If you have been doing quick photo editing and feel that photoshop eats up all your resources, well as a blogger I have to do a lot of photo editing but I do not need ultra rich photoshop features, which only designers and graphic experts require. Would you want to use the any other similar software like photoshop but simpler?
Think about simple photo-editor that’s quick, easy and doesn’t cost a thousand dollars. Fortunately, there’re plenty of web-based photos editors. Most are useless, but some are great functionally.
Check out these free web-based Photoshop alternatives.
Gimp: GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It works across several different platform.
If you guys have been wondering to do something spooky this Halloween then here’s a tutorial for you to make Zombies. The tutorial by PSDTUTS uses lot of different elements to make the poster “The Digital Dead.” There is an extensive use of masking techniques and adjustment layers along an 3D renders.
If you have a taste for good movies then I believe you must have seen two really awesome Hollywood movies this year, Batman and Ironman. I won’t say much about Batman because I tend to start behaving like Joker after that and some of my colleagues are really pissed off with me for that. I am already on a probation period and I love my job so it would be wise to talk about Ironman instead.
The designer Fabio Sasso of Abduzeedo has tried to create Ironman View Interface effect seen in Ironman. The tutorial takes you through 19 steps in order to bring some image effects on your images.
Veerle Pieters has created a Photoshop tutorial where he tells us about creating simple organic shapes. The tutorial is pretty easy to comprehend and the final product seems much better than the effort you put into making.
It might have occurred to you that pencil is sometimes the source of creativity. It is ubiquitous with creativity and imagination which can work unleash the lesser known patterns of one’s thoughts and perception. It would be a good idea to create a pencil icon on Photoshop which can be used on on your blog or website.
The Photoshop Designer, Gavin Steele has created a screencast of a pencil tutorial on PSDTuts.
Making clouds is one of those things which appear very easy to create yet are far from it. Its no more cotton balloons in the sky when we try to create them on Adobe Photoshop.
Following are some of the good tutorials on making realistic clouds, I hope you will enjoy them all.
I stumbled into this video at CH which tells about some image editor that has a technology called “Image Retargeting.” I am not much of a designer but we really need this thing in our image editors. Such advanced image editing is however possible in Photoshop but this tool makes it lot more easier and faster.
The technology has been created by a guy called Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Israel.
Illustrator can let you export to Photoshop while preserving important information. You can export Layers, Color Profiles, Resolution Specification, and Text Preservation. This is extremely helpful while you require to export website wire frames etc.
No we are not tired of photoshop, we love it, and we can not give up on it, but here are some cool web based alternatives for quick editing and layout design work. Check them out:
Picnik is now very popular web-based photo editor. It is also integrated with Flickr.
flautR has plenty of image tools it has thousands of photo effects options to choose from.
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