Photoshop Tutorial: How to Turn a Road into Water

Source: http://www.showandtell-graphics.com/road-to-water.html

Turning a road into a stream with Photoshop is not terribly difficult. This project will turn out best if there is something interesting above the road to reflect off of the water that we will create.

Here is the photo that I will begin with.

You should have one layer labeled "Background". Double click on the layer in the layers palette and click ok to change it to a standard layer. Now duplicate the layer by selecting Layer/Duplicate Layer. Highlight the bottom layer and select Edit/Transform/Flip Vertical. This layer should now be upside down with respect to the top layer. This will be the image we use for our water reflection.

Now highlight the top layer. We need to select the road. I am going to use the Pen Tool. I like the Pen Tool because you can really get a lot of nooks and crannies with it.

Carefully select every part where you want water to be. If your selection is not exactly perfect, it will probably be OK. The edge of a river or stream is never perfectly straight anyway. Once you have clicked all around what you want to select you will have to change the path that the Pen Tool makes into a selection. To do this simply right click on the document and choose "Make Selection" I have set the feather radius to one. This will help blend the water in better. For higher resolution pictures you will need to set the feather radius a bit higher to achieve the same effect. Here is my selection.

Next hit the delete key to show the reflection layer beneath. Hit Ctrl+D to deselect. You may have to move the reflection layer around a bit to get it to line up properly. I do have to move mine. Here is what it looks like before I moved it around.

As you can see the reflection does not line up quite right. Highlight the bottom layer, grab the Move Tool and move it around. Here is what mine looks like after I moved it. Much better!

The last thing we need to do is to make some ripples in the water. With the bottom layer highlighted, Select Filter/Distort/Ripple. Here are the settings that I used.

And here is the finshed product.

Photoshop Tutorial: Dreamy effect editing

source: http://pswish.com/tutorial-make-perfume-commercial/

This tutorial will teach you how to make your very own fragrance advertisements, and even though we chose to use Monica Beluci in this tutorial, you can turn any ordinary home-made picture into a fragrance advertisement billboard. So first of all you need a picture of a girl (or boy you are doing to use. Pictures of people against black or dark backgrounds are better, since we will try to create an illusion of nocturnal sky.
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Once you opened a new canvas with the desired dimensions of your billboard, create a new layer and fill it with any dark blue or dark purple hue, we used #210a3a. Make sure that your ‘background’ colour is set to white, and go to Filter >> Render >> Clouds. This will will your upper layer with nice foggy fibber texture. Set the overlay settings of this clouds layer to “Linear Light” (see illustration).

Our aim is to create a nicely high contrasted photo with a pit of fog and glow effect as well as make the background look like a night sky. SO, what we are going to do it, duplicate the photo of the girl, drag it (in the layer’s panel) on top of other 2 layers, and set this layer’s settings to “Overlay”

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Next step is filling the bottom of the billboard with grass. This is the easiest part although I noticed that many get stuck here. We will be using the brush tool, with a default Photoshop CS2 brush called “brush dune”. You should have it. Set your foreground color to green (any hue, up to you, as long as it gives a natural look) and fill the bottom of the screen more or less like you see on the picture. The default settings for this brush are set to “scattering” so you don’t need to do much work except for just not overdoing the grass over the photo.

Next step is adding twirly shape.

If you don’t have any nice and twirly shape, you can download mine in PSD format HERE.

So you will either select a custom shape tool and draw any twirly shape of your choice, or take mine from the PSD file, drag and drop it to your canvas. Place the shame Between the girl’s layer and the grass (see below). Next, duplicate the shape later, transform it horizontally (or vertically, depending on your shape) and place it more or less as you can see on the illustration below.

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The idea is, to make the shape look as it’s behind the lady, so rasterize the upper shape’s layer and choose the Eraser Tool. Carefully remove the shape from the girl’s body. I’d suggest to use an eraser tool with hard edge, however if you want to nicely blend it with the fog effect on the background and not to make the edge too sharp, I suggest to use a 20px soft edge eraser tool.

Next step is adding glow. Make sure the upper shape is selected in your layers panel and go to Layer >> Layer styles >> Outer Glow. Apply the following glow settings using the white color. Repeat the same action for the first shape as well.

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And this is what you got so far… You may also apply a few chaotic white dots, using the bruh tool and add glow, this will imitate stars on the background. This is optional, if you feel your background is too dull.

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If you are making a fragrance billboard you will need a perfume bottle, but again this could be replaced with any other product you are going to “sell”. We went with this fragrance bottle from sxc.hu. Most important is to crop it properly and then find a good location for it on your billboard.

Once you have located it, it could be a good idea to add a little transparency to the glass so that you’d see the grass from underneath it. We just duplicated the layer and set one of them on “overlay”, the other on “soft” so we can see the grass through yet the bottle does not become semi-visible.

Photoshop Tutorial: Pimp the color of a car image using photoshop

Source: http://www.tutorialman.com/tutorials/customize_color_of_car/ In this tutorial you will learn to convert an image of ordinary car to colorful one after making necessary editing in photoshop. Follow the steps as shown below:

1) Select an image of a car as shown in Figure 1.

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2) Let us select polygon lasso tool as shown in Figure 2.

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3) Now let us select the bumper with the help of polygon lasso tool as shown in Figure 3.

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4) Now keeping the bumper selected right click inside the image and click on Layer via Copy. This will duplicate the image in to a new layer. Now we go to Edit - Free transform and let us lengthen the image so that the front bumper height has increased as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4.

5) Now let us do the same editing on the rear bumber also, so that the rear bumber's length is also increased and drops down further as shown in figure 5.

Figure 5.

6) Now you can see that both front bumper have been altered slightly as shown in figure 6.

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7) Now let us apply neon glow below car, to do it use Pen tool and select the area as shown in figure 7.

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8) To apply 0% on the layer click on the element as shown in figure 8.

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9) Now right click on the layer and choose "Blending options" and select "Gradient Overlay" from the list and enter the values as shown in figure 9.

Figure 9. 10) In "Gradient Editor" enter the values as shown in figure 10. Figure 10. 11) Now let us select the wheel with the Marquee tool as shown in figure 11and right click inside the wheel and make a duplicate layer. Now let us make the wheel a bit bigger. Add free transform and make the wheel bigger as shown in figure 12. Do the same thing with other wheel also. . Figure 11. Figure 12. 12) After making the wheels larger the car would be as shown in figure 13. Figure 13. 13) Now let us fill the windows with black color. Use your Lasso tool to select the windows then use paint bucket tool to fill color. After filling the windows with black color the image would be as shown in figure 14 . Figure 14. 14) Now let us paint the upper body of the car. Select brush tool with blurred edges with color #a186be and paint the upper half as shown in figure 15. Figure 15. 15) Now let us select HUE option from layers menu and the image would be as shown in figure 16 . Figure 16. 16) Now let us create flames like image in front of the car. Let us use the Pen tool for this as shown in figure 17. Figure 17. 17) Remember to use Add Anchor point as it would be possible to get fine edges. After creating the flame press Ctrl+D and the resultant image would be as shown in figure 18. Figure 18. 18) Now let us select HUE from the layers paletter and the resultant image would be as shown in figure 19. Figure 19.

Photoshop Tutorial: Vexelling the hair

Having a hard time detailing the hair? though you're already comfortable in vectoring images...i suggest you try this tutorial...its vexelling the hair..


Source: http://ilaria84.deviantart.com/art/Vexelling-Hair-26449207

Photoshop Tutorial: Vexeling an image

This is another nice tutorial for vectoring an image...as you can see below that the author really made a very good detailing of his vector art.

Source: http://www.mickm.com/index.php?section=tutorials&id=99

Vectorize People

This is a hard tutorial that may take some time, but it really worth it! This will teach you how to get those real vectorised people! And not by using filters...

Vectorize People

This is an editted tutorial on how to vectorise people...
For this tutorial, you need to understand the pen-tool!

• Step 1 This will be a large tutorial, so make sure you got plenty of time on your schedule!
  First of all, you need to find a suitable picture of a random person;

  

• Step 2 When you have the right photo, duplicate it and go to Image>Adjustments>Posterize and choose the amount of levels for the vector.
  The higher the amount, the more detailed your vector will be and the more it will look like a vexel.

  

• Step 3 Use the Eyedropper to pick a color from the skin and use that color to fill the selection of the traced skin.
  You must trace the skin with the pen-tool!

  

• Step 4 With that same pen-tool, trace the hair and place it BEHIND the skin;

  

• Step 5 Because of the fact we would lose some hair, we draw the hair that is ON the face on a new layer on top of the face!

  

• Step 6 Draw the bases of the clothes. Remember that everything has to be in one color. The shading will come next...

  

• Step 7 Then WHILE LOOKING AT THE POSTERISED image, switch between the posterised photo and the original to (each time) select a color, from the level you are going to trace.

  

  Step 8 DO NOT TAKE A COLOR FROM THE POSTERISED LAYER. IT DOES NOT LOOK GOOD AND IT DOESN'T HAVE THE RIGHT COLORS!

• Step 8 Continue along the path and trace all levels and arrange them from light at the bottom, to dark at the top.
  When you are done with that, GROUP them with the skin-layer, so that any edges outside the skin won't be seen!

  

• Step 9 Because we have 2 layers of hair, make a new layer on top of the highest layer and DO NOT GROUP IT! Then trace the light hairs.
  If you have dark hair like my photo, it will be really easy. If you take blonde hair or lighter, you will have to vectorise more.

  

• Step 10 Do the same with the clothing.
  If you look at the origianl and my version, you see I left out the necklace and the silly buttons. That is because it's my vector and I can choose what I keep and leave out. You can do that too.
  If the person in the photo is a bit too fat or has something on that you don't like, just change it!

  

• Step 11 Finish up all fine details...

  

• Step 12 Now for the eyes. Create with black the shape of the eye on a new layer and on a layer above that, the lashes. When you're done, merge the 2 together;

  

• Step 13 Then inside the blackness, add a white eye-shape with in there a few circles to represent the eye.

  

• Step 14 On to the hardest part - the lips! First of all, create the shape of the lips and fill it with the base-color;

  

• Step 15 Draw the shade and shine of the lips and the inside of the mouth (IF NEEDED).
  I also drew the shade of the teeth already, so the girl doesn't look weird ;)

  

• Step 16 Then finally add the teeth and the shine on them.
  Remember to group all the shadows and shines with the base-colors. That way, you will keep your .psd in good shape and the vector will look better!

  

• Step 8 And after some hours of work, you are finally done! I really hope your result looks nice ;)