20 Astounding Photos of the Human Eye

[tweetmeme]The Human Eye has always been a fairly incredible thing, but when viewed up close with the detail of Macro and HDR photography, it bares completely new dimensions. The colours and patterns are just mesmerising. Photos like this aren’t that difficult to achieve either. All you need is a Macro lens, Photomatix or another HDR [...]

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Photoshopping Gold Text with Channels

[tweetmeme]In my first tutorial on Photoshopping sparkling gold text, I used only layer styles to make the text look gold. I promised to churn out another tutorial on the same effect, but twice as realistic and awesome. So here we are. Without further ado let’s get to work. Step 1 I started with a document [...]

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Winners of the Bokeh Masters Kit Giveaway

[tweetmeme]For the past two weeks on PhotoGuides we’ve been giving you the chance to win 1 of 3 Bokeh Masters Kits. Today, I’m very excited to announce the results of the competition. Congratulations to Marianna Ferrari, Jeanette Delaplane and Matt Boudwin. I’ll be in contact with you very soon. These lucky three will be walking [...]

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Closed: Win 1 of 3 Bokeh Masters Kits

Bokeh 2 Star by JoshMahoney [tweetmeme]I’m very excited to announce the first ever PhotoGuides competition! We’re giving you the chance to win one of three Bokeh Masters Kits, curtosy of diyphotography.net. These amazing kits will let you photograph bokeh and transform it into all kinds of cool shapes. We’re giving away three of the top [...]

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Tilt Shift School

[tweetmeme]‘Tilt Shift School’ is a short film I put together for my media class at school. It’s based in the Year 12 common room, and it basically just shows everyone chatting, laughing and playing around in front of the camera. It’s a fun little film. Don’t forget there’s an awesome tutorial for tilt shift on [...]

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Photoshopping Sparkling Gold Text

[tweetmeme]Gold, one of the most sought after metals in the world, is used in coins and jewelry, as a store of value, electronics, medicinal purposes and in many other possible ways you can think of. Entire civilizations have been wiped out because of the greed for gold. Even today many people fight to own this [...]

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HDR Panoramic Photography

[tweetmeme]We’ve all been there and seen it. You’re on holiday or just happen to be taking a drive out into the local mountain range (if you happen to be lucky enough to live in a place like that) and there it is, the most amazing view! You have your camera on you, however the wide-angle [...]

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Photoshopping Bronze Text

[tweetmeme]The discovery of Bronze was important to humankind, since it helped to create better metal objects, especially weapons, than previously possible. Even though it was more brittle than steel, it was much durable than the copper and stone predecessors. Today, we’re going to create some Bronze from scratch using our alchemist friend, Photoshop. Step 1 [...]

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Free Apple iPad PSD

[tweetmeme]I was looking at making an iPad on photoshop for the next podcast, but then I got a bit carried away. Needless to say, I put way too much time into it and created something far too complicated for a 10 minute podcast. But rather than let my creation go to waste, I thought I [...]

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Creating A Polaroid In Photoshop

[tweetmeme]Taken a great old school picture, but don’t know what to do with it? In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to transform it into an old fashioned polaroid in photoshop. In a few simple steps you can create a polaroid with your own picture! PhotoGuides Members can also download the PSD file for [...]

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