Creative Adding Label to the Skin

Ever read soft toys labels? This one is sure to attract your attention as it may contain some more valuable info than just washing directions. A great idea for X-mas picture to send via e-mail.

Firstly, you should find a nice stock photo to work with. I used a photo of the young man , if you want you can download it and get to work. Open up it and press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer. After that move to the lower layer and desaturate it with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Then go back to the copied layer and correct the color balance using Image > Adjustments > Levels. Set up following presets:

Creating Drawing Effect on the Photo

Learn how to convert a photo into a pencil drawn image in a quite unique way. A great technique to be used in Photoshop retouching as well.

Let's start by finding the picture of beautiful girl with hairdressing. I went to Google Images and looked up the picture, you can feel free to download my picture from here. Open up the picture and desaturate it in the beginning with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate or press Ctrl+Shift+U.

25 Absolutely Magnificant Landscape Photo Manipulation + 5 Great PS Tutorials Showing How to Make Them

In my opinion, landscape photo manipulation is probably one of the most interesting, however difficult to master Photoshop technique – especially identifying the light source, how to best merge a few stock images together, etc.

6 Ways To Take Your Webdesign From Good To Great

When it comes to flawless web design, it's all about details that can be spotted only by top notch experts while usual visitors get that hard-to-explain feeling of admiration.

Intro
The difference between good and great webdesign is relatively small. The average person may not be able to explain the tangible differences that make up great design, but they can usually spot a design they like. By examining some awesome sites, I'll attempt to put my finger on some of the small details that make up the difference.
This post is chock full of awesome examples. I made a conscience effort to only pick sites that were great all the way around.

The Fundamentals of SEO

6 basic things you should know about search engine optimization regardless whether you are about to outsource it or do it yourself.

Why SEO?
Search engines provide the majority of traffic to websites across the Internet, regardless of website focus. Therefore, if your site cannot be properly located and indexed by the leading search engines, you are missing out on the best opportunity to drive targeted visitors and potential revenue.

How to Tidy Up and Smoothen Skin, and Do Eye Makeups in Photoshop

A Photoshop digital make up tutorial to practice esthetician's skills and experiment with a natural attractiveness of a human face. Final image can be used in cosmetics related web design.


Ok let's get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stock: Eye

Step 1

Load the "Eye" stock image into Photoshop, now let's take a look at the original image and here is the analysis I came up with:

   1. The image has a lot of black spots, and bits of hair that really disturbs me
   2. The skin is OK, but if we can make it smoother would be bettter
   3. The eye colour is perferably better in Blue, and those bloodlines in the white part of the eye can go.

Making the 'Clean Grunge' Blog Design

This tutorial will cover the steps of designing the Clean Grunge blog design from scratch. It also discusses the techniques and styles of this kind of web design.

Step 1

Open up a new document (1050x1500px). This won't be the width of our main layout, but will take into account parts of the background to the side of our main content areas. Create a new layer set called 'background' and create a new layer called 'main background color'. Select all (option+a) and fill this layer with a light cream color (ECE5D9).