April 2009

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Creating a Brush Preset Using a Photograph in Photoshop

Photography

Above is the type of brush I’ll show you how to create. Here, I have a photograph that I took of a butterfly. I made a selection using the lasso tool around the butterfly, and put in onto its own background. I could have also just erased the background with the eraser tool in the [...]

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How to Create a Fisheye Lens Effect Using Photoshop

Photography

Above is the result of this tutorial. Here I have a photo of the Boston skyline, taken with a 18-200mm lens at 18mm: The first thing I’ll do is select the elliptical marquee tool from the tool bar: As I’m making my selection on the photograph, I’ll hold down the Shift key on my keyboard [...]

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How to Turn a Photograph Into a Cartoon Effect

Photography

Above is the result of this tutorial. Here is a photograph of some flowers I took in my backyard: The first thing I’ll do is go to Filter / Sketch / Photocopy: When the Photocopy dialog box comes up, I’ll make the image viewable at 25% by clicking on the (-) at the left hand [...]

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