Creating Realistic Burnt Parchment Paper in Photoshop

Parchment paper and especially burnt parchment paper along with grunge background and textures intrigue me so I decided to try the project of making realistic burnt parchment paper in Photoshop. I started out with a blank tan colored background. I added a little texture to the background then I added a layer and dirtied it [...]

Photo Tampering

Only a few decades after the first photographs were created, people began manipulating them. In recent years, with the help of high-resolution cameras, digital images and powerful computers and photo-editing software image tampering has become more common. Before the digital age of photography, people would airbrush or simply cut people out of one photograph and [...]

Layering and Collage Project

For one of my projects for the lesson in Photoshop I scanned a pair of jeans or the leg of it for my scanning project for texture. Later in Chapter nine I used this same texture for my background for the layering collage project. I used the blue jean texture for my background then put [...]

Design Styles

Lo-Fi Grunge This style takes an extreme move away from the ordinary, orderly, practical design. It often distorts and misaligns fonts and other objects in a rebellious sort of way. An example of this style is at http://www.swiths.com/ Mondrian Poster This style is cool and uncluttered using a lot of bold color in its design. [...]

Photoshop Blending Modes

So experimenting with the different blending modes until you find one that gives you the desired effect is one of the best ways to determine what you need. Experiment and have fun!