Photoshop Tutorial - Adding Rain to any picture

Hi there, it seems that a lot of people don't know how to easily add rain to your picture. Well, just follow this tutorial!

Step 1:

Open your document with your desired size. Fill it with black. 

Now go to Filter→Noise→Add Noise. Click Monochromatic on. Set your amount to something between 70 - 150 %. The higher your number the more rain. 

Step 2:
Now go to Filter→Blur→Motion Blur. Edit your Angle and Distance until you like it.
When you did that, go to Image→Adjustments→Levels. Pull the black arrow more to the right to get better/less rain.

Step 3:

Press Ctrl+A to select everything, and then press Ctrl+C to copy everything. Now past it on your picture, and put it to screen (Other Blending modes like Lighten, Color Dodge and Linear Dodge changed the lighting of the picture or the rain got different colors).

Viola!

Nature Gallery

All the artwork belongs to their respectful owner. We do not own any of the picture's shown.

We hope that you will be inspired by all the art in this post. Thank you for watching.


-Justphotoshopping Team

Inactivity

We would like to apologize for our inactivity these days. We are very busy, but that won't keep us from posting anymore. Thank you to all the people that are still watching this blog once a while, it means the world to us.


-JustPhotoshopping Team

Photoshop Tutorial - Stroke Photo

Hey guys, today we will explain to you how to make this random stroke effect on a photo.
This is the effect I made that we will be recreating.

Lets go!


Step 1:
Open a new file (with the size of your picture). Now go to Filter→Render→Cloud. Then go to Filter→Render→Difference Clouds. Repeat Difference Clouds around 30 times (Ctrl + F is a shortcut for the last used Filter) until you get something like this:

Step 2:
Now go to Filter→Brush Strokes→Angled Strokes.  The settings I used: 
Direction Balance: 50
Stroke Length: 15
Sharpness: 3


Go crazy with the settings, I got this:

Step 3:
Now paste it on the layer above the picture, change the Blending Mode to what you like, I chose Color Dodge.

The problem with these kind of effects is that it's random. You can't decide where the lighting comes from. Thats also why you should press Difference Clouds until you are happy with it.

Thanks to http://www.images-photography-pictures.net , they have a great amount of pictures, and you can use any of then in exchange for a link.

-Just Photoshopping Team

I Will Dance

The other day I was just messing with Photoshop, and I found this render that I had in my archive. Then I just had to make this. Tell me what you think of it.

Fullsize here: http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/5492/danceadanceclas.png

Photoshop tutorial - Abstract Plasma

Just a random tutorial. Have fun.


Step 1:
Open up your new file, I used 500x500, after that, fill it with black.

Step 2:
Go to Filter→Render→Lens Flare. Click 50-300 zoom. Place it in the corner, repeat the process, but every time in a different corner. Place the last one in the middle.

Step 3:
Go to Filter→Sketch→Chrome , use the default settings.

Step 4:

Duplicate the layer then go to Filter→Distort→Wave and click random a few times (Do this on the duplicated layer) now click 'Ok' and set Layers Blending mode to 'Lighten'

Step 5:

Repeat step 4 a few times, each using duplicated Layers and Lighten all layers, once you are done go to Layer→Merge Visible.

Step 6:

Now go to Image→Adjustments→Hue/Saturation, click Colorize on and then mess with the settings until you get a colour you like.

Well, thats it for now.

-Justphotoshopping team

Updates

Recently we have added a few updates to this blog:

• The Helpdesk Button
• A Poll
• Search Button
• Favicon
• Last but not least; Followers

The Helpdesk Button

We have created this new part of the site that you can use when you having problems with Photoshop, if you need some help with creating a effect and for showing your art.

Sometimes we will post some of the questions you asked and make a tutorial about it.

The art part is meant for you showing us your art. We will choose the best art every month and post it, if you have a DeviantArt (Twitter, Facebook,..) and you want us to link to that, it would be our pleasure.

You can find the Help Desk here:

Help Desk: http://justphotoshopping.blogspot.com/p/helpdesk-just-photoshopping.html


The Poll
What is your favorite type of post?

Go and vote! You can find it right under the archive.

Search Button

Just as it sounds: a search button. Type in what you want to find, and he'll start searching.

Favicon


A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16 pixel square icon that is shown when bookmarking a page. In Google chrome it shows in every tab. You can easily make such icons in photoshop or with an internet generator, but don't forget it has to be a .ico file.

If using Google Chrome you can see it here:

Followers
When you follow this blog you will get a message every time we post something new. 
You can find the Followers application here:

Well, that' s all the updates for now.


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Photoshop Tutorial - Professional Sharpen

If you are longer into Photoshop, you most likely have encountered this problem before; oversharpened pixels.
This can be really annoying because some places do look good.  Today we will explain to you how to make a nice sharpen.


Step 1:
Choose the picture that you want to sharpen. Duplicate the picture, and now go to channels. Choose the channel that has the most contrast, in my case, blue.
 If you don't know what channels are go here: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/rgb/ .


Now go to this filter: Filter→Stylize→Find Edges.


NOTE: The images for this tutorial are not correct. You need to get more detail.

















Step 2:
This is the completely opposite of what we want, so press Ctrl + I. This will make our picture Inverted.
Now increase the pictures contrast with Levels or Curves.

Step 3:
Blur the image slightly with Gaussian Blur. The higher the image quality , the lower the blur, the lower the image quality , the higher the blur. keep it in between 0.5 and 3. I used 1.3.

Step 6:
Press Ctrl+A and then Ctrl + C. Now you have the picture copied, and since we don't need this layer anymore, you can delete it.


Duplicate the original picture ( the unedited one) and give it a layer mask. Make sure you have the mask selected by Alt + Clicing on it.


Paste your black and white stuff there. Now go to Filter→Sharpen→Sharpen. See what happens.


Before:                                                                  After:

My image was already good, so I won't have much difference. Try it yourself too!

Interview with Mats Minnhagen

Hey Guys, today is the day! Today we're posting an interview that we have done with Mats Minnhagen. We truly hope that you enjoy it, there has been put alot of time in it.

© The artwork presented on this post is used with the permission of its author, Mats Minnhagen. All the artwork is copyrighted. Please do not use the images without the permission of the artist or owner. 


Thank you for agreeing with taking this interview, do you have any things to say beforehand?


Hi!


For our readers, could you introduce yourself?

My name is Mats Minnhagen, and I'm a freelance illustrator living in Sweden.
I work with book illustration, rpg illustration and concept art for computer games. Among others, I've worked for EA Dice and Wizards of the Coast. Pretty much all of my images are digitally painted.


Since when were you interested in graphic designs? Can you tell us how you got into Photoshop and such? And since when?


I've been drawing since I was a kid. I guess most children draw, I just didn't quit. Like other kids, I used to create long, epic (and rather poor) comic adventures, and wanted to become a comic book artist. But when I got older, I decided art would have to be a hobby, and went for an academic career instead. I kept drawing occasionally, but it wasn't until several years later, in 2004, that I finally decided to give my artistic ambitions a serious try. At that point I had discovered digital painting, and quickly been hooked by its obvious advantages. Suddenly the prospect of a career in art became a lot more realistic.

Floating Fish: This piece was my entry for CGSociety's "Strange Behaviour" Challenge. The theme of the challenge was to depict any kind of strange behaviour, and my (rather far-fetched) interpretation was that thes egentle floating fish don't normally behave in the havoc-wreaking manner seen here. That's why it's strange. The painting didn't win that particular competition, but it later won both an Exposé Master Award and a Chesley Award, so I can't complain!


Where do you get inspiration from?
In terms of others artists, when I was younger my major source of inspiration were undoubtedly Tolkien illustrators Alan Lee, John Howe and Angus Mcbride. Later on, as my eyes opened to the world of digital art, I discovered Craig Mullins, John Wallin Liberto, Sparth and countless others. But I also draw inspiration from everything around me, from every aspect of life. One of the most inspiring things I can think of is simply taking a walk in nature.


What programs do you use to create your work?
I use Photoshop for painting. It's a very versatile program with a good brush editor. Painter is good too, but I find the way in which it tries to simulate real media a little bit annoying. Digital painting is a medium in its own right, and I think it's better off treated as such. Also, I often use Sketchup for building simple 3D block models of my scenes. I'm not a 3D modeler, and my models are very quick and rough, but even so Sketchup can be useful for trying out different perspectives and compositions.

Abandoned Hut: This was a personal piece that I came up with after spending a day walking on the beach. I like to explore abandoned places, and try to figure out who might have lived there. In this painting I added some enigmatic details such as the wooden statues and the stone construction to get the viewers imagination going.


What would you like to say to beginner designers?
Be patient. There is a lot of focus on speed in the digital art community - speed painting, fancy shortcuts, etc. - but try to ignore that. Illustration is a craft that takes a long time to learn. There may be digital shortcuts for applying texture to your paintings, but not for learning anatomy and composition. Speed will inevitably come later on.


Are you making anything currently? If yes, can we have a preview of it ?
At the moment I'm working on a light-hearted book on physics, which is a lot of fun. But I can't show any of that yet, I'm afraid.

King of Ruins: Another personal piece, an allgory this time. Time crumbles everything, even the mightiest empire...




What are your opinions on Photoshop Cs5?
I haven't tried CS5 yet. I seem to have a problem keeping up with Adobe, since I just got CS4. Actually, everything I need to paint was already present in CS2, so I'm not in a hurry to update. I might be a bit conservative too; once I get used to a program, I'm usually reluctant to changes.


What is your favourite color?
I don't have preferences on individual colours, but rather on colours in relation to other colours. I like the colour scheme of dusk – dominant bluish tones with contrasting touches of orange and red.


What is your favourite band?
Right now that would be Rise Against - even though listening to them always makes me feel that I should quit drawing and do something useful!


What do you do like beside designing?
Work takes up a lot of my time these days, but whenever I get a chance I like to go hiking. It's nice to get away from the computer. And sometimes I outline stories that I would like to write, but probably never will.

Crusaders in Tavastland: An illustration for "Jarlen och Kungariket", a book on Swedish 13th century ruler Birger Jarl (LL-förlaget). In the beginning of his career, Birger led a crusade in Finland


What was your first piece ‘art’?
I'm not sure. If you mean the first drawing I made, that would be way back when I was a little kid, and I don't remember. The oldest I think I've seen is a drawing of a pirate rowing a boat with both oars on the same side in a very odd manner. But I must have started with more basic stuff.


What is your site?
www.minnhagen.com


Once again, thanks for taking this interview with me.
Thank you!

© The artwork presented on this post is used with the permission of its author, Mats Minnhagen. All the artwork is copyrighted. Please do not use the images without the permission of the artist or owner. 

Digital paintings on deviantart

We just found this deviantart account,and we think it's realy great! This is a digital painting she made in photoshop cs4:

http://shilin.deviantart.com/art/Commission-CS4-post-pro-104892262

She also does realy cool mangalike pages like this:

http://shilin.deviantart.com/art/4-8-x11-Test-Pages-shaded-159563899

And her deviantart is filled with these pictures!
We hope you will enjoy it as well, and see you guys tommorow!

Photoshop Tutorial - Text In a Shape

Hey guys, it's us again for Justphotoshopping, today I will explain to you how to get text in a shape.


Step 1:
Open a new document. The size I used was 500 x 500.


Now type in a sentence, a word, a letter, anything. I chose for a big 'J', from JustPhotoshopping.

Step 2:
Go write random things, or just repeat one word. Fill the whole canvas. Then go to the layers palette.
Right click the 'J' layer, and click Convert to Shape.

Now just pull that Vector mask to your random text layer, and you will see not precisely what we want.
We now do have the letter filled with words, but the background is black. The solution for this problem is simple; delete the layer were the J was.

Just to give my J a better effect, I added a stroke. You don't have to do that ;)


Thank you for reading this tutorial, and I will see you guys tommorow!