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Interesting Tricks With Photoshop Needlework

One really neat trick a Photoshop artist can do with images is by replicating the appearance and feel of needlework art so he/she can achieve a true Photoshop needlework masterpiece.  The Photoshop artist may or may not have firsthand knowledge about how to exactly do needlework with his/her own bare hands; because believe me, needlework may be stereotypically reserved for our grandmothers, but it is a beautiful form of artwork and requires skill, dexterity, imagination, and an excellent grasp of patterns, sizes, and proportions.  Capturing this art form in all its different varieties through Photoshop needlework in the best way possible will require the Photoshop artist to be knowledgeable about particular details and techniques used in needlework that produce certain beautiful patterns and figures. (more…)

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Going Trendy With Photoshop Fashion Brushes

The fashion industry deals heavily with images and with influencing through imagery; as such, it is the perfect medium for utilizing a great number of Photoshop fashion brushes that help to produce certain effects that will imprint itself in a certain way in the minds of people viewing them.  Fashion involves a lot of:

  • Picture taking/shooting.  Countless pictures need to be taken so that the photographer and the designer have many options to choose from and use.
  • Editing.  Alas, not even models are exempted from the usual, humanly undesirable facial and bodily plagues (pimples, acnes, freckles, etc.) that afflict us normal-looking mortals, and so need to be done away with.
  • Posing.  There are a great many poses and stances a body can make, be it a regular or common kind of gesture or bold, dramatic, and exaggerated stances.
  • Customizing.  A kind of pose, style, and/or effect has to be executed in such a way as to meet the demands of sponsors, meet the particular tastes of designers, and appeal to the masses or the consumers.
  • Accessorizing.  The highlighting of particular enhancements, like jewelry, bags, shoes, pins, brooches, etc.
  • Make-up.  Facial features and expressions are enhanced by special cosmetics and techniques used by the make-up artist.
  • Styling.  A specific kind of putting together of certain fabrics and materials and pairing them with appropriate make-up, hairstyle, and/or accessories.
  • Captivating color combinations.  The expert use of color and print is very powerful and effective in determining how well a certain trend will be received and appreciated.
  • Expressions.  The human face is very much capable of expressing so much by just the tweak or pinch of the nose, the wink of an eye, the flash of the eyelids, the curve of the mouth, the raising of the cheeks, the pucker of the lips, etc. (more…)

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Expressions Through Photoshop Lettering Effects

When you look at a certain kind of font, you cannot help but create a certain impression; and when that style of font is even more enhanced by Photoshop lettering effects, the word being spelled out by that particular font is made even more expressive and more graphic without even having to accompany any kind of picture.  Photoshop lettering effects are useful for enhancing the printed word or words, making them become an image in itself; the style in which the word is typed and the word spelled out combine to subtly yet effectively convey a certain message; the word in itself is strong enough an image to create a picture through our imaginations fueled by the way we understand that word. (more…)

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Photoshop Symbols And What You Can Do With Them

The use of Photoshop symbols is a most necessary and indispensable function by which Photoshop artists communicate a certain message in the most efficient, dramatic or emphatic, and impressionable way possible.  Symbols permeate and affect every part of life; when used in artwork, especially in Photoshop, they take on a life and force that inspires and propels one who understands what that certain symbol means to feel something deep and profound for what that symbol stands for and to take a definite kind of action.
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The Many Uses of Photoshop Editing

The purpose of Photoshop editing is for the photographer/Photoshop artist to input the final touches needed to construct the picture or image into how he wants it to come across.  He/She will consider the lighting, the contrast of colors, the shading, the emphasizing or de-emphasizing of certain minute details, and a host of other little things that must be taken into account in order to make the picture the best it can be.

Photoshop editing is full of incredibly great options that you can choose from to produce a certain type of effect that will provoke a certain type of feeling, thought, idea, and emotion. (more…)

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