Archive for the 'Photoshop' Category

Cracked Wall Painting action from PanosFX

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

For those of you that don’t already know PanosFX’s website, it’s a site that offers some of the best photoshop actions that you can find for free. Some of the free actions include a 35mm filmstrip effect, a puzzle effect and various other effects.
Panos has recently released a new action that:
will make your photos look [...]

Photoshop Actions as a learning tool

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Photoshop actions are great time savers, they can help you automate repetitive tasks and batch process images. However, actions can be used as a learning tool as well. If you have found an action that produces a result you like and you are wondering about the technique used, there is a simple way of [...]

High Pass Sharpening Action

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I have created a small simple Photoshop action for sharpening images. This action uses the high pass sharpening technique which I believe is better than using unsharp mask. Within the action set I have included three small variations of the action, the only difference between them is the blending mode applied (Overlay, Soft light and [...]

Free Photoshop Brushes Resources

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

I have compiled a list of free Photoshop brushes resources. The sites listed here all offer free Photoshop brushes, however it is wise to check the TOS of each site because some of them may not allow the use of the free brushes for commercial projects.
Just a couple of things first.
How to install Photoshop [...]

Add text on a textured surface Photoshop Tutorial

Monday, January 16th, 2006

With this tutorial I am going to show you the technique I use when I want to add text on a textured surface.
First of all open the photo with the textured surface that you want to place your text on. For this tutorial I am going to use a stock photo of a wall.