Although we post a lot of tutorials that teach you how to turn your ordinary photos into professional shots, many of us still get stuck and end up playing actions. It only takes seconds and the result is often very impressive. With so many ideas and experience I have, I decided it would be a shame if I won’t release a set of actions to help the readers of PSwish.com and LoreleiWebDesign.com, so here is my first release, PSWISH 3 Action (pro). Please note that this action is for personal use one, and cannot be resold or redistributed on other websites. Instruction: The action will work best with LIGHT photos. Any area that is slightly dark will turn black. The final result’s color scheme of the photo is determent by your...

Photos and article written by our guest poster Prajneet Singh. The amount of detail that can be found in nature, no human creation can ever match. The beauty, the freshness, the colors of nature, it is all just so amazing; no wonder so many people take up nature photography as a hobby or maybe even a profession. But with the kind of flora and fauna out there, you are left with a wide variety of subjects to choose from: beautiful landscapes and seascapes, to little flowers and insects, to big cats, to creatures of the air – birds. Bird watching has always been a popular hobby with nature lovers, and with the advent of digital photography, bird photography has turned into a sort of extension of birding. But the fact remains...

Focus is critical, pixels are cheap If you are shooting wide open, which is at the camera’s largest aperture, your depth of field will be correspondingly shallow.  That means your focus is going to be even more critical than otherwise.  Pick a point that needs to be sharp and really pay attention to keeping that point sharp.  Generally, if you are shooting people, the most important thing to keep sharp is the eyes.  When I am shooting people I focus on the eyes, shoot, re-focus and shoot again …and then do it all over again.  I can’t tell you how much I hate to be editing and find that I have a potentially great shot, but out of focus eyes ruin the picture.  I have found that if I am worried about an image not being...

After a log pause with making wordpress themes, I am finally happy to announce the Piggie Bank theme. This layout is designed for money-making blogs as I am sure there are hundreds of them out there. recently, when i started a website dedicated to credit cards and finances, i ended up looking for a good wordpress theme, eventually I didn’t find anything financial oriented and decided to create my own. And if I already make a theme for myself and not for a client, why not to share it with my beloved readers and wordpress-fans? Enjoy the theme and feel free to use it for any project but please, do keep the credits to this website if you use it for you rpersonal blog. Demo | Download License: General Public License. (GPL) Support:...

Looking for nice looking web 2.0 gradients could be a pain. Most of them just won’t look good when it comes to implementing them into your design. Luckily, some talented people out there do take the time and effort to release free Web 2.0 gradients for anyone. Thanks to Jakub Nowaczyk, you can obtain a free PSD file of the Tango gradients. 9 splendidly looking gradients, idea for use in web design and any sort of graphic that need to look truly sleek.  The gradients come in 9 classic colors – Butter, Orange, Chocolate, Chameleon, Sky Blue, Plum, Scarlet red, Aluminium light, Aluminum dark.  Installation: Put the .grd file into the folder: MAC: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop...

This tutorial was originally posted on loreleiweb.com but due to technical reasons moved. The tutorial remains a copyright property of Lorelei (me!) This tutorial’s purpose is to make an imitation of real painting, made using semi dry brushes. The final result will be this: so, lets get started… Make a new canvas, 450*450. White your colours are set to black and white, go to Filter >> Render >> Clouds and apply the clouds effect (once) Using the marquee tool, select half of the canvas (or a bit more than half, as this will be out “sky”) and add a lot of Contrast (Image >> Adjustments >> Brightness / Contrast) as shown on the picture below. While the upper part of the canvas is still...

This tutorial moved permanently from loreleiweb.com due to technical reasons. Ok, so this is going to be an ultra simple tutorial for making this image. It can add a lot of sexy and elegant yet creepy effect to any of your family photos, so since it’s a quick and easy tut I sincerely recommend you to try it out. We used a picture of Amy Lee, so for a start you need to get some photo to work with, though don’t forget that you need someone with light eyes, it wont work good enough on brown / black eyes.. discrimination, I know. You can take the picture of Amy Lee that we used as her eyes are really bright. Duplicate the layer. Select the upper layer, and go to Hues / Saturation and reduce the colors of the upper layer...