Did you ever wondered if a layer is empty or not? This is the little timesaving tip: Hold down the Command (PC: Ctrl) key and click on the layer thumbnail. When you get some text that says, Warning: No pixels were selected, then you can definitely correctly erase the layer which it is indeed unused. If you ever just wanted to take out all blank layers, choose File>Scripts>Delete All Empty Layers

1. Is that layer Relly Empty?

2. Clean Samples

3. Lock Setting of Brush

4. Base Effect Layers

5. Dragging Your Flares Around

6. Layer Style Control

7. Lock Settings from the brush 

8. Smoother Bitmaps

9. Create a new layer under the existing layer

10. Duplicate a layer directly in your document

11. Transformed Selections

12 Layers to files and files to layers

13, Wheres the lighting effects filters? 32-BIT

14 Video FIlters

Have you ever looked at a landscape image and wondered how they managed to make it “pop” so well? Landscape photos which contain great detail and sharpness can often be enhanced further by increasing the contrast in the midtones of the image. The result produces a vibrant image with great depth that jumps off the page (or screen)!

Step 1
Open your photo in Photoshop. Press Command-J (Mac) or Control-J (PC) to duplicate the layer, then change the layer blend mode to “Vivid Light.” Next, Invert the layer by pressing Command-I (Mac) or Control-I (PC)

Step 2
The image will look pretty grey at the moment; this is normal! Blur the image using the Surface Blur filter menu: Filter > Blur > Surface Blur… and raise both the Radius to 30 and Threshold to 30. Click OK to apply the blur effect. Once again, the image will look greyish and quite strange at this point.

Step 3
This next step is where “Photoshop magic” starts to happen. Press the following keys to create a merged layer. Mac: Command-Option-Shift-E PC: Control-Alt-Shift-E This creates a merged layer on top of your other layers. Change the blend mode of this
layer to Overlay, and un-check the visibility of the layer below it (Layer 1) as seen here…

Step 4
As you will see, at this stage the image is starting to get that high-contrast look. If the effect is too strong for your liking, you can ease it back by lowering the opacity of this layer. Create another merged layer as we did in the previous step. With this new layer active, go to the menu: Image > Adjustments > Shadows/Highlights… When the Shadows/Highlights dialog box opens, lower the Shadows Amount to 0, raise the Highlights Amount to 15% keeping Tonal Width at 50% and Radius 30px. Raise the Midtone Contrast slider up to +25, and click OK to apply the filter.

Step 5
Create yet another merged layer which we will now apply some sharpening to. Go to the menu: Filter > Other > High Pass… and choose an appropriate Radius value depending on your particular image. You can lower the Radius to zero, and slide the slider to increase the Radius until you start to see some detail showing up in the preview of your image. You’ll want to use a low value, anywhere in the neighbourhood of 1.5 to 4 pixels. Click OK to apply the filter, then change the blend mode of this layer to Soft Light.

Step 6
We’re almost finished at this point, but we can add some more depth to the image by creating a vignette effect to pull the viewer’s eye in even further. Create one more merged layer, and change the blend mode of this layer to Multiply. Next, click on the “Add Layer Mask” icon at the bottom of the layers palette.

Step 7
Click on the layer mask in the active layer (the top layer) to make sure that the layer mask is active, and choose a large, soft edged brush. Make sure your active color swatch is BLACK. You can do this by clicking (D) for the default colour swatches. With the brush, paint over the middle of your image. You will see the effect as you paint, revealing the lighter image layers below. You can paint to your preference, but your layer mask should wind up looking something like this, as shown here…

See the comparison of the Original (above) and the result (below)

Complete!
This technique is extremely effective on landscape images which contain lots of detail and colours. If you find the effect to be too strong, some alternatives would be to lower the layer opacity created in step 3, or change that layer’s blend mode to Soft Light instead of Overlay. It’s all about experimentation, which is the fun that Photoshop brings to each processing party.

Tutorial by Dave Seeram

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Photo after editing the CS5 color

The Photo before Editing color replace

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The Photo after Editing color replace

STEP 1:
Create a 7×4”, 150-ppi document, using White as the Background Contents. Click on the Foreground color swatch. When the Color Picker dialog appears, choose a royal blue (R:0, G:50, B:156) and click OK. Choose the Type tool (T), turn on Center Text in the Options Bar, and enter your text (we’re using Grobold Medium [available from www.dafont.com] 61pt for the word “THE” and 110 pt for the word “SMiRKS”—all in uppercase except for the letter “i”). Adjust the tracking in the Character panel (Window>Character) as needed (we set ours to —30).

STEP 2:
Go to 3D>Re-poussé>Text Layer and click Yes to rasterize the text. When the Repoussé dialog appears, go to the Extrude section and enter .5 for Depth. Now, while holding down the Shift key, click-and-drag upward (directly on the type) to rotate the face of your 3D type up slightly, click OK.

STEP 3:
Go to the 3D panel (Window>3D) and click on the Eye icons next to Infinite Light 1 and 2 (near the bottom of the Scene list) to hide them from view (see example below). Now, click on the Global Ambient Color swatch (under the Render Settings in the 3D panel), choose black as the color, and click OK.

Note: You’ve hidden or removed much of the Repoussé 3D lighting effect, but that’s part of this cartoon type effect. It’s 3D type, but not.

STEP 4:
Press D then X to change the Foreground color to white. Using the Type tool with its previous settings (110 Pt Grobold Medium in our example), type the last character (“S” in our example). Switch to the Move tool and reposition the letter over the existing S on the far right. Click on the Add a Layer Style icon (fx) at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Bevel and Emboss. Enter 4 px for Size and 5 px for Soften. Uncheck the Use Global Light checkbox and enter 34° for Angle and 53° for Altitude. Raise both the Highlight and Shadow Mode Opacities to 100%. Click on the black Shadow Mode color swatch, choose a royal blue (R:15, G:53, B:162), and click OK to close the Color Picker (but don’t click OK to close the Layer Style dialog just yet).

STEP 5:
Click on the words “Gradient Overlay” in the Styles list on the left side of the Layer Style dialog. Click directly on the Gradient preview. When the Gradient Editor dialog appears, double-click the black color stop under the gradient ramp on the left. Choose a light blue color (R:219, G:241, B:249) and click OK. Double-click on the white color stop on the right, choose a darker blue color (R:0, G:109, B:251), and click OK. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor, and enter 90° for Angle. Choose Stroke from the Styles list. Select Outside for Position. Click the Color swatch, choose a dark blue (R:28, G:67, B:136), and click OK. Now you can click OK to apply the three layer styles.

STEP 6:
Go to 3D>Repoussé>Text Layer again, but this time enter 0 for Depth. Rotate the S upward, trying to closely match the angle from Step Two. Click OK. Reposition the S over the 3D background text if needed.

Note: The rotated angles from Step Two and Step Six don’t need to be exact The fact that they aren’t adds to the loose cartoon feel of the type effect.

STEP 7:
Choose the Type tool once again and type in the next character (K in our example). Reposition as needed. Make sure the K text layer is above the S text layer in the Layers panel.

STEP 8:
Use Repoussé (as we did in Step Six) to rotate the text (it’s important to apply Repoussé first before you add the following layer styles). Reposition as needed. Apply the same layer styles we created in Steps Four and Five with one small addition. Before you apply the styles (after adding the Stroke style), choose Drop Shadow from the Styles list. Click on the black color swatch, choose a dark blue color (R:28, G:67, B:136), and click OK. Lower the Opacity to 40%, and uncheck the Use Global Light checkbox. Enter 168° for Angle, 10 px for Distance, 0 px for Size, and click OK to apply the style. This will add a slightly overlapping, hard shadow to the right side of the character.

STEP 9:
Repeat Steps Seven and Eight for the remaining characters (putting each on their own layer). Be sure to use a smaller font size (6l Pt Grobold) when creating the characters for the word “THE,” and hide the Drop Shadow (Eye icon under Effects in the Layers panel) for the letter “E.” Tip: After you add the Drop Shadow layer style for the letter “K” in Step Eight, you can now simply copy all of the layer styles to each letter after you apply Repoussé. Hold down the Option (PC: Alt) key, and drag-and-drop the fx that appears to the right of the K layer to the R layer, etc.

STEP 10:
Click on the original Background layer to make it the active layer. Click on the Background color swatch, choose a light blue color (R:143, G:187, B:232), and click OK. Go to Filter>Render>Clouds. Click on the original type layer (the dark blue 3D type layer) to make it the active layer. Click on the Add a Layer Style icon and choose Outer Glow. Change the Opacity to 100%, click on the pale yellow color swatch, choose a white as the color, and click OK. Enter 10% for Spread, 75 px for Size, and click OK to complete the effect.

Note: We added some additional text and brushed in some stars to our finished piece.

Photoshop Tutorial source from PhotoshopUser July 2011

After

Adobe photoshop carries lots of functions and it is an extremely powerful application with many unique capabilities as well as features. Adobe photoshop can have a higher mastering curve and will be considered a bit of frustrating originally resulting from all the different methods and alternatives out there to work with, however I am certain you assumed the same about discovering to read through. At the moment look at you, you are a pro.

As with every thing in life practice is extremely important to becoming better at things you are not aware of or think are far too hard. Try not to become unnerved and you should not be worried to evaluate latest products and experiment. Someone prominent once mentioned that gaining knowledge through failure is extremely important to being successful.

Even though Adobe photoshop can be lot more software program than you have to resize a picture, it is an important aspect to find out which is a basic method in digital content progress. Why do you really have to resize an image in the first place? You may find numerous justifications, even so the most basic is always to make photos fit on website or print material.

Okay, as for the actual techniques related to resizing an photo here they are:

1. Launch Adobe photoshop and the photography you would like to resize.

2. Once you’ve your picture open navigate your mouse to your tool bar that runs along the top of the screen and then click “Image”.

3. Once you select “Image” within the tool bar, a drop down menu will show up. Select “Image Size” in the drop down menu. A window should popup through the images properties.

4. To begin with, for the intents as well as purposes we only have to look closely at “Pixel Dimensions” on the popup window. You will notice that you can management the width as well as height values for the graphic inside the popup window. You need to see a drop down menu for choosing “pixels” or “percent”. Be sure that pixels is the unit selected within the width as well as height fields. Pixels are tiny dots of color that make up the photo. While you ever before see produced subject matter using a magnification device. You will recognize that the image is made up of tiny dots of color. These kind of tiny dots of color are analogous to what pixels come in an electronic image.

5. Okay. Let us assume the picture you opened up at the beginning of this tutorial is incredibly huge, something similar to 2000 pixels wide by 1500 pixels in height and then we have to resize the image to match on your web page. Most blogs are around 800 pixels wide by some arbitrary height. The reason height is arbitrary is because it is dependant on how much content appears over the page. Let’s say that you want the photograph to consider about 50 % the width with the website page. To accomplish this we might change the pixel width value from 2000 to 400 pixels (which can be half of 800 pixels, the width of your website). Guarantee that the “Constrain Proportions” choice is tested so that the ratio between width and height is preserved and the image doesn’t become distorted.

6. Press “OK” and save the newly resized version for the graphic. YOU’RE DONE!

You merely resized your first picture using Adobe photoshop and therefore are now One hundred times more advanced. Congrats you are on your way to fast becoming a Adobe photoshop master.