Photography

Fun With 3D

Having some fun with the 3D tools in Photoshop CS4 Extended. Continue Reading »

April 17th, 2009 | Corey Barker | News, Photography, Tools, Tutorials | Comments (26)

Compositing Inside Silhouettes

Corey creates a dramatic movie poster effect using composite images inside a silhouette. Continue Reading »

January 9th, 2009 | tmaloney | Effects, Photography, Text, Tutorials | Comments (17)

Pin-up Effect

Using a mixture of filters and blending modes, Corey takes a stock photo and transforms it into an old, classic 1950’s pin-up poster. Continue Reading »

August 15th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials | Comments (68)

Design Effects

Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos. Continue Reading »

May 23rd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Correction, Effects, News, Photography, Text, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (91)

Wild West Grunge

Corey shows you how to recreate this rugged, weathered look using a couple of filters, blending modes, and layer masks. Continue Reading »

May 13th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (26)

Borders Under a Minute

Create really cool borders in under a minute to use on virtually any one of your photos or even video for that matter. Continue Reading »

April 11th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (45)

Dramatic Color Effects

How to jazz up your photos with dramatic color effects. Continue Reading »

February 8th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (14)

Photo to Drawing

Corey shows you how to create a drawing from a photo and blend the two. Continue Reading »

January 18th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (19)

Remove Noise

Corey shows a quick and easy way to remove noise from your photographs. Continue Reading »

January 4th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (17)

5 Second Eye Enhancement

Here’s a super-simple technique for enhancing the most important bits of any portrait: the eyes. Continue Reading »

November 16th, 2006 | Lesa Snider | Correction, Photography, Tutorials | Comments (11)

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Photoshop Tutorials

Design Effects
Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos.
Stylized Comic Book Effect
Using this effect, you can transform anyone into a comic book character with a halftone, saturated look.
Text Shape Layers
Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.

Ice Age Acorn

Corey has a special extended tutorial on illustrating the Ice Age acorn.
Transformers, Part 2

In part two of this tutorial, Corey finishes the Transformers logo he began last week.
Transformers, Part 1

In this two-part tutorial, Corey begins creating the Transformers logo from this summer’s upcoming blockbuster.
Planet Works

Corey uses the new 3D features in Photoshop CS4 Extended to re-create the DreamWorks animated title.

Digital Video Solutions: Troubleshooting
Some common problems that can occur after upgrading your video-editing application may include a frozen screen, frozen cursor, flickering dialog, completely blank dialog, or a number of error messages.
Layers TV: Episode 94
Corey has a tutorial showing how to wrap a graphic around a 3D object in Adobe Illustrator. RC tries to clear up some of the confusion about using the Pen tool in Illustrator and Photoshop. You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes. var so = new SWFObject('http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/players/player.swf','mpl','500','300','7'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); // so.addVariable('type','rtmp'); so.addVariable('file','http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/switch/video/layers-tv-episode-94.mp4'); so.addVariable('plugins','hd-1'); so.addVariable('hd.file','http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/switch/video/layers-tv-episode-94-hd.mp4'); so.addVariable('hd.state','false'); so.addVariable('image','http://www.layersmagazine.com/images/layerstv-logo.jpg'); so.addVariable('height','300'); so.addVariable('width','500'); so.addVariable('autostart','false'); so.addVariable("backcolor","0x000000"); so.addVariable("frontcolor","0xF1F1F1"); so.addVariable("lightcolor","0xF88E21"); so.addVariable("quality","100"); so.write('player'); Thank you [...]
The Digital Camera: Compact-camera Shooter
I took most of the photographs in this article with my Canon PowerShot G10 compact camera to see if I could get good shots with a basic camera.
Using Adobe Exchange
Adobe Exchange is a free resource on the Adobe website for adding features to your Adobe applications.

When working with vector - created art and the source art is unavailable, modifying the art to create a logo can be a pain, to say the least—particularly when it’s flattened and the background needs to be knocked out. A careful combination of Invert (Command - I [PC: Ctrl - I]), Color Balance (Command - B [PC: Ctrl - B]), and layer Blending Options (Control-click [PC: Right-click] the layer name) can yield simple background knockouts of one- or two-color logos without making a mess.