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Latest Content Added
- Brand New Site Coming Soon!
- How To Convert Text Into An Editable Shape
- A Look At The Move Tool
- A Better Method of Converting to Black and White
- Editing Images Without Destroying Them (Non-Destructive Workflow)
- Type Tool Intro and How to Create Tiling Images
- The Type Tool - How to Put Text on Your Image
- How to Create Seamlessly Tiling Images
- How to Achieve a Realistic Change of Eye Color
- New Tutorial: Removing an Image's Background
- Deep Etching: How to Remove an Image's Background
- How to Photo Retouch a Portrait
- New Tutorial: Photo Retouching 1
- Photo Retouching: How to Remove Spots and Blemishes
- Color Manipulation: Toning and Burning
- New Tutorial: Free Transform
- Free Transform: Rotating and Scaling
- New Graphics District Website
- Introduction to Layers
- Working with the Selection Tools (Part 2)
Graphics District News and Updates
Hi everyone, this is just a quick note to let you know what’s happening, seeing as you may have noticed that the site has not been updated in quite a long time. Basically, a brand new site is in development and will have a whole host of new features to make the site much more useful to everyone. We’re talking having your own account, commenting on tutorials, submitting your own work for critiquing by other members, asking questions that your fellow photoshop users can ask, and additional content features, including a directory of tutorials on other websites.
Much more to come, so stay tuned. I’ll be sending an email out to everyone on the mailing list as soon as the new site is launched, so if you’re not on the list and want to be notified, subscribe using the form in the yellow box to the left.
After over two weeks with no updates, I’ve just added two new tutorials to the site. Hooray! The first is an introduction for the complete beginner to the type tool and the second demonstrates a method for creating seamless tiling texture images that will work with most types of images.
For those of you who are visiting the site regularly, there is a lot planned for the very near future. This site is to become a major showcase for a new piece of web content management software that is as yet unreleased (see here for more info). Because of this, expect this site to be getting a lot of features and content before long.
I’ve just put up a new tutorial which is intended to be the first in a series of tutorials demonstrating different methods of deep etching. Deep etching is a print industry term that refers to the process of separating an image from its background.
In Photoshop there are multiple methods of doing this and sometimes you have to use two or more of these methods in conjunction with each other for the best result, but a lot of the time you can get a great result using the method in this tutorial, which involves creating a path around the main part of the image to be extracted, converting the path into a nice smooth selection, and using that to perform the extraction.
Link to tutorial: Deep Etching 1: Removing an Image’s Background
There are a lot of tutorials on YouTube and other websites showing advanced photo retouching, particularly with respect to beautifying women in photos. A lot of these are not particularly helpful though if you don’t know the basics.
The most rudimentary skills to have for photo retouching are an understanding of the clone stamp and healing brush tools. This tutorial provides an introduction to both, as well as some useful keyboard shortcuts you should use in conjunction with these and demonstrates their usage by removing some blemishes and spots from a girl’s face.
View the tutorial: Photo Retouching 1: Cloning and Healing