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• [HOW TO] Sets in your Profile
  by Craig Shillington

  A lot of people are asking how to do the links to sets of photos or works in our profiles … so I thought I would outline it here for th…

  A lot of people are asking how to do the links to sets of photos or works in our profiles … so I thought I would outline it here for those of you that would like that option. First thing is to have sets in mind and tags to associate with those sets. Then … make sure you have those tags on the photos you want in each set. This way a photo can actually be in more than one set if you like :) Then …. to make the links in your profile: (I’ll use my tree tag as an example) / you type the set name followed by the link to all your photos tagged with tree like this ….. but without the spaces: ” Trees ” : http://www.redbubble.com/people/crackers1967/art/everything/tags/tree When you do this without the spaces you get this: Trees / Edit your Profile and place the set code somewhere within the About Me section. I place mine down a little lower because for some reason long lines get cut when you view your Profile on your Overview page, it looks neater down lower and only viewable when someone clicks on the more link. You should be able to copy and paste that line with the spaces and just change the word, tag name and username, then remove the spaces and go for your life. :) You can also bullet the list by placing a hash and then a space before the whole lot and it looks like this: Trees / / The easiest way to see what your username is, is to open up RedBubble and click on View your public Profile. Look in the address bar of your browser and it will show you your username at the end of the address: http://redbubble.com/people/ username View all my HOW TO’s

• [HOW TO] Links and photos in Red Bubble
  by Craig Shillington

  I thought I would do a separate and hopefully less complicated How To in regards to making links and showing Jpg files in RB. There s…

  I thought I would do a separate and hopefully less complicated How To in regards to making links and showing Jpg files in RB. There seems to be a lot of confusion as to how these things work. So find the part you are interested in learning, maybe open up and edit an old Journal Entry and practice. VBS A URL is simply the text that shows up in your Browser Window Address Bar (up the very top), the line that starts with http:// If I refer to the URL, that is what I am talking about. ALL CODE IS WRITTEN WITHOUT SPACES Some wrapping of longer lines of code will occur within this Journal Entry, regardless of what the lines look like, code is always one continuous line WITHOUT spaces TEXT LINKS Sometimes it’s nice to have a text link when we are conversing to others in Red Bubble to help people share information, or to allow them to see another web page that has something to do with the convo. Maybe you like to include songs from YouTube with your work and want to share those Videos and music with others. Anytime you want someone to be able to link to another webpage somewhere, you can make a line of text (or one word) clickable to that link and it’s really easy to do. :) All you do is wrap the text you want people to see as a link, in qoutes {“} then add a colon {:} and then the URL. So let’s say you wanted to link to my Porfolio so people can have a look at buying something off me HEHEHE ... all you need to do is open up my portfolio page in your browser to get the URL from your browsers address bar and just type the name of the link text wrapped in quotes, followed by a colon, then the url so it would look like this (with no spaces) : ” Craig Shillington’s Portfolio ” : http://www.redbubble.com/people/crackers1967/portfolio Craig Shillington’s Portfolio is wrapped in quotes, so that is the text people will see. http://www.redbubble.com/people/crackers1967/portfolio is the link we want the text to click too When you type that within Red Bubble without the spaces you get this : Craig Shillington’s Portfolio So, abbreviated – to make a text link in Red Bubble you would type this in as code: ” text ” : link Replacing the text and link for yours and no spaces. DISPLAYING JPG’S GIF’S PNG’S ETC Please try to keep the size of these files small, both in dimensions and in download size, as if you use a lot of bigger files, the pages you put them on will load more slowly and that might piss people off!! Okay, you look around and you notice somehow people are actually making it so that you can see the thumbnail photos of thier works, or others have cool little animated gifs showing. Well … if you can bring up a photo by itself in your browser, you can show it in Red Bubble!! And again, it’s really really easy. If you want to know the link to any photo you can see in your browser window, right click on the image itself (PC Users … sorry Mac users, maybe someone can help me here) and go down to properties. In the window that opens up you will see a section that has the image properties and the location (or URL). That is the link we need to show that image. I use a little rotating Note near all the links to Videos throughout my Portfolio, so I will be using that as an example here. This applies to ANY image you want to display though. First, right click on this LINK and open in a new Window or Tab. That way you can still read this and flick back to the link to practice. :) You will notice at the top of my description for the photo, I have used the Text Link method described above to link to the Video of that Song in YouTube. And right next to that link, to draw attention to the link, I have my little rotating Note :) Right Click on the little rotating Note and go to Properties. In the box that opens you will see the Image Properties and A URL to the Image. It should be this: http://home.people.net.au/ ~ casphotography/notes-15.gif That is the link to where I have the Note.gif Stored. And that is all you need to know for any image, the URL that will show just that image in your Browser. If you copy that link to your browser Address Bar (with no spaces) and hit Enter … all you should see is an empty page with the little note rotating in the top left corner. PERFECT!! If you can open any image in this way, you have the URL in the Address Bar. If you copy a link to your Address Bar and it doesn’t just show the image, something is wrong. Most Image URL will end in JPG, GIF or PNG. There are some exceptions, but there should be one of those somewhere in the URL. Okay, so we have the URL, how do we make the image show in Red Bubble. Where you want the image to be shown, paste or type the URL. Then at the very start and the very end of the URL (with no spaces) put EXCLAMATION MARKS {!} So my note would then be (without spaces): ! http://home.people.net.au/ ~ casphotography/notes-15.gif ! And in Red Bubble will look like this: So, abbreviated – to make an image show in Red Bubble you would type this in as code: ! URL ! Replacing the URL with the URL for the image and no spaces. IMAGE LINKS Okay, so we know and understand now how to make links and also how to display images in Red Bubble. If you don’t, go back and understand it because this next bit could be very confusing if you don’t ;) We know we can show an image, and we know we can make links to text. So can we make an image work as a link? YES!! VBS And it’s sorta easy if you understand what the code is doing and how it works. I will be using my Message Me button link in my profile for this example. Because that is an Image that links to my message board and so you can leave me a message ;) Here is the link to my Profile The very first button I have in there is the Message me Button. When you click on it, it takes you to my Journal Entry I set up for people to message me in. So I know the link … all I need to get now is the URL of the button. Easy, again, right click the Message Me Button and goto Properties, look at the Image Properties and the URL there … It should be this: http://home.people.net.au/ ~ casphotography/m.gif We know from above, to display an image we wrap it in Exclamation Marks, so to show that in Red Bubble we’d type (no spaces): ! http://home.people.net.au/ ~ casphotography/m.gif ! Which will show as: Okay, we have the image up and working, how do we link to it? Exactly the same way we link to text from above. Simply follow the code with a colon {:} and the link you want people to goto when they click the image. In this case my Message Board: http://www.redbubble.com/people/crackers1967/journal/show/30445 So the whole line of code would look like this (no spaces .. and ignore the word wrap, this is all one single line): ! http://home.people.net.au/ ~ casphotography/m.gif ! : http://www.redbubble.com/people/crackers1967/journal/show/30445 When typed with no spaces and on one line it looks like this: So, abbreviated – to make an image show in Red Bubble that links to a URL you would type this in as code: ! URL ! : link Replacing the URL with the URL for the image, and link for the URL of the link to click to and no spaces. View all my HOW TO’S

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  How To Play the Drums...
  by Mikoni

  It Is True Really… But Drummers Are Talented, So If You Are One I Hope You Aren’t Offended. :)

• Profile How To
  by Gracey

  Almost every day I see people asking “how do I put pictures in my profile”. There are quite a number of tutorials on how to do this, and …

  Almost every day I see people asking “how do I put pictures in my profile”. There are quite a number of tutorials on how to do this, and here is yet another. This one explains how to use the image from your “preview/buy” page in your profile, and also gives an explanation for creating a profile with smaller images, like the one below. The tutorial is written in a pdf format (for windows PC users – sorry mac people, I wish I could put the instructions in for you) and includes full link texts (difficult to put into a journal on Redbubble because the code you need to type in converts to images unless you leave spaces) and some screencaptures to help along the way. Download it from here: Profile Pics Tutorial This is only one of many other tutorials on this subject. Some can be found in the community forums - This helpful one How to Add a Portfolio in your Email Signature can be found in the Learning Centre Community Forum Others can be found by searching (try searching for profile help, or profle tutorials), or by visiting the How To Redbubble Group Some of the tutorials in this group that are geared towards profile modification are: How To Make Sets in Your Profile by Craig Shillington How To Add Pictures to Your Profile by StacyLee How To Tag Your Work by Jo O’Brien How To Create a Most Popular Link for your Profie by GerryMac Linking Photos in Redbubble by Craig Shillington Buttons and Links to Sets by Craig Shillington Making Your Redbubble Profile Badge by webgrrl Not included in the How To Redbubble Group are these two handy journals by Helen Bascom: Creating Landscape Thumbnails the Correct Size How to Link Thumbnails If you have links to other tutorials relating to profiles or image links, please feel free to add it by leaving the link in a comment. And How to Add Buttons to Your Profile by Patricia Montgomery>

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  Learning how to play soccer.
  by Ellen

  I was inspired by the European Soccer games this last june. (not really to be honest :) / Only wished the light was better.

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  How to mend a broken heart: The Punk Way
  by Ritchie

• TUTORIAL: Add Buttons To Your Profile Page
  by Patricia Montgomery

  *I recently had several requests for instructions on how to add buttons like the ones in my profile...

  I recently had several requests for instructions on how to add buttons like the ones in my profile. Rather than send individual bubblemail messages, I’m posting it in my journal in case someone else would like to add buttons to their RB profile. BUTTON INSTRUCTIONS Tip: print out this page and put it beside the computer before you start. You can make your own buttons or you can use a site called ButtonGenerator. If you decide to use this site and not to pay for a membership, you will need to add a link back to the site. I made all of mine 125X26 to give you some idea of the size of the ones on my page. This size allowed 3 buttons side-by-side. Make all your buttons and then save them in a folder on your computer. Then you will need to upload each button to your RB image gallery and use the “Hide” feature so that no one sees them but you. Once you have them uploaded you will need to right-click on each one to get the url address html code in the properties box. Example: http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/1407403-1-autumn-button.jpg Then go to “Edit Your Profile” to copy the image html code AND the tag html code – it will look like this (without the spaces): ! http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/1407403-1-autumn-button.jpg ! : http://www.redbubble.com/people/patmonty/art/everything/tags/autumn [REMEMBER NO SPACES. I had to add spaces so you could see the html code. If I had not added spaces, the button would have appeared in the journal instead of the code.] The last word in the html code is the “tag” word. In the example above it is autumn. You will need to put one space between each set of button html code. If you have a lot of buttons the language is long and wraps around forever. But with one space between each button html code, the buttons will sit next to other and then wrap to the next line. Now you will need to add the tag word to each of your images that will correspond to the buttons. Happy Button Making! UPDATE: Cool Text Graphics Generator is another good site for buttons. This tutorial was featured by the group, Tutorials on January 28, 2009. CLICK HERE FOR ALL TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA / Add Buttons To Your Profile Page / How to make a calendar / Downsizing those example images on your profile page / Adding Examples (Card, Laminated, Matted, etc) To Your Profile / Add photos to your profile description / Adding emphasis to your text / Plus more tutorials!

• TUTORIAL: Making Links
  by Patricia Montgomery

  I have written this tutorial more for the new bubblers that have recently joined. But if you have been around the site for awhile and st…

  I have written this tutorial more for the new bubblers that have recently joined. But if you have been around the site for awhile and still haven’t yet attempted to put a link in your profile, image description, or bubblemail, this should help. FOR THE COMPUTER SAAVY: Put quotation marks around the words you want to be the link. Then type a colon. Copy and paste the url address for the page, image, etc. that you want to link to. No spaces anywhere in the code. BEGINNER STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: I would suggest printing these out to have next to the keyboard. It will be easier than switching back and forth to this screen. -Type the words you want to be the link: Bubblesite for Patricia -Put quotation marks around the words: “Bubblesite for Patricia” -Add a colon at the end: “Bubblesite for Patricia” : -Then add the url address for the page/photo you want to link to: http://patmonty.redbubble.com/ -It should look like this (without the space): “Bubblesite for Patricia”: http://patmonty.redbubble.com/ -I put a space after the colon so the html code would be visible in this journal. Take out the space and waa-laa! It becomes a link! Bubblesite for Patricia NOTE: In a bubblemail, it becomes a link after it is sent. In a comment, it becomes a link after the comment is added. In a journal or profile description, the clickable link is only seen in the public view. If you have problems or questions, please don’t hesitate to let me know. Patricia CLICK HERE FOR ALL TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA / Add Buttons To Your Profile Page / How to make a calendar / Downsizing those example images on your profile page / Adding Examples (Card, Laminated, Matted, etc) To Your Profile / Add photos to your profile description / Adding emphasis to your text / Plus more tutorials!

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  Remembering How To Breathe...
  by myoriginalsin

  Full view please :) Delighted to collaborate once again with my favourite poet girlinthestars. Amy and I really love inspiring one and other. She has an amazing collection of poems, please check them out. Here is Remembering How To Breathe In time, they say / But I think that it’s their time / They’re speaking of It’s fine, I reply / But that’s just so / They’ll let me be I’ve lied upon fevered bark / Flying the ribbon of our eternity / Watching the curve of us / Intertwine the trees / Coloring the breeze, baby blue / It kidnaps my lonely / And nestles me, secure with you As they all declare Don’t look back / Don’t look forward / Just stay still / To count your blessings / Don’t cry now / Don’t cry later / Wash it all away / Think not on your regret / But on who you’ve never met Sometimes the heart thinks it has moved on / But it’s wrong / Oh, it’s wrong / It’s just occupied with something else So if you find yourself alone / City lights, dying down / The memory of her, slinking under your door / You may rest, listening for nothing / And then hear a familiar something It is only me Reciting the riddle of your leaving / Breaking the fragments of you, smaller / As my unwillingness compromises to try And so remembering how to breathe… I sigh ..::Stock Photo Credit::.. / Model / River background / River foreground / Woods / Butterflies If you like this piece, please check out: / / /

• TUTORIAL how to enhance your profile
  by Karin Taylor

  WOW… so far we’ve had 570 favouritings and 8,224 views since uploading this journal. Hope it helps :) !http://i248.photobucket…

  WOW… so far we’ve had 570 favouritings and 8,224 views since uploading this journal. Hope it helps :) Hi Everyone This would be the most FAQ I receive from other bubblers, ie, how do i enhance my profile, how do I create a link, how do I display my products on the page…. It’s so easy, very simple, just a few steps away – anyone can do it, you can do it!! Be encouraged! As I receive lots of requests for assistance about enhancing the front profile page of your red bubble homepage, I have decided to take some time to describe and explain in a step by step tutorial the various methods. / a) I always begin by opening up two tabs/windows / b) Open the ‘edit your profile page’ or the ‘edit your description’ box in the first tab/window / c) In the first window where you are editing your description, type an exclamation mark ! / d) Click to open the other tab/window / e) Go to the public view of the image whose product you wish to display / f) Click on the BUY/PREVIEW NOW button / g) You will notice there are a range of products here for you to choose from eg, card preview, print preview, laminated print preview, matted print preview / h) Click one of these options to view the product / i) Once you have chosen which product you’d like to add as a preview, right click on it and select ‘copy image location’ / j) Return to your first opened tab/window and paste the ‘copied image location’ right beside the exclamation mark / k) Add another exclamation mark after the pasted image location, leaving no spaces / YOU NOW HAVE DISPLAYED YOUR PRODUCT You can go on to make this a clickable link if desired. / l) Add a colon right next to the exclamation mark / m) Click on the second tab/window and press the back button at the top left hand side of your browser twice until it returns to the public view of your image / n) click in the url website address box at the top of your computer to highlight it / o) right click to copy the address / p) return to your first open tab/window and paste the copied url address beside the colon / YOU NOW HAVE A CLICKABLE LINK to the page from your product preview display This is very similar to how you would display a tshirt, but the tees are a littler easier, you do not need to go to the BUY/PREVIEW as you can copy the image location of your tshirt for display just by going to the main page where your image is located… bypassing that step, the rest is pretty much the same. for example below is a clickable text link / Click here to see my Calendars when you create the link it should end up looking something like this / a) I always begin by opening up two tabs/windows / b) Open the ‘edit your profile page’ or the ‘edit your description’ box in the first tab/window / c) Type one set of inverted commas / d) Type in the text, eg, “link to my website” , or “click here” / e) Type another set of inverted commas at the end of your text / f) Type a colon : / g)Click on the second tab/window and go to the website you want your text linked to / h) Right click in the url box at the top of the screen to highlight the url/website address or another page on red bubble where you are linking your text to a work of art etc / i) Paste the address right beside the colon / j) there should be no spaces whatsover / k) Click on the button to Save your changes / l) Go to preview and check the link has worked and is clickable / m) If not – recheck that you haven’t left any spaces, etc for example below is a clickable image link / It should look something like this / a) as above / b) as above / c) Type in an exclamation mark ! / d) Click on the second tab/window and go to the image you wish to add and make clickable / e) Because most images on RB are now protected with clear gifs, you cannot just copy the image itself, you will need to click on the preview/buy button to view the products, such as cards and prints, unless it’s a tshirt…which you can copy… once you’ve chosen product you wish to display….. / e) Right click on the image and choose the ‘copy image location’ option an click on it / f) Return to the first open tab in the editing box / g) Paste the image location right beside the exclamation mark / h) Type another exclamation mark, directly after the image location / i) Type a colon / j) Click on the second tab/window and go to the url address of the page your image is on / k) Click on the address to highlight it / l) Right click to copy the address / m) Return to your first tab/window and paste the url address beside the colon / n) Click to save your changes / o) Click to preview / p) You should have a clickable image link / q) If not, return to your editing and check you have left no spaces anywhere here’s an example of a clickable thumbnail / Here’s what it should like like to you / a) as above (open the edit your profile box in my bubble) / b) as above (open it up at my bubble and go to Art) / c) return to the edit your profile box / d) insert an exclamation mark / e) Click on the second tab/window / f) Locate the small thumbnail you wish to display in your profile from your Art or TShirt Section Listings in your My Bubble area / g) Right click on the small thumnail and click on copy image location / h) Click on first tab and paste the image location right beside the exclamation mark / i) Insert an exclamation mark directly after the url / j) Insert a colon directly after the exclamation mark / k) Click on your second tab/window / l) Go to the thumbnail and click on the thumbnail / m) Go to the url/website address of your image and click in the url box to highlight url address / n) Left click to copy the address / o) Return to your first tab/window (edit your profile) and past the url address directly beside the colon leaving no spaces whatsoever / p) Save your changes / q) Go to view publick view of your work / r) You should now have a clickable thumbnail / s) If not go back to edit your profile and check you’ve left no spaces and recheck your steps PS – if you wish to add a whole heap of thumbnails repeat the process, leaving one space between each thumbnail Here’s an example of a Banner / Here’s an example of what it would look like to you / I have added some nice banners to the front of my Profile Page, and folks often ask how this is done. If you have software like Photoshop and are family with it, then it should be fairly easy. I create a banner in Photoshop, using a simple rectangle shape, keeping it rather small in size …. approx 500×70 pixels (or 6×9 cm) something like that should fit fairly well in the space. I then save my file. I opened a Photobucket account especially so that I could create banners and save them to Photobucket (a free online Photo storage facility). Photobucket is very easy to use, simple and self explanatory. Once you have opened your account there you can upload your banners from your Photoshop saved files. Once you have saved your banners there, you can click on the Direct Link button beneath your thumbnail, to automatically copy the image location address. To make your banners appear in the ‘Edit your Profile’ area, or in your Description Boxes, you only need to do the following: a) as above / b) as above / c) In the edit your profile or description box, insert an exclamation mark / d) click on the second tab where you will have your Photobucket opened up / e) click on the Direct Link in Photobucket to copy the address of the banner you’ve created / f) Go to your first tab/window and paste the Direct Link image address directly beside the exclamation mark / g) Type in another exclamation mark directly after the Direct Link address / h) SAVE your changes / i) Go to View public profile / j) You should now have a beautiful new banner visible on your page / k) if not, recheck your steps and make sure you’ve left no spaces You can make your banner clickable by additionally adding a colon after the exclamation mark, and adding the url of the page you wish to link the banner to. / See example below: / / or / click here to view my tshirts In order to do this you must tag all similar works with a word, by going to edit your art work, and adding the tag to your other tags and saving your work, once you have adding the appropriate word to each of your works, to categories them… you can begin making sets to take customers to sets of your work… you can use a banner or text or an image link to do so for the first part… sandwiching the text/image/banner between two exclamation marks as we have done above. You will need to use an address like this for tshirt collection, but insert your own name instead of karin, and your own tag word, I have used tee, after the equal sign, eg / http://www.redbubble.com/people/karin/clothing?tag=tee so, you add whatever tag word you like at the end after the equal sign,and then be sure to add the tag word, in my case it’s tee, to all your tshirt designs in the tag section, (via editing) and remember to click save or if it’s an artwork collection, you would use the address below for art collections, but you need to insert your own name instead of karin, and your own tag word relative to your particular collection, in my case it’s whales, or baby, or beach, etc… : / http://www.redbubble.com/people/karin/portfolio?tag=whales so now it looks like this below, but be sure to take out any spaces, insert your own banner url address, add the colon, and your tee or portfolio address, using your own red bubble user name and your own chosen tag ! http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg188/karinlouisetaylor/JUNEBANNERSwhales.jpg !: http://www.redbubble.com/people/karin/portfolio?tag=whales From now on you will see the button below displayed on my Profile Page here at Red Bubble, and this will link you directly back to this page for further/future refence. / For more information or further enquiries please click on the following links: / Please do not hesitate to email support@redbubble.com if you are having trouble or needing help of any kind, they are only too happy to help with your enquiries HOW TO ADD THE ABOVE BUTTONS TO YOUR OWN PROFILE PAGE TO HELP OTHERS FIND HELP FAST I would actually be grateful if you added the above assistance buttons/banners and links to your own Profile Pages to spread the word to others, and make access to help more easily available to newcomers and everyone on the bubble…. spread the love around…. / You’ll find out how to do this in the Tutorial…. :) How to add the banners to your own profile page..to help other bubblers have easy access to help and assistance and spread the word around a) Open two tabs/windows in your browser / b) Click on ‘Edit your Profile” / c) Click on the second tab/window / d) Go to this journal page here / e) Scroll down until you get to the button/banner / f) Right click on the banner/button / g) click on copy image location / h) Return to the first open tab/window to ‘Edit your Profile / I) Type in an exclamation mark ! / m) Paste the image location right beside the exclamation mark leaving no spaces / n) Type in an exclamation mark right after the image location / o) Type in a colon directly beside the exclamation mark / p) click on the second window/tab and go to the url box of tutorial page to highlght the address / q) paste the url right next to the colon (leave no spaces whatsoever) What you’ve typed should look a lot like this below, without the spacing….. you musn’t leave any spaces….. if you prefer you can simply copy and paste this below information into your ‘Edit Your Profile’ box and just by removing the spaces you will have created a clickable image/banner link to the Tutorial / ! http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg188/karinlouisetaylor/bannerEnhanceYourProfile.jpg ! : http://www.redbubble.com/people/karin/journal/1964545-tutorial-how-to-enhance-your-profile Underneath is the coding to copy and past the other two buttons / ! http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg188/karinlouisetaylor/BANNERTUTORIALS.png ! : http://www.redbubble.com/people/karin/journal/1469814-linking-and-enhancing-your-profile-on-red-bubble ! http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg188/karinlouisetaylor/BANNERFAQ.png ! : http://www.redbubble.com/groups/redbubble/forums Just don’t forget to remove those spaces between the exlamation marks and colon thank you for time time in reading this…. and I would be absolutely thrilled if you shared this information with your friends…. and anyone who needs help! Have a smiley sorta sunshiney day! / Karin THE END PS / ADDITIONAL TUTORIALS BY OTHER BUBBLERS FOR ASSISTANCE WITH LINKING, ADDING THUMBNAILS, ETC Dave Pearsons Hacks / Craig Shillington’s Contribution / Gracey’s Contribution / Paul Gibbon’s Contribution / Jo’s Contribution / Webgrrl’s Contribution / BevB’s Contribution / Kimberley Palmers’s Contribution / Photegenic’s Contribution PLEASE NOTE IF YOU ARE NOT USING MOZILLA FIREFOX AS A BROWSER AND CAN’T LOCATE THE COPY IMAGE LOCATION when you right click on an image, there is another way to do it…. *what you can do instead is this…. / Right click on the image / Click on properties / Copy the URL address you see there / Paste the URL address from the properties in between the two exclamation marks / and then just follow the rest of the instructions – i hope that helps..i just tried it out using the other browser and it worked find for me….

• TUTORIAL:Add a Slide show to your Redbubble Profile/Bubblesite
  by D R Moore

  Adding a slide show to redbubble Ok not really a slide show but it is very close, It’s an animated gif image. / You can see one ”...

  Adding a slide show to redbubble Ok not really a slide show but it is very close, It’s an animated gif image. / You can see one My Bubblesite These images can also be linked / Doing this will require you to have software that can make an animated gif image. / And of coarse I know of a free software program that can be used and this tutorial will explain how to do this using this free software. The free software is called / unfreeze and you can Get it here / Once downloaded and installed on your / computer we are ready to go. The first step is to get the images you want to include in your slide show, I am going to use my redbubble images set in frames for my bubblesite homepage. Sign-in to your redbubble account Click “My Bubble” then “Art” find the image you want to include and click the “show public view” Now click the “buy/preview” button / Select the product format you want to use Card, Laminated print, etc.. Then save the image to your computer. Internet Explorer users “Right Click” the image and select “Save Picture As” / Firefox users “Right Click” and select “Save image as” / And choose a location on your PC where you can find it easily. / You can use as many images as you want, but remember you want them to visit your gallery so keep the number of images to a minimum. / I’m going to use 8 images for now. / You can re size your images if you like the Unfreeze software will resize your images to fit in a 375 pixels(high) X 360 pixels(wide) box but the software will not center the image. For those that want their images centered in the box, Use your photo software to edit the images / The software program (unfreeze) that I recommended above requires the images to be in gif format. Doing this in your photo software may be different than mine. But I will open the image in my photo software “Paint.net” and then click the “Save as” option and change the format (type) to gif ( Graphics Interchange Format).They will be saved in the same folder that I put the ones I downloaded from the bubble. Once the images are in the gif format. We are ready to create the animated gif (slideshow) Open the folder where your gif images are located Start “unfreeze” a small window will appear / Drag your images into the white window Then set the delay on the right, I used 60, Make sure the “Loop animation” box is checked Now click the “Make Animated Gif” button Give it a name and Click “Save” To make the images change slower add more than one of the same file The image that I created here was made using three copies of the same image,delay set to 90 / Example: drag and drop “image1.gif”,then do it again drag and drop “image1.gif “ This one has four of the same images and delay set to 60 Now the image can be uploaded to a web site, since Redbubble does not support this file type. You can use “Dropbox” / which is a free file store, share, sync software Get it Here it allows you to have 2 gig of file storage for free. Plus when I change the slide show gif I just created dropbox will take care of the rest. / So changing my slide show is as easy as making a new one and saving it using the same location and name on my pc as the one I’m using now. / Now Insert the new image on your bubblesite or profile / Use the image location (web address,web url) with a ! before and after the image location / For more on Linking images etc. see this post How to Customize Redbubble / And your done. / You can also include these in your description boxes these have been reduced in size A great way to promote your calendars on your bubblesite remember these images can be linked to the buy page. / Happy Bubbling / Dan / Get the Firefox and Internet Explorer Tool bar for Redbubble Here / See more info See all my How-to’s Here Includes “Framed image on Bubblesite home page”, “Adding Calendars to your bubblesite”, “feedjit Live Traffic Feed”, “Using tags on Redbubble”, “Add a visitor counter to your bubblesite or profile page” and More © D R Moore This written work cannot be reproduced or posted on the web without my written permission

• TUTORIALS:Bling Bling for bubbling
  by D R Moore

  Here is the Table of Contents for my How-to’s on Customizing your redbubble profile and bubblesite. / redbubble does not allow you to post…

  Here is the Table of Contents for my How-to’s on Customizing your redbubble profile and bubblesite. / redbubble does not allow you to post “HTML” (webcode) but here are ways to add things and get the custom look to make your profile stand out from the rest… Working with text [Formatting] / The basics of formatting text creating Bold Itallics and more… More…... redbubble Formatting [Text wrapping images] / Learn how to use tables to text wrap your images, align text / and more… Creating Links Etc…on redbubble / The basics of creating clickable text and images post them on your profile, in forums or on your bubblesite Adding Calendars to your bubblesite / Here is a way to add a calendar to your bubblesite with a link to the buy page Using Small Product Previews / Here is how to use small framed,laminated,cards,etc.. in your descriptions or profile page to create a great looking gallery and inspire some clicks to the buy page. Using Small Product Preview II / Here is an easier way to use small previews but only for Framed Prints, T- Shirts, Calendars and Canvas Prints Quick (Redbubble) Search Bookmarklet / Just a simple search for redbubble helpful when looking for a group or wanting to search the forums for some help or advice… Repeat post Time Saver / This one will show firefox users how to create shortcuts to the toolbar for notepad files that are located on their PC for quick access. Framed image on Bubblesite home page / Add a framed image to your bubblesite main page and keep it out of view from visitors to your regular bubblesite. feedjit Live Traffic Feed / Get to know your visitors with a Live Traffic Feed widget Edit your Slideshow widget / How to change your Slideshow widget to display your T-Shirts and more.. Edit your Sales Widget… / How to change your Sales widget to display your T-Shirts and more.. Using promotional image Banner / How to customize the banner provided under the “promote” tab..change the background color the number of images and more… Using tags on Redbubble / Use tagging to create subject links to allow your visitors quick acess to what they are looking for. Using a Paypal button on redbubble / If you are selling original art on redbubble and want to use a paypal button or selling photo prints from your home see how to add that paypal button to your descriptions or journals. Add a Slide show to your Redbubble Profile/Bubblesite / Ok not really a slide show but it is very close, It’s an animated gif image. Visitor counter on your bubblesite or profile page / There are two different counters in this how to one with just the numbers and one with a little more stats from your visitors. Mapco visitor counter on your profile/bubblesite / This is a How-to for using maploco on your profile, To show where visitors to your page are coming from on a map. Tutorial: Embed YouTube Video / A closer .look at how to embed video Redbubble toolbar / I’ve found that the easiest way to navigate on redbubble was to create my own tool bar with links and shortcuts to the things that I do on the bubble. / Get the Firefox and Internet Explorer Tool bar for Redbubble Here / See more info / Host or Co-Host Tutorials Featuring the easy way / If you are tired of rummaging through countless pages trying to feature a group member or an image that won a challenge try this Tutorial. Need more Help? / Chat with me on Skype User Name / envelope150 Happy Bubbling (with Bling Bling) / Dan / Please don’t Copy and paste my written works as that would really hurt my feelings :) / you can copy the code below and paste it if you would like to share this Journal with others on Redbubble / "TUTORIALS:Bling Bling for bubbling(by D R Moore)":http://www.redbubble.com/people/envelope150/journal/2120386-tutorials-bling-bling-for-bubbling / or on the web / <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/envelope150/journal/2120386-tutorials-bling-bling-for-bubbling" title="by D R Moore">TUTORIALS:Bling Bling for bubbling</a> /

• TUTORIAL:Creating Links Etc...on redbubble
  by D R Moore

  Creating Text Links / To make your text clickable or link to a web address / Put quotation symbols ” ” on each side of the word/sentence …

  Creating Text Links / To make your text clickable or link to a web address / Put quotation symbols ” ” on each side of the word/sentence you want to make Clickable and then a Colon : (no spaces), Now put the url (web address) of where you want the clicker to go. / EXAMPLE: "View My Gallery":http//example.redbubble.com / Will give you this View My Gallery / You can also make a Text box appear when hovering over the link by adding text in brackets / Like this "View My Gallery(Go to My Gallery)":http//example.redbubble.com / The text above in ( ) will appear in a box if someone hovers over the link / Like this ( put your mouse over the link but do not click it ) / View My Gallery / To use formatting with your text link. Add a space between the formatting symbols and the “ / EXAMPLE: "Space*View My Gallery*space":http//example.redbubble.com / will give you this / View My Gallery Using images in your descriptions ,profile page,etc / First you must know where the image is located (web address) / Example: http://www.mypicture is here.jpg / To use a framed, laminated print, card etc.. image from redbubble click the “show public view” in your “Art” section / / then click the “Buy/Preview” Button / / Set the image as you wish to use it, Card, Framed print etc…once you are done follow the instructions below to get the web address If using firefox simply right click the image and select “copy image location” Using Internet explorer right click the image then select “Properties” A Properties box will appear copy the Address(URL) High lighted in blue / “right click” the Highlighted text then choose “copy” / or once it is highlighted hold the “control(CTRL)” key and press “C” You can now paste the image location in the location where you want to use it (right click and select “paste” or hold the Control key and press “V” on your key board) Now put a ! before an after the image location like this !http://www.mypicture is here.jpg! / To make it clickable or linked add the colon : and web address after the ! / like this :http://www.your going here.com / The final entry Will look like below / !http://www.mypicture is here.jpg!:http://www.your going here.com / The text box mentioned above can be used here as well by adding your text in ( ) / Like This !http://www.mypicture is here.jpg(Have a Look)!:http://www.your going here.com / Will give you this ( Put your mouse over image but do not click to see ) / Using Just the Image / To use only the image go to you art section by clicking “My Bubble” then “art” / on you art page find the image you want to use and get the image address or URL as described above / EXAMPLE http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/cropped/size:xsmall/view:main/2903258-2-magnolia.jpg = !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/cropped/size:xsmall/view:main/2903258-2-magnolia.jpg! To change the size of the image replace the size:xsmall to one of the values shown on the right. / (Click the links for a preview of the size cropped version ) / xsmall = 60px × 60px / small = 135px × 135px / xmedium = 200px × 200px / medium = 300px × 300px / large = 550px × 550px / xlarge = 663px × 663px watermarked to use this one you need to remove the /cropped from the image URL Cropped Version / / Not Cropped / You can also remove cropped/ from the image address to maintain the shape of your image. / Note the sizes may vary depending on your image shape. / Here is a good example why you may want to remove the cropped/ from the image / Notice the cropped version cuts off the cards in his hands but doing this has changed the thumbnail size. To create a Larger preview link use some text or an image and link it to the xlarge view. / Here is an Image Example be sure to remove the /cropped from the xlarge view How it works The text I used !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/cropped/size:xsmall/view:main/2412521-3-pink-rose.jpg(View Larger image)!:http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/size:xlarge/view:main/2412521-3-pink-rose.jpg To create a large product preview add /pixelsize:875×440 as shown below / Click here to see BEFORE and AFTER EXAMPLE (laminated print) URL: http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/backgroundcolor:d1d1d1/border:whitewithdetail/pixelsize:875×440/product:laminated-print/size:large/view:preview/2099882-6-resting.jpg / Click Here to preview larger size / Use youtube video on your profile just use the simple code below / youtube:video url or web address of the video / For more on how to do this see Here Create a contact link or e-mail me link / Example: "contact me":mailto:myname@myemailaddress.com / Your bubblesite has a contact option, to turn it on / Go to your profile edit page Click here / then scroll down to the e-mail section / and click the box next to / Allow people to contact me via email / Allows visitors to contact you with a form on your BubbleSite. Your email address will not be displayed After you click it you can go to your bubblesite and on the top where the links are you will see these links / Home Gallery About Contact / Clicking the Contact link will open a new window with the Contact form / If you want to use it on redbubble then use the code below. / but change the username to yours / "Contact me by E-Mail":http://username.redbubble.com/contact / Contact me by E-Mail Leave me a comment if you still need some Help or Chat with me on Skype My User Name / envelope150 To use a Skype live status link copy and paste this text and change the username in bold / Leave two blank lines before and after the code |Chat with me on Skype| / |!http://mystatus.skype.com/balloon/username.png!|My User Name / username| Once you get the hang of creating links and posting images give my other tutorial a try. More…… redbubble Formatting [Text wrapping images] Beware this one will frustrate you Happy Bubbling / Dan Get the Firefox and Internet Explorer Tool bar for Redbubble Here / See more Toolbar info See all my How-to’s Here Includes “Framed image on Bubblesite home page”, “Adding Calendars to your bubblesite”, “feedjit Live Traffic Feed”, “Using tags on Redbubble”, “Add a visitor counter to your bubblesite or profile page” and More Please don’t Copy and paste my written works as that would really hurt my feelings :) / you can copy the code below and paste it if you would like to share this Journal with others on Redbubble / "TUTORIAL:Creating Links Etc…on redbubble(by D R Moore)":http://www.redbubble.com/people/envelope150/journal/2145517-tutorial-creating-links-etc-on-redbubble / or on the web / <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/envelope150/journal/2145517-tutorial-creating-links-etc-on-redbubble" title="by D R Moore">TUTORIAL:Creating Links Etc...on redbubble</a> /

• TUTORIAL: More...... redbubble Formatting [Text wrapping images]
  by D R Moore

  This how-to will briefly explain a method of using tables on redbubble to Create sets, Text aligning, Text wrapping in Descriptions,Journ…

  This how-to will briefly explain a method of using tables on redbubble to Create sets, Text aligning, Text wrapping in Descriptions,Journals and profiles. There must be 2 blank lines between the table and other text (Press Enter two times before and after the table) To make a table insert a “|” (vertical bar) between the items to be contained in the cells. / The Examples provided below in BOLD can be copied and pasted. Then just replace the text with your links, images, text or whatever you wish. / For the basic text wrapped image use. / |text|image| / To put the title above the image use below / In order to keep a blank cell I will use &#32; Text wrap an image |&#32;|Title w/ link| / |Description|Image w/ link| Preview Click Image to Preview it on my Bubblesite The Cattle Egrets is a popular bird with cattle ranchers for its perceived role as a bio control of cattle parasites such as ticks and flies. A study in Australia found that Cattle Egrets reduced the number of flies that bothered cattle by pecking them directly off the skin. It was the benefit to stock that prompted ranchers and the Hawaiian Board of Agriculture and Forestry to release the species in Hawaii Profile set w/ title or tag link / This also can be used in a Journal entry / For titles above the image use the table below / Note I used 6 size:xsmall images/ use size:small to match the ones already on your profile |”View my Set title or tag link”| |Title1 w/link|Title2 w/link|Title3 w/link|Title4 w/link|Title5 w/link|Title6 w/link| / |image1 w/link|image2 w/link|image3 w/link|image4 w/link|image5 w/link|image6 w/link| It will look like below or you can change the two lines and have the titles on the bottom. |image1 w/link|image2 w/link|image3 w/link|image4 w/link|image5 w/link|image6 w/link| / |Title1 w/link|Title2 w/link|Title3 w/link|Title4 w/link|Title5 w/link|Title6 w/link| View all images in My Bird Collection Screech Owl Missed a Spot Osprey II White Pelican My Girl Preening Flamingo Notice that several of my images have long titles that extend past the Xsmall image / One fix for this would be to press enter after the first word Example: |Title1 w/link|Preening / Flamingo| / |image1 w/link|image2 w/link| Preview My Girl Preening / Flamingo or Put the second word at the bottom / In order to keep a blank cell I will use &#32; Example: \ |Title1 w/link|Preening| / |image1 w/link|image2 w/link| / |&#32;|Flamingo| Preview My Girl Preening Flamingo Looks great on your profile |image1 w/link|image2 w/link|image3 w/link| / |Title1 w/link|Title2 w/link|Title3 w/link| / Preview Jupiter Lighthouse Free Poker Lessons Missed a Spot No go forth and create that great description that really stands out more than the rest See this description on my Profile , Bubblesite This is a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird / Which is in the bird family Trochilidae, and are endemic to the Americas. They can fly backwards, and are the only group of birds able to do so. Their English name derives from the characteristic hum made by their wings.Which they can do up to 53 times a second. The extremely short legs of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird prevent it from walking or hopping. The best it can do is shuffle along a perch. To scratch its head and neck it raises its foot up and over its wing. Happy Bubbling / Dan See all my How-to’s Here Includes “Framed image on Bubblesite home page”, “Adding Calendars to your bubblesite”, “feedjit Live Traffic Feed”, “Using tags on Redbubble”, “Add a visitor counter to your bubblesite or profile page” and More Get the Firefox and Internet Explorer Tool bar for Redbubble Here / See more info Chat with me on Skype User Name / envelope150 © D R Moore This written work cannot be reproduced or posted on the web without my written permission /

• TUTORIAL: Bubblesite or Personal Image Gallery
  by Patricia Montgomery

  This tutorial will help you set up your own personal gallery, also known in RB-land as a bubblesite. If you are not sure what a bubblesi…

  This tutorial will help you set up your own personal gallery, also known in RB-land as a bubblesite. If you are not sure what a bubblesite is, then use the link to take a look at my personal gallery of images known as Bucks Mountain Galleries. HINT: I always recommend that you print out tutorial instructions so that you don’t have to flip back and forth between screens. Now, let’s get started! SET UP YOUR SITE: “Click on “My Bubble” On the 2nd menu row, look to the far right and click on “Bubblesite” (2nd button from the right). The “Bubblesite Setup” page will appear. BUBBLESITE SETUP Site title: Type the name of your gallery Home Page Image: Click on the down arrow on the right side of the box and choose an image from the group of images you have uploaded to Redbubble. This will be a large image that will appear on your gallery home page. Choose one of your best images, one that will leave visitors wanting to see more. Home Page Content: This is the first page visitors will see. Type something that will catch their attention. Add a quote or write something about your photography business. You can also add links or an additional image. These are only suggestions, be creative and write what you think will be best as the first impression. About Page Content: A place to type something about yourself and add contact information such as an additional email address or web address. These are only suggestions, so be creative and write what you think will be best. Choose a site theme: You have three color choices for your gallery pages. Choose the one that best suits you. Black on White / White on Black / Grey on Biege IMPORTANT: At the bottom right side of the page, click “Save Changes”. MANAGE YOUR IMAGE GALLERY Make sure you saved the information in Step 1, Bubblesite setup. Now it is time to manage your image gallery. Go back to the top of the page and click on the blue underlined link “Manage the Gallery”. Your Library – Your published images are listed here. If you have images on Redbubble that are not for sale, then you will not be able to put them in the gallery. Only images for sale can be added to the gallery. NOTE: Right now only tee designs and images can be added to your gallery. Calendars cannot be added at this time. In the left hand column under Your Library, you can name your first gallery set. HINT: Give some thought to how you want your gallery to be arranged. At this time, RB does not give you the capability to re-arrange your gallery titles/folders after you are done. So you might want to write down your categories and decide the order you want them to appear before getting started. Click on the words, new set, in the box. We’ll use Landscapes as an example for the first gallery set/folder. Type the word, Landscapes (or whatever title you prefer). Click the button, “Create” ADD IMAGES TO YOUR FIRST GALLERY SET/FOLDER If you used landscapes, then go to “Your Library”, use the down arrow at the bottom right-hand side, and drag down until you see your first landscape image. Move your cursor over that image thumbnail. You should see a 4-arrow cross. Click and drag your image over the folder named “Lanscapes”. Release the mouse button and the image will be moved to the folder. When done, open the folder to check and see if the image is there. Repeat these steps for this folder and all the new folders that yourcreate. NOTE: There is a link just above the library images that will visually assist with the steps outlined above. Click on “Show Help”. When you are done, it’s time to see your gallery! Go back to the top of the page and click on the blue underlined link, “View Your Site”. CLICK HERE FOR ALL TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA Add Buttons To Your Profile Page How to make a calendar Downsizing those example images on your profile page Adding Examples (Card, Laminated, Matted, etc) To Your Profile Add photos to your profile description Adding emphasis to your text Emphasis with light gray text This tutorial was featured in the Daily Wrap on January 18, 2008

• TUTORIALS BY PATRICIA
  by Patricia Montgomery

  Below are links to my tutorials. This journal is being published so that a new button on my profile page...

  Below are links to my tutorials. This journal is being published so that a new button on my profile page will link back to this journal. It will make it easier for anyone who is searching for any of my tutorials as it eliminates the need to scroll through the archives in my journal listings. This tutorial page will be updated as new ones are added. Reply to Comments the Correct Way FAQs for Group Challenges Adding Images to a Group Search for a Specific Group Bubblesite or Personal Image Gallery Making Links Add Photos to Your Profile Add Buttons to Your Profile Page How to Make a Calendar Tee Shirt Helpful Hints Adding Emphasis to Your Text Adding Example Work (cards, laminated, etc.) to Your Profile Page Downsizing Example Images on Your Profile Page Resize Images for Printing Using Photoshop Resizing Images to Print Business Cards Promote Your Work This tutorial list was featured in the group, Tutorials on January 28, 2009. Journal updated on 03-27-2009 / Journal updated on 05-21-2009 / Journal updated on 06-15-2009

• How To Do INFRARED
  by Naomi Frost

  I posted this a while ago but had to put it away until it was published in a magazine…well that magazine (Australian Digital Photograph…

  I posted this a while ago but had to put it away until it was published in a magazine…well that magazine (Australian Digital Photography & Design) comes out next week (I think) so here you go…this is what I do….. HOW TO Shoot INFRARED IMAGES Characteristics of infrared photographs are deep black skies, bright white foliage and sometimes bright blue skies. Often quite mundane scenes can be transformed into extraordinary images when captured with infrared. / To achieve the effect, you need to use a lens filter that can block visible wavelengths of light, while allowing infrared (IR) light to pass through. The most readily available filter that can do this is an R72 screw-type filter. HOYA is the most popular but you can also purchase Lee and Cokin filters which act in the same manner. / All DSLR cameras are capable of detecting varying degrees of infrared light but manufacturers put permanent infrared blocking filters over the sensor to stop the infrared light penetrating. However, they still let some light through, so by placing an IR filter over your lens you will be able to capture these escaping wavelengths and thus a surreal image. / The downside to these IR filters is that they actually let in very little light of any kind so long exposures are necessary. Some cameras are more sensitive to IR than others but because you will have an exposure that it several seconds long a tripod is a necessity and a shutter release is optional. / Your IR filter will cut all visible light so the viewfinder will be rendered useless when it comes time to compose a shot. All images will need to be composed before the filter is attached. Point and shoot Digital Cameras are usually capable of seeing through the filter as the filters used to block the IR wavelengths are not as strong as those of the DSLR. So in many cases the filter can be attached when composing the image. As you will have a long exposure (of up to 20secs perhaps) still subjects are the easiest thing to shoot. Most successful IR shots are of landscapes. / An unedited IR imaged will take on a red hue and look un-useable, but this is just because you have not set a Custom White Balance (CWB). By attaching the filter and taking a shot of green grass and setting this as the CWB you will vastly improve your image. In doing this you will allow for mid-tones and whites to appear. Of course you can always adjust the white balance in Photoshop later. / All infrared images will need some post processing in Photoshop to get the best out of them. The simplest technique is to convert the image to Black and White and increase the contrast a little. This will achieve the classic infrared look achieved by infrared film. However, digital cameras can create false colours and can produce a surreal effect. Trees can be blue, the sky can be yellow and the ground red. .................................................................................................................................................... HOW TO PROCESS AN INFRARED IMAGE TO GET A SURREAL WINTERY FEEL. Step 0 — Bringing your file into Photoshop / Download your images – if RAW, convert (to tiff or jpeg) and bring into Photoshop. Note: Exposure and White Balance will make a difference on your final result, so there might be some trial and error – in general I set a Custom White Balance by attaching the R72 filter to the camera and shooting green grass. / Step 1 — Auto Levels / I always adjust the levels before progressing further. This will swing the colours significantly. SHIFT+CTRL+L is the shortcut for this process. If you have a good shot, tree leaves and clouds will appear close to White in colour and the sky will take on a yellow tinge. / Step 2 — Channel Mixer (Swap Red & Blue Channels) / From here on it is about shifting colours. If you want Blue sky you will need to swap the Red and Blue colors in your image. It is easiest to do this with the Channel Mixer. Image>Adjustment>Channel Mixer. / Set Red to 100% Blue / and set Blue to 100% Red. Leave Green 100% Green. / You could probably get a similar effect using Hue/Sat function to shift Hues, but Channel Mixer is MUCH easier. Step 3 — Levels (Clip Back and White Points) / Select IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>LEVELS and adjust the White and Black points. It seems beneficial to clip the Black point a bit and perhaps even the White point a little depending on the image exposure. Boosting midpoint may help as well (or may not). Input might be something like: 15, 1.10, 250 (for Black, Mid, and White) but this will be image dependent and you will have to tweak the settings. Experiment! / Step 4 — Hue/Sat (Adjust Sky & Cloud Color) / At this point your image should be pretty close, but you will probably want to further adjust Hue and Saturation. IMAGE>ADJUSTMENS> HUE & SATURATION. You can change individual colours by using the drop down menu in the EDIT box. To make the trees look whiter I reduced the saturation of all REDS in the image. / Step 5 — Brightness/Contrast / Now adjust the brightness/contrast of the image to bring out the colours just a bit more. IMAGE>ADJUSTMENT>BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST. In this image I increased the contrast by 5. / Step 6 – Noise Reduction / A feature of classic infrared film images is the film grain. If you are not a fan of the noise produced by your long exposure then use a NOISE REDUCTION FILTER to remove any excess noise. / Step 7 – Burning / If some parts of your image are not as dark as you would like use the BURN TOOL to bring them out a bit. In this image some of the tree trunks are a bit pale for my liking so I am going to burn them slightly, especially the ones reflected in the water. Make sure that you set the Range to SHADOWS and the Exposure should be set very low. I have set it to 5. / And there you have it – a fully processed Infrared image.

• How To - Blending Exposures Together, Manually.
  by Peter Marin

  I thought I’d share a quick way to blend exposures. / Nothing at all to do with HDR, but more about achieving a more balanced looking imag…

  I thought I’d share a quick way to blend exposures. / Nothing at all to do with HDR, but more about achieving a more balanced looking image, exposure wise. First off, you will need to bring into Photoshop 2 images shot at least one stop apart via your camera, or RAW processed will do too. / Then, just drag the lighter of the two images on to the darker one, making sure it is stacked perfectly. / Ok, now just go to the top menu and do / 1. Select>Color Range and select Highlights from the drop-down. / 2. Put a tick in the ‘invert’ box and click ok. / 3. Add a Layer Mask, and then click on the Layer Mask to make it active. / 4. Go up to Filter>Blur> Gaussian Blur 250pxls and click ok. / Choose Flatten from the Layer menu up top. / You’re done. / Adjust Levels/Curves to taste if you want. I haven’t displayed any example because I wanted you to try it out for your self and make up your own mind whether or not you think it may be a useful tool to have up your sleeves for future stuff. / If you decide to give this a go, I’d love to know what you think. Good Luck / Peter

• A Whole Page For Photoshop (Software, Plugins, Scripts, How To's Plus more!)
  by StarKatz

  I don’t know whether anyone knows or not, but if you’re as mad about Photoshop as I’m getting to be you’re going to have a blast with thi…

  I don’t know whether anyone knows or not, but if you’re as mad about Photoshop as I’m getting to be you’re going to have a blast with this site, “Photoshop Elements Menu” / http://www.photokaboom.com/_htm_menus/PSE_menu.htm Get Free downloads, and check out the tutorials.. You can never have too much information on Photoshop.. If you happen to find anything you think may be useful to others be it this website I’ve provided or another, please share the links here ;0) Check this out exert from the same site: Photoshop Elements /Move a Face Is this the right tutorial for you? The face you want to move could be in two situations. / Two Situations Situation #1 You have two photographs of the same group of people. The photographs were taken moments apart from each other. Grandpa Gumpo has a great expression in one of the photographs. In the other photograph, Grandpa Gumpo looks like a bee has just stung him. You want to cover Grandpa Gumpo’s bee-stung-face with his good-smile face. To do the above, go to File > New > Photomerge Group Shot. Don’t use Photomerge Faces. That’s for combining facial features to make a funny face. Situation #2 This tutorial is for the following situation. You have a photograph of a group of people. You want to add a person to the group that wasn’t in the group. Moving the face is easy. Integrating it into the group photograph is complicated. If you’re an intermediate user of Photoshop Elements, stick around. Beginners should come back later! 1 – Open the Two Photographs Let’s say you have a photograph of Uncle Fud. And, you have a photograph of a group of people, the destination for Uncle Fud’s face. 1) Open the photograph of Uncle Fud and the photograph of the group. / 2 – Select Uncle Fud 2) Double click on the thumbnail of the Uncle Fud photograph in the photo bin at the bottom of your screen. 3) Select Uncle Fud’s face and upper body. Hair can be difficult to select. You can select a few pixels of the background around Uncle Fud’s hair. Later, if necessary, erase these pixels of the background. 3 – Copy Uncle Fud 4) Press Ctrl + j. Uncle Fud is now on a new layer all by himself. 5) Rename this layer Uncle Fud. / 4 – Do You Need to Flip Uncle Fud? You may need to rotate the Uncle Fud layer horizontally, left-to-right. Do this if the lighting is different for Uncle Fud and for the group. Check Uncle Fud’s Light Direction Look at the lighting on Uncle Fud. Figure out where the light is coming from. Look at the shadows and highlights. Let’s say the light is coming from the left side in the Uncle Fud photograph. / Check the Group’s / Light Direction Next, look at the group photograph. Is the light coming from the same direction as in the Uncle Fud photograph? Let’s say the light is coming from the right side in the group photograph. When you put Uncle Fud into the group, he may look odd. He’s lighted from the left. Everyone else is lighted from the right. / Back & Front Lighting If one photograph has light was coming from behind—and the other photograph has light from the direction of the camera—there would be no need to flip Uncle Fud. 5 – Flip Uncle Fud Do the following, if necessary. 6) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). 7) Go to Image > Rotate > Flip Layer Horizontally. Make sure you select: Flip Layer Horizontally—not Flip Horizontally. Uncle Fud has flipped. A person may look different when he or she is flipped left-to-right. However, correcting the difference in lighting probably outweighs any unnaturalness due to the flipping. This is even more true when the face is small in the group photograph. / 6 – Move the Uncle Fud Layer To move the Uncle Fud layer to the group photograph, do the following. 8) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). 9) Press Ctrl + a. You’ll see the marching ants on the edge of the image. 10) Select the Move tool. 11) Click, and hold, on the large image of Uncle Fud in the center of your screen. Don’t click on the Uncle Fud layer in the layers palette on the right side. So, you’ve clicked on Uncle Fud in the center of your screen, and you’re holding the mouse button down. 12) Drag Uncle Fud onto the thumbnail of the group photograph in the photo projects bin at the bottom of your screen. 13) Double click the thumbnail of the group photograph in the project bin. The Uncle Fud layer is now on the top of the layer stack in the layers palette on the right side of your screen. If you haven’t already, go to Move a Layer. Uncle Fud Background copy (Group of people) Background Layer Stack in the Photograph of the Group / Note: / Edit the Group Photograph, Now You have moved the Uncle Fud layer to the group photograph. You’re finished with the Uncle Fud photograph. From now on, you’ll be editing the group photograph only. / 7 – Reposition Uncle Fud 14) In the group photograph layer stack, make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). 15) Select the Move tool 16) Click, hold, and drag Uncle Fud. You can reduce the opacity of the layer to better see how to integrate Uncle Fud into the group. Fine tune the position by using the arrow keys on your keyboard. You’ll probably have to resize Uncle Fud. His head may be too small or too big. / 8 – Grid You can use a grid to make it easier to resize Uncle Fud. 17) Go to View > Grid. 18) Use the Zoom tool to enlarge the face of the person in the group nearest to Uncle Fud. Let’s say Aunt Joan is next to Uncle Fud. 19) Count the number of boxes from the top of Aunt Joan’s face to the bottom of her face. / Note: Grid Box Size If the grid boxes are too small or too big, change their size. Go to Grid in Preferences. / Windows Edit > Preferences > Grid, or press Ctrl + k. / Mac Apple menu > Preferences > Grid. / 9 – Resize Uncle Fud Let’s say the height of Aunt Joan’s face is eleven boxes. Uncle Fud will be “standing” behind Aunt Joan. So, make his face a little smaller than eleven boxes. 20) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). 21) You may want to deselect the Eye icons of the other layers, so you can see Uncle Fud more easily. 22) Go to Image > Transform > Free Transform, or press Ctrl + t. A box will appear around Uncle Fud. 23) Position the cursor directly over the bottom right corner of the box. The cursor will change to a straight double arrow (not curved). Press and hold Alt, click and hold the mouse button down, and move the corner of the box to resize Uncle Fud. Pressing and holding Alt keeps the aspect ratio of the Uncle Fud layer intact. Again, make his face a little smaller than eleven boxes high. 24) Click the green check mark to keep the transformation. If you haven’t already, go to the Free Transform Tool. 25) Go to View > Grid to hide the grid. 26) Reselect the Eye icons for the other layers. / Note: / Don’t Degrade Uncle Fud If you make a mistake when resizing Uncle Fud, it’s best to go back to just before you resized the layer. The Free Transform tool adds and deletes pixels. Therefore, if you resize and click the green check mark, and do it again, and again, the Uncle Fud layer will degrade. Use one of the following methods to backtrack. / Undo Arrow So, if you don’t like the new size of Uncle Fud, click the blue Undo arrow icon until you return to the operation you did just before using the Free Transform tool. / Undo History Go to Window > Undo History. There, select the operation done just before using the Free Transform tool. Then, close the Undo History window. You’ll go back to just before you used the Free Transform tool. / Note: / Tucking Uncle Fud into the Group Uncle Fud’s body isn’t tucked into the group yet. He’s floating above the group! He doesn’t have legs! Not to worry. We’ll tuck him into the group after correcting his Levels and color. / 10 – Levels 27) If the exposure and contrast of the Uncle Fud layer are different from the group, do the following. a) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). b) Go to the Create adjustment layer icon (“yin-yang”) and select Levels. Don’t make any corrections yet. c) Click OK. d) Make sure the Levels adjustment layer is selected (highlighted). d) Go to Layer > Group with Previous, or press Ctrl + g. The Levels adjustment layer and the Uncle Fud layer are now grouped. Look for the tiny black arrow pointing down in the Levels adjustment layer. Because they’re grouped, the correction from the Levels adjustment layer will be confined only to the Uncle Fud layer. The Levels adjustment layer won’t affect the group. e) Reopen the Levels adjustment layer by double clicking the graph icon (6.0), or gears icon (7.0), in the Levels adjustment layer. f) Make your Levels corrections to match the exposure and contrast of Uncle Fud with that of the group. g) Click OK. The layer stack will look like this. ↓ Levels (Grouped with Uncle Fud) Uncle Fud Background copy (Group of people) Background / Note: / What about Doing / Levels for the Group? You used Levels on the Uncle Fud layer. When we’re almost finished, you’ll do Levels on all of the layers to make the entire photograph look its best. / 11 – Color Correct Uncle Fud The color of the light that illuminated Uncle Fud, in his original photograph, may have been a different color than the color of the light on the group. People won’t notice slight variations in the color between Uncle Fud and the rest of the group. So, you don’t need to match the color perfectly. 28) If the colors of Uncle Fud and the group are substantially different, try one of the following two color correction methods. / Automated Method / Correct Uncle Fud’s Color a) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). b) Go to Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color for Skin Tone. c) Click on Uncle Fud’s cheek. / Sliders Use the sliders to fine tune the color. The Tan and Blush sliders affect the skin tone. Is Uncle Fud more tan, or more blush? The Temperature slider can be used to cool (blue) or warm (red) the color. / Better? Does Uncle Fud’s color match the group better? If not, correct the skin tones in the group. Do the following. / Correct the Group’s Color d) Make sure the Background copy layer is selected (highlighted). e) Go to Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color for Skin Tone. f) Click on Aunt Joan’s cheek. But, don’t click on her too-thick rouge. You have now color corrected both layers. Their color should be similar now. / Photo Filter Adjustment Layer Method If you’re somewhat skilled at judging color, create a Photo Filter adjustment layer. a) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). b) Go to the Create adjustment layer icon (“yin-yang”) and select Photo Filter. Don’t make any corrections yet. c) Click OK. / To Group or Not to Group Do you have a Levels adjustment layer already grouped with the Uncle Fud layer? If so, you don’t need to group the Photo Filter adjustment layer with the Uncle Fud layer. The Photo Filter adjustment layer will be automatically grouped with the Levels adjustment layer. So, skip ahead to f), below. If you don’t have a Levels adjustment layer grouped with the Uncle Fud layer, do the following. d) Make sure the Photo Filter adjustment layer is selected (highlighted). e) Go to Layer > Group with Previous, or press Ctrl + g. The Photo Filter adjustment layer and the Uncle Fud layer are now grouped. Look for the tiny black arrow pointing down in the Photo Filter adjustment layer. Because they’re grouped, the correction from the Photo Filter adjustment layer will be confined only to the Uncle Fud layer. The Photo Filter adjustment layer won’t affect the group. f) Reopen the Photo Filter adjustment layer by double clicking the filter icon in the Photo Filter adjustment layer. g) Click the tiny black triangle to open the filter menu. h) Select the filter according to the chart below. The boldfaced filters are the most commonly used. / If Uncle Fud Is . . . Use this Filter / Too cool (blue). Warming Filter (81) / Too warm (red). Cooling Filter (82) / Too cyan (blue/green) Red / Too violet. Orange / Too blue. Yellow / Too magenta (pink). Green / Too red. Cyan / Too yellow. Blue / Too orange Violet / Too green, such as florescent lighting. Magenta h) Click OK. If the color correction needs to be tweaked, reopen the Photo Filter adjustment layer. Move the Density slider back-and-forth, and click OK. The layer stack may look like this. ↓ Levels (Grouped with Uncle Fud) ↓ Photo Filter (Grouped with Uncle Fud) Uncle Fud Background copy (Group of people) Background 12 – Tuck Uncle Fud into the Group Do the following to blend Uncle Fud into the group. / Preparation 29) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). 30) Reduce the opacity of the Uncle Fud layer. You need to be able to see the shoulders of Aunt Joan and others. / Understand What Needs to be Selected Let’s say Aunt Joan is standing next to Aunt Bea. Uncle Fud is going to be between, and behind, the shoulders of the two aunts. So, you need to select from their shoulders down. / Select You’ll select the two aunt’s shoulders, and the upper parts of the their dresses. The Magnetic Lasso tool may be the best selection tool for this task. 31) Make sure the Background copy layer is selected (highlighted). 32) Deselect the Eye icon for the Uncle Fud layer. You don’t want to select Uncle Fud. You only want the aunt’s shoulders and the tops of their dresses. 33) Select the shoulders of Aunt Joan and Aunt Bea, and continue the selection down on portions of their dresses. 34) To save the selection, go to Select > Save Selection. Enter Aunts as the selection’s name, and click OK. / Copy the Selected Area Onto a New Layer 35) Make sure the Background copy layer is selected (highlighted). 36) The Eye icon for the Uncle Fud layer should still be deselected. 37) Press Ctrl + j. The shoulders and dresses are now on a new layer. 38) Rename the layer Shoulders & Dresses. / The Shoulders & Dresses Layer Should Be in Register The Shoulders & Dresses layer should be in register with the Background copy layer. That is, the shoulders and dresses of the two aunts on both layers should “line up”. If for some reason, the Shoulders & Dresses layer is askew, from the Background copy layer, do the following. a) Select the Shoulders & Dresses layer (highlighted). b) Select the Move tool. c) Move the Shoulders & Dresses layer using the arrow keys on your keyboard. / Drag the Layer to the Top 39) Click and hold on the Shoulders & Dresses layer, and drag it to the top of the layers stack. This how the stack of layers should look. Shoulders & Dresses ↓ Levels (Grouped with Uncle Fud) ↓ Photo Filter (Grouped with Uncle Fud) Uncle Fud Background copy (Group of people) Background 40) Select the Eye icon for the Uncle Fud layer so you can see him once again. 41) If the opacity for the Uncle Fud layer is still below 100%, move it back up to 100%. / What Happened The Shoulders & Dresses layer is covering up the part of Uncle Fud that’s “behind” the two aunts. / 13 – Erase Uncle Fud’s Beer Belly An unneeded portion of Uncle Fud may be visible on the photograph. This part is visible if the Shoulders & Dresses layer doesn’t go down far enough to cover up the lower portion of Uncle Fud. Let’s say you can see the plunging necklines of Aunt Joan and Aunt Bea. But, there’s a portion of a hounds-tooth sport coat, with a beer belly sticking out, on the aunt’s dresses. Do the following. 42) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). 43) Select the Erase tool. 44) Click and drag on Uncle Fud’s sport coat and beer belly. / 14 – Check His Hair Above, it was suggested that you select some of the background around Uncle Fud’s hair. If the background shows, erase it. Do the following. 45) Make sure the Uncle Fud layer is selected (highlighted). 46) Use the Zoom tool to enlarge Uncle Fud’s head. 47) Select the Erase tool, and use a small brush. 48) Click and drag on any background around Uncle Fud’s hair that shouldn’t be there. / 15 – Levels Now is when you do Levels on the group. 49) Make sure the Shoulders & Dresses layer is selected (highlighted). 50) Create a Levels adjustment layer, make the corrections, and click OK. Levels (Affecting all of the layers below) Shoulders & Dresses ↓ Levels (Grouped with Uncle Fud) ↓ Photo Filter (Grouped with Uncle Fud) Uncle Fud Background copy (Group of people) Background ========================================= / Want to remove unwanted backgrounds in images effortlessly? Fluid Mask 3 is the professionals’ choice. Fluid Mask 2 established itself as the market leader in still image cutting-out – Fluid Mask 3 takes masking to the next level. 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Broken out in 10 chapters, with 10 tasks per chapter, Photoshop : Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks covers 100 cool and useful tips and tricks that can be performed in the newest release of Photoshop. / Full-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions show you how to take their Photoshop skills to new heights. http://rapidshare.com/files/243974760/Photoshop_CS3_Top_100_Simplified_Tips_and_Tricks.rar ======================================= BIG SMILES!! / Here’s an amazing plugin for those Photoshop buffs out there.. / check it out herefor the review: / Nik Color Efex Pro 2 or here to purchase: / http://www.niksoftware.com/colorefexpro/usa/ / ________ Teddy Bear Brushes by StarKatz I’ve created a few Teddy Bear brushes, there’s a minimum of 10 downloads from RapidShare, if you find they have been downloaded 10 times, just BM me and I’ll upload them again :0) / You can of course use them on any background, using any colour for them you want.. this is just as a sample. Download them here: / http://rapidshare.com/files/253780571/Teddy_Bear_Brushes.rar.html Copy Teddy Brush 1.abr to your folder: / C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Brushes Once you open PhotoShop just hit your brush icon and then select Load Brushes: look for Teddy Brush 1.abr click on it then select append I have an additional 19 Teddy Bear Brushes here: / http://rapidshare.com/files/253883304/19_Teddy_Bear_Brushes_by_StarKatz.rar.html Copy 19 Teddy Bear Brushes by StarKatz.abr to your folder: / C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Brushes #Please if you use them add a link to your work on this page :0) —-—-——- #I found this awesome link for Photoshop check it out! / http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/Adobe_Photoshop_Resources.htm / —-—-——- / Here’s a great page for Action Scripts / http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm if the link doesn’t work from here simply do a copy & paste into browser ;0) Here’s a sample of what it has to offer: Image Enhancements 1. 3-D BW Action , George Rosema, 11/25/2004 / 3-D Color Action / 2. A2D Infrared, Addicted to Design, 2/11/2007 / 3. A2D Lomo, Addicted to Design, 2/11/2007 / 4. Airbrush, Shannon Beauford, 6/20/2008 / 5. Airbrushing Action set, Ronald Clercx, 6/5/2004 / 6. Alabaster Portrait, Feivel, 12/13/2003 / 7. Aly’s Color, Alyson Comacho, 6/12/2006 / 8. Aly’s Vintage, Alyson Comacho, 5/7/2006 / 9. AutoColor, Shane Metler, 1/6/2004 / 10. Basic Workflow v.20, (includes batch version) Jim Reynolds, 8/16/2005 / 11. Bloom Effect, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 / 12. Bruce’s HighKey Action, Bruce Neville, 2/27/2006 / 13. Burke Line Drawing Resize, Burke/Jim Lewis, 1/28/2005 / 14. Canon Soft Recovery, Andrea Walter, 4/12/2009 / 15. Caponigro Adjustments, v.2.0 Jim Lewis, 3/19/2006 / 16. Carnival Action, Michelle Nicole, 6/03,2009 / 17. Color Boost, Shannon Beauford, 10/27/2007 / 18. Contrast Mask, Chip Springer, 11/18/2007 / 19. Dave Beaman’s Ethereal Glow, Dave Beaman, 3/27/2004 / 20. Dave’s IR Actions, Dave Jaseck, updated 3/21/2006 / 21. Dave’s Simplifier v.2, Dave Jaseck, 5/8/2004 / 22. DK Color Vibrance, Daniel Kvarfordt, 5/4/2008 / 23. Doug’s File Handling Actions, Doug Bardell, 8/14/2005 / 24. Draganizer, Sharon Lee Core, 11/15/2004 / 25. Dynamic Mask, Shannon Beauford, 2/12/2009 / 26. Edgarian Blur, Howard Owen, 5/3/2004 / 27. Editorial/Lomo, Shannon Beauford, 10/14/2007 / 28. Ethereal Effect, Juan García Gálvez, 8/10/2006 / 29. Flawless Portrait, Shannon Beauford, 10/14/2007 / 30. FX Pastel Transitions, Creative Drawer, 4/24/2009 / 31. Glamor Blur, Edgard Berendsen, 4/16/2005 / 32. Gothic Glow, Feivel, 12/6/2003 / 33. Hasselblad Softar #2 Focus Effect, Dave Jaseck, 11/7/2008 / 34. JGG Sunset Optimizer, José Fàbreba & Juan García Gálvez, 8/22/2008 / 35. Kent’s LensBlur, Kent Christiansen, 11/15//2004 / 36. Kent’s Quick Retouch Batch Processor, Kent Christiansen, 10/2//2005 / 37. Kent’s Sketch and Charcoal Smudge, Kent Christiansen, 9/6/2007 / 38. Kent’s Skin Fix v.1, Kent Christiansen, 10/202004 / 39. LAB Saturation Actions, Alessandro Di Sciascio, 9/24.2006 / 40. Local Contrast, thejaybird, 11/18/2007 / 41. Midnight Action Set, v.3, Dave Jaseck, updated, 6/21/2008 / 42. Midnight Black v2, Dave Jaseck, 11/5/2005 / 43. Midnight Sepia v2, Dave Jaseck, 2/22/2005 / 44. Morning Mist, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 / 45. Muted Fashion, Shannon Beauford, 10/27/2007 / 46. Orton Effect, Jim Lewis (with help from Danny Raphael, Dave Jaseck, from a technique by Chris Empey, 6/21/2008 / 47. Paint with Light, Chip Springer,12/10/2004 / 48. Paint with Light II, Chip Springer,12/28/2004 / 49. Photorealistic Clouds, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 / 50. Photoshop Facelift, Shannon Beauford, 12/26/2008 / 51. Platinotype, Steven Almas, 5/7/2006 / 52. Portrait Effect, Paul Bleicher, 4/26/2004 / 53. Professional Retro, Michael Van De Carr, 2/16/2007 / 54. Rich Color Landscapes, Shannon Beauford, 9/10/2006 / 55. Ronny’s Dual Method SkinFix, Ronny Harris, 5/23/2008 / 56. Selective Focus, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 / 57. Simple Color Pop, Anna Bottoms, 10/18/2007 / 58. CSpringer’s Portrait Actions, Chip Springer, updated 4/1/2008 / 59. CSpringer’s Skin Repair Action, Chip Springer, 5/30/2007 / 60. CSpringer’s Wrinkle and Blemish Repair, Chip Springer, 1/06/2008 (requires Polaroid’s Dust & Scratch Remover) / 61. Soft Focus Action, v.2, Daniel Chui, 8/7/2004 / 62. Soft Light Portrait, Shannon Beauford, 9/11/2006 / 63. Tears, Shannon Beauford, 10/14/2007 / 64. TLR Color Compensating Filters, Glenn Mitchell, 5/21/2006 / 65. Tracy’s Fill Flash Action, Tracy McGee, 3/28/2007 / 66. Twirling Abstract Art, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 / 67. Urban Acid, Steven Almas, 7/9/2005 / 68. Velvia Portrait, Shannon Beauford, 6/23/2008 / 69. Velvia-Provia v. 2, Paul Bleicher, 4/25/2004 / 70. Velvia-Provia for Elements, Paul Bleicher, 4/25/2004 / 71. Whiten, Shannon Beauford, 10/17/2007 Sketch Actions 1. B&W Sketch, Sharon Lee Core, 7/113/2004 / 2. Caricature Sketch, Sharon Lee Core, 12/2//2004 / 3. Cartoon Action, Maureen Barberio, 9/26//2004 / 4. Colored Sketch, Sharon Lee Core, 7/11//2004 / 5. Comic Effect Action, Tony, 7/28/200 / 6. Comix Actions, Andy Purviance, 2/15//2004 / 7. Dave’s Sketch, Dave Jaseck, 8/11/2004 / 8. Flaming Text, Shannon Beauford, 6/22/2008 / 9. Mitch’s Sketch Action, Mitchell Weitz, 2/17//2004 / 10. Painting Action, Ben Morales-Correa, 6/23/2007 / 11. Pen & Ink, Tom Bennett,9/26/2004 / 12. Photosketch, Shannon Beauford, 7/23/2008 / 13. Rough Pastels, Sharon Lee Core and Isabel Cutler, 11/15//2004 / 14. Sheri’s Sketch Action (PS) 2.1, Sheri Pierce, 2/3/2004 / 15. Sheri’s Sketch Action (PSE) 2.1, Sheri Pierce, 2/3/2004 / 16. Sketch and accompanying tutorial, Alex Glassman, 3/5/2005 / 17. Tilt/Shift Effect, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 / 18. Watercolor, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 / 19. Watercolor, Erick Nguyen, March 1, 2005 / 20. Watercolor for PSE 3.0, Erick Nguyen, Conchita, and Bob Jones / 21. Watercolor Tint Action, Ben Morales-Correa, 1/6/2008 Black and White Conversion 1. 1Click NewBW, 1-Click Actions, 3/30/2008 / 2. Aly’s BW, Alyson Comacho, 7/17/2006 / 3. B’s SplitTone 2, Bärbel Wilm, 3/27/08 / 4. B’s Vanilla II, Bärbel Wilm, 3/27/08 / 5. Blanco y Negro, Juan García Gálvez, 11/16/2006 / 6. Brian James’s Black and White, Brian James, 1/22/2006 / 7. Color to BW, Danny Raphael, 7/16/2006 / 8. Danny’s Black and White Actions v.5, / 9. Daniel Diaz B&W Action, Matthew Greer, 1/21/2007 / 10. Duotone Dreams, Dave Jaseck, 7/22/2004 / 11. Gorman B&W Action, Robin Holden, Sr., 12/10/2005 / 12. JGG Web High Key, Juan García Gálvez, 11/26/2006 / 13. Jodi’s Take Action on Cancer Awareness (Black and White w/ribbon overlays, Jodi Friedman, 9/26/2007 / 14. Julian’s Black and White Conversion, Julian Hebbrecht, 3/1/2006 / 15. Kent’s B&W Selective Color 4.0, Kent Christiansen, 10/6/2006 / 16. Selective Color v.5, AsylumXL, 4/17/2007 / 17. Sepiatone, Andy Purviance, 2/15//2004 / 18. Thomas Niemann’s Tones, Danny Raphael, 12/10/2003 / 19. TLR B&W Conversation, Glenn Mitchell, 1/3/2005 / 20. TLR Sepia Tint, Glenn Mitchell, 12/28//2004 / 21. Vintage Tint , Alls A. Ten, 5/22/2006 Frames and Mattes 1. 2Up, Sweet Cheeks Photography, 8/6/2006 / 2. 3D Product Box, Andy Purviance, 2/15/2004 / 3. A2D Polaroid 600, Addicted to Design, 2/11/2007 / 4. Andrea’s Borders A, Andrea Rascaglia, 12/18/2004 (big file) / 5. Andrea’s Borders B, Andrea Rascaglia, 12/18/2004 (big file) / 6. Andrea’s Borders C, Andrea Rascaglia, 1/29/2005 (moderate file) / 7. Andrea’s Test Frame Border, Andrea Rascaglia, 4/23/2005 (2.4 MB)) / 8. Andrea’s Polaroid Giant Frame, Andrea Rascaglia, 7/10/2005 (293 kb) / 9. Andrea’s Border Dogtown, Andrea Rascaglia, 7/17/2005 (323 kb) / 10. Andrea’s Polaroid 89 Border Andrea Rascaglia, 8/14/2005(1.1 mg) / 11. Andrea’s Vintage Background, Andrea Rascaglia, 11/30/2005(3.6 mg) / 12. Bronze Plaque, Sharon Lee Core, 9/26//2004 / 13. Bud’s Actions, Bud Guinn, 12/10/2003 / 14. Bud’s Brass Plaque, Bud Guinn, 1/6/2004 / 15. Bud’s Frames, Bud Guinn, 12/6/2003 / 16. Bud’s Signature’s & Stuff, Bud Guinn, 12/12/2003 / 17. Bud’s Wooden Frames, Bud Guinn, 12/14/2003 / 18. Bud’s Wooden Mattes, Bud Guinn, 12/14/2003 / 19. Bud’s EZMiter, v.1, Bud Guinn, 12/14/2003 / 20. Burnt Edge Vignette, Jodi Friedman, 10/30/2007 / 21. CSpringer’s Vignette Action, v.2, Chip Springer, 1/14/2007 / 22. Copyright Brush, Brian James, 1/26/2006 / 23. Custom Vignette 3.2 (for CS3), Custom Vignette 2.0 (CS and CS2), Galen Evans, CS3 update 4/1/2008 / 24. Dave’s Frame & Matte on White Background, Dave Jaseck, 5/26/2004 / 25. Dave’s Double Matte, Dave Jaseck, 4/22/2006 / 26. Dave’s Matte, (revised—both versions in one ZIP file, Dave Jaseck, 1/22/2006 / 27. Dave’s New Double Matte, Dave Jaseck, 3/15/2009 / 28. Digital Backdrops, Shannon Beauford, 10/27/2007 / 29. Edge Vignette, Anna Bottoms, 10/18/2007 / 30. Filer’s Frame Action, Joe Filer, 6/9/2006 / 31. Floating Frame, Ed Adams, 8/10/2008 / 32. Fracture, John Beardsworth, 7/25/2004 / 33. FrameIt!, Sweet Cheek Photographer, 8/06/2006 / 34. JJ Mack’s Image Visualization Actions and Scripts. (CS3 only), John J. McAssey, 10/2/2008 (11.8 mb) / (Requires documentation. Optional template) Caution: Big Files / 35. Jodi’s Multiple Choice Frame Action, Jodi Friedman, 3/30/2007 / 36. Keynote Reflection, v. 2, Gord Wall, 1/24/2007 / 37. Marcia’s Frame Actions , Marcia Fasy, 6/5/2005 / 38. Mike Brewer’s Invariant Frame, Mike Brewer, 9/26//2004 / 39. Nasso’s Cutter, Nassos, 10/2/2005 / 40. Out of Bounds, v.8, Terry Alford, 1/06/2005 / 41. Panos’s Big Picture, Panos Efstathiadis, 3/25/2006 / 42. Panos’s BnBig Picture, Panos Efstathiadis, 3/25/2006 / 43. Panos’s Stamp, Panos Efstathiadis, 3/25/2006 / 44. Panos’s BB Filmstrip, Panos Efstathiadis, 3/25/2006 / 45. Panos’s Puzzle, Panos Efstathiadis, 3/25/2006 / 46. PopOut, Brian de Cambra, 12/12/2004 / 47. Sharon’s Mattes, Sharon Lee Core, 7/11/2004 Sharpeners and Correction Tools 1. Harycover’s Fringing Action, Mohammed Yahyaoui,5/18/2004 / 2. Dave’s Sharpening Actions, Dave Jaseck, 12/13/2003 / 3. Julian’s Sharpener, Julian Hebbrecht, 1/3/2005 / 4. Kent’s Noise Reduction Brush, Kent Christiansen, 7/23/2008 / 5. Sharpener, v.3, Paul Bleicher, 4/26/2004 / 6. TLR Landscape Sharpener, Glenn Mitchell, 1/18/2009 / 7. TLR Portrait Sharpener, Glenn Mitchell, 1/18/2009 / 8. TLR Pro Sharpening Toolkit, v.2 CS and earlier, Glenn Mitchell, 8/14/2005 / TLR Pro Sharpening Toolkit, CS2 / TLR Pro Sharpening Toolkit, v3.0a CS3-4 Editing and Highlight Recovery Tools 1. Chip Springer’s Digital Grey Card, Chip Springer, 10/15/2006 / CS/CS2 Version CS3 Version / Danny’s 3×3 Action, Danny Raphael, 12/10/2003 / 2. Danny’s Save as Layers Action, Danny Raphael, 2/28/2004 / 3. Demoneye Remover, Chip Springer, 11/30/2004 / 4. Dodge & Burn, Shannon Beauford, 6/21/2008 / 5. Dodging and Burning, Perijn Hoefsloot, 7/10/2004 / 6. Embedded Watermark, Shannon Beauford, 10/27/2007 / 7. Haze Cutter, Jim Lewis, 4/10/2009 / 8. HDR for Dummies, Jook Leung, 5/28/2006 / 9. Katrin Eismann’s Fill Flash, Dave Jaseck, 2/4/2004 / 10. Kent’s Colorcast Fix, Kent Christiansen, 4/8/2007 / 11. Redeye Remover v.2, Chip Springer, 6/10/2004 / 12. Rule of Thirds, Peter Birch, 7/22/04 / 13. Sheri’s Shadow/Highlight Actions, v. 2b for Photoshop, Sheri Pierce, 2/1/2004 / 14. Sheri’s Shadow/Highlight Actions, v. 2b for Elements, Sheri Pierce, 2/15/2004 / 15. Stinson’s Dynamic Range Action, 2/1/2004 / 16. Tungsten Fix, Eric Lincoln, 11/18/2008 ================================ Susan Ruddick Bloom, “Digital Painting in Photoshop” / Focal Press | 2009-02-16 | ISBN: 0240811143 | 248 pages | PDF | 29,5 MB Have you ever considered using Photoshop to create fine art? Photoshop is usually used for enhancing photos, but this extremely powerful software package is capable of so much more. Every feature, from brushes to background, can be customised and optimised for artistic effect. With a little guidance from a pro, your photoshop results can go from competent retouching of images to visually stunning re-interpretations of them, turning everyday pictures into breathtaking works of art. In this beautiful and inspiring book, acclaimed artist, author and lecturer Susan Bloom shows you how to do just that. Starting with the fundamentals: creating your own artistic brushes and textured papers virtually, she goes on to demonstrate how to create a variety of classic artistic styles in Photoshop, with chapters on watercolours, pastels, charcoal and oil. Further chapters cover illustration techniques in photoshop, and using third-party software to create painterly effects. While the results are highly polished and realistic, this is not a book written specifically for artists. The techniques are aimed squarely at the Photoshop user looking to broaden their pallette, with emphasis on altering photographs to create artwork, rather than creating artwork from scratch. Beautifully written, clearly laid out, and guaranteeing inspiring results, this book is a must-have for every Photoshop user. Guide to using Photoshop to create fine art from photographs, covering many different artistic styles Highly visual, inspiring content with clear step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots Backwards compatible approach: author has taken care to ensure that this fully up-to-date title also applies to previous editions of Photoshop http://rapidshare.com/files/261586586/DigitalPaintingInPhotoshop.rar ===================== / If you are thinking of creating your next web design using a painted style, you have two options. You can purchase real painting materials and create your own Photoshop brushes, or you can use free brushes that have been created by someone else. Since most web designers have limited time and short deadlines, it is an easy choice. Here are excellent Photoshop brushes collected to save you time in creating painted style designs. WaterColor Reloaded – 83 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258295927/WaterColor_Reloaded_by_env1ro.rar Splatter and Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop – 21 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258296449/watercolor-brushes.zip / http://rapidshare.com/files/258296503/splatter-brushes.zip / http://rapidshare.com/files/258296611/watercolor-strokes-brushes.zip Wet Paint Acrylic Photoshop Brushes – 16 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258298912/t9acrylicbrushpack.abr Messy Spraypaint – 10 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258300359/BB_HiRes_Messy_Spraypaint_CS1.abr.zip Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes – 10 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258301571/BB_HiRes_Splatter_CS1.abr.zip High-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes – 9 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258302128/BB_hiRes_inkCS.abr.zip Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes – 10 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258301571/BB_HiRes_Splatter_CS1.abr.zip Watercolour Brushes Set 1 – 26 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258316449/WCB_Set_1.abr Hi-Res Acrylic Texture Brushes Set 1 – 15 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258312129/theshoreways_HiRes_Acrylic_Texture_Set1.abr.zip Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II – 20 brushes / / http://rapidshare.com/files/258314527/BB_Watercolor_II_CS.abr.zip ================ / Thank you annonymous for the share… Photoinstrument v2.8 Build 259 | 4,89 Mb PhotoInstrument is an easy to learn tool for editing and retouching digital photos. The powerful raster graphics editor in PhotoInstruments quickly and easily allows you to adjust and process digital photos. PhotoInstruments rich tools and effects offer adjustments and photo retouching tools that are usually found only in expensive retouching software. Now with just a few clicks in PhotoInstrument anyone can solve most digital photo problems. So easy to use that anyone can apply these changes. Included with PhotoInstrument is a short video tutorial that will teach you how to use PhotoInstrument in just minutes. PhotoInstrument supports more than thirty image formats including PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF, PCX, TGA, EXR, ICO and Adobe Photoshop PSD. PhotoInsturments user-friendly interface, supports these languages: English, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Turkish. PhotoInstrument is an application which allows users to edit the images they want and modify them. Here are some key features of Photoinstrument: · Liquify / · Clone / · Smudge / · Skin Cleaner / · Glamour Skin / · Dodge / Burn / · Brush / · Blur / · Sharpen / · Colorize / · Rotate / Scale / · Red Eye Removal / · Brightness-Contrast / · Adjust Color Levels / · Glow / · Healing Brush / · Denoise / · Object Removal What’s New in This Release: · Filter “Glamour skin” updated / · China language updated http://rapidshare.com/files/262937100/Photoinstrument_2.8_Build_259.rar ==================== / onOne_Software_FocalPoint_1.0_for_Adobe_Photoshop.rar / / Selective Focus #The use of selective focus is used to remove distracting backgrounds and to focus the viewer’s view on the subject. It has artistic applications as well. This is a popular look in both portrait and wedding work, and it’s also used in commercial and editorial photography, especially food. All of these focus techniques are usually used at the time the photograph is taken and require additional hardware and knowledge of how to use them. Many of these tools have not transferred to digital or behave differently with digital photography. http://rapidshare.com/files/235858707/onOne_Software_FocalPoint_1.0_for_Adobe_Photoshop.rar ==================== / Album DS / / A new design experience that will unleash your unlimited creativity / Unmatched software for designing albums with speed, control and unrestricted creativity. All you need and more to stay above your competitors, professional software for professional photographers Album DS is an album design software for Photoshop and works like a toolbar for Photoshop CS or higher. Photoshop’s working area is used for designing the albums instead of any own area, meaning unlimited creativity because you have direct access to all Photoshop tools. If you need a template it will open in Photoshop at the album size by just double clicking the template thumbnail, you don’t need to search for a predefined size template as any template will fit any size; and best of all: you may easily modify the document in Photoshop because it is a true PSD file. Album DS automates the designing process by keeping track of used pictures, placing automatically the images, applying effects, allowing direct and easy access to templates, backgrounds, masks, cliparts, styles, frames, etc. Each album will be saved in his own folder, you may change from one album to another by just selecting the folder and all sheets, pictures and controls of folders will be retrieved with the album. This even allows for easily creating a backup of your work, just backup the folder and all your files will be included. You may even automate the creation of the whole album, just select the templates and pictures and Album DS will do the rest. Find out more by visiting their website: / http://www.albumds.com/site/ ====================== / How to create a signature brush in Photoshop CS3 I have found that using the brush tool in Photoshop is a much easier and convenient method when applying a sig to my photographs. For those who don’t know how to make one simply follow these steps: 1. Design your sig, either by using the font type tool on a blank transparent page or if you want to get technical you can design it using the brush tool on your tablet. Ensure you use the black foreground color selection. 2. Set your Workspace to Whats New in CS3 3. Do a tight crop around your signature. If you have placed a line underneath your sig you’ll first need to merge the visible layers before you crop. 4. Go to Edit > Select Define Brush Preset 5. Enter your desired sig name or just type in ‘My Sig’ 6. Open a new blank (white) page so you can test it out. 7. Select the brush tool and scroll to the bottom of the brush settings to see your new signature brush. Click on it and using the size slider adjust the size. 8. On the blank page (your test page) click anywhere, your signature brush will reveal your masterpiece! I always recommend saving a copy of your signature to a file that contains your important, Not to be deleted information’ I have one permanently on my desktop so I have instant access, plus I’ve burnt a copy of the folder to a disc in case the computer ever needs formatting. To save a copy of your sig to a ‘Do not delete folder’ simply right click on your desktop, select create new folder, name it Do not delete or anything that will ensure you don’t. Open C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Presets\Brushes / scroll down to find your signature creation which will now end with .abr i(e: My_signature.abr) / right click and select copy. / and then on the folder you created on your desktop, simply right click again and select paste. / Your signature will appear inside the folder. Have fun! =========================== / This is amazing! / http://www.photoshoptopsecret.com/stage.html?choice=site How to Become a Photoshop “Black Belt”-Fast! / Just released by Mark Monciardini, Photoshopî Top SecretÙ is an Extreme / Training Course that teaches you, step by step, how to create cutting-edge / graphics and special effects with Adobeî Photoshopî. This student-friendly / home study course includes four DVD-ROMs with over 16 gigabytes of video / tutorials and project files. It also comes with a full-color gallery book / (printed, not pdf) that shows the end result of each project in the course / You can look, learn, practice, and master these advanced techniques wherever you may be, without the need for expensive classes or tutors. / Create Posters, Movie Covers, Surreal Graphics and More! / The course will teach you how to become the ultimate Photoshopî “black belt” / for fun and/or profit. You’ll learn how to create top-level special effects / for eye-catching movie posters, album covers, book jackets, brochures, / mailing pieces, magazine covers, article illustrations, and a tremendously / wide range of print ads and Web site graphics. =========================== / Tip Have you ever been in Photoshop and found the brush image seems to disappear to a + symbol? To get the image silhouette back simply click the caps button. =========================== / Art and Design in Photoshop / Focal | 256 Pages | 2008 | ISBN:0240811097 | PDF | 27 MB http://rs746.rapidshare.com/files/262116240/Art_Design_in_Photoshop.rar Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian engravings? Then you need Art and Design in Photoshop. In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery Steve Caplin shows you how to stretch your creative boundaries. Taking the same tried-and-tested practical approach as his best selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles, Steve’s step-by-step instructions recreate a dazzling and diverse array of fabulous design effects. You’ll learn how to design everything from wine labels to sushi cartons, from certificates to iPod advertising, from textbooks to pulp fiction. Written by a working pro, the clear guidelines pinpoint exactly what you need to know: how to get slick-looking results with minimum fuss, with a 16-page Photoshop Reference chapter that provides an at-a-glance guide to Photoshop tools and techniques for less experienced users. Steve explains both typography and the design process in a clear, informative and entertaining way. All the images, textures and fonts used in the book are supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. If you want the complete edition you will have to purchase it, I will only share the pdf file. / Imaginative, inspirational and fun to use, this book is a must-have for every creative Photoshop user, both amateur and professional. Learn to quickly and ingeniously create fantastic graphic effects in Photoshop, from graffiti to classic art, newsprint and stained-glass windows Easy and fun to use with clear step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots. Backwards compatible: fully up-to-date with the latest Photoshop release but also relevant for use with previous versions of Photoshop ======================= / / Scott Kelby, “Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks” / New Riders Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0321563174 | 360 pages | PDF | 64,2 MB UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE HOTTEST TRICKS, AND MOST REQUESTED PHOTOSHOP EFFECTS IN ONE AMAZING BOOK! Scott Kelby, co-host of Photoshop User TV and the world’s #1 bestselling Photoshop author, is back to unlock the secrets of an amazing new collection of the latest eye-popping, jaw-dropping, Photoshop special effects—the same kind that made Scott’s previous editions of this book one of the top selling Photoshop books in history. You’ll learn some of the most closely guarded Photoshop CS4 special effects—the same ones you see on TV, in magazines, and on the Web. Using Scott’s simple step-by-step method, with hundreds of full-color images, you’ll see exactly how it’s all done. The book is written so clearly, and it is so easy to follow, you’ll immediately be able to create all of these effects yourself. You’ll learn: • The latest photographic special effects / • How to fake studio shots (you’ll be amazed at how it’s done) / • The latest cutting-edge type effects / • The most popular effects used by big movie studios / • The most-requested advertising effects / • Commercial effects that clients go crazy over! / • The most asked-for current Web effects / • Amazing 3D effects using Photoshop Extended / • Plus loads of effects that look hard, but are easy once you know the secrets And not only that, but the whole book is packed with creative ideas, layouts, and design techniques that will help you unleash your own creativity. It’s all here, in the only Photoshop book of its kind. You’re gonna love it! http://rapidshare.com/files/261698382/PhotoshopCS4DirtyTricks.rar ======================== How to Make Colors Pop in CS3 / source from ‘eHow’ This guide will show you how to transform a drab photo into a stunning, high-contrast masterpiece using Photoshop CS3 or later. While this technique can be used by photographers using other programs or earlier versions, some tools may not be available. In my experience this technique takes about 10-30 minutes (depending on how much you like to tweak settings) and can be applied in varying degrees to all different types of photo. 1. Start with a color photo. If your base image is not in color, this guide will absolutely not help you. This image is from an abandoned zoo. The light was dim, so what should be bright colors and rich texures falls a little flat. / 2. First, perform basic image cropping and levels adjustment. Your image should be slightly lighter than you want the finished product to be, but don’t lighten it so much that you lose detail in the highlights. Don’t worry about your contrast setting until the end. / 3. When you have your base image the way you want it, go to the Layers menu and select Duplicate Layer as shown. Hit Ok. / You should now have two identical layers. / 4. Go to the Image menu and select Image>Adjustment>Black and White. / Basic users should select a preset from the drop-down menu. I suggest Infrared or Maximum White for richest colors. / Advanced users should set layer mode to multiply before opening Black and White and set a custom conversion. If you do not set the layer to multiply you cannot “preview” your settings. IF you are using an older version of photoshop, the easiest way to “fake” this part of the process is to desaturate to 100%, discard color information, convert to grayscale, or whatever process you like to convert to black and white, and then use levels to lighten the image. 5. If your default workspace does not include the Layers window, click “Layers” in the Window menu on the menu bar. / The Layers window has a drop-down menu for layer mode that will say “normal” / Click this and select “multiply” / This should create a very dark image. Do not levels adjust! / 6. Next to the layer mode drop-down there is a menu that should read Opacity: 100% / I generally set the layer opacity at about 75% for a subtle effect. I do not recommend going any lower than 50%, but you can go as high as 100% depending on what you’re looking for. / 7. In the layers window, select the BOTTOM layer. This is your original, background layer. The thumbnail in the layers menu will be highlighted. Go back up to the Layer menu and Duplicate Layer again. If you have done it right, there will be three layers in the layers window, with the new layer in the middle of the two you had before. If the new layer is at the top of the list, you may have copied the wrong layer. Select the new layer and click the trash icon at the bottom of the layers window and try again. When you have your new layer in the middle, click and drag the layer to the top of the layers window. This should make your big image look the same as before you added the black and white multiplied layer. / 8. With the TOP layer selected in the layers window, go to Filters>Other>High Pass. This will turn the image bright white. / I usually set High Pass at between 70 and 120 pixels for this technique. The higher you go, the greater light/dark contrast you will have in your finished image. / 9. Set the layer mode for the TOP layer (which should now be bright white) for Hard Light. Some people prefer Pin Light, and feel free to play around with the mode you like best. Each has a slightly different effect. Again, reducing the opacity of the layer will make the effect more subtle. My image used a 70% opacity. / 10. When you’re satisfied with your image, go to the Layers menu and select Flatten Image. This will allow you to save the image as a JPEG, which will take up less space on your hard drive and is easier to share. If you want to keep the ability to edit your layers later, save a PSD version before you flatten. / Tips & Warnings This technique is great for textured or mossy walls and creepy Halloween or horror images. It can also make a portrait seem “gritty” and give a city-scape a run-down feel. Once you get the basic outline of the technique, play around with different versions until you find something that works for you. This is different from the way I learned the technique, but it’s what works best for my style of photography. *Don’t abuse the power of photoshop! Think of this technique like you would explain makeup to your 12-year-old daughter: honey, less is more! The goal of this technique is to make colors and textures pop for a realistic or hyper-realistic photo. If the graffiti turns into neon, you’ve gone too far. Photo Credit / Copyright 2006-2009 Jenna Black, used on eHow by owner. / Unauthorised use prohibited. ===================== A fantastic site devoted to Photoshop tricks and tips / http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-add-background-in-cs3/ ===================== / The recession may be nipping at the heels of creative studios, but that doesn’t mean that Photoshop artists should be reining in their ambitions. Armed with a broadband connection and a little know-how, it’s possible to download so much fantastic creative material, brushes, actions, PSD files, textures and plug-ins – for free – that your hard drive will be left gasping for air. Freebies for Photoshop are experiencing a boom online. From dedicated sites offering quality ready-to-use layered PSD files for design and website creation, to thousands of brushes and actions that can give your work the edge, it’s highly likely that there’s a free version of whatever you’re after online. I’ve grouped together some of the best examples of free stuff for Photoshop that are currently available: get ready to feel like a kid in a creative candy shop as you start exploring them. However, take care when feasting on freebies. A quick Google search for free Photoshop brushes, for example, throws up thousands of options. As with all free content, quality varies wildly – both in terms of creative prowess and technical accomplishment. It may be tempting to download everything, but a little time spent searching on Photoshop-related blogs for community recommendations on the best free content to download will save you from having to wade through the less-than-stellar materials. You should also pay attention when downloading anything from the web. Some sites lure you in with the promises of ‘free’ content, only to hold the best stuff back as paid-for options. And always ensure that you have decent anti-virus software in place, so that you’re don’t accidentally invite Internet nasties onto your hard drive. Always check the terms and conditions of your downloads to ensure you’re not breaching any copyright terms. Free Photoshop plug-ins Plug-ins are the biggest enhancements you can add to Photoshop, unlocking powerful features that can help boost your creative work. Some plug-ins are one-trick-ponies, such as those for creating TV scanlines or an image mosaic, while others deliver a suite of tools aimed at a particular arena, such as text effects. One of the most popular free plug-in suites for Windows users is OptikVerve Labs VirtualPhotographer tinyurl.com/b4e4d6, with millions of users. It includes over 50 presets that automatically apply combinations of film grain, colour correction, black and white, soft focus, high contrast and artistic effects to achieve professional-looking images. A more à la carte approach is offered by plug-in maker AutoFX, tinyurl.com/d65uyt, which offers two of its Mac and Windows commercial plug-ins – Dreamy Photo and Mosaic – for free. Dreamy Photo adds a soft, romantic feel, while Mosaic transforms images into a tiled effect. There is a whole category of plug-ins dedicated to delivering visual effects. Harry’s Filters for Windows tinyurl.com/d65uyt is a set that includes 69 filter effects covering zoom, glass, old film and 70s pop styles. Cybia has seven fantastic free effects plug-ins up for grabs tinyurl.com/ckzbda in the form of its Fotomatic collection. Highlights include NightScope for simulating night-vision effects, Techni-X for high-contrast effects suitable for illustration work, and HighSpot for powerful black and white colour conversion. Commercial plug-in maker Flaming Pear tinyurl.com/b8j86x has an array of free high-quality plug-ins for Mac and Windows, including warp, tile, colour conversion and Solidify that fills gaps with the nearest colour. Design studio Richard Rosenman has 24 Photoshop plug-ins, available free for Windows tinyurl.com/gnh7s including 3D spheregeneration, scanlines, and lens effects. Filter Forge has a collection of three plug-in suits for Windows users, including seven metal effects filters, seven photo effects, and seven filters to create different photo frames tinyurl.com/b7nwcv – Mac versions are planned for the future, according to the site. Free plug-ins also surface in unexpected places, including on Polaroid’s website. It has a free Mac and Windows dust- and scratch-removal plug-in for Photoshop tinyurl.com/5qms. Finally, a collection of 41 plug-ins for Windows from Xero Graphics in the UK tinyurl.com/abckr4 includes such gems as Porcelain, Moonlight, Skycleaner and Sparkles. Free Photoshop actions Actions in Photoshop were designed to remove the multi-stage drudgery of repetitive tasks in Photoshop, such as colour-converting images. Yet with some creative know-how, designers have been creating and sharing Photoshop actions that push the tool to its limits. Photoshop actions pull together a series of steps, including menu choices, filters, and resizing – and you can even batch-process a folder of images for instant creativity. The UK’s Turning Turnip site tinyurl.com/ca9wps has a great collection of free actions for photographers and artists, ranging from comic and watercolour effects, to pop-art and photo-grain actions. PanosFX has 38 high-quality actions to download from its site tinyurl.com/d7aja, including its excellent Rainy Day action, jigsaw-creation action, and spiral-bind action. For a unique take on Photoshop actions, Finesse FX tinyurl.com/ce7uky includes over 65 free actions that are geared to artistic output. Highlights include the excellent Old Parchment, TackIt mini action, and lots of actions for creative text effects. If you need more traditional photographic actions, Shutter Freaks tinyurl.com/amxzao has a directory of actions, including photo frames, bleaching, B&W conversion, and canvas painting. Free Photoshop textures Textures breathe life into layered effects and flat scenes – allowing you to add anything from dirt, swirls, mould and metal, to paper and floral textures to your work. Everything from oil stains to veined marble is available, and to kick off Jasen Robillard has selected 36 cool free textures on Flickr, all with Creative Commons licences – you can view the texture list with links to the high-res images at Abduzeedo, run by Digital Arts contributor Fabio Sasso, tinyurl.com/5kvjan. If paper, canvas and metal are more your bag, then visit Tutorial 9, tinyurl.com/6ch57d, for 99 fantastic textures, including aged paper, peeling paint, watercolour, diamond plate metal, and wrinkled fabric. Textures can more usefully be downloaded as texture packs – grouping together similar texture styles. Web Design Ledger, tinyurl.com/64qech, features 29 excellent texture packs, including old book covers, wood, fabric, brown packing paper, and cardboard – each loaded with high-quality textures for the asking. Free Photoshop brushes* While Photoshop features a basic line-up of brushes, they’re not what you’d call inspirational. Luckily, the creative community has stepped up and the web is awash with free Photoshop brushes. For a combination of sheer quantity and quality, British graphic designer PaulW has crafted over 1,000 brushes designed to appeal to Photoshop artists. Heavy on the clean vector tech-style, you can download the brushes packages at tinyurl.com/5bc9lu. For splatter, watercolour and spraycan brushes, Tutorial 9 has over 250 brilliant paint-effect brushes tinyurl.com/632xtu – as well as other brush types such as creative doodles. If your creative tasks require something a little more out of this world, then DesignM.ag has one of the largest collections of space-related brushes at tinyurl.com/6prxdc. It has over 500 brushes covering everything from galactic backgrounds to hazy comet trails and gaseous nebulae. Another more unusual set that’s worth considering is an astonishing human brush collection that features over 55 brush sets covering the human body – from comic art characters and retro figures to felt-tip sketches and fingerprints. It’s available at Web Resource Depot tinyurl.com/5rkpbz. Photoshop brushes are also a great shortcut to capturing current design trends – and Six Revisions plays host to over 50 free Photoshop brush sets that tap into what’s hot right now tinyurl.com/5acn63. With sets titled Girls In Trouble, Rebel Teens, Rusty 80s Arcades, and Pencil Tracing, they offer a unique slant to Photoshop’s default brush set. Brushes also don’t have to be limited to small sizes – the 100 Awesome High Resolution Photoshop Brushes directory hosted by Photoshop Roadmap tinyurl.com/2mfozo features high-resolution brushes covering spirographs, hair strands, smoke, bugs, fireworks, and more. #See my 2nd page

• How To add a popup message to your hyperlinked Pictures
  by Tom Gomez

  Have you noticed, that if you hover your mouse cursor over any image in RB a popup appears with the following information: _Image Title...

  Have you noticed, that if you hover your mouse cursor over any image in RB a popup appears with the following information: Image Title by Artist’s name? Have you wondered how RB does this and also, how can you use this information? The good news is, it is not difficult and you can include any text message that you want. Have a look at the image below and move your mouse cursor over the image. / Did you see the popup? You can add any message you like to any of your images. I should stress that this will not work on the normal RB viewing pages (other than in your image description area), however, you can add hyperlinked images to your Profile page or you could include them in Journal entries or replies to comments If you want to know how to do it, follow the instructions below. It is a little complicated, but like all things, with a bit of practice, it will become easier. First, let’s look at the example. You need to look at my previous Journal entry Adding a frame around your pictures. This will give you the method for making the framed pictures. Now we need to add the Hyperlink to the framed pictures. The method is as follows: / It is best to create your links in the Notepad application on your PC. I need to explain it, because if I type it here exactly as you need to do, RedBubble will convert the link into a real Hyperlink in my Journal page. Type an exclamation mark (!) Then paste the URL for the framed picture directly after the exclamation mark (make sure you have no spaces). Now you will add your popup message – it needs to be enclosed in brackets. For instance, (Click here to be taken to the image page) Type another exclamation mark (!) Follow this with a full-colon (:) Next, in RedBubble, you need to go to the Public View of the picture you want to link to. Copy the URL (It is at the top of the screen and starts with http://) into your mouse buffer (highlight the URL, right-click your mouse and select Copy from the list that appears). Paste this URL directly after the full-colon (remember, NO spaces anywhere other than in your popup message text). In simple terms: The hyperlink element (the URL pointing to the picture) that you want to see on the page, and the bracketed popup message must be enclosed in a set of exclamation marks (!) At the end of this element, you need to type a full-colon (:) Next thing you need is the pointer (the URL of where you want to point – this can be a picture or a web page) Example (you would need to fill in the URL information, and remove all superfluous spaces): Picture example / ! URL of picture you want to see(Popup text)! : URL of picture you want to hyperlink to So, to recap: / – exclamation mark / – URL for the framed picture / – bracketed popup text / – exclamation mark / – full-colon / – URL for your final picture Once you have typed it all into Notepad, highlight all of the text and copy it to your mouse buffer. Paste the copied information into RB. That should be it. Make sure to check that it all worked. This example shows how to turn a framed picture into a hyperlink, but the method can be applied to any of the other types of pictures in RedBubble. Let me know if you have any problems. Now, while I have your attention: / Look into the monitor, looks straight at the monitor, don’t look around the monitor. OK, now you are under. Repeat after me: / MUST BUY TOM’S WORK, MUST BUY TOM’S WORK, MUST BUY TOM’S WORK. Now as soon as you have completed your order, you will be back in the room and will remember none of this – hehehe. Cheers, / Tom You can find all my How To Tutorials by clicking here.

• Clickable picture links - The time saving shortcut method
  by Stuart Chapman

  As many of you know, it is very easy to insert pictures and clickable links in various places around Redbubble. If you don’t know how …

  As many of you know, it is very easy to insert pictures and clickable links in various places around Redbubble. If you don’t know how yet then look here and here From that same account I post a lot of journals featuring other artists work. Some journals have 20 or so clickable picture links. Some of you may be aware, but if not I hope you find this of use, it is very quick and easy to do a lot of images in a short period of time. The wording required between the two ! is exactly the same for each type of picture (postcard, laminated printed, medium square, etc) and just by changing the description means copy and paste can mean very quick multiple postings. I will show you an example (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE THE £ WITH AN ! – If I type ! the picture comes up instead of the text) £http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:noborder/product:mounted-print/size:small/view:preview/3564688-4-jumping-rooftops.jpg£:http://www.redbubble.com/people/stuartchapman/art/3564688-4-jumping-rooftops Gives this If you then copy and paste the above text again the next line down but replace the bolded italics bits only £http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:noborder/product:mounted-print/size:small/view:preview/3564688-4-jumping-rooftops.jpg£:http://www.redbubble.com/people/stuartchapman/art/3564688-4-jumping-rooftops Now by clicking on a new image and copying part of the new URL underneath stuartchapman/art/1294503-23-not-my-view-from-work And replace the number and name only in the picture and copy and paste from the name of the person on the URL link. i.e. / £http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:noborder/product:mounted-print/size:small/view:preview/1294503-23-not-my-view-from-work.jpg£:http://www.redbubble.com/people/stuartchapman/art/1294503-23-not-my-view-from-work In no time 20 clickable picture links can make their way into your journal / homepage / artwork at a fraction of the time (maybe you could use that spare time to buy me a coffee!) Feel free to pass this on if you find it useful. Stuart And as a final gift I enclose the following that you can copy and paste from to get certain picture sizes (together with examples) EXTRA SMALL SQUARE / http://images-0.redbubble.com/img/art/cropped/size:xsmall/view:main/1820314-18-a-velvet-dawn.jpg / SMALL SQUARE / http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/cropped/size:small/view:main/932872-50-keep-watching-the-sky.jpg / MEDIUM SQUARE / http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/cropped/size:medium/view:main/943982-44-seclusion.jpg / LARGE SQUARE / http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/cropped/size:large/view:main/2472302-17-soul-meets-body.jpg / POSTCARD / http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/backingcolor:white/product:greeting-card/view:preview/2112813-18-reach.jpg / MATTED PRINT / http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/mattecolor:off%20white/product:matted-print/view:preview/979948-41-find-comfort-in-yourself.jpg / LAMINATED PRINT – WHITE / http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/border:whitewithdetail/product:laminated-print/size:small/view:preview/1294503-23-not-my-view-from-work.jpg / LAMINATED PRINT – BLACK / http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/product:laminated-print/size:small/view:preview/943958-46-mercury-pool.jpg / MOUNTED PRINT / http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/border:noborder/product:mounted-print/size:small/view:preview/1403491-17-endless-summer.jpg / CANVAS PRINT / http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/product:canvas-print/size:small/view:preview/1252507-26-a-watched-sky-never-stops.jpg / FRAMED PRINT / http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/framecolor:black/framestyle:flat30/mattecolor:off%20white/product:framed-print/size:small/view:preview/2135403-17-a-beautiful-life.jpg / STANDARD SHAPE – EXTRA SMALL / http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:xsmall/view:main/2332068-17-spooky.jpg / STANDARD SHAPE – SMALL / http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:small/view:main/1000332-42-field-of-dreams.jpg / STANDARD SHAPE – MEDIUM / http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:medium/view:main/993798-41-stranger-things-have-happened.jpg / STANDARD SHAPE – LARGE / http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/2130742-17-if-columbus-was-wrong-id-drive-straight-off-the-edge.jpg / STANDARD SHAPE – EXTRA LARGE / http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:xlarge/view:main/1168524-28-cerulean-blue.jpg /

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  .oh, but I can fly, she said. I just haven't yet figured out how to do it while I'm awake.
  by JustK

  2009

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  "I wish I knew how to ride this bike"
  by Ellen

  I couldnt come up with a better title :) Just changed the title, into Dennis idea! Thanks Dennis. / This bike I borrowed from a firend. thought it was exactly the right size!

• Photography Campus tutorial: How to use layer blend modes in Photoshop
  by Melinda Kerr

  Hi Guys. / Some of you may know I’ve recently started writing for DESKTOP magazine about all things photography and photography post produ…

  Hi Guys. / Some of you may know I’ve recently started writing for DESKTOP magazine about all things photography and photography post production. I am ‘soon’ going to launch an on line learning portal (subscription based) called the Photography Campus which will have video tutorials about photography & videography by real live working professionals. Anyway, I promised a few people that I’d put the articles up here once they’d gone to print. So here’s the November issues article: How to use layer blend modes in Photoshop. As creative folk, we have a wonderful knack of ignoring things when they get too technical. / For most of us, our left brain left years ago, tired of the lack of love and relentless mocking from its hyperactive sibling, the right brain. / It’s little wonder then, so many software functions are overlooked due to their, eeky – geeky – speakiness. / Take the layer blending modes in Photoshop. They promise so much with fancy names like multiply, hard light, dissolve and luminosity. Yet a quick look in many Photoshop help files reveal evil words like algorithms, percentages and the arch rival of all creatives..Maths. Urgh. / In fact the layer blend modes are little rippers when it comes to fixing images and creating interesting effects. They’re non destructive, versatile and quite frankly everywhere. (Seriously they breed like rabbits in Photoshop). / And here’s the thing. You don’t actually have to understand all of them to use them. / By in large understanding the theory of only a handful will have you speaking fluent blending modes and impressing your arty-farty-party friends in no time. Now for some maths you’ll really like. Sure there’s 25 layer blend modes listed in the drop down menu of PS CS4, but in reality they fit into 6 sections and truth be told there’s only 3 you really need to understand. Check out this diagram. The three sections you’ll use the most are the darken section, lighten section and the contrast section. In these groups if you understand one mode, you pretty much understand them all. Here’s how do they work. In short blending modes effect the way the top layer blends with the layer below it. Depending on which blend mode you choose, you can make images look lighter, darker, more contrasty, a different colour or a handful of other styles. / The first group in our layer blends diagram we’ve called ‘whatever’ because it’s not really all that interesting. / Normal is well, normal – as in default, as in 100% opaque, as in nothing exciting to see here…move on. / Dissolve is kind of like the annoying guy at the party. He has one trick (reproduces pixels randomly so things look a little pointilized) and pretty much that’s it. It’s probably not something you’ll use much if ever unless you are that annoying guy, in which case, go away. / The ‘dark’ section modes you will use a lot. They ignore white but blend the dark and black pixels, thereby making an image look darker. The Lighten modes ignore black but blend the lighter colours thus the making an image lighter. The contrast modes ignore mid grey but still blend the light and dark pixels and as such / create contrast. / To see it work in practice, here’s an experiment you can do yourself. 1. Create a Photoshop file. / Make sure it has 2 layers. The top layer has a 100% black object, a 50% grey object and a 100% white object. / The bottom layer is green. Your layers should look like this: 2. Choose the top layer and go to the layer blend mode. Choose Multiply…but wait before you do, ask yourself…if multiply comes from the ‘dark’ layer group what will the result be? Yup you guessed it, it will ignore white pixels, so as you see the white object disappears, the 100% black remains the same because you can’t get darker than that and the 50% grey object makes / the pixels below it darker. Therefore the entire image becomes darker. It will look like this: 3. Now choose Lighten. It ignores black so the 100% black disappears, the 100% white remains because you can’t get lighter than that and the everything below the 50% grey goes lighter. As such the entire image gets lighter. The image should look like this: 4. Finally, choose overlay. It ignores 50% grey, so the grey object disappears and the white and black objects remain. Thus the image will show greater contrast. See: By understanding these three modes you effectively have a good idea of how others in their sections work (give or take a few discrepancies…) If you include normal and annoying dissolve that’s 19 out of 25 sorted before you’ve even ordered your second chai latte. / As for the other blends, rather than us explain them, here’s a way to see their effect with a nifty little keyboard shortcut. / Choose your move tool (V). Make sure the top layer is chosen in the layers box. Hold down the shift key and press the – and + tools. This will scroll through every layer blend style and give you an instant preview of what happens with each one. / So now you know the theory how can you use it in practice? / The most obvious use is to fix exposure. / Here we have Jessie the wonder dog posing in an overexposed shot. Because she’s black and white she provides a good test case. / Firstly we create a new layer above our background layer. We can either just press cmd or ctrl j to duplicate the original layer, or if you wish to keep file size down, you can just choose a Levels adjustment layer and leave it untouched. It will ‘inherit’ the information on the bottom layer and allow you to work the blend modes just as effectively. / We want to blend the darker pixels whilst leaving the whites alone. So we activate the top layer and choose multiply. Shazam instant gratification. You can also try out the other modes in the Darken section to see the variations you can achieve. Here’s the before and after: Jess before multiply: Jess after multiply: Ok let’s try an underexposed shot. And this time we’ll use the Linear Dodge mode form out ‘Lighten’ section. Jess before Linear Dodge: After: Finally in the following shot Jess is exposed OK but looks awfully flat. She needs contrast and that means a mode from the contrast section. Try Overlay. Much better. Before Overlay: After Overlay: Once you’ve used a blend mode you can use it immediately again to ‘multiply’ the effect of it. You can also use the most well known blend mode of all – the opacity slider. Say I wanted to lighten the underexposed shot even more, I could go blend > lighten. Then create duplicate layer of that new layer and choose blend > lighten again. If two blends were too much, I could simply dull down the second blend my decreasing its opacity, effectively creating a ‘blend and a half’. / As an example of using multiple blend modes in the same file check out the following shot. The shot on the left (of a hot rock pool at Yellowstone National Park) is the original shot straight out of the camera. The shot on the right was achieved by combining a mix of layer blends just from the 3 main sections we’ve talked / about; darken, lighten and contrast along with the opacity slider. Some blends were used more than once. / In fifteen minutes we had the shot on the right. It could do with more work but it does show you what’s possible in a short period of time. BEFORE (straight out of the camera): AFTER: I did use a couple of quick layer masks in there as well to determine which part of the image the blend mode affected. What are layer masks you ask? Well, that’s for the December issue of DESKTOP. / In the meantime happy shooting and remember, with any program fear not the names of the processes, just experiment with them until you find what works for you. Then gloat. Some keyboard shortcuts relevant to this article: Use the corresponding number on your keyboard to set the opacity level, eg want 80% opacity? Press 8. / 50% press 5 etc. You get the picture (and yes you can have that pun for free). / To duplicate a layer press CTRL + J (WIN) CMD + J (Mac) / To cycle through blend modes: Press the move tool (V). Holding down the shift key and pressing the plus or minus key lets you toggle through the blend modes. If you’ve made it this far congrats! They key is just muck around and have fun :) / Follow my photo tips & news on Twitter @photocampus