The best book I’ve ever read on drawing is one called “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”. After reading it, I’m still pretty bad at drawing, but I did learn a lot about light and shade. In this tutorial at PsdTutsPlus, we are going to take some very basic principles of light and shade to make a rather impressive-looking text effect.
In this Photoshop text effect tutorial at VisualSwirl, we’ll be creating a grungy, burnt wood text treatment. We’ll go over some basic blending modes and use some filters and layer styles to create a look that would be perfect for a Hollywood movie poster .
In this Photoshop Elements tutorial we’ll see not so much how to remove wrinkles but reduce them. You can take years off of a person’s age by removing wrinkles. But like bad plastic surgery you might end up with a picture that barely resembles the person. EPE adds an extra step at the end that will help make it look more natural.
Ready to take that big leap into the world of Photoshop? It may seem really intimidating at first, which is why Tutorial9 has put together the School of Photoshop Tutorial series. With the help of these structured lessons, you’ll be a master of Photoshop in no time!
SixRevisions focuses primarily on the diverse features of Photoshop’s “Save for Web & Devices” command along with some best practices related to saving images that are optimized for web use. They start extremely basically for all the beginners, but there will be plenty of advanced information for the seasoned veterans as we progress.
Not sure what to call this effect. It makes the color of the portrait quite metallic, like your skin was made of silver, bronze or maybe copper. BestPhotoshop has seen it a couple of times in magazines when they have a big portrait of a stranger spread on a full page. So maybe it’s about time he wrote something about this effect. Yes it is.
You frequently see censored images in newspapers, magazines and on the television. Pixelation is most often used to blur out the features of people to preserve their privacy. Whether it’s to protect the children of celebrities, a car number plate or a person’s private parts that have wrestled their way out of their clothes, there is a Photoshop filter to help censor those images. Sitepoint describes really quick way to give your images that censored look using the Pixelate filter in Photoshop.
From TutorialLounge: “Today we are with an really professional creative typography tutorials using Adobe Photoshop learn step-by-step in these listed trainings which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your work which you presenting in your different design assignments.” Sorry, but I’m tired….you know what they mean.
With the Sponge tool you can desaturate or saturate specific areas of an image by choosing a brush tip and then painting onto the image. Sitepoint describes how to use the tool.
With the right knowledge and techniques of Photoshop, you can push the limits of Typography to a whole new dimension. This article at LeVoltz is one of the largest categorized collections of Text Effect Tutorials you will be able to find. All tutorials have large preview images and all links have been verified.
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