By Wes Kozalla, October 21st, 2009
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Did you know that you can make the dead come back from the grave in your own home? Sure, it’s easy. You don’t need any fancy necromantic magic, radioactive waste, or goat’s blood. All you need is Photoshop, a portrait (by Faestock) and a texture of something rotting (in this case earth by Elisa Fox.)
Digging Up Deathly Pallor
Our model is the picture of health and that’s just unacceptable. After opening the first image, we’re going to Layer/Duplicate Layer. On top we will have a layer named “Background copy.” We click on the eye to the left of the top layer so we can see what we are doing beneath. We’re going to the original “Background” layer and go to Layer/New Adjustment Layer/Hue-Saturation. In order to get the greenish decaying vibe we need the Hue slider will be set at “+35,” Saturation will go to“-70” and Lightness will drop slightly to “-5.” 
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By Wes Kozalla, August 19th, 2009
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The right watch, necklace, or any other kind of jewelry can set off an outfit, make a person more noticeable and even give a window into an individual’s personality. In Photoshop, we can accessorize after the fact to set a mood, or to enhance a person’s apparent personality traits–or contrast them.
We’ll demonstrate how to realistically accessorize anyone by adding a sassy silver bracelet by Visualjenna-Stock to the wrist on this stock portrait by meglillyan. 
In order for our model to say it with silver, we first need to get that bracelet down to a size that will fit our portrait. We’ll go to Image/Image Size and set the width to 1000 pixels and the height to 750. (more…)
By Wes Kozalla, August 3rd, 2009
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Long ago, tattoos belonged in the domain of bikers, servicemen, and maximum security inmates. Over the last 25 years or so, we can find body art on everyone from soccer moms to the mail man. We’re going to learn how we can use Photoshop to put tats on just about anyone. Let’s dive right in with the two images below. The first is our subject about to get inked, from Faestock. The second is some vintage flash from my collection.
Summoning the Inner Tiger
In order to show a wild side to this demure young lady, we must first prepare our tiger. To save us time from doing lots of erasing on picture 1, we’re going to use the Lasso Tool to highlight around our noble beast in image 2. Then we go to the top menu bar and select Edit/Copy. From there we bring image 1 back up and select Edit/Paste.
“But dude,” you say. “That tat looks way too big for her arm. She looks more like a ballet dancer than a power lifter.” At this point it’s all good, because this is about way more than cutting and pasting. It’s about formfitting our body art to the model’s arm. Can’t you just hear the buzz of the needle and smell the green soap? Our Photoshop tattoo parlor is open for business! (more…)
By Wes Kozalla, July 21st, 2009
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Pick up any magazine, or sift among the movies at the video store, and we often see black and white images with elements in color. Advertisements, comics, films and more set apart people, objects, just about anything as a way to draw our eyes to exactly what the artist wants us to focus on. This is usually done in Photoshop by adding color to black and white photographs. This often produces a retro hand-tinted effect.
What if we want more organic natural color to leap out from the grayscale? The answer is not to add color to black and white, but rather to add black and white to color. We will also use filters and layer effects to insure that we manipulate the color spectrum to set the tone we are looking for.
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By Wes Kozalla, July 11th, 2009
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Hello, and thanks for joining me in my very first photoshop tutorial. I’ll be coming to you weekly with tips and tricks you can use to polish your existing graphic design skills. Our first project involves making a 1950s-style B movie poster, also known as a one sheet. First, we’re going to a movie memorabilia site, in this case movieposters.com, to get a feel for how color, geometric shapes and text were utilized for maximum impact. Remember, we want people to laugh along with us in this spoof, not at us. We won’t look like we know the 50’s if we have multicolored psychedelic fonts, or some dude jamming out to his Ipod at the bus stop in bullet time.
For our walkthrough, we will make a standard romantic potboiler. The fun begins when we round up our jpegs (royalty-free at stock.xchang). Our cinematic opus is entitled “She Wore Heels!”
“But wait,” you say. “There are only two jpegs here, and they don’t exactly make the blood boil, let alone a pot.” Yes, that’s true, but remember daddy-o, we’re in the 50’s now. Two people kissing in public and a pair of female legs uncovered well above the knee spells STEAMY! Now that we have our purpose, an idea of our style, and finally our photographs, the pixelpushing begins. (more…)
By Matt, April 29th, 2009
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Today we will look at a quick and easy way to add a sunburst to photographs, using an image editor such as Photoshop. This can be a great way to liven up images, and it can be a lot of fun to play around with. Look at the image below; this shows what will be creating.
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By Matt, March 25th, 2009
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Photo manipulation is an awesome field of design, and can be a lot of fun. There are almost endless possibilities as to what you can do with an image. There are many techniques to help you liven up and add color to images. Today, I will go over how to use colorful bubble trails and light trails to bring a dark action shot to life.
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