Photoshop Tutorials... tips & tricks

[Voxifervs]

Here I have you a quick tutorial for extracting thing form a photo, image, etc.
Using the pen tool:
Here I have you a quick tutorial for extracting thing form a photo, image, etc.
Using the pen tool:

Ok lets open any image (yes, usually we all pick naked ladies, but here Im using one of Johnny Deep, lol). Make sure to leave the image as the original now open a new layer I will rename it selection.

Lets go to the tricky part. Choose de selection tool with the property of strokes. If you want zoom the image to have a better view of the pixels and start selecting:




Go ahead, the peen tool is very difficult to dominate. So keep practicing!. Take your tame, zoom all you want. this is my result:



Then select the clean layer named selection (we still have the pen tool selected) right click and in the window data appears select make selection and. voala!
With your selection now go to image>apply image:




Its all practice until you have a perfect rendering (yes, Im not to good):




kisses form mexico!!!!

[Voxifervs]

New tutorial people.

Give some feedback to this one, i spend a lot of time making it:

the result:


the tutorial:


http://img8.uploadhouse.com/fileuplo...7e4f9f2bda.jpg

[archie.lukas]

For real power sigs and tutorials on making them - Try Paint
(Do a Google search)
its Freeware and has an in-depth support forum and hundreds of tutorials.
Paint.Net was Microsoft funded - it also has layers and hundreds of effects and more down loadable.

I use it at work cos the bastards are too cheap to buy Photoshop!

[edd2k]

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1. Some Textures :

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[edd2k]

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[edd2k]

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[ViceLikeEye]

Originally Posted by BraPanties91

I've played around with photoshop for quite awhile and am always looking to get better. So I thought I would share some of the wallpapers I've made for others to see and hopefully get some tips to get better.

I've been messing with PS for a long time, but I'm certainly no expert (I'm a slow learner ). There are far more talented people on Planetsuzy than I am. PS is a powerful tool and usually there's about 5 different ways of doing just about everything. This is enough to make your head spin. The better part of 20 years later, and I'm still learning.

A couple general tips:

• Always edit / work non-destructively - examples: layer mask instead of the eraser tool, clone stamp from a new layer above. Smart objects are your friend. The link below is how to edit non-destructively.
  
  

  http://fstoppers.com/photoshop/9-ways-edit-non-destructively-photoshop-cc-578957

• There are tons of great tutorials on YouTube. I personally like a channel called, " Blue Lightning TV ". He's an actual expert on PS. He shows all the steps and shortcut keys.

Overall your efforts aren't bad, but let's dig deeper. Now depending on the level of realism you're going for, I see a few things that catch my eye.


The color / tonality and darkness / lightness are mixed up in the wall quoted above. Here's what I mean; When it comes to perspective, closer objects will appear darker while objects further away will appear lighter. This can be corrected by color matching using a curves adjustment. Here's a good video for that:

You Tube

You Tube

Color can also be "washed out" by too much lighting. Other adjustments such as Vibrance and/or Levels can be handy tools also.


It's tempting to jam ALL the sexiness into one wallpaper with 7 or more subjects, but this wall below is a little overkill:

It looks too "busy" in my opinion. Sometimes less is more. Sometime simpler is better.


The last thing that really sticks out like a sore thumb to me is your cut outs (extractions). I don't know what methods you're using or what version of PS you're using, but new PS has come a long way with automatically selecting a subject (so you can remove the background). It does a pretty good job and you can always fine tune a layer mask afterwards. There are tons of tutorials on this.

I've highlighted a few (but not all) of the areas that look wonky AKA the edges aren't clean.

At the end of the day, if you're happy with the result, that's really all that matters. Please don't take any offense in what I said. I'm only offering help. I deleted my first wallpapers from back in the day. Good thing, because I would be ashamed to show them to anyone. However, your efforts are much better than my first efforts. Keep up the good work and never stop learning.

[maxhitman]

Great info and great wallpapers ViceLikeEye ! I like your style !

I have also been banging on this Photoshop gizmo since 1997
and I am still learning new tricks everyday !
It´s just SO MUCH FUN ... specially when working with sexy lady pics

Cheers

[MasterBates]

not to butt in but...I was trying to replace the backgrounds of some walls and watched and tried to mimic this vid but @ about 1:00 he loses me...Im trying tommake up the diffence of hair or the white spots that remain and when o follow his lead the thing just paints black over the photo instead of touching up...he says thats the miracle of blend mode but when I put it in blend mode everything either diappears or it just wont blen AND his modes all say normal to begin w/ am I not clicking on something? just trying to blend the white parts w/ the background for a more natural look! thnx

You Tube

You Tube

[maxhitman]

My apologies to ViceLikeEye for posting this.
Maybe we should open up a new thread with just "Photoshop tutorials
and Tips & Tricks" (?)
- I will ask a moderator if its possible.

Originally Posted by MasterBates

not to butt in but...I was trying to replace the backgrounds of some walls and watched and tried to mimic this vid but @ about 1:00 he loses me...Im trying tommake up the diffence of hair or the white spots that remain and when o follow his lead the thing just paints black over the photo instead of touching up...he says thats the miracle of blend mode but when I put it in blend mode everything either diappears or it just wont blen AND his modes all say normal to begin w/ am I not clicking on something? just trying to blend the white parts w/ the background for a more natural look! thnx
- h++p://youtube.com/watch?v=8EJvdKf-J18

You have to take into account that MANY of these tutorials usually
"work perfectly" when removing an ALL WHITE background.
It is so much easier for the PSD program to remove solid one-colored
backgrounds, rather than photos which have a much more complicated
(with many colors) and more detailed background scenes.

It is also possible, but a little more time consuming.
You have to go through diferent processes/steps to achive a good result.

Here is a tutorial which explains better the "more complicated and
tedious work, it is to remove a girl´s image from a background
which does not have a solid one-color ...

http://psdstack.com/photoshop-tutorials/basic/remove-background-photoshop/