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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As you notice, my blog’s background design contains my eyes (of course), my blog name, blog tagline, rays and huge splatter stamps. Splatter is one of my favorite brushes that I use in designing graphics in Adobe Photoshop. Why? Because it’s so cool. It’s like a dripped paint, like a blood from a huge monster or massive tears of a dinosaur (dinosaurs cry? LOL).

Anyway, I want to share some cool splatter Photoshop brushes. You can use these Photoshop brushes in different versions of Adobe Photoshop.

Splatter Brush from ~ka05

Download Free Splatter Brush from ~ka05 here.

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Nature is one of my favorite subjects in photography (like my my mom’s garden flowers). And as of now, nature is indeed in a critical stage, where different changes occur. Like the climate change, where the normal cycle of weather shifts into a new and extremely bad cycle that caused a lot of trouble.

If we continue destroying nature, then, we’re destroying our lives too. So, stop destroying our mother nature.

Love Save Protect | © Kelvinonian Ideas

I Love Nature | © Kelvinonian Ideas

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Adobe Photoshop, Wallpaper Monday

The power of Adobe Photoshop is enormous, incredible, amazing. Yeah, any great positive adjective can describe it. Adobe Photoshop saved many lives, too. How? By simply manipulating their photos (celebrities, I’m talking to you). Many people around the globe are using Photoshop to help them in their “problems”. They found it nice. But, is it really nice?

One of the most significant things that made Adobe Photoshop popular is its ability to manipulate photos, easily and in a very flexible way. Like what I’ve posted here, the Photoshop virtual beauty tutorial, you can change your looks in Photoshop (but only virtually).

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Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop virtual beauty tutorial

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

In the whole blogosphere, I introduced myself as a teen blogger, photographer and graphic designer. Yeah, being a blogger and photographer is fun. And being a graphic designer is fun, too. The first thing that I blog here is about my digital artworks in different styles. Most of them are photo manipulations of my photos. In short, I really love graphic designing.

And, right now, I have a question to myself that I need to answer. What are the advantages of being a blogger and graphic designer at the same time?

1. Create your own graphics. If you’re a graphic designer, I know you can create your own desired blog theme. I know you can design your own blog logo. And I know you don’t have to hire someone and spend money to create your 125×125 blog badge or your own blog mascot. In blogging, you need to be a creative writer, but you need to impress your readers with nice pictures within your blog, too. And these pictures are just a piece of cake if you know how to design graphics very well.

2. Blog revenues plus graphic designing job payments. So, you’re making money online, right? Then, be a graphic designer, too. With blogging, you can earn money by posting paid posts/reviews, adding ads on your blog or even persuading your readers to try a specific product for some money. Yeah, that’s you (and me). In graphic designing, you can earn lots of money, too. How? You can accept graphic design jobs, in direct offers. Many bloggers and webmasters around need the beauty of your designs. And most of them are willing to pay for your efforts (mostly in you desired price). But if no one offers you one, you can hunt them. In different freelancing websites, there are lots of job openings in graphic designing field. And guess what, they are willing to pay you not only dollars, but hundreds and hundreds of dollars (please take note of that).

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