Adobe Photoshop Express is a new FREE service that allows you to polish, sort, store and show off your photos. It’s also completely web based! Some of the most frequently used features of Adobe Photoshop available for use on the web anytime for FREE. It works in your web browser as long as you have the Flash 9 Player, so you can work on any platform. This is not going to replace the Photoshop you’ve come to know and love. There are no Layers here, No CMYK, No pro level filters...

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In this tutorial I'll teach you how to make a web 2.0 logo so damn sugary sweet it'll give your website a cavity. Then I'll give you the PSD, the font, and all the patterns used in the image so that you can play with it yourself. If you want to skip the tutorial altogether, you can download the PSD here. The beauty of the correct way to design logos in Photoshop or Illustrator comes when we keep everything as editable text layers from start to finish. That way if we need to make changes or reuse the idea, we can just pop open a Photoshop file and quickly output a new version of an old idea. This will also make it easy for you to duplicate my steps.

1. Open up Photoshop and Create a new layer.

2. Use the Text Tool to write something in black using the "Creampuff" font.



3. Choose "Color Overlay" from the Layer Style options.



4. Select a pinkish color. Because it makes most people think of candy or something edible(....like babies). For your reference, I'm using these settings..... Color Overlay >> #9e5859. Let's name this layer 'Base'.

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Landscapes aren't particularly hard to Photoshop, as really there is minimal work to be done, unlike portraiture. Well it depends if you are creating an image from a number of pictures, but I dont do this because it seems kind of deceitful to the viewer.

Anyway this will be a quick and easy tute on how I Photoshop my landscapes. I don't use it on every landscape, of course, but it is good for enhancing the colours in sunsets.

step one: open your image, I took this one earlier tonight.


Pretty ok, but the colours are kind of washed out (I like to overexpose a little so to get detail in the ground). A grad filter would enhance the sky colour, but what about the water? So to fix this duplicate the layer, and Gaussian blur this layer, at about 20. Then set this layer to soft light. I get something looking like this.


If you are pressed for time, you can leave it like this, or add a simple curves adjustment. But I will continue because thats one thing I got plenty of, time ! Anyway. I dont like the blurred vegetation so add a layer mask (the rectangle like box below your layers) and paint away with a black brush. See tip #7...

Each one starts as a thumbnail that can be hovered over to display more information. A truly great resource. Visit 100 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Beautiful Art One example is this one: The idea behind this image was fairly simple – the profile of a young woman. I had a reasonably clear picture in my head before I started, the girl’s expression, the art nouveau abstraction of her hair and headwear, and the visual style. I wanted to use blue, since I feel that my art relies a bit too...

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The PhotoshopRoadmap has put together a collection of 100 high-resolution brushes for Photoshop that are ripe for the browsing. Some looked more useful than others to me but the quality of the collection is still impressive. The article also provides some choice links to other Photoshop brush resources. Read 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes. Photoshop Support Brushes One of the best Photoshop brushes page available. It gathers links to some of the finest brush designers on the...

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Came across the site today http://www.hemmy.net/2007/05/25/celebrities-before-and-after-photoshop

A lot of them are pretty ordinary touch-ups, some sharpening, curves, etc. But it seems the close ups of faces are the most photoshopped. Check out this example of Nicole Ritchie below



Ever taken a self portrait? zoom in in photoshop and its just plain scary! That said I personally think the plastic look of heavy airbrushing prevalent in magazines is going overboard. Certainly, no one wants to see pimples and other er..imperfections. But freckles are cute! It really makes you wonder if society is that obsessed with beauty.

(or maybe I am just jealous because I don't know how they do it)


kidding!

Go here for more examples of celebrity photoshop goodness!

http://www.iwanexstudio.com/

Marcus Newey has figured out how to create a multi-light effect using illumination for a single flash. He has posted this creative and highly effective technique in a flicker discussion group in which he explains how to photograph multiple shoots of the same scene with a single flash and then use Photoshop to combine the pictures to create one composite photo.

On the left is the scene as it would appear normally. The photo on the right is a composite image where the photographer shot the scenes using his one flash and firing it five times.

The tutorial is aimed at the real estate photography crowd but I can see some REALLY creative applications for this technique. An example might be how to light a very large interior such as a church using just one flash.

See the entire tutorial here.

Here is a great way to make your pictures pop, literally! In this Photoshop tutorial you’ll learn how to give your images a unique 3D effect where your image looks as though it’s coming right out of the frame.

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