Photoshop Tutorials Blog

Graphic.com Has a nice article explaining three ways that you can use to reduce the noise from digital images. Anyone that has ever been involved with stock photography knows how hard this is. The main reason is that if you overdo it you introduce artifacts in the image which are even worse than noise imho.
The three ways that Graphic.com describes work (I usually use the first one) but I thought that I should mention a photoshop plugin that does exactly that reduce the digital noise. There ae several plugins of course but this one is free. It’s the DeNoise plugin.

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This is one is one of these photoshop tutorials that although they might not be for everyday use, they can help you understand the use of the various Photoshop tools. Once again it’s a free video tutorial from Watch and Learn Photoshop.

Today’s tip is a two-for-one for those of you who want to know how to extract a person from an image. After learning how to do this, you’ll also learn how to turn that person into a statue in just a few simple steps.

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Beautifier is a free Photoshop plugin that was released by Red Paw Media. Red Paw media is the creator of two more free plugins the Hot Pixel and the BleachBypass. What this filter does, is that it creates a High Key effect that you often see used in fashion magazines.
The user can play with four different settings

• Diffusion
• Brightness
• Strength
• Saturation

and there is also an option to simulate an Infrared black and white effect.

The filter worked quite nicely and there are also a couple of nice examples at the plugins homepage where you can check it in action.
The main drawback for some people is that it is a windows only plugin.

I guess we are on a roll posting about the latest free video tutorials from Watcandlearnphotoshop. Free however is nice . Their latest free video tutorial show how to posterize an image using Photoshop, a simple but nice tutorial that basically explains how the Poster Edges filter works.

Turning your images into illustrations isn’t as difficult as you might think. In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to make your images look cartoonish in just one simple step.

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Another one of the excellent free video tutorials from Watchandlearnphotoshop has been released. This tutorial explains how you can add smoke to an image, as the title clearly suggests.

Want to make your motorcycle photo gallery a little more exciting by adding a little smoke to your pictures? In this video tutorial, you’ll learn how to create smoke in Photoshop using filters and blending modes.

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