Feb 292012
 

Welcome to Part 2 of Cut Outs: Background Eraser Tool. In this tutorial we will be cleaning up the rough cutout we made with the background eraser tool. Missed it? Don’t worry, the post is right here.

If you remember, the cutout we made was decent enough; especially for the time we put into it. But for a professional, this is just not up to scratch yet. Now I will take you through some advanced techniques to cleanup the image before we drop it into a background. The image below shows you where we got to – some rough/furry edges, green lines remaining and green hints in the legs and arms.

Feb 272012
 

Green Screen Removal is one of the first things you want to learn in Photoshop; after all, that is what it’s all about right? But then you probably got caught up in learning the basic tools and removing background properly and effectively might have dropped off your to-do list. Well, it is time to put it back on as I take you through a series of different ways of skinning the same cat… um… green screen; Photoshop style of course.

Feb 022012
 
shapeShadow

In this tutorial I will show you how to create realistic shadows in photoshop using one technique (as always in Photoshop, there is more than one way to skin a photo)

I will be using the same shape I was using in the Illustrator tutorial to demonstrate the techniques in this one. To get it into Photoshop I just copied and pasted it in as a Smart Object. (For more on Smart Objects, check out this previous tutorial)