Planet Photoshop Contest
Planet Photoshop

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

 
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Photo To Drawing

Masking With Shapes

Design With Alpha Channel

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:

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  • Planet Photoshop Contest

Prizes will vary per contest so keep checking back.

 
NAPP

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!

  •  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.

  •  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

  •  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

  • Flare Effects

    Corey has a cool trick for creating a flare brush and see how one effect can lead to another.

  • Hollywood Touch-Ups

    See how you can add some subtle touches to give that green screen studio shot the Hollywood treatment.

  • 3D Christmas Ornaments

    Corey shows how to create reflective holiday ornaments using 3D in Photoshop.

  • 3D Distortions

    This week Corey has a cool new trick for using 3D reflections in a rather creative way!

Premium Video Tutorials From NAPP


 
 

Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
by Colin Smith

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