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Design Elements from Photos

 

Here is a cool way to use parts of you photos as abstract design elements.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

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20 Comments

  1. tonio said on — September 28, 2008 @ 10:12 am

    cool
    lov a lo your vid tuts thank you

  2. Gameguru101 said on — September 28, 2008 @ 12:19 pm

    Great Tutorial. Love it

  3. Jizero said on — September 28, 2008 @ 12:29 pm

    That was awesome! I will definitely try this out today. Thanks for sharing the creative mind that you have.

  4. Uzare said on — September 28, 2008 @ 12:59 pm

    cool

  5. New Design Elements Video | Tip of the Day | Planet Photoshop Pingback on — September 28, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

    [...] this week’s video tutorial I demonstrate how you can take a really basic photo and extract elements to create an interesting [...]

  6. GiiR said on — September 28, 2008 @ 7:25 pm

    Great tutorial as always Corey! This is by far the best site for photoshop tutorials. Keep them coming!

  7. Jean said on — September 29, 2008 @ 5:38 pm

    Sooooooo creative and you make it seem so easy. My day was boring until I watched your Tut.

  8. Bloodsuckerss said on — September 30, 2008 @ 9:37 am

    Hi, these video not working in Firefox,,,, why?

    it show video is loading…….
    i wait 10min and it didnt work …… :(

  9. AHMAD said on — September 30, 2008 @ 4:25 pm

    the video not working in Firefox 2.0.0.14, plz fix the problem

  10. ruberm said on — September 30, 2008 @ 7:35 pm

    That was amazing man keep doing your thing man.

  11. Mario said on — September 30, 2008 @ 10:30 pm

    ok fantastic, wow is very kool but onequestion how paint the layer? i cant do it. i dont know… i try but not is same original kolor layer

  12. dennis belarde said on — October 1, 2008 @ 9:30 pm

    very interesting & helpful!

  13. Greg Snowden said on — October 2, 2008 @ 11:36 pm

    Hey Corey,
    Another great tutorial!
    Keep it up!

  14. Mark R said on — October 3, 2008 @ 8:36 pm

    very cool tutorial

  15. Sammy G. said on — October 10, 2008 @ 12:44 am

    This tutorial was really simple but effective. The cool thing is that it can have such amazing results that vary greatly. Thanks for the video!

  16. Ramnish said on — October 10, 2008 @ 7:32 am

    Hello Mr.Barker.This is my first ever comment to your site.
    I just want to say that hats off to you. I really appreciate your thinking and creativity from bottom of my heart.

  17. R2D2 said on — February 28, 2009 @ 5:43 pm

    This was a certainly an impressive demonstration, it inspired me to get hands-on with regard to design again. Thank you.

  18. S Vincent said on — February 28, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

    I really appreciate the enthusiasm with which you deliver the tutorials, its infectious. Furthermore they deliver astounding insights into the workings of Photoshop, thank you.

  19. zpg said on — March 19, 2009 @ 4:20 am

    This is really awesome creativity, thanks, very interesting

  20. Rupesh said on — March 19, 2009 @ 9:54 am

    cool design and tutorial is really good.

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