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removing or adding a tattoo in photoshop: http://www.tutvid.com/tutorials/photoshop/tutorials/digitalTattoos.php
i figure this might come in handy at some point. LOL okay, so i didn’t have any fancy tattoo-ready art to apply that looked any kind of realistic, so i just used a silhouette ox from our final book project. to add a tattoo, you duplicate the original image and desaturate it – save it as displaced! then you drag the desired tattoo art to the original image and place it. click filter -> distort -> displace, and then place the displaced image. this makes the art wrap around the desired body part to look real-ish. if there is clothing or other objects in covering where the tattoo is going to go, you need to quick select it, inverse the selection, and then make it a mask on top of the tattoo layer, so the tattoo goes underneath. finally, you duplicate the tattoo layer – the first tattoo layer gets set to saturation, then the duplicate gets put to overlay; play with the opacity to make the tattoo look realistic and voila!
getting it off again…is easy, if you’re lucky enough to have the tattoo in a not-too-detailed area. simply use the healing brush to ‘paint’ over it!
how to create a sparkling fantasy photomanipulation: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/how-to-create-a-sparkling-fantasy-photo-manipulation/
right off the bat this tut is cool for me – it tells us how to create a nice textured background. using a LOT of blurring, saturation, brightness, and other color/light changes is basically what makes this image manipulation happen. paying special attention to how lighting falls on the image is key. little details i picked up: the rays of light are made using a gradient overlay on the path, and the smoke is made cooler by using the warp tool. i think i’m going to come back and revisit this tutorial to see if i can make it happen myself. the instructions are fairly detailed and mostly clear. the trick is finding images!
how to use depth of field to create portraits with blown-out backgrounds: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/how-to-use-depth-of-field-to-create-portraits-with-blown-out-backgrounds/
this is useful, i think. how many times have you had a snapshot that would have made an awesome photo…if it weren’t for a crappy background? i know i have lots. most of this tutorial was how to SHOOT the photos to begin with, but the last few steps gave pointers on how to achieve a blurred background using photoshop. basically, you very carefully select the subject, then inverse the selection so that everything but the subject is now selected. then you apply a gaussian blur to it – but not too much, or you lose the natural feel of the photo and get a halo around your subject. easy peasy!
comprehensive introduction to the type tool in photoshop: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/a-comprehensive-introduction-to-the-type-tool/
photoshop has four basic type tools. the horizontal type tool is for ‘normal’ typing; left to right, top to bottom. the vertical type tool is for top to bottom, right to left typing, such as Chinese or when you want to mess with design stuff. the horizontal and vertical type mask tool creates a quick mask using the type shape as a selection.
there are two ways to create a type layer – point and paragraph. the point type makes one line that breaks have to be put in by you hitting return or enter.
the paragraph type layer is created by typing text into a bounding box. first you create a bounding box, then type in it – the text automatically wraps into the shape. using the transform options, you can then resize and transform (warp, skew, rotate) the text.
in photoshop the text itself can be altered as well. fonts, color, text size, kerning, tracking, vertical and horizontal scaling, baseline shift, italics and bolding…there are SO many things to do with text! this tutorial describes what anti-aliasing is, which was something i never knew – it means that the text has smooth edges so it blends into the background instead of becoming very pixelated and noticeable. cool! there is a whole menu of options for hyphenation of words (again, something i never knew existed!) that allows you to set how many letters at the beginning or end of a word can be hyphenated. just like in illustrator, you can draw a path and then apply text to it, and warp text. i think one of my favorite features of text in photoshop is the type mask tool, though – you can mask out a word so that a photo behind it only shows through the letters. nifty!
how to create a mosaic portrait from a photograph: http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/how-to-create-a-mosaic-portrait-from-a-photograph/
this is done in illustrator. the first step is to open a document and place an image; make sure the link square is unchecked, and then embed the image. to start the mosaic effect, make sure the image is selected and then go to object -> create object mosaic. in the number of tiles boxes, put in numbers that are 1/10 of the total image size (ie if photo is 300×400, put 30 and 40 in the boxes), and make sure the delete raster box is checked. ungroup the mosaic. now you can select individual squares, click effect -> convert to shape -> ellipse. in the shape options box, click absolute, and enter 10 in the boxes. if you want, you can put a colored box behind your image for contrast, and voila! from here you can use the appearance panel and tweak the shapes or just play around with different effects to see what happens.
i liked this tutorial – it’s very clear and easy to follow. even though they tell you to use a certain size of image to begin with, they also remembered to give the pointers of how to choose the mosaic tile size so you can apply this treatment to any size photo.
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