[Tutorials][Collection] Photoshop Tips & Tricks

[xXSkillerXx]

Hello,

 

In this collection of tutorials I have gathered the best and most useful (in my opinion always :P),

tips & tricks that you can use on Photoshop.

From editing a human face to changing the colour of the sky.

Anyway, lets begin :

 

 

 

[1.] Bland Face Expression

 

 

-In Photoshop, open a photograph of a person who is smiling with a closed mouth.

 

 

 

 

- Goto Filter > Liquify.

- The Liquify box will appear. Under Tool Options, select an appropriate sized brush. One that is not too big for the face.

- Using the brush, click and push the eye brows so that they appear to neither go up, nor down, but straight across.

 

 

 

 

- Now click and push the corners of the mouth so that the mouth appears to be in a straight line.

 

 

 

 

- When you are done, click OK to exit the Liquify screen.

- Select the Smudge Tool. Set the Strength to around 20%. Zoom in on the woman's laugh lines of the face and smudge them so that they are not as obvious.

 

 

 

 

You should now have your bland face expression! ;D

 

 

 

 

 

[2.] Blending with Background

 

 

- Open the image of the cutout object/person. Open the image of the background image.

 

 

 

 

- Copy and paste the object/person onto the background image.

 

 

 

 

- Select the Polygonal Selection tool.

- Zoom in and create a polygonal selection that outlines the edges of the object/person.

 

 

 

 

- Adjust the Radius slider so that it will slightly blur the outlined edges of the polygonal selection. Then click OK.

- As you can see below, the edges of the object/person have been blurred a bit. This blurring of the outline helps blend the overlapping object/person with the background better.

 

 

 

- You're done! You should now have a perfectly blended object over the background layer.

 

 

 

 

 

[3.] Bugged Out Eyes

 

 

- Open a high resolution photograph of a person's face in Photoshop.

 

 

 

 

- Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer... and click OK when the Duplicate Layer pop-up appears.

- Turn off the bottom layer by clicking the "Eye" icon for that layer in the Layers Palette.

 

- With the new duplicate layer selected, select the eraser tool and erase everything except the eyes and some of the skin that surrounds the eyes.

 

 

 

 

- Select the Polygonal lasso tool.

 

 

- Create a selection around the left eye.

 

 

 

 

- Click CTRL+X to cut and remove the eye.

- Click CTRL+V to paste that eye. This will put the left eye onto a new layer.

- Turn back on the bottom layer by clicking the "Eye" icon in the Layers Palette.

 

 

- With the bottom layer active (the layer that has the entire photograph of the person), click CTRL+T to enter into Free Transform mode.

- Use a corner shape handle while holding down the shift key and drag to shrink the image.

 

 

 

 

- Select the layer with the Right Eye and move it over the area where the right eye should be.

- Select the layer with the Left Eye and move it over the area where the left eye should be.

 

 

 

 

- Select the Eraser tool. On both layers, erase any areas of skin around the eyes that cover any other facial features (ie. eyebrows, nose, etc).

 

 

 

 

- Goto Layer > Flatten Image to merge all the layers.

- Select the Smudge Tool and choose an appropriate sized brush.

- Carefully smudge around the eyes so that they blend with the face.

- You're done! You should now have your bugged out eyes!

 

 

 

 

 

[4.] Cartoon Mouth Stretch

 

 

- In Photoshop, open a photograph of a person with their mouth open.

 

 

 

- Goto Filter > Liquify.

- The Liquify box will appear. Under Tool Options, select an appropriate sized brush. One that is not too big for the mouth.

- Using the brush, click and push the bottom portion of the mouth and jaw downward so that it looks stretched and cartoonish.

 

 

 

 

- When you are done, click OK.

- You should now have your cartoon stretched mouth.

 

 

 

 

[5.] Changing Sky Background

 

 

- Open a photograph that has a sky background in Photoshop. Make sure the photograph is on a separate layer (not the background layer).

 

 

 

 

- Click the "Edit in Quick Mask Mode" button.

 

 

- Select the Paint Brush and choose black as your color.

- Paint over the sky with the paint brush. When in Quick Mask Mode, the paint will be transparent red.

 

 

 

 

- When you are done, click "Edit in Standard Mode" button.

 

 

- Goto Select > Inverse. The entire sky should now be selected.

- Click the delete key to remove the sky background.

- Click CTRL+D to deselect.

- Create a new layer underneath the photograph (inbetween the white background layer and the top layer). Paste your new sky background image on this layer.

- Select the Eraser tool, zoom in and erase any signs of the old background.

 

 

 

 

[6.] Closed Eyes

 

 

- In Photoshop, open a photograph of a person with open eyes.

 

 

 

 

- Goto Filter > Liquify.

- The Liquify box will appear. Under Tool Options, select an appropriate sized brush. One that is not too big for the eyes.

- Using the brush, click and push the top eye lid halfway down the length of the eye.

 

 

 

 

- Now click and push the corners of the bottom eye lid halfway up the length of the eye.

 

 

 

 

- When you are done, click OK.

- What you will have now are semi closed eyes. Click the Smudge tool. Set the Strength to around 20%.

- Zoom in on the eyes and smudge the skin over the small opening of the eyes.

- Select the Paint Brush tool. Choose a dark eye lash color and paint a thin line across the eyes, then smudge over that paint to give it the effect of eye slits.

- Do this to both eyes and they should now be shut!

 

 

 

 

 

[7.] Zombie Eyes

 

 

- Open a photo of a person in Photoshop that is looking at the camera.

 

 

 

 

- Select the Clone Stamp tool.

 

- Begin clone stamping the white areas of color around the pupil and retina. Clone stamp over the entire eye, trying your best to keep as little variation in color as possible. It doesn't have to be perfect, because we'll blend it better in the next steps.

 

 

 

 

- Now select the Smudge tool. Make sure the Strength is somewhere below 50%.

 

 

- Using the smudge tool, begin pushing in the darker color from the outside into the inside of the eye. So that it leads from color to the white. This will give the eye a rounded effect and look more convincing.

 

 

 

 

- Do steps 2 through 5 with the other eye.

- Choose a dark color the matches the lining of the eye. Select the Paint Brush tool, set the opacity to 30%, then go over the lining of the eye a few times. (Use the smudge tool again on the lining of the eye if necessary so that it isn't too dark and obvious).

 

 

 

 

- You're done! You should now have a photo with zombie eyes!

 

 

 

 

 

[8.] Buck Teeth

 

 

- In Photoshop, open a photo of a person whose teeth are showing.

 

 

 

 

- Select the Clone Stamp tool and zoom in on the two front teeth.

 

 

- Hold down the ALT key and click over one of the two front teeth to select it.

- Now let go of the ALT key and paint the copied clone stamp texture just below the teeth to extend the teeth length.

- Be sure to paint the same shape on the bottom of the teeth.

 

 

 

 

- Select the smudge tool and choose an appropriate size brush.

- Smudge the shading of the front teeth so that they look real.

 

 

 

 

- Select the Burn tool.

 

 

- Choose a small brush size. Then use the burn tool just below the teeth to give some shadow on the lips so that it looks like the the teeth are overlapping the lips and casting a shadow.

 

 

 

 

- You're done! The person in the photo should now have the appearance of buck teeth.

 

 

 

 

 

[9.] Evil Grin

 

 

- In Photoshop, open a photograph of a person who has a big smile showing all their teeth.

 

 

 

 

- Goto Filter > Liquify.

- The Liquify box will appear. Under Tool Options, select an appropriate sized brush. One that is not too big for the eyebrows.

- Using the brush, click and push the eye brows down so that they appear to look angry.

 

 

 

 

- If necessary click and push the corners of the mouth up so that the mouth appears to be grinning even more than before.

 

 

 

 

- When you are done, click OK.

- You should now have your evil grin face expression!

 

 

 

 

 

[10.] Gunshot Through a Glass

 

 

- You will need a photo of a person pointing a gun and a photo of a window with a bullet hole on a dark background.

 

 

 

 

- Begin by opening the photo of the agent with a gun.

 

- Choose File > Place, browse for the image of the bullet hole on a glass, then click OK. The image is now placed onto your current document with the transform tool activated.

 

 

 

 

Rotate and enlarge the image like shown in the image below. The bullet hole should be positioned near the gun. Press Enter on your keyboard to apply the changes.

 

 

 

 

- In the layers palette with the top layer selected, change the blending mode to screen.

 

 

 

 

- You should now have your gun shot effect!

 

 

 

 

[11.] Face Swapping - No Surgery Involved :P

 

 

- Open both images in Photoshop. Make sure that both of the heads are facing the same way.

 

 

 

 

- Select the Lasso tool in your tool box, and make sure the feather is 5px (in the top of the page)

 

 

 

 

- Now carefully circle the face. Once you have a selection, copy it (Edit>Copy or ctrl+c).

 

 

 

 

- Select the document with the second image, if you haven’t opened it… go ahead. Create a new layer by going to Layer>New>Layer, and paste the face (Edit>Paste or ctrl+v).

 

 

 

 

- To make the pasted face fit properly onto its new head, use the Free Transform tool (Edit>Free Transform or ctrl+t) to change the size or rotate it.

 

 

 

 

- Select the face layer and go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer, choose Hue/Saturation. Make sure to check the box that says: “Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask.” Use the following settings:

 

 

 

 

Now you should have something similar to this :

 

 

 

 

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Hope you enjoyed this AIO of  photoshop tricks. ;D

 

 

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Credits :

 

Thnx to multiple sites for their guides.

Me , for collecting the top tips & tricks I found.

Devs-Spot.com (I first shared this collection in this site, so... ::))

[Morian]

I have headache from this share! Realy

You help me so much!!! If I have Karma Rights you take +1 from me for sure!

Thank you a lot man! Now I go for Imba Edits!

[K4rMa]

These guides are really good especial for begginerS... If someone want to learn how to play

with layers and how to make fake pictures.. it's very easy!

 

+1

[xXSkillerXx]

I have headache from this share! Realy

You help me so much!!! If I have Karma Rights you take +1 from me for sure!

Thank you a lot man! Now I go for Imba Edits!

These guides are really good especial for begginerS... If someone want to learn how to play

with layers and how to make fake pictures.. it's very easy!

 

+1

Heh... thnx both of you for your good comments + thnx for the karma. :)

[NiGGaZ]

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[EtEяNiTy™]

excellent work. I will start right now transforming my friends into m0nsters(hah frightening)xD

[ManiakMike]

Awseom guides !

[NTOYBAS]

Nice collection :P