Tag Archives: Photoshop

Fireworks vs. Photoshop – Why Is Fireworks Better Than Photoshop For Web Design

Photoshop is the most popular graphic design tool for web designers, and for good reason, it is feature rich and quite powerful. However, with the evolution of technology, new and improved applications for designing web sites have been developed. The best among them is undoubtedly, Fireworks. This software has taken the web design industry by storm and provided functionality that allows for improved ways of developing a site. Here are the top eight reasons Fireworks out-shines Photoshop.

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Make your own 1950s Pin-up Girl

You’ve seen them—painted posters of models and actresses pinned up on the walls of military barracks to give the boys something to fight for. With this tutorial, you can turn a normal photograph of a woman into one of those vintage pin-up girl posters.

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Time to Sweat a Little in this Water Droplet Photoshop Tutorial

This tutorial will teach you how to add water droplets on your photo. While this can be used on other images like soda cans, bottles, leaves and whatnot, in today’s tutorial, we will be using this image of a woman’s face.

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The Power of Photoshop’s Refine Edge Tool

One of the most difficult and frustrating tasks in Photoshop is making a clean and decent selection on photos that involve super fine hair, fur, leaves, and any fiber like elements. When using the standard selection tool or the masking process, you may able to accurately select smooth edges. We may use the color range tool and the tweaking of levels and channels to select much difficult areas but that would also take too much time on manipulation and very complicated to follow.

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Show Off Your Photoshop Magic by Creating this Flaming Playing Card

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This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a realistic playing or poker card using premade vector shapes and the rounded rectangle tool in …

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Creating the Comic Book Visual Style Effect

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This tutorial will guide you how to make an ordinary photo into a comic styled image. Comics usually have their distinctive halftone effect and heavy …

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Painting Comes to Life Part 2 – Create a Magical Penguin Land in Photoshop

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We may have already a similar effect and tutorial for this on the same site, but I would like to share a much magical and …

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Be Constructive and Not Destructive in this Photo Editing Photoshop Tutorial

For a long time already, we have been enhancing and altering photographs using the settings found on Image > Adjustments. This method is what we consider as the destructive method of editing photographs and images. we may have also discovered a way that could prevent accidental manipulation or changes done upon a certain photo by making a backup copy of it located on another directory, or we made a duplicate layer of that photo and hidden on the same Photoshop document (*.psd file).

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