There are many emerging design trends and concepts in the graphic design world. And these trends help us graphic designers to create more competitive and better designs. My favorite concepts are the Letter Press and Huge Typography designs. These two concepts were widely used by different graphic designers for creating logos, posters, and even in magazines.

Letter Press | Design Concepts Using Typography

The Letter Press design concept, one of the most widely used design concepts all over the web. It has been very popular because of its professional look, especially when used in business cards, posters and book covers. I also use this concept in my new designs especially in business cards.

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It’s been a long time since I posted a Photoshop Tutorial here on my blog. I think this tutorial is the first one for year 2010. Actually, this tutorial was already planned to be posted earlier, but I wasn’t able to work on it because of my migration from old to a new hosting account. But of course, the delay was worth it because I got a better blogging experience right now.

Anyway, the purpose of this tutorial is to help you build or create a better or more realistic feel on your photo. This tutorial is perfect for Still Life photography, and not for Portraits. And you should be glad because this tutorial is very easy.

What you need:

• Adobe Photoshop CS+
• A nice photo
• Creative mind (optional)

The first thing you must do is to open up Adobe Photoshop and open the image file you want to edit.

Next is to create a Black and White layer on the image.

Create Black and White Layer - Create a More Realistic Look on Your Photo

You can create a Black and White layer by just selecting the “Create a new fill or adjustment layer” button below the Layers Pallet. Please make sure that the created Black and White layer is at the top of the Background layer.

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Adobe Photoshop

You can be really beautiful in just few clicks using Adobe Photoshop. Your dream face can be real (but virtually – which is not real at all) in Photoshop. And now, I’ll be teaching you a new trick, How to whiten your teeth in Adobe Photoshop.

First, open up Adobe Photoshop (any version will do) and your photo that you’ll going to manipulate.

In this tutorial, I used a photo of my friend which I photographed from our last pictorial. Her name is Mikhaila. Say hello to her here.

Before (Zoomed) | How to Whiten Teeth in Adobe Photoshop

As you can see, our model’s teeth is a bit yellowish. But if her teeth is whiter, then it’s better. So we need to follow some simple (very simple) steps that I’ll write here on my post.

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Adobe Photoshop, virtual beauty tutorial

Virtually, you can be very beautiful in Adobe Photoshop. If you want to fool your online friends in social networking sites, use Adobe Photoshop to do some major surgery in your face. And now, I am teaching you how to do some of it, smoothen your skin using Adobe Photoshop tutorial.

What you need:

1. Adobe Photoshop CS+
2. Your sexiest photo (High-resolution pictures are recommended)
3. And some patience

Here’s one of the photos from my cousin’s debut party last April. Her name is Camille Polintan, and she’s been my model for my eXperiment photo series with my sister, Keith Anne.

Before | Skin Smoothing Using Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

Face Inset Before | Skin Smoothing Using Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

You’ll notice in our photo, our face are not really looking good because of the grainy photo quality and of course, the effect of heavy make-ups on our faces.

Let’s get it on.

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Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop virtual beauty tutorial

Ever dream of having a nice face in your profile pic? Without the mess in your lovely face? The answer is here! The new Glowing Skin Facial Product. Let the new Glowing Skin Facial Product remove all your hated pimples in just two weeks. Buy it for Php 10,000 or buy it for the next 24 hours and get a special price for only Php 9,999!

Yeah, many of us believed in such facial products just to remove our pimples. Yes, me too, have faith in one facial product (LOL), and it’s good. But, it is so annoying that you need to put it in your face every night, and so many stuffs to do. Why are we doing this? Some says, because they want to have a nice smooth face, but some says, they want a lovely profile pic without any pimples in their face! Yeah, some said that.

So in this post, I will teach you the instant trick that will remove that pimples in your profile pic to make it a lovely profile pic. And the instant trick that I am talking about is in the mighty Adobe Photoshop.

This is very simple so I guarantee that you’ll gonna make it perfect… uhm, 9/10 is almost perfect too.

Ok, let’s start. First thing, you’ll need to search your greatest picture but not so nice because of the distracting huge pimple in your face. Then, open it in Adobe Photoshop.

That's me years ago.

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Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop virtual beauty tutorial

For past months, I’ve been blogging about graphic designing, the importance of great visuals in a blog, and many things related to it. But, I just encourage you to create or enhance the graphics of your blog, but not teaching you how to create it. And now, I decided to post a tutorial on how to create a simple logo for your blog, step-by-step. (For Photoshop geeks, hit the back button because this post is for newbies only, he-he-he)

Now, the first thing to do is check if your PC or Mac has an Adobe Photoshop. If you don’t have, it is time to install one. Next, open it and take a deep breath.

Click for larger version.

Ok, the real first step, is to create a new file (see image above). Then, you’ll see a pop-up window where you need to enter your desired dimensions of your logo. You can also set the background color, too. This time, I use white background.

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