Photoshop for Looney Tunes

A READER AT THE PHOTOSHOP 911 FORUMS asked for help simulating the famous Looney Tunes cartoons background we all know and love. I was going to key the instructions right into the forum reply, but realized there is a little more to it than would be appropriate. (Forum thread.)

The techniques are simple. I'll give the most basic steps -- which will work in ANY version of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements since version 3.5 -- then turn you loose, knowing the principles, to create your own masterpiece. I know there are more advanced techniques with layers blending and layer styles -- but the importance of these steps represent what goes on in the background of Photoshop while using the newfangled tools. Once you know the basics, you're free to then utilize the layers styles and actually understand what how the settings work, and what they modify.

 

ExactScan TWAIN Bridge scanning

The next version of ExactScan 2 2.10 features a new, unique TWAIN Bridge to enable third party applications to utilize ExactScan's built-in drivers and image processing.

ExactScan TWAIN Bridge scanning ExactScan is popular for being a modern and easy to use Mac OS X scan software with built-in drivers for over 200 document scanners, including devices from Avision, Kodak, Oki, Visioneer and Xerox. The drivers built into ExactScan allow to use these PC document scanners on a Mac. The software allows to scan with a fingertip, comfortable directly with a press of a button from the scanner hardware as well as offering an intuitive user interface. ExactCODE continues to provide automated and intelligent document scanning for the Macintosh.

Flaming Text Tutorials in Photoshop

Photoshop inspiration for very hot, flaming, sparkling, burning, magma, inferno typography text effects! I'm sweating from all this heat -- so when you need to set anything on fire in Photoshop, work your way through these flaming free Photoshop tutorials -- because these are the dirty dozen inferno tutorials that will ignite you on fire!

 

Photoshop Madness : Women

PHOTOSHOP MADNESS is where you practically go mad trying to find the most useful stuff for Photoshop out there among a jungle of bush-leagers, Rube Goldbergers, site scalpers, and domain kiters!

This month's quest for outstanding designing women brought us some rather extraordinary women in graphic arts. There seemed to be a theme that began to thread and weave its way through our discoveries -- attitude. As we learned in our talk about the "Guerrilla Girls" in this month's column -- there's a lot of attitude going on out there! So mingled in amongst the freebies and cool (other) Photoshop tutorials and stuff found, we're proud to present these Photoshopping Women with an attitude!

Photos Out of Bounds

Here's a fun Photoshop tutorial very similar to our vintage Photoshop tutorial posted back in 2005, called : Photo Pop Out. Today, talented young Photoshop designer Adri takes it several steps further and shows you how to make a picture "jump" out of the frame, and into another photo. Adri writes . . .

First, we must find right photo, or better yet photos, because you'll use two images for this tutorial: image one and image two.

Grab them and let's start!