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Contest Overview
Each month we will select three different free tutorials from the Planet Photoshop collection. Your mission: watch the tutorials and create an original piece of work, inspired by one or more of the selected tutorials, and submit it to Planet Photoshop. Winners will receive a special prize from NAPP and will have their work displayed in our "Learn it. Do it. Win it." Gallery. Each month, we will issue new challenges, designate a new batch of tutorials and offer new prizes so be sure to check in often. It’s great to learn when you win stuff too, right?
Tutorials For Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Contest
Watch these tutorials and create an original piece of work, inspired by one or more of the selected tutorials, and submit it to Planet Photoshop by Wednesday, June 24, 2009.
Prizes For June 24, 2009 Contest
Thought we would start this contest series off with a bang and give away an exclusive prize package which includes:
Prizes will vary per contest so keep checking back.
Planet Photoshop is the Web's premier source for free Adobe Photoshop tutorials and brought to you by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). This is where we offer a small taste of what NAPP has to offer. Our mission: to educate and inspire other creatives through Photoshop. If you like what you see, please join us!
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Winner of the June 24th, 2009 Contest: Photo to Drawing
I used a combination of layer masks, smart blur, color range and gradients that I learned from Corey Barker’s tutorial, Photo to Drawing, to create my own original piece. I experimented with a few layers of color and gradients as well as with the aid of the pen tool, to create the design shapes in the picture.
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First runner-up of the June 24th, 2009 Contest: Fire Elemental
The tutorial on alpha channels made my day when I watched it and I decided to re-take that learned skill and apply it to my own creative twist. In this image I took the fiery inspiration from the glowing gel fire thingy. I used the alpha channel extraction technique to get all these smoke
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Second runner-up of the June 24th, 2009 Contest: Tiger Fist
When thinking of how to best combine the techniques of drawing to photo, smoke mask, and design swirls, I thought it would be interesting to have an image of a fighter that was blasting his way out
Photoshop Tutorials
3D Light Beams
This effect was discovered by a 'happy accident' and uses the 3D features inside of Photoshop CS4 Extended.
More Texture Effects
Further experiments into what you can do with texture images in Photoshop.
Reverse Restoration
Corey shows you how to make a new photo look damaged by blending in some unusual textures.
Rain Drops
In this tutorial, Corey not only creates the raindrops, but also the splashes that are formed with the raindrops hit the hands.
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Light From 3D Shapes
Corey shares another way to get a cool 3D light beam effect.
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Olympic Graphics, Part 2
Corey finishes up the Olympic-inspired design that he began last week in Part 1.
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Olympic Graphics, Part 1
The Olympic-inspired tutorial will be coming in two parts. Stop by next week for the conclusion to this video.
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Masking with Channels
This week’s tutorial deals with creating masks for complicated images by using channels.
Premium Video Tutorials From NAPP
Photo Retouch
Scott Kelby shows you how to take an overexposed photo into a great photo using Photoshop. Want Great Photoshop & Photography Skills?
Extended Definition Processing
Scott Kelby shares a technique he's been working on, which gives your final image an HDR look using just one photo.
Join NAPP & Get a Free DVD.
Smart Object Masking Trick
Dave Cross shares a trick he discovered that will help you remove white from around your subject when using smart objects.
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Light Painting
Dave Cross takes a popular trend - light painting - and shows you how you can paint text recreating this cool trend.
You Don't Need to be a Pro to Join NAPP.
Fill and Recovery Sliders in Camera Raw
Chances are you’ve noticed that when you attempt to increase the exposure in an image that is underexposed, you are going to clip your highlights, take areas of light color information and make them completely white. Before Camera Raw 4.1, the only way for you to compensate for this would be to dial back the exposure. Now, with the Recovery slider you can bring back some of the detail that was lost in the highlights without affecting the entire image.
