HDR Photography by Photoshop CS5

PhotoShop CS5 addresses several of the needs expressed by its users, in the case of photographers one of them was the sound management of HDR images (High Dynamic Range), see this tutorial PhotoShop CS5 and HDR.

With Photoshop CS5 comes covered the desire of many photographers, Who repeatedly complained of a suitable option management HDR image (High Dynamic Range), many saw the need to acquire external programs such as Photomatrix, which has greater power than earlier versions of photoshop.

In this new version CS5 are happy that the tools for management HDR images has improved significantly and there will be no need to use external programs then, with patience and some practice, you can create fabulous HDR images in Photoshop CS5.

Better yet is that Photoshop CS5 to create HDR images using just one image, that is not necessary to have multiple images with multiple exposures to achieve that purpose.

Recall that the original function was to reproduce the HDR zones are appropriately dark and light areas of an image, however a few years here, and the HDR is not only a means to achieve good lighting, but has become an end ie that the effect itself has become the ultimate goal of photo editing, thus continuously see pictures with HDR effects greatly exaggerated, and although for many of us seem inappropriate, for others it is just your goal. Continue reading

Wooden text effect in Photoshop


There are text effects which, given its simplicity and the end result be worth disseminated. This is the case of the effect “Wooden Type” that created the Wegraphics people.
In this tutorial you can see how some layer styles and mergers succeed in creating a striking wooden text with screws in the joints.

Link | Create a Funny Wooden Type Treatment in Photoshop

HDR effect in Photoshop CS5

Perhaps the HDR effect and this trite … I admit. But the attraction that led to its appearance clearly echoed in Adobe, who included it in the settings menu of PhotoShop CS5 an “HDR Toning” with which to open a window of parameters to try to simulate the effect (keep the simulation as the effect da real originally made more than one shot). Continue reading

Create a constructivist by PhotoShop

We will now see the creation of a poster in PhotoShop using constructivist graphic design using colors, playing with light, perspective, and geometric shapes combined with techniques of collage and digital collage.

First thing we do is open PhotoShop and create a new document 1200px wide by 1600px high in RGB and 72dpi. Selecting layer adjustment in the Layers palette, select Gradient and set colors to 480 000 7D0000, with an angle of 16-20 degrees. Continue reading

learn more about image formats for web

One of the things I learned when I started blogging is the subject of images, as a designer that is dedicated to print, there is always the idea that larger file is much better, or worse still, lose the notion that while in the spoken forms of web-MB is still spoken in KB, definitely if you start with your web project will help you understand the different image formats for web and know which one to use at any time.

GIF, the great friend of the web

Graphics Interchange Format as is his full name of the GIF format is a format that had a great reputation when the explosion of web start, gif remained for many years with a standard internet images with 256 colors (which are now obsolete) , and its great feature that recognizes the alpha channel so we let you save pictures with transparency. Continue reading