Tutorialz

I guess I can make a site or what not on specific tutorials. Being that its a page, they;re going to be a lot of them on this one page. The rest will be in my other blogs until I’m able to migrate them. -Asilee.

How To Get Photoshop (Full)

Okay first you would want a torrent opener like BitTorrent or uTorrent. Download that. It doesn’t take up no kind of space at all.

http://utorrent.com/

http://www.bittorrent.com/

They both work the same but if uTorrent doesn’t work BitTorrent is guaranteed to work. Okay anyway, after you download that. Find a site that has torrents. The most reliable one is The Pirate Bay.

http://thepiratebay.org/

The best way to find Photoshop is to simply type in Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop CS3 Extended. Depending on which one you want. But for newbies just download Photoshop CS3. Okay when looking for torrents you want to find one that has good ratings, reviews and also has a lot of seeders and not a lot of leeches. Depending on which one you chose please make sure you run a virus scan on it.

FYI: The best virus scanner for links and websites is AVG. It works wonders!

Anyway, once you’ve gotten the one you want click it and hit download. A window on your desktop should pop up saying what would you like to do? Open or Save. Well you want to open it and in that drop down menu it should say uTorrent or BitTorrent, which ever one you’ve downloaded. If it isn’t; close it and make sure the torrent is the default cause if you have Limewire; (the newest one) Limewire automatically makes it the default torrent downloader.

FYI: Limewire is risky to use and it isn’t a good torrent finder nor a good torrent downloader. Plus if you not careful you can get a lot of viruses from Limewire or any type of P2P program. Its a bit hard to run virus scans from Limewire.

FYI: If you don’t want to go through the hassles of finding a site to go to find a torrent. Download Torrent Harvester, its also a file that’s safe and doesn’t take up practically NO space. All you would have to do is type in the name of the program, music, video, game that you want to find and it will find all the available torrents. Still make sure you check the website and see if its good or not basically double check and still do the virus scan.

Okay back to Photoshop; once its finished downloading, right click on the file and click; Open containing folder. It should be instructions and such within the folder to help you further. If the instructions are confusing, you can always hit me up and I can try to help you with the best of my abilities.

FYI: There’s another way you can get Photoshop. Download the trial from the adobe.com website then find a decent patch. A patch is basically a file that automatically adds the serial. Which is another thing you can do. You can find serials but that’s more stress and searching than its worth and most doesn’t work. You can find the patches just like if you were trying to find the program. Just go to thepiratebay.org and look for them. Usually the good ones are at the top of the list, so you won’t have to do much searching.

I hope this has helped someone.

Photoshop Smooth Skin Effect

This is a super easy way to smooth someone’s skin using Photoshop. I know there are many different Photoshop techniques people use to smooth skin, but this one is really one of the quickest, and it’s very effective. We’re going to do this using the Channels tab. If you’re not familiar with the Channels tab, open up Photoshop, and play with it for a few minutes, it’s located next to your Layers tab.

Most skin problems appear on the blue and green channels of a photograph, so we are going to eliminate those channels by producing a red-channel copy of our picture.

1. Go to the Channels tab and select only the red channel. Your photo should now look black and white.
2. Go back to the layers tab and copy your photo by pressing ctrl+a to select the photo, and ctrl+c to copy it.
3. Go back to the Channels tab and select all of the channels. Your photo should now be in color again.
4. Step 4: From the Layers tab, unlock your picture so it becomes a layer.
5. Press ctrl+v to paste your red-channel copy. It should now appear as a new layer over your original.
6. From the “Layer Blending Mode” drop-down menu, select luminosity all the way at the bottom.

Your subject now has smooth skin. I should warn you that sometimes this process will produce intense results, sometimes too intense. Use the opacity slider to adjust the layers to your liking. Congratulations, you just created smooth skin using Photoshop. Questions? Please feel free to comment.

Chroma Wallpapers

1. Start with a very, very large screen: 3000 px x 2000 px wide. Draw a rectangle as background for the whole area and fill it with a dark linear gradient layer style. Align that gradient with 45 degrees vertically (sometimes you may change that angle to 90 or 60 degrees). Since the beginning, pay special attention to colors: black and dark violet as base color. The waves colors will match a triad complementary balance with the base color, in our case, the violet-cyan-orange axis.

Warp Tool

2. Draw lines! Many parallel lines (horizontal or vertical, or both!). Group them, duplicate, rasterize, group, duplicate, rasterize… and finally add some blur. In this example I used white as base-color for the line themselves (white is the easiest color to balance and add glowing and other layer styles):

3. After you reach a wide and tall group of lines, is time for some magic: randomly distort the shape with Warp Transform Tool ( Photoshop > Edit > Transform > Warp ):

4. One thing you’ll probably notice is the amount of confusing structural lines crossing over the shape; your first attempts are going to be almost trial-and-error, later you’ll get used to this really amazing tool and will master the shapes of Chroma. Don’t worry trying to find the perfect shape so early, things will fit better together when you have more than 5 separate shapes matching a pattern or a familiar shape.

When complete, remember to press the Enter key, or click on the Apply Warp button, on the top. If your computer survives the intense rendering and image post-processing… your artwork should be something like this:

6. Remember to use the Erase Tool to remove sharpen edges and give the wave a surreal looking. Explore other combinations of shapes, lines, and textures – they’ll enhance your drawings.

If you did a small shape I don’t recommend you size it up or even warping again. The Warp tool isn’t that smart because you’ll be playing with rasterized shapes – not smart objects or vector shapes. If you insist warping the same shape again, your shape is going to get some unwanted sharpen or sometimes blurry edges (depending on your case). To avoid that, I recommend you the opposite way: start with a very large area and a large shape, then size it down. Better results, easier to distort.

Glow, Screen, multiply, and other layer stylez

7. When you have the perfect shape, you will need to add its soul, I mean, the layer styles :). Again, open the layer styles panel, and mix Gradient Overlay with Outer Glow styles, and combine them with Screen, or Overlay as layer Blending Mode. A secret hint: when glowing, try using brightly and vivid colors, such as yellow, lime, pink, or cyan, picking the color that is in complementary contrast with the dark gradient we did on the beginning.

8. To achieve the Chroma effect, I used a gradient fill (yellow to gold), plus the following Outer Glow styles with the following configuration:

Brush Polishing

9. Bring your drawing to life with motion. Add some scattered round dots to simulate speed and movement. Within the Brushes panel ( Photoshop > Window > Brushes, or F5 ), explore the sizing, scattering (with fade), spacing, and pressure:

10. The big cells are just the way the smaller ones, except the size and spacing. A bit of randomness is really welcome and exciting:

11.  The “range” option in this step is very important – it will give a cellular-looking to the glowing particles – like if they were intensely vibrating:

12. Poor kid…got any blurry edge? Don’t worry. Use the blur tool and correct that.

Finalizing the drawing

13. Be creative and fearless to do a complete mess with the shape – in my experience, the messier the better. Size down the area and crop. Draw as many layers as your computer’s memory can handle. Sometimes you won’t be able to merge layers because the effects and styles that were applied. Also use layer’s blending and opacity to give your shapes a translucent appearance.

Our final result, after cropping:

Conclusion

Now is really easy to get waves, brightly flowing across the infinity of color. Again, feel free to comment or message me if you need help.

Secret Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts!

Note: this article is written in Mac Photoshop format. If you are using PC, Cmd = Ctrl and Opt = Alt.

1. Drag selection
   With the Marquee tool, drag on the document (do not release the mouse yet), now hold down Spacebar, it will let you drag the undefined selection.

   

2. Navigate the document left or right
   Hold down the Cmd key and scroll up or down allows you to navigate the document left or right. For example, hold down Cmd + scroll up will navigate to right.

   

3. Browse the font list
   Put your cursor in the font list dropdown, you can browse the font list by pressing arrow Up or Down key.

   

4. Scale font size
   Select the text that you want to scale the font size, press Cmd + Shift + > or < to increase / decrease font size.

   

5. Zoom with the scroll wheel
   You can zoom in / out by Cmd + Opt + scroll up or down.

   

6. Drag to adjust numberic value
   Mouseover the input box, hold down Cmd + drag left or right to increase / decrease. Hold down Cmd + Opt or Shift key and drag can change the value in decimal or 10 interval. This shortcut works in all dialog palettes.

   

7. Scroll to adjust numeric value
   Put the cursor in the input box, scroll up or down to increase / decrease value. This shortcut works in all dialog palettes.

   

8. Arrow up / down to adjust numeric value
   Put the cursor in the input box, press arrow Up or Down to increase / decrease. Hold down Shift and press arrow Up or Down will change value in 10 interval.

   

9. Zoom to 100%
   Double click on the Zoom tool will zoom document to 100%.

   

10. Collapse or expand all layer groups
    You can collapse or expand all root-level layer groups by holding down Cmd + click on the triangle icon. Hold down Cmd + Opt + click on the triangle icon will collapse or expand all level layer groups.

    

11. Show / hide in a row
    If you need to show / hide more than one layers, instead of clicking one by one, you can click on the visibility icon and drag in a row.

    

12. Hide other layers
    Hold down Opt + click on the visibility icon will hide all other layers.

    

13. Navigate layer blending mode
    Opt + Shift + “-” or “+” key allows you to navigate through the blending mode dropdown.

    

14. Set specific blending mode
    Opt + Shift + C, N, M, S, D… allows to set layer to specific blending mode.
    For examples:
    Normal = Opt + Shift + N
    Screen = Opt + Shift + S
    Multiply = Opt + Shift + M
    Color = Opt + Shift + C

    

15. Lock layer transparency
    Press forward slash (“/”) to lock layer transparency.

    

16. Load Channel selection
    You probably know that Cmd + number keys (1, 2, 3) will activate the channels in sequent. Press Cmd + Opt + number keys will load the selection. For example, press Cmd + Opt + 4 will load Alpha channel 1.

    

17. Tool panels
    Press Tab to toggle tool panels.

    

18. Precise cursor
    Caps lock will display tool cursor in precise mode.

    

19. Navigate the tool list
    You can navigate through the tool list by pressing Shift + tool shorcut. For example: B = Brush tool, if you press Shift + B again, you will switch to Pencil tool.

    

20. Increase / decrease brush size
    With the Brush tool selected, you can increase / decrease the brush size by pressing [ or ] key (square bracket key). Press Shift + [ or ] will increase / decrease brush hardness.

    

21. Opacity
    You can set the layer opacity by pressing the number keys (ie. 1 = 10%, 2 = 20%…). When you have the brush tool selected, pressing the number keys will adjust the brush opacity.

    

22. Duplicate layer
    There are several shortcuts to duplicate layers.
    1. You can hold down Cmd + Opt + drag to duplicate the active layer.
    2. Cmd + Opt + arrow keys (Up, Down, Left, Right).
    3. Cmd + J will duplicate the active layer in exact position.
    4. Hold down Opt + drag within the Layers palette can also duplicate layers.

    

23. Copy visible and paste in a new layer
    Press Cmd + Opt + Shift + E will copy the visible layers and paste in a new layer.

    

24. Change workspace background
    By default Photoshop use grey for the workspace background color. You can change that by:
    1. select your favorite color
    2. choose the Paint Bucket tool
    3. Hold down Shift + click on the working area (outside the document area)

    

    Update: right-click on the workspace area to get a dropdown menu – allows you to set the background to black, grey, or a custom color (commented by Todd Patrick).

25. Fill background or foreground color
    Opt + Delete (Backspace) = fill the layer with foreground color.
    Cmd + Delete (Backspace) = fill the layer with background color

    

    Update:
    Cmd + Shift + Delete (Backspace) = Fill non-transparent pixels with background color
    Opt + Shift + Delete (Backspace) = Fill non-transparent pixels with foreground color
    (commented by André Dion)

26. Switch between document windows
    Ctrl + Tab will switch between document windows.

    

27. Load layer transparent
    Cmd + click on the layer thumbnail will load its transparency.

    

28. Scale proportionally from center
    When you are using the Marquee tools or Free Transform, hold down Opt + Shift + drag will scale proportionally from the center.

    

29. Shortcut to Eyedropper

    If you have the Brush tool selected, hold down Opt key will quickly activate the Eyedropper tool. Hold down Opt + Shift will activate the Color Sampler Tool.

    

30. Finally…
    Finally, if you want to check or set your own custom shortcuts, press Cmd + Opt + Shift + K will bring up the Keyboard Shortcuts panel.

    

Additional from the comments

• In some dialog boxes, holding the Opt key will turn the “Cancel” button into a most useful “Reset”.
• To stroke a path, first select the path, then change to the brush tool, select a brush, and type Enter or Return. This works with all of the brush-like tools (eraser, clone, blur, etc.).
• To turn a path into a selection, type Command-Enter or Command-Return (doesn’t matter what tool is selected). If there is already a selection, then Command-Shift-Return will add your path’s shape to the selection, Command-Option-Return will subtract it, and Command-Option-Shift-Return will select the intersection.
• If you are adding a “Drop Shadow” layer effect, and you have the Layer Style dialog open to the Drop Shadow settings, you can move the shadow around by clicking and dragging in the image. This also works with the “Inner Shadow” effect. If you hold down the Option key, you can also adjust the Gradient Overlay, Pattern Overlay, and Satin effects by clicking and dragging.

Do you know more shortcuts?

Do you know more Photoshop shortcuts that are not listed in this article? Please post them in the comment form. Make sure they are “secret” (not documented in the Photoshop menus).

Create a Post it

1.  Create a new document, 600 x 600 pixels with white background.

2.  Create a new layer and name it “postit“.

3.  Set the Foreground color to #f8dd4b and the Background color to #fffca2.

4.  Select the “postit” layer. Select the Gradient Tool.

5.  Create a gradient fill from the upper right corner to the bottom left corner.

6.  Select Edit > Free Transform (or press Ctrl + T).

7.  Scale the “postit” layer to fit your needs. Tip: Press Shift+Alt while you drag a corner handle to maintain proportions and the keep the postit on the center of the canvas. Dont’ apply changes yet.

8.  Still using the Free Transform Tool rotate the selection a few degrees. Dont’ apply changes yet.

9.  Now click the Switch Between Free Transform And Warp Mode button in the options bar.

10.  As you see in the image, I highlighted the control points we’ll drag. Start on node 1 and move it on the direction of the arrow. Continue to move the next nodes. Respect the order and directions.

11.  Now press “Enter” to apply changes.

12.  Duplicate “postit” layer and name the new layer “shadow“.

13.  Go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate (or press Ctrl + Shift + U).

14.  Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

15.  Set 8,5 pixels as radius value.

16.  On the Layers Palette drag the “shadow” layer under the “postit” layer.

17.  Select the “shadow” layer on the Layers Palette and go to Edit > Free Transform (or press Ctrl + T).

18.  Drag the nodes with Ctrl pressed. I’ve added some arrows to help you out.

19.  Select the “postit” layer.

20.  Go to Filter > Noise > Add noise and use the following values:

Amount: 2
Distribution: Gaussian

21.  This will give more realism to our post it.

And that’s it.

You can add some text now. Don’t forget to Add Noise to text too for better results.

If you have any question regarding this tutorial, please feel free to contact me.

Rainbow Light Painting Photoshop Tutorial

1.  Start off by opening any photo into Photoshop. This effect works best with isolated objects on black backgrounds such as the image below.

2.  To begin, we’ll de-saturate the image. This step isn’t necessary to get the effect, but it will be helpful when we’re painting. In the Layers palette, click on the button and choose Hue/Saturation.

3.  In the Hue/Saturation tool, set the Saturation to -100 then click OK.

4.  Now we’ll create a new layer. This is the layer where we will be painting the colors on. Click on the button in the Layers palette. This will create a new layer called “Layer 1″.

5.  Change the blending mode of Layer 1 to Color.

Step 4

6.  The primary colors that we’ll be using are yellow, magenta, and cyan. Before we start painting, we’ll use the Swatches palette so that we can quickly select those three colors. In the Swatches palette (Window > Swatches), click on the icon then choose one of the PANTONE CMYK swatches.

7.  When it asks if you want to replace or append the swatch, choose replace. Your swatch palette will now have yellow, magenta, and cyan as the first three colors. Now you can select one of these three colors quickly.

Step 5

8.  Select the tool from the toolbar. Right mouse click on the image and the brush options will appear. Set the hardness setting to 0%. Don’t worry about the master diameter setting yet.

Begin by selecting either yellow, magenta, or cyan from the Swatches palette and painting anywhere in the image with a large brush size. You can adjust the brush size by pressing the [ or ] key on your keyboard.

Select a different color and paint the rest of the image.

Now that you’re done, you can delete the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Contact for more help.

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