Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Photoshop stuff

A brief post to start tracking a few interesting Photoshop tricks, techniques, tutorials, ...

Painting with light
Duplicate background layer: Ctrl-J
Blend mode: Screen
Create black mask: Alt-Add Layer Mask icon
Set foreground color to white
Pick a soft-edged brush, verify that its opacity is 100% and paint
Adjust layer opacity

Remove shine
Video tutorial here (The Viewfinder blog)
Select Clone Stamp tool
Mode: Darken
Opacity: 30% to 40%

Whitening teeth’s
Video tutorial here (The Viewfinder blog)
Duplicate background layer Ctrl-J
Select Brush tool
Select Quick Mask tool (rectangle with circle at the bottom of tool palette)
Brush the teeth’s
Click Quick Mask icon to select
Inverse selection (Shift-Ctrl-I)
Adjust Hue/Saturation (Ctrl-U)
Select Yellow only
Decrease saturation
Increase lightness

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