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Posted on January 20, 2009 - by Khaled

Create a cool frog in just 3 steps with Photoshop

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Another quick photoshop tutorial…So do you remember this fella?

frogIf you were a regular reader of this blog when it used to be called “No relation” then you will recognize this frog as it was on the header. You can download the full resolution stock photo from sxc.hu for free. I will quickly show you in 3 steps how to turn this plain ordinary frog into a cool one! Ok first of all let’s change the eyes color to something more attractive and exotic! what about pink?

Step 1 : Eyes color

Start with the selection of the eyes with the elliptical marquee tool.
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Now we’re going to add a new adjustment layer to tweak the Hue/saturation of the eyes.

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Set the hue/saturation to the following values:
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Of course by setting the hue value differently you can have a different eyes color. Just choose what you like!frog3

Step 2 : Body color

Ok don’t deselect just inverse the selection (ctrl+shift+I). Add a new adjustment layer of Brightness and contrast: set brightness to +30 and contrast to +25.

frog4Now as you see the colors are a lot more lively and nicer to see!

Step 3 : Final touches

Ok use the Burn tool (brush 35px, Range: Midtones; Exposure: 30%) and darken the shadow and the lower parts of the frog. You may want to use the dodge tool to add some brightness to the eyes. The final result will look like this:

frog5I hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial. If you need more details about the steps just let me know.


Posted on April 7, 2008 - by Khaled

Rusted Engine Photoshop Tutorial

Yet another old Photoshop tutorial already posted on Kyscorp. This one is called: Rusted engine. During this tutorial you will learn some basic photo manipulation techniques in Adobe Photoshop. You can use those techniques in so many different ways to create different effects especially related to texturing with Photoshop.
It is an old tutorial that was created for Adobe Photoshop 7 but you can of course use Photoshop CS, CS2 or CS3. More old tutorials will be posted soon…

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