Photoshop is a very popular image editing software designed and distributed by Adobe that allows users to fully customize their images, modify them, and insert a wide variety of special effects. Photoshop is used by schools, businesses, and home users to enhance images, create ideal advertisements and marketing icons such as website banners and logos, …
Having a glossy logo is common with today’s sleek website interfaces. Creating one yourself is simple with the right software and a set of instructions to walk you through the basics. You will need to open your version of Adobe Photoshop (This tutorial uses 7.0, but all versions carry the same tools and can produce …
HSL (Hue, Saturation, and Lightness) is a method for describing colors. HSL is also known by the abbreviations of HLS and HIS, while the L can often refer to luminosity or luminance rather than light. The HLS color model is graphically represented by a double cone or hexcone, this shape resembles a spinning top. The …
HSV (Hue, Saturation and Value) – defines a type of color space. It is similar to the modern RGB and CMYK models. The HSV color space has three components: hue, saturation and value. ‘Value’ is sometimes substituted with ‘brightness’ and then it is known as HSB. The HSV model was created by Alvy Ray Smith …
A flyer is principally an inexpensively created single page circular/pamphlet used for promotional distribution and marketing. Flyers can be used as inexpensive and easy tools for effective advertising. They are distributed to various people and current clients in order to acquaint them with products, services, and a company. When consumer markets are thoroughly researched, handing …
Creating a flyer is a common task for businesses, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions. An advertising flyer’s primary purpose is to advertise an event, idea, product, or service. A well designed and thought out flyer provides information that convinces the viewer to attend an event or buy a company’s product or services. A flyer uses …
CMYK – also called CYM or YMCK – is a subtractive color model used in color printing. A color model is a mathematical model for describing colors as tuples of numbers, usually 3-4 color components or values. CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (black), and the color model describes a formula for creating …
In order to make a great looking pencil sketch out of a photo, skill and free time are needed to render it by hand or users can take advantage of a tool such as Adobe Photoshop to do the time consuming work in only minutes. Converting a photo into a pencil sketch can be accomplished …
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image editing software that serves as a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop. While Photoshop is a household name, GIMP is equally popular in the digital art industry. This is because GIMP offers a wide variety of features that resemble Photoshop features in almost every way. GIMP is an …
This tutorial will help you create a glass-looking picture frame in Photoshop. First, draw a gradient in the background layer: Next, create a red rectangular box: Then apply this effect to the layer: This will be the result: Then duplicate the layer and flip it vertically to make it look like this: Then draw this …