DIY Air Freshener

Its been a while since I bought myself some air freshers for my room because they are so darn expensive. I count believed a cheeseburger was a MUCH better deal "who wants to pay 5 bucks for one little air freshener when I can buy myself 5 Mc chickens".

It turns out that making gel-based air fresheners are pretty much the same as making a gelatin dessert: all you need are some small jars Some water, essential oils, gelatin, and food coloring (optional) and you can make your own that smell however you choose and save a those few bucks to buy yourself Mc chickens. The recipe can be viewed after the break line and have fun making them......

Ties to match your wardrove

These are some stylist combinations for your ties and wardrove that I can provide you with, these are not so 100% lady gaga approved but It will make you look more of a Prada Guru than a Clown from downtown...... :) now go and look pretty!!!!!

using paypal to pay silvermyst

This is a short video on how to pay your invoice to silvermyst using paypal .

WOW

I ran threw some of my favorite websites and one of them is MYSPACE which i found a crazy video and everytime i see it makes me think "that kid is born an artist"


U TELL ME ......


Amazing 3 year old fingerpaints TMNT

LUIZ SHOOT

Before


AFTER


PHOTOGHED BY:LUIZ C.
EDITED BY:CARLOS D.

Design soft stylized 3D type

Step 1

Open up Illustrator, and with the Type Tool type some text, I used the font Bifurk, which is available to download for free. I used this font because nice thick fonts work best with this effect, using a thin font usually yields poorer results. The font size has been set to 77pt. Don't worry about the font size too much. We'll be using Smart Objects, so we can adjust the size at any given time.

Step 2

Now change the color to white. If you don't like not being able to see your text, you can simply use a different background. Next go to Effect>3D>Extrude & Bevel. Use the settings shown below, make sure to open up More options, and make sure that Preview is on.

Step 3

Time to migrate your work to Photoshop. Simply, copy and paste the artwork (or drag it from one canvas to the other). I prefer to use Smart Objects. You can now resize your text to whatever size you want. In fact, the bigger the better. For the purposes of this tutorial, I will stick to a relatively small canvas. I placed the image on a blue background, so it's easier to work with than white on white.

Step 4

Now the magic happens! Use the Settings below to apply Layer Styles to the text. The result follows the setting images.

Step 5

Let's go over the top with this design. After all, this is a funky style we're creating here. CTRL+Click your text layer to obtain a selection. Next, on a new layer add a smooth black to white gradient. Set the layer mode to soft light, and the opacity to 40%. This creates some awesome contrast.

I also want to add some shadows, so that my text sits on a surface. Select a low opacity (around 20%) small sized soft black brush. Then brush a shadow below the text on a new lower layer. The further away you get from the text, the less strokes you should use. If you feel your shadow needs a blur then go to filter>blur>Gaussian blur. Use a value that seems appropriate to you. It's a basic shadow, nothing too fancy.

Step 6

You could call it a day, and stop here, or you could go on. Duplicate the smart object and rasterize it by going to (Layer > Rasterize > Smart Object). Hide the bottom smart object. Now go to the clone stamp tool. Get a nice irregular brush, like a spatter brush, or something similar. Then clone some parts of the text. This creates a sweet 'broken' up effect. Be careful not to overdo the effect though.

Step 7

I'm going to add more elements. Instead of glowing swirls, I'm going to add what I like to call 'road marks'. Perhaps the proper term would be 'pinstripes'. I use the pen tool to create a shape that has the proper perspective (this is all by eye), and then I fill it with white. This enhances that illusion of a surface. You can tweak it with a mask, and a low opacity brush - fading some parts creates a sweet effect.

Step 8

Lens flares are underestimated. When used well, they help to enhance the effect of a glowing object. Create a new layer on top of everything else, and fill it with black. Go to Filter > Render > Lens flare. Go for the 105mm prime. Put it a tad off center, so you get a nice beam shooting out of it. Set the layer mode to screen. Perhaps you noticed, if you move around the layer, you can see a harsh edge at the end of the lens flare. Simply erase it with a soft eraser, or mask it with a soft brush. You can regulate the layer's opacity in order to control the intensity of the effect.

Step 9

Let's add some color to the type now. Create a new layer on top of everything else. Grab a fuzzy medium sized brush, and set it to a color like (#e02c97). Start brushing the bottom of your type. When you are done, CTRL+Click on the layer where your type is located, so that a selection is visible around the type. Now hit the layer mask button at the bottom of the layers palette. This should remove all the color that is outside the bounds of the text. Next, you should set this layer to soft light.

Step 10

Let's work some more on the background. Create a new document that is 40px by 2px. Make sure that the background is set to transparent. Now fill half of the document (20px) with black. Go to edit > define pattern. Then save this new pattern.

Step 11

Return to your original project. On a new layer, located below your type layer, go to edit > fill. Set the use field to pattern. From the patterns available, select your freshly made custom pattern from the previous step. Now hit OK. The whole canvas should fill with a bunch of stripes.

Now go to edit > transform > perspective. Take the lower left anchor point, while holding SHIFT drag it outwards and the left. Keep doing this until the stripes seem to match the orientation of the shadow. This adds to the 3D effect in the design.

Finally, I changed the layer mode to soft light. With a low opacity brush and a mask, I added some texture to the whole thing. I also removed parts of the line patterns to focus the design with a mask.

Step 12

Next we'll create the rings. Take the ellipse tool and set it to paths instead of shape layers. Now make a nice circle (hold SHIFT to create a circle). Then stroke it with a 2px brush. Now you have one ring. Duplicate this layer, decrease it's size, and repeat this process about 4 more times. Now you have a bunch of rings. Merge all these layers. Then add a default glow, but with the color changed to white. Then add a lensflare on top, as we did earlier. For the fancy effect I used a mask (yes, again), and I got rid of a portion of the rings.

Step 13

The next things to do are add the clouds and the 'smoke' below the letters. The clouds are from a stock image from Stock.Xchng. After downloading and importing the image, I heavily masked and duplicated it. Play around and see what happens, every outcome is different with this one. The 'smoke' was created with the same techniques as can be found at the beginning of the Flaming Meteor Text Effect tutorial by Fabio.

by:psdtuts

BEFORE AND AFTER CHILD

So at work yesterday i had a customer who had a child with cataract (how ever you fucken spell it) lol anyways the loved the pictures i took but they hated the fact that CPI dont have a way to take out the nasty red spots off his face....so i was nice enougth to take the pictures home and redo them, not only did the love it, the purchased more than what they were intending to get. Im glad that i did a good thing for these people and im glad to always do it again.

I count charge them for my hard work because i had to put everything in the SAS register of CPI, which sucks balls. So not only am i helping myself but helping sears as well.Hope they appreciate my and my work. I may be slow on learning how to operate things, but im more rewarding than what you think. I hope im getting better.

SELECTING AND EXTRACTING HAIR

One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick. Get it wrong and, just like a bad wig, it shows. Extract filters, Magic Erasers and Tragic Extractors don’t even get us close.


Portrait image by Dan Stainsby

The first secret step must be completed before you even press the shutter on the camera. Your number one essential step for success is to first shoot your model against a white backdrop, sufficiently illuminated so that it is captured as white rather than gray. This important aspect of the initial image capture ensures that the resulting hair transplant is seamless and undetectable.

The post-production is the easy bit - simply apply the correct sequence of editing steps and the magic is all yours. This is not brain surgery but follow these simple steps and you will join the elite ranks of Photoshop gurus around the world. Celebrity status is just a few clicks away.



Step 1
The initial steps of this tutorial are concerned with creating a mask that can be used in the final montage. Start by dragging the background layer to the New Layer icon to duplicate it. Choose ‘Remove Color’ from the Adjust Color submenu found in the Enhance menu (Enhance > Adjust Color > Remove Color).

Drag this desaturated/monochrome layer to the New Layer icon in the Layers palette to duplicate it. Set the blend mode of this new layer (now on top of the layers stack) to ‘Overlay’ mode.



Step 2
From the Layer menu choose ‘Merge Down’ to create a single high-contrast monochrome layer. Select ‘Black’ as the foreground color and the ‘Brush tool’ from the Tools palette. Choose a large hard edged brush and 100% opacity from the Options bar and set the mode to ‘Overlay’ (also in the Options bar).

Painting in Overlay mode will preserve the white background and darken the rest of the pixels. Accuracy whilst painting in Overlay mode is not a concern when the background is white or is significantly lighter than the subject. Avoid going anywhere near the tips of the hair at this stage.



Step 3
Even the bright tones of the white shirt can be rendered black by repeatedly clicking the mouse whilst using a large brush in Overlay mode. Again it is important to avoid going anywhere near the hair.



Step 4
Darken the body of the hair near the scalp but avoid the locks of hair that have white background showing through. Painting these individual strands of hair will thicken the hair and may lead to subsequent halos appearing later in the montage process.



Performance Tip
Switch the blend mode of the brush in the Options bar to ‘Normal’ mode when painting away from the edge of the subject. This will ensure a speedy conclusion to the mask making process. The mask is now ready to use in the montage.

Note > If any of the background has been darkened in the process of creating a black and white mask switch the foreground color to ‘White’ and choose ‘Overlay’ in the Options bar. Paint to render any areas of gray background white. It is again important to avoid painting near the edges containing delicate hair detail.



Step 5
With the Remove Color layer selected add a Levels adjustment layer. Without making any adjustment simply select OK. This Levels adjustment layer has a layer mask that we can use to house the mask that we have created in the previous step.



Step 6
The next step relocates the mask you have just created into the layer mask of the adjustment layer. From the Select menu choose ‘All’ and from the Edit menu choose ‘Copy Merged’. Hold down the Alt key and click on the layer mask thumbnail in the Layers palette. The image window will momentarily appear white as you view the empty contents of the layer mask.

From the Edit menu choose ‘Paste’ to transfer the contents of the clipboard to this layer mask. Click on the layer below to select it and then click on the Visibility icon of this layer to switch it off. This mask layer serves no purpose now that it has been successfully transferred to the adjustment layer mask.



Step 7
The new background is placed on its own layer above the figure and mask layers. Drag the thumbnail of this new file into the image window of your project file from either the Photo Bin or the layer thumbnail in the Layers palette. Group this new background layer with the adjustment layer beneath (Layer > Group with Previous). Alternatively you can hold down the Alt key and click on the dividing line between the two layers to group them.



Step 8
Grouping the new background with the adjustment layer will mask the background in the region of the figure but the quality will not yet be acceptable. Setting the blend mode of the adjustment layer to ‘Multiply’ will bring back all of the fine detail in the hair. The background will be not darkened by applying the ‘Multiply’ blend mode as white is a neutral color. The subtle detail in the fine strands of hair will however be preserved in all their glory.



Step 9
The accuracy and quality of the edge of the mask will usually require some attention in order for the subject to achieve a seamless quality with the new background. Make a selection of all of the edges that do not include any hair detail using the Lasso tool with a small amount of feather set in the Options bar. With the adjustment layer mask selected choose the ‘Gaussian Blur filter’ (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) and apply a 1- to 2-pixel Radius Blur to the mask.

Click OK and then from the Enhance menu choose a Levels adjustment from the Adjust lighting submenu. Move the central Gamma slider underneath the histogram to realign the edge of the mask with the subject edge (no dark or light halo should be visible).



Performance Tip
If the mask is too soft the edges can be sharpened by moving the black and white sliders in towards the central Gamma slider a little. Select OK when perfect alignment has been achieved.

Zoom in to 100% Actual pixels whilst working to accurately assess the quality of your mask.



Step 10
In most instances the hair is already looking pretty fabulous but to modify and perfect the hair even further you will need to inverse the selection (Select > Inverse). Choose ‘Levels’ once again and move the central Gamma slider to the left to increase the density of the hair and eliminate any white halos that may be present. Moving the White slider to the left a little may help the process of achieving a perfect blend between subject and background. Select OK and choose ‘Deselect’ from the Select menu.

Performance Tip
Any localized refinement of the mask can be achieved manually by painting with a small soft edged brush directly into the layer mask. Paint with white at a reduced opacity (10-20%) to remove any fine halos present in localized areas. Several brush strokes will slowly erase the halo from the image.



Step 11
The true test of an accurate mask for a subject that was photographed against a white background is when you place the subject against a very dark background. Grouping a Levels adjustment layer with the new background layer can darken the background image used in this project.

Hold down the Alt key when you select a Levels adjustment layer from the Layers palette. Click on the Group with Previous box in the New Layer dialog box and then select OK to open the Levels dialog box. Move the Gamma slider to the right in order to preview your subject against a darker background in the image window.


By:Photoshop support

Quickly Build an Abstract Background of Colored Bars

In Effects by Jonathan

Oftentimes there's a need for a quick but unique design. In this tutorial, I'll be showing you a short but attractive way to create a graphic for backgrounds, wallpapers, greeting cards, designs, and all that other good stuff. You will learn a simple photoshop trick that you can easily manipulate for your daily needs.

Step 1

First off let's start by creating a new document and applying the oh so obligatory clouds (Filter > Render > Clouds).

Step 2

Now that we have our base to work with apply Mezzotint (Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint) with type "Long Strokes".

Step 3

Doesn't look much right now, but with the magic of motion blur (Filter > Blur > Motion Blur), with an angle of 90 degrees and a distance of 999 for the settings, everything will be better.

Step 4

Now add a new layer, and overlay some color over it. Here I chose the Rainbow Gradient using the Gradient Tool (G), but you can choose whatever suits you. When you have a layer of color, set the layer mode to Overlay.

Step 5

If you feel like being creative, you can tweak some more by changing the curves (CTRL + M) to make the image either brighter or gloomier depending on the mood.

Step 6

Now create a new layer. Then select the Marquee Tool (M), set it to elliptical, and the Feather to 30, and select around the picture (use the example below for reference). Then select inverse (CTRL + SHIFT + I), and fill (Edit > Fill) with black. Then change the opacity to 75% so that it is a bit more subtle.

Step 7

Again create a new layer, and with the same Marquee tool settings as above, select (use the example below as reference). Then change the curve (CTRL + M) to something like in the example. Afterward, change the opacity to 60% so that it isn't blinding. Try to be creative and change the settings to your taste.

Step 8

Now we are done with the background. You can choose to do whatever you want with it. But I'll leave you guys with a simple example that you can easily do for generic jobs.

Reset the Marquee Tool to rectangular with 0 feather. Then create a horizontal bar in the middle of the picture. Then fill it with white (Edit > Fill) and lower the opacity to say, 50%.

Step 9

Now while still selecting the area, select the first layer (The clouds + mezzotint + motion blur layer), copy it (CTRL + C) and paste it (CTRL +V) in a layer above it, but below the color overlay. Deselect, and apply Gaussian blur to it (Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur) with a setting of about 3.2 pixels.

Step 10

Going back to the top layer, duplicate (Layer > Duplicate Layer) the white horizontal bar layer you created in step 8 and transform it (CTRL + T). Then make it slightly smaller height wise. About 2px from the top and the bottom.

RAINBOW TUTORIAL

Create a new square dimension file (ie. 800 x 800px). Make a spectrum gradation in the middle of the document using the Gradient tool with the default "Spectrum" preset. Go to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates. There you go, a perfect circle spectrum!

Now, you have to blur the sharp edge. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, apply 5 to 10px radius, depending on the size of your document. Bigger document size will require more blur.

If you only to show partial of the rainbow, you can use the layer mask to hide the unwanted area. In the Layer palette, click on the "Add layer mask" icon. Use Gradient tool, select the "black to transparent" swatch, drag from left to right to mask out the unwanted area.

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