All Entries in the "Computers & Technology" Category
How to Create Reflections in Photoshop
When combining images, you may have to create a new reflection for the objects that you moved from the original image. Obviously, this is necessary only if there is a reflective element in your new composition. Even if you are not combining images, you may also want to create or retouch the reflections in your [...]
How to Create Neon Light Images in Photoshop
The most mesmerizing and attention-grabbing signs are probably found in neon-lit cities like glitzy Las Vegas. With Photoshop Elements, you can create the same colorful, neon-like effects using filters and a variety of blending modes. Open a bicycle image. Note that the background and the bicycle are on separate layers. Because bright neon colors look [...]
How to Desaturate Part of the Image in Photoshop
When you turn a color image into black and white using the Remove Color command in Photoshop Elements, the process is known as desaturation. In this article, you will learn to desaturate only part of a color image as the juxtaposition of color and black-and-white areas creates an interesting visual effect. This is a technique [...]
How to Create Bigger Eyes and a Sharper Chin
In this tutorial, you will learn to use the Liquify command to make a face look slimmer with a sharper chin. You will also use the Free Transform function to make the eyes look bigger. Select [File]-[Open] from the menu bar. The Open dialog box appears. Open the image Select [Filter]-[Distort]-[Liquify] from the menu bar. [...]
How to Create a Studio Background and Picture Package in Photoshop
If you need a passport photo for your job application or other sorts of forms but you don’t have any, you can take a good portrait shot of yourself and alter the background to make it look like a studio backdrop. With Photoshop Elements, you can even print a picture package that is a collection [...]
How to Combine Images in Photoshop
One of the easiest ways to create new and exciting compositions is to combine individual pictures. In this tutorial, you will learn to combine images inconspicuously by cleaning up the edges of pasted objects and adjusting the brightness and contrast. Open an image Select the Zoom Tool from the toolbox. Select the subject to zoom [...]
How to Color Black-and-White Photographs in Photoshop
If you have some old, black-and-white family photos, try turning them into color images in Photoshop Elements. The colors will inject vibrancy into the images and give them a different kind of look. But no matter how the images turn out, one thing is for sure-your pet project will get everyone in the family talking. [...]
How to Clean Up Backgrounds in Photoshop
It is inevitable that unwanted people or objects will sometimes appear in the background of your pictures. This will ruin the composition of your shot and also detract attention from your main subject. As you learned in the example on removing facial blemishes, the Clone Stamp Tool can stamp out such unwanted objects easily. In [...]
How to Change a Picture’s Color in Photoshop
You can easily change the hue, saturation, and brightness of an image in Photoshop Elements with the Hue/Saturation command. This feature for improving overall colors is also useful when you only want to change a specific color. You can, for instance, make all the blues in the image appear darker without affecting the rest of [...]
How to Cast a Fog in Photoshop
Imagine a river at dawn, with fog cloaking the water edges. Fog can add such a sense of mystique and charm to pictures, but opportunities to photograph such images are rare. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add fog effects on an ordinary picture and conjure up a very different mood. Open an [...]
How to Apply Makeup in Photoshop
Some cosmetic counters or make-over studios are equipped with a computer system that captures a person’s face and shows on screen the effect that their products will have on the face. It goes to show how easy it is now to change how a person looks using a computer. The most important thing you need [...]
How to Antique Pictures in Photoshop
Old photographs evoke nostalgia and seem more precious because of their fragility and the fact that the memories they capture are of a distant past. You can imitate the faded look of antiquated photos in your images by desaturating the colors, adding hair and dust particles, and blending the effects together in Photoshop Elements. Open [...]
How to Adjust Image Size and Shape in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to transform an ordinary product shot by using the Free Transform Tool to rotate, resize, and warp a copy of the image to add shadows. You will also use the Gradient Tool to create a background that has gradations in color and the Lens Flare filter to add [...]
How to Add a Snowfall in Photoshop
Taking pictures in subzero temperatures is hard, but getting a shot with just the right amount of snowfall is even more difficult. You need perseverance and luck to get those kinds of shots. In this tutorial, you will make a picture of snow-capped trees and mountains even more perfect by adding a snowfall with the [...]
How to Add a Picture Frame in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn to combine an image of a baby with a picture of plush toys before framing it with one of the 15 default frames found in the Effects palette. You will adjust the contrast and feather the selection edges in order to blend the images together flawlessly. As you shall [...]
How to Allow Your Website to Accept Credit Cards
If your website’s set up doesn’t permit credit card payments, you’re missing out on lucrative and additional product sales. By letting customers pay for items on your website with a credit card, you can strengthen your e-site’s selling power. To equip your e-site to accept credit card payments, you need a merchant account. You have multiple [...]
How to Use a Memory Stick
Memory Stick is a separable flash memory card, introduced by Sony. It is similar to floppy drives and you can save the data, erase and reword on it. Nowadays, this storeroom is getting very popular because of its high data storage capacity and faster transmit rate. Memory Sticks are also used as the storage for [...]
How to Use a Riflescope
The process of using a riflescope is as important as in the case of shooting. It is very useful in aiming, shooting the target. While you are using the traditional guns made up of iron, it is necessary to remember the fact that, the rifles would fire with a very high velocity. It has the [...]
How to Use a Search Engine
In the recent decade, the world has become addicted to computer and internet. And almost every person use internet to gather information for his or her needs. And Search Engine has become the most important tool in gathering that information. So it is necessary to know the basics of search engine and how to use [...]
How to Use a Smartboard
Now, before using Smartboard lets know what is smart board? SMART board is a white board built by SMART technologies and is designed for students and teachers to teach. They are throughout the means of a visual projection to a computer in which lessons; additional program helps are been stored. It can display anything are [...]