How to correctly position subjects in an image

In movies the best special effects are the ones you can’t detect. In photomontage applies the same.

How many times we look at a montage and instinctively we detect there something wrong; the subject clearly looks superimposed. › Continue reading

Tags: Design Basics, Quick Tip

Create a super easy lightning from scratch

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a realistic lightning with a very simple method using difference clouds and levels. › Continue reading

Tags: Light Tutorial, Quick Tip

Create a high contrast and sharp image-Smart Objects 2

Converting your image to a smart object allows you to edit your image in a non-destructive way, and lets you drag and drop your effects to another image. At any moment you can double click on the effects to re open the dialogs and make changes to the adjustments. › Continue reading

Tags: color correction, Quick Tip

Free CSS tools online

Any tool that helps us work faster, simplify the design process and speed up the development time for our web pages really makes our life easier.

This list contains simple CSS tools to calculate border radius, font size, create templates, CSS Editors and experiment with color combination. › Continue reading

Tags: css tools, Quick Tip

From Photo to Amazing Vector in 5 Steps

There are different techniques to achieve this effect, but this one is very simple and really gives the impression that the image was drawn in a vector-based application such as illustrator. At the end I’ll show this image against a posterized version so you can see the difference. › Continue reading

Tags: Photo to Vector, Quick Tip

Add warmth to skin in 1 step

A super fast method to add a healthy tan or warmth to a persons face is using a hue saturation adjustment layer.  ( image > Adjustments > hue/saturation). › Continue reading

Tags: color correction, Quick Tip, skin retouch

Quick Tips 1: Make a series of equal selections

With this tutorial we start our series of quick tips or minitutorials. In this one we will learn to make a series of equal selections that will be evenly spaced. Lets get started. › Continue reading

Tags: photoshop tutorial, Quick Tip