It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Duh! The holiday push started before Columbus Day this year, I feel like I’m already pooped out. But Photoshop Madness relentlessly marches toward the end of the year and all we can do is hang on for life! Of course, this issue finds the dregs along with some really welcome talent. Not everyone is a PSD knock-off site — we’ve found a couple that are worthy! Pig out over the next four pages with :
- 10 Steps To Create A Personalized Snow Globe
- Motion Blur Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC14
- Five photos come together to make one
- Ooooops… tutorials not tutorials
- Christmas Card Photoshop Tutorial
- The Dimwit Diary – fellow madness
- 50 Best Happy Holidays Wallpapers
- Before and After the Apocalypse
- Black or White ?? Which One
- James Willan fun times . . .
- . . . . and more !
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Duh! The holiday push started before Columbus Day this year, I feel like I’m already pooped out. But Photoshop Madness relentlessly marches toward the end of the year and all we can do is hang on for life! Of course, this issue finds the dregs along with some really welcome talent. Not everyone is a PSD knock-off site — we’ve found a couple that are worthy! Pig out over the next four pages with :
- 10 Steps To Create A Personalized Snow Globe
- Motion Blur Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC14
- Five photos come together to make one
- Ooooops… tutorials not tutorials
- Christmas Card Photoshop Tutorial
- The Dimwit Diary – fellow madness
- 50 Best Happy Holidays Wallpapers
- Before and After the Apocalypse
- Black or White ?? Which One
- James Willan fun times . . .
- . . . . and more !
Read carefully: any time you’re looking for tutorials, downloadable files, or the likes, there are always pitfalls and evil sites lurking because they know this topic is popular. The cybercrime industry knows Photoshop pages are among the most popular on the web, so they try to get you. It’s Photoshop Madness!
Christmas Card Photoshop Tutorial
THis is a WONDERFUL tutorial, with class and personality — no ads or blinking crap like on the replecator sites! BRAVO Paper Mama!
She even shows you her reference photos (See: this photo) You get Cloning Stamp Tool and Quick Selection Tool help in creating your Christmas card! Nice work, Chelsey & Crystalyn
Full story : Chelsey & Crystalyn : The Paper Mamas Don’t you just : LOVE these final results!
Five photos come together to make one
Ed Irley is from Brazil and painted this super piece called “Longing” . . . calls it a “Photo Manipulation” … really more of a painting! If you visit the Deviant page for this piece, Ed walks you through the pieces he combined to make the art. Very nicely done!
One of the problems with Deviant is that very little info about the artist is ever shown. Full story : edirleynery.deviantart.com Click here to see the larger finished piece with detail, very nice!
NEXT : Let’s go to the dark side …
Black or White ?? Which One
Vincent Ferraro writes in his facebook submission :
Either/Or . . . If you’re like me you oftentimes can’t decide which you like better Color or B&W. Does it have to be either/or? Use of the Gradient tool to produce a B&W to Color Gradient. Simple & Elegant. Bring your photo into Photoshop and make a copy of it. On the top layer convert it to Black & White. (Image-Adjustments-Black & White). On upper (B&W) layer add a Layer Mask. Click on the Gradient Tool then select the Horizontal (left to right) icon. With cursor on right side of graphic click and drag to the left. Repeat until it pleases you.
The beauty of having separate layers is that you can adjust the settings of each layer independent of the other.
Full story : Photos from Vincent Ferraro’s post Click here for: the full size image
Before and After the Apocalypse
Cimps El Grande showed these works Before and After “Apocalypse series” and asked if anybody liked them. Any coments ?
You’ll need a Facebook account for this one. Full story : Cimps El Grande Take a look at the ‘before’ and After. Pretty cool, eh?
Ooooops . . . what happens when tutorials are not tutorials?
Here’s a site called “Photoshop Tutorials” and Yassine Belbadaoui says: This page is entirely dedicated to beautiful Christmas photographs, paintings and illustrations. Colorful Christmas decorations,
Don’t know where the tutorial fits in, but we liked this painting. Unfortunately Yassine didn’t give credits to the images he captured. Shame on him. Full story : tutsyassine.blogspot.com But I did think this was a very cool painting!
NEXT : Get some Holiday Learning … Motion Blur Effects and your own personal snow globe…
Motion Blur Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC14
Russell Preston Brown added 2 new pieces by Julieanne Kost, and links to her video tutorial pages. In this video, Julieanne walks through Photoshop CC’s new Path Blur including how to control the direction, speed, taper, and shape of motion paths to make creative enhancements to your image.
Careful, our intrusion alarms went off — this site attempts to load something onto your computer. Full story : tv.adobe.com Russell Brown posted: these samples which used this tutorial!
10 Steps To Create A Personalized Snow Globe
Do you know how to create a personalized Snow Globe? Although this site is a replicator clip-art site, and requires the download of their images, it does present some valuable lessons for beginner to intermediate Photoshop users.
Give it a try and make one for this holiday season! You can send it to your friends and family with as a Christmas greeting card with a personalized touch. Full story : blog.123rf.com Click here for: a full view
NEXT : Let’s just have some fun with the Nimwits and wonderful holiday backgrounds…
James Willan fun times . . .
You’ll find some nice work at James Willan’s Facebook gallery. James works at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and studied at Niagara College Canada and Notre Dame College School.
Nice work! Full story : James Willan — Facebook Here is a small sampling of his other works
The Dimwit Diary – fellow madness
Chris Hinton calls himself “The Captain of the Dimwits” … hmmmmmmm. I’m really admiring his “madness” attitude! He writes :
I love Christmastime, and unless you are a commie bastard, chances are you love Christmastime, too. All the decorated houses glowing at night, Nat King Cole singing about chestnuts roasting on an open fire, gathering my nieces and nephews around the fireplace to tell them stories of Santa Claus dying in a tragic chimney accident. ‘Tis the season for giving, so I thought that I would share with you a little insider’s scoop into how I put this year’s Christmas card together.” [end quote]
I think you’ll get a kick out of this site! Full story : How To Make Your Very Own Christmas Card Really? Can you believe this!
50 Best Happy Holidays Wallpapers
We certainly don’t like “wallpaper” sites … but this one is not so spammy as usual, and if you just concentrate on the holiday backgrounds, you won’t catch anything too bad.
Holiday greetings are a selection of greetings that are often spoken with good intentions to strangers, family, or friends, in nations around the world, during the months of December and January. Full story : www.website-ontwerpen-blog.nl Click here for: for the actual background
. . . and let us join the fun in wishing you and yours a very happy and joyous holiday season … from Photoshop Madness, Photoshop Tips & Tricks and Photoshop 911!
Now enjoy: Photoshop Madness Ghosts of Christmas Past…
- Photoshop Holiday Madness
- Photoshop Holiday Tutorials
- Ghosts of Photoshop Madness Past
- Illustrator and Photoshop Colorful Balls Text Effect for the holidays or any time
- Designing a Holiday Card
But what ever you do, this holiday season,
Don’t let Photoshop Madness get you down!
There are always lots of spectacular Photoshop images and visuals out there! Share them! We’ll be back shortly with MORE Photoshop Madness … and please — BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU SURF … but when you do find a great Photoshop practitioner, or a good Photoshop tutorial, please share it with us! If you create Photoshop Tutorials yourself, please post your info here so you can be considered for a Photoshop Fave!
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