photo I wanted to illustrate this technique on.

1. Bring the photo into Photoshop.
2. Then apply the Auto Levels, Image > Adjustments > Auto Levels
3. Duplicate the layer
4. Then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. About 5 pixels should be enough depending on how large the image is.
5. Next Image > Adjustment > Desaturate the Gaussian Blur layer which was the duplicated layer.
6. Set the layer set the layer mode to Overlay with an Opacity of about 50%
7. Merge the Layers together and create a new blank layer on top.
8. With the image layer selected use the sponge tool to remove some of the color, set the flow to about 50%
9. Now on the top layer add some makeup effects to give the image a pale yet bright look
10. And that is it you should have a result similar to the image shown below.

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.

Summer to Fall Season Changing…

Today I am going to show you how to do a simple changing of the seasons from summer to fall, so let us begin.

1. First finding an image we want to change the seasons with, I am going to use the sample image that came with my Vista Operating System.
2. Open the image up using Photoshop, and duplicate the layer.
3. Next with the duplicated layer on top go to Image, Adjustments, then Hue/Saturation.
4. We want to change the Hue to -35, Saturation to +10, and Lightness to about -6.
5. Finally you may want to delete any part of the image that may have changed wrongly like the dirt for example.

And that’s that simple.

Web 2.0 Text

Today I am going to show you how to create a simple yet sleek looking web 2.0 font style using Photoshop.

1. Create a new Photoshop document at 250 x 250 pixels.
2. Select the text tool and type whatever you want to apply the effect to, for example Hello.
3. Double click on the text layer which will then open the layer style options.
4. Choose Gradient Overlay, and click on the gradient.
5. Choose the following colors, left color - 0b6b98 and the right color - 4baad6.
6. Next select the Drop Shadow and change the opacity to 35 percent.
7. Finally add a Stroke with the following color fcff00, a size of 2, and opacity of 45 percent.

Please view below to see if you had a similar effect.

Adding a Tattoo…

Today I am going to show you how to add a tattoo to a photo. So let us begin by finding an image that we want to apply the tattoo effect to. I found this image from skins.be, but you can use any other image that you may have. So open Photoshop and drag your image on to a blank canvas. Next look for the tattoo that you want to apply to the image I found this tattoo image simply by using Google’s image search. Once you have the tattoo image pasted on the canvas on a separate layer we are ready to begin.

1. With the tattoo layer selected go to edit, transform, warp, and proportion the tattoo to the angles of the area where you are applying the tattoo.
2. Then with the tattoo layer still selected change the layer property to multiply, and finally change the opacity to about 65% or so depending on your images.
3. View the images below to see if you had a similar turn out.

It doesn’t get any easier than that.

How to make a quick photo effect in PhotoShop?

I know some of you are tired of having the same boring photo on myspace or facebook so this is a quick way to spice up those photos. Well let’s start by opening a new file by going to file, open, and select an image that you want to mess around with for this tutorial. I selected the toucan image that came with my Vista Home Premium sample photos shown below.

1. Go to Layer, Duplicate Layer, and rename it to what ever you want and then hit ok.
2. With the new layer selected go to filter, blur, Gaussian blur, and we want a radius of about 4.0 pixels.
3. If you don’t have your layers panel open go to window and select layers.
4. Finally with the layers panel open on the Gaussian blurred layer change the layer style from normal to hardlight.

These are what your steps should look like to a certain extent depending on the image and the size of the images.