Photoshop: Straightening January 28, 2009
For those drunk photos where the horizon skews for no artistic purpose, this is a quick and sure way to straighten the horizon.
1. In the tools pallet, select the ruler tool (it’s under the eye-dropper tool box).
2. Click and drag the image horizon that should be straight.
3. Edit > Rotate
Photoshop will automatically calculate the angle the image needs to be rotated, so just click OK.
Now just crop.
Photoshop: Antique Photo December 16, 2008
This tutorial will show you how to make photos look antique.
1. Start with a photo.
2. Duplicate the image to keep your background image protected. In the copy later, desaturate the image: Image > desaturate.
3. Now we need to adjust the coloring to a sepia tint. Images > Adjustments > Color balance. The settings will vary from picture to picture and it may take quite a bit of fussing to get it right. You’ll want to adjust the shadows, midtones, and highlights. Here are the numbers I used:
4. My photo still looked a bit red, so I also went into the layers pallet and adjusted the Selective Color.
Before selective color——–> After
5. Sometimes images can look washed out after you give it a sepia tint. You might try changing the blending mode of the second layer to Color and setting the layer opacity to 80%.
6. Make a new layer. In this layer I’m going to use my brush tool and some cool brushes that I downloaded for free to add some cracks and crinkles on the photograph.
7. Alright, here’s where I reached out to my resources. I downloaded an action that adds an antique affect to images. Download it, open it and it should appear in your actions tool bar.
Play the action – you’ll be amazed at how many steps go into this and thankful that you don’t have to do the work! At the end, you’ll have an option to keep layers or merge the image. I strongly suggest keeping the layers.
At the end, I added another selective color layer and removed a layer. The cracks that I added earlier make a big impact in the final result:
Photoshop: Download Free Brushes December 16, 2008
Photoshopsupport.com has a link to free downloadable brushes that include really neat things like tattoo designs, butterflies, foilage, auroras, cracks, and more. They are easy to download and are quick ways to add interesting affects to your pictures.
Photoshop: Increase resolution December 16, 2008
1. Edit –> image size –> uncheck the Resample image
*make sure the constrained porportions is checked
2. Change resolution to 300 or 240
