photoshop disasters

i’m enjoying this site very much.
Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter. And yes, deep down, we love Photoshop.
photoshop disasters

web 2.0 photoshop styles

Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles – Free Download
these are pretty nice, i’ve been using them the past hour or two.
how to make your own, by the way.

photoshop retouching of magazine photos, it finally hits me

y’know, i’ve read articles and internet comments about the retouching of photos that goes on in magazines and whatnot, that ordinary people aren’t good enough, they need to be made into superficial, unreal caricatures that are glossed, shining, all angles smoothed, no trace of pores or the real skin. i’d heard about it.
then i [...]

photoshop: rays of light effect

trying to figure out how to add radial blur/streaming effects to a design i’m doing, i googled “rays of light” and came across a bunch of different tutorials, all saying pretty much the same thing, but i like this particular one the best.
it wasn’t precisely what i was looking for, but for some reason it [...]

photoshop curves for diverse skin tones

in a brochure i’m designing/reprinting, one prominent photo has a latino guy, a black guy, a puerto rican guy, and then a white guy in the background, all in a row. i’m having the damnedest time adjusting the curves of the photo in a way that takes into consideration the diversity of skin tones. [...]