December 2008

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How to Replace the Sky with Quick Mask Using Photoshop

Photography

Above is the result of this tutorial. Here I have a photo of the Portland Headlight in Maine. It’s a nice photo, but I think the sky is a little dull and bland. I’m going to add a new sky to this photo; one with clouds to make it more interesting. Here is the original [...]

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Creating a 3D Pop-Out Effect Using Photoshop

Photography

Above is the effect I’m going to teach you how to do in this tutorial. The first thing I’ll do is open my photo into Photoshop. Here’s the photo I’ve selected for this project. This kind of effect works great with action shots. Boats traveling fast across the water or cars speeding past you, or [...]

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How to Give a Photograph a Painterly Look Using Photoshop

Photography

Above is a photograph of a car that I recently took at a car show in Westchester. I’d like to give it a painterly look, so here’s how I’m going to do it. The first thing I do is open the photo in Photoshop. Then I’ll go to Shadow/Highlight. The reason I do this is [...]

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