This time we are bringing you a lot of PhotoShop tutorials on all sorts of topics. It's meant to be a good collection for those who aren't quite pro yet, but want to be. From making amazing business cards to bringing a stone statue to life, these take us through hours and hours of practicing those skills.Continue
Recommended by elsterama on July 14, 2010 via Creative Nerds
There are many techniques for photo manipulation that are being used by lots of today’s designers in order to create stunning visually creative works of art. It is most common in designers of graphics who choose to use Adobe Photoshop. The main benefit of this is the fact that once the key factors of photo manipulation are understood, anything you can imagine is possible to digitally modify and to reconstruct.
Adobe Illustrator is a program from the Adobe Creative Suite that has an infinite amount of capabilities when it comes to vector graphics but have you ever felt limited with it’s ability to make color adjustments? Do you use illustrator heavily? Then Astute Graphics has an amazing plugin for you to tach on to Illustrator to make Illustrator more versatile then before. The plugin is called Phantasm CS Publisher.Continue
Recommended by elsterama on March 9, 2010 via Tutorial9
If I were forced to give up all but one image adjustment tool, I would keep curves. Hands down. The curves adjustment tool is an integral part of every professional’s knowledge base and image editing package.
Even if you’ve taken a good photo, chances are it can be improved or it needs to be adjusted to work in a collage or collection. Or even to just to intensify a mood. You can always make a good thing better – and curves is a one-stop-shop way to do that.
With curves you are able to:
Adjust the over-all contrast or tonal range
Adjust the local contrast or tonal range
Adjust the color
Let’s jump in and find out how. It’s simpler than it looks.Continue
