Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Basic Adobe Photoshop Elements - learn

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How to Combine Multiple Digital Photos into One

You can easily combine several digital photos into one, copying part of one photo and pasting it into another by using your image-editing software. To combine images: [MORE…]

Give Your Digital Photo a Fish-Eye Effect

Fish-eye lenses enable photographers to photograph a distorted 180-degree perspective. You can simulate a fish-eye look in a lot of image editors (including Photoshop Elements). To make your photo look [MORE…]

How to Retouch Blemishes in Your Digital Photos

If you have a nice digital-photo portrait of someone that needs a little retouching, you can easily retouch minor flaws with the Healing Brush tools in Photoshop Elements[MORE…]

Move Part of a Digital Photo to a New Layer with Adobe Photoshop Elements

In Adobe Photoshop Elements, you can create layers onto which you can move different parts of your photo file. By moving parts of your original photo onto new layers, you can use those different layers[MORE…]

Adding a Digital Frame to Your Digital Photo with Adobe Photoshop Elements

You can add a digital frame to your photo in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Elements gives you many frame options, letting you preview as many as you want before you decide which frame suits your picture best[MORE…]

Creating a Digital Slideshow in Adobe Photoshop Album

You can put your digital photos into a slideshow by using Adobe Photoshop Album. After specifying how you want to set up the slideshow, you can choose how to publish it. To create a slideshow [MORE…]

How to Add Text to Your Digital Photo

If your image editor supports layers, add text to your digital photo by including a text layer in the image file. You can include this text anywhere in the image and decide the text’s look. This process [MORE…]

How to Make a Vignette in Your Digital Photo

A vignette is a circular border around the center of interest in a photograph, and vignettes are effective when used with a portrait. You can create a colorful vignette with a gradual blend to the subject[MORE…]

How to Fix an Underexposed Digital Photo

If your take a photo that you love but it’s underexposed, you can rescue the image in your image-editing software. Many image editors let you correct underexposed pictures, making them underexposed no[MORE…]

How to Use the Liquify Filter in Your Image Editor

The Liquify filter in your image editor is more than a filter — the Liquify filter allows you to manipulate your digital image like warm taffy. You can use the Liquify filter to distort the entire image [MORE…]

How to Copy Your Digital Image Slideshow to DVD

In many image-editing programs, you can output your digital image slideshow to a DVD. Then, you can play that DVD on any television that has a DVD player attached. To write your slideshow to a DVD by using[MORE…]

Brushing a Selection Outline onto Your Digital Photo

Use a tool like Elements’ Selection Brush for complex selection outlines. With this tool, you brush over the areas you don’t want to alter, laying down a digital mask over those pixels. Using the brush [MORE…]

Correcting Faded Colors in Your Digital Photos

If you’ve scanned a photo that has faded colors, you can use your image-editing software to try to restore the original colors. You might have to make up some colors, depending on how faded the photo is [MORE…]

How to Fix an Overexposed Digital Photo

If you accidentally overexpose a photo with your digital camera, you can easily fix it with a duplicate layer and the proper blend mode. As long as none of the overexposed highlights are completely blown [MORE…]

Change a Photo’s File Format in Adobe Photoshop Elements

You can convert a digital photo’s file format on your computer by using Adobe Photoshop Elements. Elements lets you choose from a list of formats, so you can make your picture file just what you want it [MORE…]

How to Organize Your Digital Photos in Your Image-Editing Software

You need a consistent file organization in your image-editing software to handle all your editing tasks. Most editing programs including an organizing feature so that you can keep your digital photos easy [MORE…]

Cropping a Digital Photo with Adobe Photoshop Elements

You can cut, or crop, an image file that you have on your computer by using Adobe Photoshop Elements (or another image-editing program), reducing the image to the cropped area. With an image open in Elements [MORE…]

Editing a Layer of a Digital Photo with Adobe Photoshop Elements

You can edit part of an image without changing the rest of it by making changes to a particular layer in Adobe Photoshop Elements. You just need to make sure that the part you want to edit resides on the[MORE…]

Selecting a Part of Your Digital Image by Color

In your photo-editing program, you can select pixels in your digital image based on color. Elements calls its color-based selection tool the Magic Wand, but other programs call it the Color Wand, Color[MORE…]

Removing Red Eye from a Digital Photo with Adobe Photoshop Elements

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How to Use Your Image Editor’s Correct Camera Distortion Filter

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How to Straighten a Digital Photo in Your Image Editor

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Deleting a Layer in a Digital Photo in Adobe Photoshop Elements

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Using Adobe Photoshop Elements to Work with Digital Photos

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Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Adding a Watermark to Multiple Images

http://www.ripperdesignandmultimedia.com/2013/06/05/photoshop-cs6-adding-a-watermark-to-multiple-images/

What size is your watermark?

Open a new file in Photoshop CS6 with a canvas size to suit your needs but make sure the background is set to transparent. Add your text and logo images to this file how you want it set out.

Now make sure everything is selected and change it to grey ( I chose #666 as my color) and change the opactiy of everything to 50%. TO MAKE IT A WATER MARK

Now we need to add a bevel and emboss effect to your images. Again ensuring that all the visible layers are selected go effects in the layers palette adjust a bevel and emboss to suit what you are after then hit OK and change the blend mode to hard light.

You can use what ever visual effects you want on your watermark, just bare in mind that due to the transparency of the image you will lose some of the effect of many of these effects. Once you are happy with the final result save the image as your watermark and we are ready to head onto the next stage. How to add a water to an image.

Adding a Watermark to an Image

To drop a watermark onto an image open the image you wish to watermark. Open your watermark file. Click on the image when it is open and hit ctr-a to select the entire image. Ctr-c to copy the image to your clipboard and head over to the image you wish to watermark. Once in your image hit ctr-v to paste it into the image. Depending on the size of your image you may need to adjust or move the image around to suit the image. Once ready save your file but remember not to save over your original.

Now how do we apply a watermark to an entire folder worth of images in one hit

Batch Processing Watermarks on Multiple Images

To watermark multiple images we are going to record an action to watermark an image and then all we need to do is play it as a batch process.

Open an image to watermark. We must have t his open before we start recording an action or else it will keep opening this image and watermarking it over and over again.
In Photoshop go to Windows >> Actions
At the bottom of the Actions Palette you will see a little folder icon, click on it and create a new folder to hold you action in.
Once you have a folder to hold your action we need to hit the Create New Action button (next to the new folder Icon we just used.)
Give our new action a name and set a function key (if required.)
If the record button is not already depressed which it should be by default, hit it now to start recording our action. (located near the folder icon again but this time to the left)
Now that our action is recording go to File >> Place
When the dialog box comes up navigate to your previously created watermark file.
Hit the Place button
Position the watermark as you would normally have it (default is dead center) and hit enter.
Go to File >> Save as,navigate to where you want your watermarked images to finish up and hit save. DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE NAME if you do when you play the batch it will name all the files it saves with this same file name so each image in the batch will over-write the previous image in the batch.
Close the image we just watermarked.
when a save dialog comes up do not save the image.
On the Actions Palette hit stop recording.
Our Action is now recorded.
To process an entire folder of images we go to File >> Automate >> Batch
Select the folder in which your images are currently
Select the folder you wish to save the watermarked copies too.
Hit OK
Photoshop CS6 is now watermarking all the Images in the selected folder for you.

Hope you all enjoy and are able to make good use of this tutorial.

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Monday, 14 March 2016

Placing An Image (FOOTBALL)Inside Of Another (TV)With Photoshop facebook

from http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/paste-into/ with my aditions for easy understanding.

Placing An Image (FOOTBALL)Inside Of Another (TV)With Photoshop

Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to place an image inside of another image using the "Paste Into" command in Photoshop. With this year's Super Bowl coming up (at the time I'm writing this), all of the major electronics stores have been filling their websites and weekly flyers with pictures of the latest high definition tv's showing the big game. If it's not a major sports event being displayed on the screens, it's usually the latest blockbuster DVD movie release or big budget video game.

Of course, none of these images are really being displayed on the screen, since it's next to impossible to take a high quality photo of something appearing on tv. It's all done in Photoshop. An image of whatever it is they want to have appearing on tv is simply pasted into the image of the tv itself. In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to see how it's done so you can use the same technique with your own images!

Note that this version of the tutorial is for Photoshop CS4 and earlier. For Photoshop CS5, CS6 and CC users, or for another example of how this technique can be used, check out our fully updated version.

Here, I have an image of the sort of tv you'd probably find in an electronics store's flyer:

NOW PASTE FOOTBALL PICTURE ON THIS BLANK TV TO ATTRACT CUSTOMER AND BUY THE TV

An image of a tv, similar to what you'd find on an electronics store's website or in their weekly flyer.

And here's the image I want to have appearing on the tv:IE PICK THIS TO PASTE ON THE TV IMAGE

A photo of a football game.

Here's what it's going to look like when we're done:

The game now appears to be displaying on the tv screen.

This is a very easy effect to create, so let's get started!

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Step 1: Select The Area ( FROM THE TV IMAGE N THIS INSTANCE) You Want To Paste The Second Image Into

First, open the image you want to place the second image into and draw a selection around the area where the second image is going to appear. The selection tool you use will of course depend on the shape of the area you need to select. I want my second image to appear inside the tv screen(LEAVING THE FRAME OUT), which is a simple four-sided shape, so I'm going to use Photoshop's Polygonal Lasso Tool, which by default is hiding behind the standard Lasso Tool in the Tools palette. I'm going to click on the Lasso Tool icon, then I'll hold my mouse button down for a second or two until the fly-out menu appears, and then I'll select the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the list:

Selecting the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the Tools palette in Photoshop.

The Polygonal Lasso Tool allows you to draw a selection by simply clicking at different points where the direction of the selection needs to change. Each time you click at a new point, Photoshop will add a straight line between the new point and the last point you clicked on, similar to how the Pen Tool works when drawing straight path segments. You simply continue clicking around the area that needs to be selected until you've outlined the entire area and you've made your way back to the beginning. When you click again on that first point, Photoshop will create the selection.

Selecting the tv screen (leaving the frame of the tv out)with the Polygonal Lasso Tool is easy. All I need to do is click in each of the four corners. I'll start with the top left corner, then make my way down to the bottom left corner, then over to the bottom right corner, and up to the top right corner. We can see the three lines that have been created so far:

Clicking in each corner of the tv screen with the Polygonal Lasso Tool to draw a selection around it.

To complete the selection, I'll click once again on the same spot I started with in the top left corner of the tv screen, and Photoshop will create my selection for me:

Click again on the initial point to complete the selection.

Step 2: Copy The Second Image To The Clipboard

Open your second image in Photoshop and press Ctrl+A (Win) / Command+A (Mac) to place a selection around the entire image:

Press "Ctrl+A" (Win) / "Command+A" (Mac) to place a selection around the entire image.

Then press Ctrl+C (Win) / Command+C (Mac) to copy the image to the clipboard.

Step 3: Paste The Second Image Into The Selection

Switch back to your original image in Photoshop. You should still see the selection you created a moment ago. We're going to paste the second image directly into this selection. To do that, go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose Paste Into:

Selecting "Paste Into" from the "Edit" menu.

Three things will happen to the original image when you choose "Paste Into". Photoshop will add a new layer above the Background layer in the Layers palette, it will place the second image on to the new layer, and it will use the selection we made to create a layer mask, which will hide all areas of the second image that fall outside of the selection, leaving only the area inside the selection visible. In other words, the only part of my football image that will be visible is the area that fits inside the selection I made around the tv screen.

First, let's look at the Layers palette for the original image to see what's happened. We can see that I now have two layers - the original Background layer on the bottom which contains my tv image, and the new layer, "Layer 1", above it which contains the football photo. We can also see the layer mask thumbnail (circled in red) showing us the layer mask that was created. The white, rectangular-shaped area in the center of the thumbnail is the area that was selected (the tv screen), and all the black area around it is the area that was not selected:

Photoshop adds a new layer to the original image, places the second image on to the new layer, and creates a layer mask based on the selection we made in Step 1.

And if we look at the image itself, we can now see the football image appearing on the tv screen:

The second image now appears inside the selection we made in the original image.

Step 4: Resize The Second Image With Free Transform

The only problem at the moment is that the tv is on an angle and the photo I've pasted into it is not, so the perspective between the two images isn't matching up. To fix that, I'll press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to bring up Photoshop's Free Transform box and handles around the second image. The first thing I'm going to do is try to fit as much of the football photo into the tv screen as I can, so I'll hold down Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac) and drag one of the four corner handles in towards the center to make the image smaller. Holding "Shift" constrains the proportions of the image as I drag so I don't accidentally distort the look of the image, and holding down "Alt/Option" tells Photoshop to resize the image from its center, which makes things easier:

Resize the image as needed with Photoshop's "Free Transform" command.

Now that I'm happy with the size of my second image, I'm going to fix the perspective problem. With Free Transform still active, I'm going to hold down Shift+Ctrl+Alt (Win) / Shift+Command+Option (Mac), which temporarily turns Free Transform into Perspective transform mode. You could also go up to the Edit menu, choose Transform, and then choose Perspective, but the keyboard shortcut is easier if you already have the Free Transform handles active.

In Perspective transform mode, I'm going to click again on the handle in the top left corner and drag it down a little. As I drag the top left corner handle down, the handle in the bottom left corner is going to move up at the same time. This will allow me to reduce the height of the left side of the football image without affecting the height of the right side of the image, creating the illusion that the image is on the same angle as the tv:

Use "Perspective" transform mode to correct any perspective problems between the two images.

Now that I'm happy with the size and angle of the second image, I'll press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to accept the changes and exit out of the Free Transform command.

Step 5: Add An Inner Shadow Layer Style

To finish off the effect, I'm going to add a slight shadow to the edges of the football image so it looks more like it's actually displaying on the tv screen and less like someone just pasted it on there (even though that's exactly what we did). With "Layer 1" selected, I'll click on the Layer Styles icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and I'll select Inner Shadow from the list of layer styles:

Click on the "Layer Styles" icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and select "Inner Shadow" from the list.

This brings up Photoshop's Layer Style dialog box set to the Inner Shadow options in the middle column. Lower theOpacity of the Inner Shadow to around 60% so it's not quite as intense, then lower both the Size and Distance down to 1 px. You may also need to adjust the Angle of the shadow depending on your image. I have mine set to 120°:

Change the options for the Inner Shadow layer style circled above.

Click OK to exit out of the Layer Style dialog box and apply the shadow, and you're done!

Here, after adding my shadow effect around the edges of the football image so it looks more natural on the tv screen, is my final result:

The final result.

And there we have it! That's how to place one image inside of another using the Paste Into command in Photoshop! Check out our Photo Effects section for more Photoshop effects tutorials!

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