They say the brightest of images are born in darkness. But the days
are gone when the photographer's dark room used to be a chamber of
secrets. The world has accepted photo manipulation as a
coveted art form. Whether for commercial or personal purpose, it is an
integral process. The advent of digital photography has played a major
part in it. Developers have handed over a magic stick in the form of photo editing software. With the simple tools and techniques that these software offer, anyone can turn to the art of image manipulation.
Articles about some digital design applications collected legally from various website
Monday, April 23, 2012
Learn How to add Beams of Sunlight Through Trees - Adding Sunlight Through Trees In Adobe Photoshop Tutorial
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to add beams
of sunlight through trees, which is not only a great way to make an
image look more interesting, it's also a lot easier to do than you might
think, as we'll see. We'll even finish things off by making the
sunbeams appear to be shining on the ground after they pass through the
trees, which adds more realism to the final effect.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Photoshop Photo Effects – Photo Edge Burn Effect
What is Edge Burning?
In traditional darkroom printing, especially in black and white, the enlarger systems used often suffered from 'fall off' (the light in the centre of an image was brighter than at the edges hence the centre of the print always had a lighter area around it.) The same is true of cameras; the camera image is brighter in the centre than at the edges. This is most evident with really wide-angle lenses but is present to some extent for all lenses.
This is commonly called 'fall off' and if you want to get really technical it can be calculated using the Cos4θ rule of trigonometry but I digress. As a rule of thumb, most lenses lose about 1/3 to 1/2 a stop of light at the edges of the image compared to the centre.
How to Design and Create Your Own 3D Animations Easily - Computer Graphics
Author: Taylor Haynes
Stereogram Explorer uses advanced algorithms and can render Primary features: User-friendly interface Random dot stereograms (SIRDS) Pattern or textured stereograms (SIS) Support for many file kinds such as GIFs, JPEGs, PICTs, and BMPs Import 3DS (3D Studio) models Export depthmaps from 3D scene Autocalculated depth coefficient for loaded 3D models.
Pro Motion is actually a bitmap editor and animation package, ideal for making pixel precise animations, images or icons used in games or Flash applications especially for hand held systems like mobile phones, Gameboy, PDA, Pocket PC and similar. It has a massive number of functions ranging from simple copied to all equal tiles within the image) - tons of tools which includes color cycling, onion skinning, masking, symmetry paint, magic wand, tile painting for "infinite" textures-bitmaps and "standard" functions like line, curve, box, circle, fill (pattern, gradients) - lots of helpful animation.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
The Use Of The Gradient Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Adobe Photoshop CS3 With Gradients
This tutorial will go over the use of the Gradient Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS3. This is a short and focused tutorial on the capabilities of the gradient tool. Many different things can be constructed from such simple features. Many new web 2.0 buttons, headers and images are using finely tuned gradients to give off a smooth effect. I personally like this look and feel, and will be developing it into some of my new tutorials. If you are looking for a more defined tutorial on how to use this feature, you can check out of the links to the side or a webpage from the resource site link. Also there is the full package of teaching tutorials that you will find summarized at the end of this tutorial. Enough of the idle talk lets continue with the tutorial.
Adobe Photoshop Elements Software - Photoshop Elements Demonstrate How You Can Fix Red-Eye
Today we will concentrate on modifying the eyes. In this Eye Lightening article intended for Photoshop elements, we will demonstrate how you can Fix Red-eye. I would like you to consider all those dreadful pics where you've been caught 'red eyed' as they say, or perhaps the whites in the eyes are certainly not as white-colored or clear as you wish them to be! Imagine as we take you step-by-step through some of the tips, the advantages that Adobe Photoshop Elements offers with these situations, and just how effortless it is to correct them.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Adobe Macromedia Flash Remoting MX - Its Uses and Efficiency
Before I start talking about Macromedia Flash Remoting MX and its uses, let me first tell you what the Macromedia Flash Remoting MX is. Developed by Adobe Systems, which has carved a niche in the software industry by developing award-winning technologies over the past 25 years, the Macromedia Flash Remoting MX is nothing but a simple software programming model. It provides you connection between Adobe Flash (known as Macromedia Flash earlier) and your web application server.
How to Fix Macromedia Flash Player Errors
Many computer programs and online applications (for example, YouTube videos) rely on Macromedia Flash Player for their performance and to provide an extreme level of interaction with computer media. Unfortunately, this program seems to be the root of a number of confusing Macromedia Flash Player errors. Fixing these issues is often necessary to use certain web pages, view videos, and play games online.
Learn To Make High Quality Macromedia Flash Animations
How flash animation works
The easiest way for you to learn this is to imagine creating an animation from scratch. First, you'll have to create your characters and environment. Then, from there, you will have to find out how they move and what they're going to do. Once you have this sort of storyboard image in your head you will have a better idea of how you want them to play out in your animation. After that, you will be able to change your images and create the different frames by creating small alterations in each successive image.
The easiest way for you to learn this is to imagine creating an animation from scratch. First, you'll have to create your characters and environment. Then, from there, you will have to find out how they move and what they're going to do. Once you have this sort of storyboard image in your head you will have a better idea of how you want them to play out in your animation. After that, you will be able to change your images and create the different frames by creating small alterations in each successive image.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
3D Photoshop Actions Review
Product Description
3-D Photoshop Actions is software by Ben Clemons and Josh Fulfer that allows the user to create professional 3-D graphics in just minutes. You will be able to do 3-D e-cover graphics with just two clicks of your mouse, no more paying others to create them for you or using plain and boring e-covers. In fact this software is the exact same software that many professional graphic designers use to create the e-covers they charge top dollar for.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Outstanding Features and Functions of Adobe Photoshop CS3 version - Photoshop Different, Adjustable Angles on Multiple Planes
Photographer can be enhanced in many ways with Photoshop. Many times the areas of the photo that are touched up can be differentiated from their surrounding areas. You have the tools to create a nice, soft fade from the effect and effect-free areas through masking and there are many ways to achieve this. Before you add an effect to any area of the photo it is useful to add this masking to the selected areas you want to adjust. One method most commonly used is the 'quick mask mode'. It is quick and easy to use and normally produces acceptable results.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Adobe Photoshop Reveals New Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Version to Learn
The new member of the Adobe family is Adobe Photoshop CS3 extended version. One of the hardest to achieve process is 3D compositing and texture editing, which stays as the major highlights of this version. The procedural steps for this task are made quite simple as delineated.
Smart filters option does not require you to save the image again to treasure originality. It allows you to include, modify, and delete filters from a picture. The nondestructive smart filter option allows one to make changes to test clarity, without changing the original pixel identity.
Smart filters option does not require you to save the image again to treasure originality. It allows you to include, modify, and delete filters from a picture. The nondestructive smart filter option allows one to make changes to test clarity, without changing the original pixel identity.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
A Contemporary Art Perspective on Digital Photo Manipulation
Traditionally the photographic image implied a record of a single instant in time from a single point of perspective. These limitations warranted the photographer to either assemble a staged shot, or to passively await for the 'decisive moment' for the elements to compose within the camera's view. Digital photo manipulation of images has removed these constraining limitations of traditional photography, to now enable the photographer to take control of both multiple perspectives and the joining together of instances of time.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
How To Extract Layers From Psd And Export To Png With The Transparency And Alpha Channel, Without Using Photoshop
I'm a Photoshop user, in the daily work, I use it as my main image editor. But sometimes, I need to extract layers from psd file, well, as you know, psd (photoshop document) is the default image format of Photoshop. The .psd format stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Photoshop - Selective Colouring
To produce a photo with selective colour, you first need to convert the photo to Mono. This must be your first piece of post processing on this photo, do not crop the photo until you have completed the selective colouring. Follow the steps below to convert your photo to mono, then see the details at the bottom which will show you how to return colour to specific areas. Converting a photo from colour to mono can be done in a few simple steps.
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