Creating Stars From Scratch

STARS

This tutorial is on how to create stars from scratch.

This tutorial needs you to know how to use many different filters within photoshop such as;

• Levels.
• Add Noise.
• Blur.

This is the results of my efforts:

 This is the tutorial link: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/starry-sky/

Creating A Sun From Scratch

This tutorial is on how to create a sun that looks pretty good.

Things you will need to use;

• Marquee Tool.
• Filters.
• Adjustment Layers.
• Colour Balance.

This is the finished result of my efforts.

This is the link I used to help create the sun: http://www.tutorialwiz.com/sun/

Changing the Background of the Image

This tutorial will show you how to change the background of a selected image.

I had troubles with my selections due to the image I had selected. Here are the images and results of which I accomplished.

Tips: Adding blur to the background brings the viewers focus to the foreground image.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/changing-your-background/

Tribal Symbol Tutorial

This tutorial I found rather fun to make, it uses random shapes that are made with the Oval Marquee Tool.

This tutorial, has a lot of space for error, as you can create many other shapes apart from the shape that the tutorial uses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFNGWAPbao

With this tutorial, There was no hassle in following this, I had no trouble doing any part of this.

The results of this tutorial are as followed;

Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, This tutorial shall show you how to accomplish the use of photo manipulation.

This technique is rather tricky and shall put up a video tutorial off youtube up to show you how to achieve this technique and show you the results of what can be made of this tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOx-tIL1s6Y

This youtube tutorial comes with reference images on which you can fulfill the tutorial.

WARNING: This video tutorial is a slightly difficult and will involve other techniques needed to achieve this result. Some of the techniques that are involved within this tutorial are;

1. Color Correction.
2. Quick Selection Tool Experience.

This is the results of the tutorials;

Colour Correction

Within this post I'll discuss Colour Correction.

Colour Correction can be used for a range of things, If a photo is to under exposed, Has to many shadows and you want to bring some of the details forward, this is a quick and easy way to fix an image.

Firstly, I had to find an image on which it was under exposed, and I thought it would be worth fixing up.

Next I bought the image into photoshop and started to tinker with it, I started with adjusting the levels of the image which I just bought into photoshop by hitting Command + L (For Macs) or Control + L (For Windows).

This brings up the level adjuster and allows you to work with either the whole RGB colour scale or each individual colours (Red, Green and Blue)

Adjusting individual colours can give you a more bizarre feel by using too much green or any other colour, But using the default White and Black Balance will allow you to get rid of dark shadows.

REMEMBER! The more times you do this and confirm the change the more you will damage the image and have to start over! (I had trouble with this first time starting out)

This is what I have accomplished within this explanation;

These are some other colour correction tutorials on which you can accomplish this same effect;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G74NkuldCuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4etE2vbmMWk

Photoshop Introduction

This post is what I shall be learning and how I'm going to accomplish this task I will be going through the basics of photoshop and progressively getting harder tutorials and learning more advanced techniques.

Some of these skills are;

1. Photo Manipulation.
2. Photo Correction.
3. Using The Tools Of Photoshop.
4. Using the blending options.
5. Masks.

These are only a few great things of which photoshop is capable of.