Color Black&White Pictures ( Curves Adjustment Layer )

In this tutorial I'm gonna be covering one method on how to color black and white pictures.

As always, thanks to the huge diversity that Photoshop offers there are multiple ways on how to achieve the coloring. I will only cover one of them right here. A different way can be found here : coming soon

The basic idea that comes with every BW-picture that you want to colorize is that you create a selection of an object or a certain part of the picture and then you do the magic on the 

Let's get started :

1.) Open a Black and White picture of your choice in Photoshop.

I'm gonna be using the following picture as an example

2.) For better color results with this method I recommend you to change the image color mode to CMYK Color by navigating to „Image > Mode > CMYK Color“

3.) Now there are several ways to create a selection in Photoshop. For this method I prefere going with the Quick Selection Tool (W). 

Tip : When you use the Quick Selection Tool you can hold the ALT-Key while clicking to exclude certain parts from your selection without having to create a new selection all over.

Create your own Wallpaper #3 : Pokemon !

So I've stumbled upon a very cool and original Pokemon wallpaper and I was wondering if I could recreate a very similar one with one or more pokemon of my choice.


This is what the original wallpaper looks like :

And then I found a very similar one , probably created by someone else :

The reason why I wanted to show this 2nd example is, because it lacks some little tweaks in my opinion and in the following tutorial I can teach you how you can achieve the best result possible !



Let's get started :


1.) Create a document in Photoshop with the dimensions of your desktop resolution. For me I am going with an image size of 1920x1080.

Tutorial : Create a picture from text (colored)

Here is a small addition to this tutorial, which showed you how to transform a regular picture into a picture that is created only from text in black & white. In the following HowTo I am going to be showing you how to achieve the same effect while keeping the colors of the original picture. The reason I am separating this, is because it uses a quite different technique.



Here are two different examples :

Okay let's get started !

Difficulty : Very Easy

1.) Open a picture that you want to transform 

Tutorial : Create a picture from text (Black & White)

In this tutorial I'm gonna be showing you how to transform a simple portrait or an image of your choice into a  picture that looks like its made only from text.

Here are two examples : 

The effect is pretty simple to create and looks kinda cool , so let's get started :

1.)  Open up a picture in Photoshop and create a new layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N)

2.) Fill that new layer black with the Fill Tool (G) 

New Blog banner : Futuristic, Grungy Metal Text Effect

Hey there,
as I have recently updated the blogs layout a bit, I also created a brand new banner with this awesome looking Futuristic Mental Text effect. Well, because I have posted so many text effect tutorials lately and it starts to get kind of boring I will just link you to the two tutorials that helped me create this thing.

Here is the original text-tutorial by Dylan Roberson from tutplus.com : [ Click ]

In case you are interested in a video tutorial, here's the video that led me to the original written one.

Tutorial : How to create a Favicon in Photoshop

This is a little HowTo on how to pimp your own website a little bit by creating your own Favicon.
You may wonder what a Favicon is. The name itself stands for "Favorite Icon" and when you open a webpage in your browser the Favicon can be found here :

Image source : Wikipedia.org

Usually you will have a boring white page in that position instead of a custom icon. In order to change that we have to create one using Adobe Photoshop.

• We need to download a plug-in for Photoshop called ICO Format in order to be able to save .ico files. The download for the plugin can be found at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/. There might be other plugins but for this tutorial i recommend using this one. 

• You will find a Readme.html along with the downloaded plugin but here is a short version of how to install it : 
• Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop\Plug-ins\
• Create a new folder called 'File Formats' if there's none yet
• Put the downloaded "ICOFormat.8bi" into the File Formats folder and start up Photoshop

• After that's done create a new picture in Photoshop with the dimensions 64x64 pixels.
• Now you are free to draw or design whatever you like

• When you're done hit File > Save As and select "Save as : Icon ( Windows ICON)(*.ico)"

Aaaand you are finished ! 

At this point I'd like to tell you how to set your favicon up but it depends on what webhost you are on. For Google Blogger you can directly upload a file and for all the others :

Upload the .ico to the root directory of your webspace and then insert the following line into the <head> section of all of your webpages : 

<link href="/favicon.ico" rel="SHORTCUT ICON"></link> 

Tutorial : Black and White in Photoshop

This time I'm going to post a pretty easy one.
It's how to do Black/White Pictures in Photoshop. A friend recently requested me to edit a picture for him (TalesFromBombay). The task was, to isolate a certain part in the picture and let it be in color while the rest of the picture should be black and white. This effect is pretty useful to make certain things stand out (e.g. a single person standing in a crowded place)

With that being said, let's begin  :

Difficulty : Easy

Tutorial : How to face swap in Photoshop

Here is the tutorial as promised :-)
Let's quit the unnecessary talking and get started :

For this tutorial we will be using the following picture :

(We want to copy the right face on the left girl)