RSS Feed
Twitter
Say you’re going on holiday to a big metropolitan area like New York, or a wilder region like the US National Parks. Whatever your destination, you’re probably going to take dozens of photos. But what if you want your pictures to stand out from the rest? An easy way to obtain really eye-catching images is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Photoshop’
Posted in 
Tags: 
How to: Apply a cartoon effect to your photos
May 12th, 2009 
Elena Santos Sometimes you don’t need a complicated effect to spice up your images in Photoshop. This suite is powerful enough to have special filters that do almost the whole work by themselves, turning a dull image into a cheerful, lively shot. This is the case of the Poster edges filter, which enables you to apply an [...]
10 Photoshop actions for easy photo editing
May 11th, 2009 Elena Santos This is not the first time we’ve covered with Photoshop actions on the blog. We’ve already showed you how to create them, and also how to install and use them. But with thousands of actions available on the web, how can you find the most suitable ones for your photo editing needs? Worry not: we’ve [...]
“Conficker” style botnet appears on the Mac
April 20th, 2009 Nicholas Mead During the recent Conficker scare, Mac users could at least sleep easy that their systems were in no danger of being infected. That may no longer be the case however according to security experts Symantec.
Although it was first spotted in January, Symantec have examined it in further detail and claim to have discovered a botnet [...]
How to: Get a piercing done in Photoshop
April 17th, 2009 Elena Santos Last year I wrote a Photoshop tutorial about how to get a virtual tattoo which seems to be quite successful amongst our readers. This is why I thought about the perfect complement: a tutorial on how to get a piercing done in Photoshop. In fact, this might come in handy if you’re considering the possibility [...]
How to: Repair old photos with Photoshop
April 3rd, 2009 Elena Santos Last week my aunt sent me some old photos of me as a kid. She had found them in an old box and kindly scanned them for me, though the truth is that they arrived to my email inbox in a pretty bad shape. I’m not sure if it was due to the conditions the [...]
Create a custom search engine powered by Google
March 25th, 2009 Elena Santos Google is an excellent search engine. There’s no doubt about that. But what if you could tailor it to create a custom search engine with the same capabilities as the standard Google?
Google Custom Search Engine in the answer. This powerful tool lets you build a completely customized search engine based on Google. You can give [...]
How to: Apply a tilt-shift effect to your photos
March 24th, 2009 Elena Santos Tilt-shift is the name of a visual effect for both videos and photos that has recently become quite popular. The tilt-shift effect uses blurring and color saturation to make a real life scene look like a miniature model diorama. While creating tilt-shift videos like this one can take a while, applying this same effect to [...]
How to: Create a Da Vinci drawing in Photoshop
March 17th, 2009 Elena Santos Last week I went on a short holiday trip to Rome. I enjoyed it a lot and I had the chance to see some of the most beautiful works of art in the world, such as the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s Pietà or the School of Athens by Rafael . I guess some of that art [...]
Sumo Paint, an amazing online editor
March 12th, 2009 Elena Santos I’m particularly fond of image editors and I’ve tested many of them, including all those online editors that have become so trendy in the last few months. But I must admit I’ve never seen such an incredible online image editor as Sumo Paint.
This amazing tool opens up in your web browser and displays a complete [...]
