Jungle camouflaged text effect - Adobe-Photoshop-Tutorial

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Learn to create a jungle camouflaged text.

Let’s start with opening a new document, photo of the jungle:

Write you text:

Now, apply the following effects:

The camouflaged text effect is ready.

Correcting Skew - Adobe Photoshop Photographic Effects

Digital cameras may have advanced greatly over the last few years, but the underlying fallibilities of photographic positioning are still as relevant as ever, and even the most professional photographer cannot keep their viewfinder perfectly level all the time. There is, however, no need to despair - Photoshop is loaded with tools that can help correct skewed horizons in mere moments. This tutorial describes probably the simplest and most effective method for skew correction, using the often forgotten The Measure tool determines lengths, angles, and rotations along lines.'); Activate();" onmouseout="deActivate()" alt="">Measure Tool.

Step 1: Open up a stock image in Photoshop of any size and/or format. The best results for this tutorial usually involve large images with a definitive horizon or absolutely straight edge (such as the brickwork of a building, if you wish to correct the skew in an image of a building, etc). Note: Please remember that this method is only as effective as the underlying image. If you have a source that's skewed in three dimensions, this two dimensional technique may not yield the exact results that you desire.

Step 2: Select the Measure Tool from the tools palette. If you are having trouble finding it, its underneath the EyeDropper Tool. Using the Measure ToolThe Measure tool determines lengths, angles, and rotations along lines.'); Activate();" onmouseout="deActivate()" alt="">, draw a line along the horizon by clicking, dragging, and then releasing your mouse button. If you don't get your line correct the first time you can just draw another one and it will replace the former line. Try to include as much of the horizon as you can - this will average out small inconsistencies due to waves, objects on the skyline, etc.

Step 3: To perform the rotation, simply select Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary from the main menu. The Measure Tool will have already entered in the correct angle of rotation for us. Just make sure that the direction of rotation is set correctly (i.e. either clockwise or counter-clockwise), and press OK to rotate your image.

Step 4: Now that you have the results of your rotation, complete with corrected horizon, all you need to do is knock out the black areas with the Crop Tool, a skilfully-used border, or even the Clone Stamp Tool. Have fun!

Artistic Color Isolation - Adobe Photoshop Photographic Effects

In this world of 16.7 million color displays and high megapixel cameras it may seem like a backward step to convert images into black and white but, as modern motion pictures like Schindler's List (and more recently, Sin City) have shown us, effective use of isolated color in monochrome images can be very eye-catching and portray important information & emotions.

As one can imagine, there are dozens of different ways to accomplish color isolation in Photoshop. To keep things simple, however, I will cover the two different methods that I consider to be the best for this task.


Method 1: Channel Mixer Adjustment Layers
This method makes extensive use of adjustment layers to make non-destructive changes to an image, and is most suited to simple shapes and edits. Many thanks go to Bub for the image used below.

Step 1: Open your picture in Photoshop and select Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer from the main menu. Check the box marked 'monochrome' and adjust the brightness percentages to suit your personal tastes. Take your time in this stage balancing the picture. There is no ideal way to do this, but since this step dictates the overall look of your final image, experimentation is the key. When you are happy with your results, press OK.

Step 2: Select the new adjustment layer that you have just created from the Layers Palette. Now, select a Brush Tool with 100% opacity with a non-fuzzy brush tip and ensure that the colors in the color swatches are black&white.

Step 3: Using the black color, carefully brush over the parts of the image that you want to be in color. You will need to switch to a smaller brush to isolate the smaller details. If you make a mistake, paint over the area again in white to restore the monochrome effect. And that's all there is to it!

Method 2: Color Selection
This alternate method makes destructive changes, but also utilizes color selections to make much more complex selections possible. Please note that this technique works best on images where there is a great deal of existing color separation (i.e. in this example, our picture is a red flower set against a greatly green background).

Step 1: Open your picture in Photoshop and immediately duplicate your layer by selecting Layer > Duplicate Layer from the main menu. Hide the new layer on the top row of the layers palette, and click on the original layer to reselect it.

Step 2: Desaturate the layer using Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Many people do not like the default 'desaturated' look, so play around with the Levels and Brightness/Contrast until this you are happy with the results.

Step 3: Unhide the top (color) layer and click on it to make it the new active layer. Now, go to Select > Color Range. This will load up a rarely-used and complex feature of Photoshop. To start, click on a color that you want to select in the main image using the Eyedropper Tool. As you will notice, the Color Selection window will show your selected color as a mask of white against black (white being the selected area). The Fuzziness slider will adjust the tolerance of your selection (i.e. the bigger the number, the more colors NEAR your selected color will also be selected).

Step 4: Using a mixture of the fuzziness slider and the Eye Dropper Tools (the + and - tools are essential too, to both add and remove colors from your selection respectively), isolate your image from the background. Don't worry if little areas become selected against your will, because we will correct that imminently.

Step 5: When you are happy with your selection, press OK. As you will now notice, you have an active selection around the colors you chose. You should now reverse this selection with Select > Invert from the main menu. Press DELETE on your keyboard, and voila - you have isolated color against a monochrome background!

Step 6: Using the Erasser Tool you should now clean up your isolated color layer as much as possible, to remove areas of color that were accidentally selected. And that's all there is to it! You can repeat Steps 3 to 5 in more than one layer if you need to isolate radically different colors - they should stack against the monochrome layer just fine if you keep it simple.

Alternate Methods
As I mentioned in the introduction there are a great deal of other ways to isolate selections of color. Some people use the Lasso Tool, others use complex masks. They all work, and have their own individual strengths and weaknesses. My advice is to just experiment and see which method works best for you.

Source: BioRUST

Animated Graphic Equalizer - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial, I'll be showing you how to make your own animated graphic equalizer in Adobe Imageready, which looks good in both signature images and also on web templates.

1. First things first, create a new canvas in Photoshop, roughly 150x150px, and use the paint bucket tool to fill the background black. You can also open up an existing graphic you have created that you want to put the animation over.

2. Now zoom in slightly, and using the pencil tool with a 1px brush, draw in you the first level of your equalizer bars. These will act as a guide for where to put everything else.



3. Now you need to decide how tall you want your equalizer to be. Draw a line under your guide bars leaving a 1px gap bewteen, and then draw a line up each side leaving a 2px gap. The 2px gap is so that you can leave little level markers along the sides, such as shown here:



4. Ok, you're ready to start drawing the bars in. Again with the 1px Pencil tool, but on a new layer, start to draw in your first set of equalizer levels. Make them nice and uneven, and make sure you create the lines straight upwards! You can either leave a 1px gap between each section, or you can use solid bars. I'll be using a 1px gap, but I've shown both below for this step only:



5. This is the time consuming part. You need to repeat the last step, each time on a new layer, and make sure you change the level of each bar, if only a little bit, each time. Afterwards, you should have a series of equalizer layers, which will individually look similar to these:



6. Now you need to hit Ctrl-Shift-M to jump to Imageready. Once you're there, make sure you have the animation window open. If it's not, hit Alt-W and click the Animation button. Now you have to open a new frame for every stage of the animation, which is every equalizer layer you made in the last step. Make a different one visible in each new frame, so that individually, they look like each of my images above. Leave each frame delay at 0 sec. for a smooth animation. Then go to File/Save Optimised As and save your animation. Hopefully, you should have a working animation similar to this:



You can modify this in many ways, as well as obviously the size of your equalizer. You can add gradients to the level bars, or have them change colour when they go above a certain level, for instance. Experiment and see what you can get.

3D Abstract Art - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

Make something like this with the Pen Tool.

Rasterize the layer.

Fill the object with some gray gradient (Gradient Tool).

Go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome and use these settings. Make a copy of the layer and lock it.

Go to Edit > Transform > Perspective and make something like above by pulling the upper left corner down. Make the background black.

Use the locked layer and make some more variations.

Make something like in the picture by duplicating the objects. Select all and go to Edit > Copy Merged. Paste it.

Go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. Use the settings in the picture. Do this two times.

Make it a bit lighter with Image > Adjustments > Curves.

Play with the colors with Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Do the same thing with the objects (merge them first into one layer with CTRL + E). And play with the darkness a bit with Image > Adjustments > Curves.

Simple Button - Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

Make a rectangle. Go to Select > Modify > Smooth and choose 7 pixels.

Choose a light color and a darker color. Fill the selection with gradient with the Gradient Tool.

Make a stroke with the setting above.

Type your text. Make a drop shadow with the settings in the picture.

The finished button.