Photoshop Tutorials

Latest Photoshop Tutorials Photoshop Pen Tools & Vector Paths : This week we cover vector paths, the path palette, and the pen tool. Vector Tutorial (Heathrowe) Adobe Photoshop Pen Tool (USC.edu) Pens, Paths, and the Bird (Stanford.edu) Intro to Photoshop Pen Tools (GFXlab.com) Creating relaistic icons (Pen Tool) among others. October 2004 Adobe Photoshop Photo Retouching & Restoration 2 : This is actually the second in our series of Photoshop Retouching sites, this time concentrating on some specific tools: Patch Tool; Ades Design - Adobe Photoshop Tutorials; Retouching and Repairing; Improving Tone and Removing Dust & Mold; Repairing Color Photos in Photoshop 7 and more... September, 2004 Adobe Photoshop Photo Retouching & Restoration : Healing Brush/ Patch Tool, Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop (Layer Masks), Using Photoshop Strategically, realistic spotlight effect in photoshop, Retouching Images, "Save Time Tweaking" Tutorial and more... September, 2004...

Today I'm going to show you how to make a nice looking wallpaper in Photoshop. It includes how to make very nice looking leaves, waterdrops and subtle background effects. Enjoy! Step 1: The Beginning First open a new document of your screen size , I used my own resolution, which is 1440x900 pixels . When you've did that, choose 2 nice blue colours, the I used #0090ff as foreground and #003ebd as background colour. Then draw a radial gradient from the left top to the left bottom, so you should end up with something like this: Step 2: Background 2 When you've completed the previous step, you can create a new layer , named ' Background 2 '. Then get a lightblue brush (I used #b4ecff ) with a size of 200 pixels, then adjust some brush settings: With these settings you can start to draw some subtle strokes on your Background 2 layer , to end up with a result looking like this: Step 3: The Leaves Now we're done making the Background , we can start on m...