Even if you’ve taken a good photo, chances are it can be improved or it needs to be adjusted to work in a collage or collection. Or even to just to intensify a mood. You can always make a good thing better – and curves is a one-stop-shop way to do that.

With curves you are able...

Mar 4th in

Painting

by

Andrea Austoni

Now we'll take the vector drawing into Photoshop where we will refine the shading, add some textures, and complete the book cover with the appropriate typography. Let's continue on with Part 2 of this series.

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Step 1: Setting Up

Make a new document with these settings:

Next, select the

fill tool (G)

and fill it with

#626262

. Now, we need to make a new

adjustment layer

. Make a

brightness/contrast

layer (

Layer...

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: Adobe Illustrator CS...

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Adobe Illustrator...

Jan 6th in

Painting

,

Photo Effects

by

Wojciech Pijecki

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Photo Effects

It seems like cool black and white photo effects are all the rage lately. Movie posters, magazine ads and album covers have all sported this effect with great results. In this Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you how to create this effect using Channels.

Step...