Gang,
One of the basic rules of good behavior is: Make promises! And the second one is: Keep promises!
Yesterday, I promised you a tutorial on creating a “bokeh” effect so you can make images like the one below.
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Now, as you noticed, for this purpose I used Valentine’s Bokeh, Photoshop brushes set.
Valentine’s Bokeh Photoshop brushes set comes as a free bonus to the unique PREMIUM Photoshop brushes package called “Sweet Love” that will save you time, improve your designs and help you earn $$$ with your work. How? Let me tell you.
Sweet love consists of:
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| Photoshop Brushes: Valentine’s (21+21) Second Edition + 21 PNG files $9.99 value | Hearts Photoshop Brushes Set (32) $9,99 value |
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| Circled hearts, Photoshop brushes set (40+40), $9,99 value | Scrapbook Kit: Pink Valentine 2009 (21) $4,99 value |
| PREVIEW | PREVIEW |
And, of course, “Valentine’s Bokeh” PS Brushes (14)
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| Valentine’s Bokeh, Photoshop brushes set (14) FREE BONUS! |
| PREVIEW |
Total value: $34,96
And the above price is crossed over because I’ve put all these products into
SWEET LOVE – PREMIUM package
Package that will:
- Speed up your Valentine’s/Love/Wedding related projects and save some 70-90% of your time!
- Make it easy for you to create superb graphics for all purposes!
- Use your creations for commercial purposes so it will help you earn money!
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Guys! I’m sure you can recognize a good opportunity when you see it, and you’ll be glad you took this one.
- It will save you time,
- It will help you grow as a designer
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Nuff said. No need to spend too many words. I strogly believe in my products, they proved to be of a enormeous help for graphic designers of all profiles over and over again.
So, do the right thing.
Love ya’ all, hug and kiss first person you see after reading this, stay well and have fun creating.
Yours,
Silvia
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Gang!
I just know you’re gonna LOVE these! Especially those of you who use iPhone, because these are Valentine’s Day iPhone Wallpapers.
Feel free to download and install them on your iPhone.
Needless to say, these were all made with a little (or should I say big) help from my friends Photoshop brushes.
But not just any Photoshop brushes. Oh, no!
For this special effect I created a special set of brushes which I named – “Bokeh”.
Why bokeh? Well, while in photography, bokeh (shortly: aesthetic quality of the blur) is easy to create with almost any kind of camera, in graphic design many people find it desirable but hard to create.
I bet you’d like to do something like that and then show-off on Facebook, or Flickr, or your blog, or Photobook, etc … etc … right? :))
No probs!
Tomorrow, I will post a video tutorial on how to create and use bokeh (effect like the one on the images above) in your daily designs :)
So, tomorrow is a very special day, with a very special tutorial! Stay tuned!
Love,
Silvia
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It’s early morning and it snows. It is a beautiful sight as I’m standing by the window witnessing this silent transformation of the landscape – from gray to white.
Mr. Alfons is dazzled too. He sees the snow for the firs time in his life and demands to go to the balcony and examine this new phenomenon.
Mr. Alfons on snow
It’s five days till Christmas and although the forecast foresees warming in the next few days ,I’m still dreaming of the white Christmas, just like Frank Sinatra. And, well, most of us.
So, let’s use this moment of the inspiration and imagine how cool would it be if we make one snowflake just to honor this beautiful morning. By the way, did you know that no two snowflakes are alike?
There is, probably, a dozen of ways on how to make a snowflake, but, in this post I will show you how I do it and I will explain why I do it this way.
The whole process starts in Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW! depending on your personal preference. The shape of the snowflake can be done in any vector editing software. Unfortunately, Photoshop is (still) unsuitable for the complex shape creation.
So, here is what we will do.
- I will show you how to create a snowflake in CorelDraw
- Then we will transform that snowflake into Photoshop
- And in the end we will create a HiQuality snowflake Photoshop brush
1. Creating a snowflake in CorelDraw
1. Creating a snowflake brush in Adobe Photoshop
Have fun creating!
Silvia
P.S.: If you don’t use CorelDraw here’s the Snowflake.EPS file for you to download –>>
P.P.S.
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Guys,
I don’ know if you heard about the Russian Lomo Compact Camera and the Lomography artistic movement since 1991, but personally I love Lomo and in this tutorial I will show you how to do it. To find out more about lomo go to – What is Lomography? page.
As I said, I love that lomo-look, and many of my photos are over-saturated, burnt and have too much contrast. But, since late ’90s I didn’t use my analog cameras that much. I love them and I really like the feeling when using mechanic instruments and winding my negative films, then smell of the chemicals in the darkroom :)
Although this hobby is really time consuming, there is still a way to lomoise photos in a fast and easy way.
Let me show you, here is what photos looked like before using “lomoising” technique and after using that technique.
First image is taken with Fish eye lens in our old apartment, year ago using one strobe light and a soft-box. (What is soft-box?) On second image I got more “dramatic” look using digital lomo technique. Oh, and yes – that’s my sister :)
Also, I used Swirls Butterflies, Photoshop brushes set (20+20) from Graphics-Illustrations.Com Shop for $9.99
Set contains 40 butterflies made of swirls – 20 original in maximum brush size and 20 in small sizes (approx. 500 pixels). This Photoshop brushes set is compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3 and CS4.
Click here for preview:
Second one is a photo of a butterfly taken in a natural light (butterfly takes a break on my red bag), and you can see that color really stands out and the yellow background looks like a flames.
Here I used Photoshop Brush – Floral DUO (62) from Graphics-Illustrations.Com Shop available for $9.9 only.
Set of 62 unique brushes for Photoshop. There is a perfect fit pair brush for each of the brushes in the set. Compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.
Click here for preview:
Third sample is a photo taken during a photo session for my friend which is a hosiery manufacturer.
To decorate this image I used Photoshop Brushes – Floral Shapes (37) from Graphics-Illustrations.Com Shop available for $9.9 only – 37 High-Resolution Photoshop brushes
Compatible with Photoshop 7.0 up to CS4 & Commercial license
Click here for preview:
There is an extra promo gift that comes with the Floral Photoshop Brushes set (37): Scrapbook kit Grunge Love !
Fourth sample is pampas grass detail, photo taken in a natural light. In this case I got more dramatic look using digital lomo technique.
For image decoration I used Lightworks Photoshop Brushes set (61) from Graphics-Illustrations.Com Shop available for $9.99 only.
Set of 61 high resolution brushes compatible with Photoshop 7.0, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5.
Click here for preview:
And finally, a portrait of my friend Iva. Here you can see same photo before and after “lomoising”. First, the photo before “lomoising”. This one is used on my Photoshop Video Tutorial: “How to Create Lomo Look in Photoshop”.
And here’s the Iva after “lomoising” :)
And finally, here’s Iva after adding 7 Lucky Swirled Snowflakes Photoshop brushes set – latest Photoshop brushes set available for GBG members only in December 2009 GBG eZine! And if you are not the member – click here and join GBG – it’s free!
So, if you’d like to try out lomo on some of your own photos, here is a video tutorial on how to do it:
Important notice: You will note that the video has no sound. This is because I am kind of a shy person and just can’t speak in public. Making a tutorial and speaking at the same time is kind of a speaking in public and I just can’t do it.
Now, for the same reason, I’m looking for someone to help me out. I’m making these tutorials for free, so I can’t offer you much, but if you are the kind of person that has no problem recording a tutorial text and wouldn’t mind getting some PREMIUM brushes or anything else from my little store of wonders for a little favor – let me know. I can send you the text that needs to be recorded and – voila! We have a tutorial with sound and you get some PREMIUM brushes. If you’re interested please send me an email to info(at)graphics-illustrations.com.
Until then, just follow what I do on the screen, make sure to do what I do and everything should be just fine.
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.
Have fun creating!
Silvia
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This video tutorial is created in Photoshop CS4.
I am not sure since which Photoshop version is the command Edit -> Transform -> Warp available, but I believe it was since the CS2. Although all of my Photoshop brushes are compatibly for all versions of Photoshop since 7.0 up to the latest one CS4, this time I prepared a tutorial for a bit newer versions.
Important: before starting workin on the image you opened in Photoshop, unlock the background Layer. The one where image is on. Here is how to do it:
OK. Enough talking, here’s the video:
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Wouldn’t it be cool if we had some kind of magic desktop wallpaper that will trigger the emotion of happiness every time we look at it? Hmmmm …. that’s a thought.
So, while you download this prototype, I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on happiness with you and I hope you’ll find them inspiring.
This post is about our pursuit of happiness.
Even the Declaration of Independence states that everyone has inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. Only some US states included this right into their Constitutions, but I believe that it should be included in all constitutions of all countries in the world.
Why?
Because, from the moment we wake up and open our eyes in the morning – until we fall asleep in the night, all we do is pursuit of happiness. Of course, we don’t define our actions that way. We have breakfast (or at least some of us lucky enough) and everything else we do for the rest of the day is we try to create environment and the conditions that will help us experience the emotion or feeling of happiness.
Unfortunately, we can not provoke that feeling ourselves. The best we can do ourselves is try to think about the times when we were happy, but for many of us even that could invoke the feeling of sadness instead.
Remembering the good times is just not enough.
What we strive to do is create the conditions and the environment that will trigger the events that will then trigger the feeling of happiness. That’s what we do at all times. But, to be happy, we need the “co-operation” of other people. For instance, when we love someone. We do our best to appeal to that someone so that our love is returned to us. And if we find out that we are loved by that someone then we feel true happiness and that’s the feeling we’re all looking for.
As you can see, we need somebody’s help to reach that emotion.
Or, another example, we feel happy when something we do is recognized and liked or loved by someone else or by many. The recognition of our work will also trigger the emotion of happiness, but again, we need other people to help us reach the emotion of happiness.
Now, here the thought. WE ARE that “other people” for the rest of the world. Aren’t we? Now, just think about it for a second. We are the only ones who can help other people reach that emotion, we are the other people and others depend on us. How about that?
So, in my mind, it is all about giving and receiving. It is a “dual channel” process. Once, when all people become aware of this, this world will be crowded with happy people.
In the meantime, in our pursuit of happiness we can do two things:
- make other people happy (as there is no happiness without giving)
- create environment where other people will also be given a chance to make us happy
Giving and receiving. Can not have one without the other.
The more we give - the more we will receive. And receiving then gives us me more energy to give back again.
Unfortunately, many of us still have problems with the “giving” part. That’s because we tend to believe that we are limited with the resources and the more we give the less we have. I think that is one of the the main reasons for the existence of unhappiness in this world.
So, inspired by these thoughts I thought I’d make this wallpaper on the topic of happiness. I hope you will like it.
I did that one using the following:
- Swirls Floral LITE Photoshop brushes set – FREE
- Grunge floral shapes LITE Photoshop brushes set – FREE
- Photoshop Brushes – Floral Shapes (37) – PREMIUM (There is an extra promo gift that comes with this set!)
- Hearts Photoshop Brushes Set (32) - PREMIUM
Download the wallpaper in following sizes:
Love, give and thau shall receive.
Silvia from Graphics-Illustrations.Com
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Gang,
Using Photoshop brushes as photo masks is nothing new, to some of you. But, for the rest of us, here is a little reminder of yet another way to use and apply Photoshop brushes.
So, I took the effort to prepare a small video tutorial. As always, before running it, start your Photoshop and follow along. That is the best way to learn.
OK. I’m sure this tutorial gave you a bunch of new ideas.
Don’t forget that you will need some High resolution brushes for projects like this. Especially if you plan to print these photos afterwards.
What you will need now is a good resource of High Resolution brushes with commercial license (especially if you are into scrapbooking or photography business) and that is -> 800+ Photoshop brushes MEGA SET. More than 800 Photoshop brushes is waiting for you to create graphic miracles right here ->
Love ya’ all,
Silvia
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Somebody asked me, a while ago, if I could make a tutorial on how to create this kind a special (old skin) effect on a photo.
So here it is, Sanya portrait from last Thursday’s TT post in original RGB colors and combined with the dirt texture in sepia tone.
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This video tutorial is really huge so I had to cut it out to four parts:
- 1. First part is about Desaturating RGB photo and coloring it to sepia tone. Easy way :)
- 2. Second video is about applying texture brush to the image.
- 3. Third video is about using mask on layer in Photoshop, this is the longest one (and the heaviest: 33MB)
- 4. And the last one, fourth video is about softening layer with the texture just to add more natural look to the image
That’s it :D
If you followed that tutorial on your computer – you learned something new today!
If not, go back, start Photoshop and follow the steps from this tutorial.
Have fun creating!
S
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Link: video tutorial on how to create big popart circle in Photoshop
I feel good and I don’t like sitting in front of my computer at this stage. No! I’m kind of a lazy since Friday. At Saturday I was in Graz :) and yesterday I was walking through my city and take some photos!
Now, weekend is over and work has to be done.
Back then in July I posted one tutorial named: How to create big popart circle in Photoshop. Since then I received many questions, comments and emails that tutorial doesn’t work in CS3… well, it’s working and I decided to do video tutorial, simple and fast, easy and short.
Watch the video tutorial on how to create big popart circle in Photoshop or visit a step by step tutorial here.
Usage samples:
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(Winners will be announced soon)
Enjoy!
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And now – it’s video time: this is one small step for the mankind and one giant step for me. And for this blog. Ladies and gentleman, for the first time in history, I bring you: Digital scrapbooking video tutorial and Free Digital Scrapbooking layout!
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Get your popcorn, sit back and relax. This video will blow your socks off! In 8 minutes guide you will be shown how to make a seasonal scrapbook pages for your Christmas & New Year & Winter & Holidays photos!
And this is not all! On the top of it you get to download all related files in png format so you can start using them immediately. Oh, yes, did I mention it’s all for free? (Of course you are also free to utilize my appreciation button:)
Let’s begin! With this video tutorial (please be patient while loading video, it is really huge) you can learn how to create your own digital scrapbooks in Photoshop.
Yes – subscribe to my newsletter and scrapbook pages are available for download! Here’s the small preview of four different pages in the latest Digital Scrapbook “Holiday” set:
Pages are in 7,5“x7,5“ size at 300px per inch which is more than enough for your printer.
Have a fun!
S*
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