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Photoshop CS6 Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet

Came across this handy reference guide for Photoshop CS6.

Print it out and stick it on your wall or desk!

Click the image for a hi-res version.

>> Posted in Photo Editing on April 16th, 2013 |

Photoshop Human Shadow Study

Adding shadows to simple objects in Photoshop is no big deal but adding them to irregular objects like people with awkward stances can be a bit tricky. Here I outline simply how I normally do it.

Assets

A decent hi-res image of a person against a neutral, single colour background.

Process

>> Posted in How to Guides, Photo Editing on January 8th, 2013 |

Spotted an awesome ‘very’ hi-res image of the Curiosity Rover on Mars on Facebook last week, downloaded it and set it aside to do some Photoshop trickery on it. Here’s what I came up with, a movie poster effect with Aliens V’s Curiosity!

Before

Assets

>> Posted in Photo Editing on November 29th, 2012 |

Drake’s Equation – We Are Not Alone!

Seen some pics of eggs on the net today, can’t remember how or why, followed closely by some story about star birth or some such thing. Decided to put the two together and come up with this composition..as you do.

Background:

I once read a book called “… Read More

>> Posted in Photo Editing on August 30th, 2012 |

Mars Curiosity First Drive Tracks in 3D

Just thought I’d apply my old 3D (Stereoscopic, Red & Cyan) Photoshop technique to the latest photos coming from the Curiosity rover on Mars. It”s been for a spin and left some tracks! Obviously I couldn’t be there to take the proper pics you need to for creating 3D composites so I… Read More

>> Posted in Photo Editing on August 26th, 2012 |

Buddy Jesus Fresco – “I’ve looked worse”

A quick head cutout and swivel for the popular Buddy Jesus then overlay of the famous Spanish Fresco job!… Read More

>> Posted in Photo Editing on August 25th, 2012 |

50 Shades of Gay

I’m writing this on a day where the mummy porn, 50 Shades of Grey book has just become the best selling book of all time. Yes, ALL TIME. Mad. Anyway, this is probably my first attempt at designing (or re-designing!) a book cover and my guess as to the next EL James book, specifically for… Read More

>> Posted in Photo Editing on August 9th, 2012 |