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Burning text effects are big news in the media and advertising worlds. In this photoshop tutorial Gavin Hoey www.gavtrain.com shows you how to create your very own flaming text effect.

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I am going to show you a quick method for adding â??fill flashâ? to your photos, using Photoshop. Fill flash is required when you are shooting a portrait with a bright background scene. If you accidentally neglected to turn your flash on during the shot, you will find your background to be well exposed, but your subject may appear quite dark in the scene. All is not lost – hereâ??s how we can use Photoshop to correct it!

Step 1: Begin by opening a portrait photograph where your subject appears too dark in the scene.

Step 2: Duplicate the layer: Control-J (PC) or Command-J (Mac).

Step 3: Next, open your Channels Palette. In the Channels Palette you will want to select the channel with the most contrast (most darks vs lights). To view the channels, simply click on them in the channel palette, and you will be able to view them (they will appear in black and white). In portrait photography, the channel with the most contrast is usually the blue channel, as it is here in this example.

Step 4: Once you have found the channel with the most contrast, we are now going to duplicate this channel. You can easily do this by clicking on the channel, and dragging it down onto the â??Create New Channelâ? icon at the bottom of the Channels Palette. What we are doing here is creating a channel mask, which will be used as a layer mask shortly.

Step 5: With this new channel active, open the Levels dialog box (Menu: Image > Adjustments > Levels…). What we want to do here is increase the contrast even further. You will have to experiment as it will be different for each image. Simply slide the light slider inwards, and do the same with the dark slider.
Notice the extreme boost in contrast in the image? Now click OK.

Step 6: Now we are going to add a little bit of Gaussian blur to soften the edges between the blacks and whites. Go to the menu: Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur… and add a blur of approximately 0.5 to 1.5 pixels, depending on your image.
Step 7: In your Channels Palette, click on the icon of the RGB channel to make it active again, which should now display the original image.

Step 8: Switch back to your Layers Palette and ensure that your duplicated layer (top layer) is the one that is still active. Now go to the menu: Select > Load Selection…

When this dialog box appears, ensure that the Channel option is showing the channel mask you created earlier (in this case the â??Blue copyâ?, not to be confused with the actual blue channel).
Also, it is important to check the Invert option ON, because (since this will be used as a layer mask in our next step) we want to use the inverse (or negative) of the channel mask we created.

Step 9: Now you will see your image with the selection â??marching antsâ? showing. To load this selection as a layer mask, all you have to do is click on the â??Add layer maskâ? icon at the bottom of the layers palette, and the mask will automatically be created for you based on your selection. Hereâ??s what our layer mask looks like in the layers palette now:

Step 10: Thereâ??s always a step where â??the magicâ? happens in Photoshop, and this is finally that step!
In the layers palette, change the blending mode of this
top layer to â??Screenâ? and you will see the virtual flash light up your subject. How illuminating!

You may find with some images, that the effect is not quite right, so there are some refinements which are optional and are very easy to make.
If the image is still too dark:
Simply duplicate your top layer again: Control-J (PC) or Command-J (Mac). You can do this as many times as necessary until there is enough lighting.

If the image is too bright:
Reduce the opacity of your top layer until you have your desired result.
The â??fill-flashâ? affected other parts of your image:
You have a layer mask already, so all you need to do in this case is refine it. Click on the layer mask in the Layerâ??s Palette, and (using the paintbrush tool), paint with a BLACK brush where you want to hide the fill flash effect. You can also try changing the brush opacity to 50% along the top of your screen in the brush options.

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This is a quick tutorial on how to do a beginner-type mask (or how to “photoshop someone or an object into another photo”) in photoshop cs4. Hope it helps a bit, cheers!

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Learn the belly dancing warm up technique of rolling up and down in this free video dance lesson.

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Graphic design is being the promotional key in every spare of business and individual life. Business organizations seek graphic tools to have publicity by dint of bill board, catalogs, magazines, web pages, store directories, banners, flyers, posters, ads, galleries logo and a lot. Individuals hunt such service to meet different specious motive; for example one can easily get bulk photographs printed using graphic design using Photoshop in a very cost effective manner instead of going to a studio with negative film. Different plug-ins, filters, gradients and other options in graphic design makes any object alive and beautiful.

Clipping path, Color Mask/Multiple Clipping Path and masking are the most common and popular techniques used by the graphic professionals. Pen tool, Magic wand tool, Lasso tool re used initially to erase a part from the image background to compromise those tasks. Experts generally use the Pen tool to expertise themselves with more accuracy and credibility to the customers to place an image in a new background.

What is clipping path?

Simply clip means to cut off any particle from an item. Path cuts out an image. Clipping path simply means erasing selected outlined points from the background. As for example a tailor cuts- off outlined part of a cloth with a scissor. The object becomes moveable to any other inspired background while clipped.

Procedure:

After running adobe Photoshop, you will open an image from the File menu. Then you will click on the pen tool in the tool box and see the nib icon on the top toolbar below the menu. Than you will increase the zoom by pressing ctrl add +. Then it will be easy to clip. Pressing Alt you will break the curve in an image. After completion of the path you will make selection. Than copying the selected image you will paste it your inspired background.

Benefits of Pen tool in Clipping Path:

Pen tool will help to give a wonderful background in lieu of damaged, old and scratched one in an image to promote your further intentions. It will provide superior, perfect and alive image as well as quality service of yours. The manual pen tool will ensure the selection of the area without changing or modifying a single pixel in an image. After clipping path by it you will get a bitmap image within a vector path which will be saved as EPS format. EPS format is a file that contains both the vector and bitmap data in the same image. So, this image can be used not only in Photoshop directly but also in Quark Press, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand and CorelDraw as a vector object for farther design. It is user friendly for the PDF also.

Image Masking:

Masking is created to make an adjustment and attachment of a new layer with the background layer to hide the unwanted pixel with the black and white color exhibition in it.

Procedure of masking in adobe Photoshop:

After copying a parted object from a picture by a lasso tool or pen tool you will paste it in the back ground layer in the Photoshop. Than selecting the image on the layer palate, you will click on the add layer mask in the layer palate. Than you will click on the gradient tool in the tool bar and constantly will see whether the gradient is black and white color in the option bar. If the gradient remains with multicolor on the option bar than, you will double click on the gradient with the mouse in the option bar and apply black and white color. You can also make it changing foreground and background color in the tool bar. Now clicking on gradient toolbar you will drag on the image from the right side. Thus masking will be effective. Color Mask/Multiple Clipping Path: Color Mask will Give your image a fresh new look by applying Photoshop path to multiple objects in a photograph. It will add color and texture to the same image to give totally different look.

For more information about image manipulation – http://www.photoshopclippingpath.us

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I am doing my livingroom Spanish style (not Mexico – Spain). After researching I can only find very few colors they used on the walls. Ocre is mainly outdoor but was also used on the interior and of course Adobe. I just hate having plain white walls so I am hoping to use a brownish color on the walls and whitewash with white. Does anyone have any experience with this? I could use the help I’ve never done this technique. I also dont know if maybe a different technique would better mimic adobe walls.

Thanks !

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