A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. In this next tutorial, we’re going to be compositing a single face from many other faces. Sometimes, when you work in a marketing department, as I have for most of my career, it becomes necessary to have a certain level of retouching skills.…
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A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. In this tutorial, we’ll focus on superimposing images onto a more complex 3D objects. Last time we put images onto flat surfaces. This time, we’ll put images onto round objects, which is a little trickier. First, I’ll pick my round object. I’m going…
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A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. In this tutorial, we’re going to build on what we learned in the first tutorial about animated gifs with more complex movement. We’ll do this using the following two stock images from Bigstock contributors Elenamiv and NesaCera The first thing I’m going to…
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A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to superimpose images onto 3D objects in Photoshop. I picked a cube as our simple 3D object, and 3 spring-themed Bigstock photos to go on the sides. I’m going to copy and paste a square section…
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A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. Post was revised/updated on February 4th, 2014, by Cristin Burton. In this tutorial, we’ll you show you how to create animated gifs. If you’re tasked with creating web banners, this is a great place to start. An animated gif can be submitted to most ad…
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By Karl Rosencrants, Bigstock Contributor. This post was updated on June 26, 2015 by Cristin Burton. Here’s a helpful technique for when you want to fit an image into a shape, such as a frame. In this tutorial we will paste this image of a butterfly into the frame of this Polaroid-style instant photo frame.…
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Mystified by the mask tool? Our quick tutorial shows how to use it to make a cool cutout type effect. First, the basics: A mask is a grayscale, pixel image that’s attached to a layer in Photoshop. The mask tells Photoshop how much of the layer to display. White pixels on a mask will display…
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How to Create a Fire Illustration in PhotoshopBy Karl Rosencrants, Bigstock Contributor There are many different ways to “draw” fire, and in this tutorial we will be aiming to create some realistic looking flames. For this exercise, begin by creating the canvas wider than it is tall. The wider the canvas, the more room you…
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Mastering the Pen Tool in PhotoshopBy Karl Rosencrants, Bigstock Contributor Photoshop is known for its pixel editing capabilities, but that isn’t all it can do. It also has the ability to create and work with vector art. Working with vectors has advantages: It can help you create crisp graphics with great precision. Photoshop’s main vector…
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By Karl Rosencrants, Bigstock Contributor Photoshop comes with a number of preset gradients, but sometimes the presets are simply not what you need for a certain design. Luckily, Photoshop contains a Gradient Editor that allows you to create custom gradients. Even better, it’s easy to use once you understand the basics of how to use…
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