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Photoshop Tutorials

  • 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.
 
 

Glow/Bloom Effect

In the same composition, use  Select>Color Range…to select the high-lights of the base image.  Be generous with the Fuzziness, as detail won’t be an  issue.  Copy the selection to a new layer (Command - J [PC: Ctrl - J]) and set its blend mode to Screen, which works kind of inversely from Multiply—blacks become invisible and whites are added.  The result  is a simple bloom or glow effect.

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