Photoshop Shortcuts
Working with Photoshop isn't that easy for both beginners and advanced users. There are times when applying a simple effect to your image can be so much time consuming. What follows is a list of often used(and much abused tools) tools and their shorcuts to make working with them second nature-we don't want to handle our tools clumsily while unleashing our creativity, do we?
Put a Logo on a Shirt
Step 1: Step 2: Fill the layer with 50% gray-- this will be our designated "neutral" for the distortion.
Here's a great shot of a young man in a white t-shirt-- let's put a logo on his shirt, and turn on Photoshop's power with the Wacom pen to make the logo ripple with his shirt.
Create a layer above the t-shirt by tapping on the Layer icon-- we'll paint in this layer with the airbrush to create our distortion graphic. 
Step 3:
Let's get Photoshop's airbrush tool set-- go to the Brush Dynamics icon at the top of your screen (or in the Options palette for those of you who are pre-6), and set to to Pressure: Stylus. Set the layer for 75% opacity-- that way you can see Tee Shirt Boy underneath.
Step 4:
Paint in your layer with black-- try to match the darker areas of the underlying image. The Wacom pen's pressure sensitivity lets you get as much or as little black as you want, merely by changing how hard you press.
Step 5:
Now paint in the white highlights-- go ahead and change the opacity up to 100% if you're curious how the layer looks. Don't worry about getting too exact-- here, close is good enough. Copy and paste the gray layer into a new document and save it as a grayscale image-- this is your distortion image.
Step 6:
Place the logo right in the front of the shirt. Go to Filter-- Distort-- Displace, and set your H and V scale to whatever you think sounds good (be prepared to experiment a bit here). Select the distortion image you just created, and hit Open.
Step 7:
You'll see a weird distortion effect-- change the layer mode to Hard Light and lower the opacity a bit.
Step 8:
Burn and dodge the logo layer for a little added three-dimensional touch, and there you go
Radical Car Body Painting
This tutorial deals with a unique method of changing the color of a car... call it body painting
Unlike traditional ways of changing a vehicle's body colour, this technique uses layer mask and various blending modes to preserve reflections making it extremely difficult for others to figure out if the image was digitally edited.
1. Open the image for editing, suppose:
2. Add a new "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer (Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Hue/Saturation) and set the "Saturation" to "-100". Click OK.
3. Create a new layer as the top layer and fill it with the new colour of the car.
4. Set the current layer's blending mode to "Multiply" and add a layer mask (Layer> Add Layer Mask> Reveal All).
5. With the current layer's layer mask selected, use the eraser tool to erase the areas around the body of the car.
6. With the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer's layer mask selected, use the "Apply Image" tool (Image> Apply Image) to apply the following properties:
Source: filename
Layer: Layer 1
Channel: Layer Mask
Blending: Multiply
Opacity: 100%
Click OK.
7. Duplicate the top layer (Ctrl+J), set its blending mode to "Screen" and invert the layer (Ctrl+I).
8. Make a layer of the current layer's layer mask (Ctrl+Click on the layer mask). Use the "Apply Image" tool (Image> Apply Image) to apply the following properties:
Source: filename
Layer: Background
Channel: RGB
Invert: Uncheckmarked
Blending: Multiply
Opacity: 100%
Click OK.
9. With the current layer mask selected, use the "Levels" tool (Ctrl+L) and drag the black input slider right until the bleeding edges of the current layer is gone. Make sure that the "Preview" checkbox is checkmarked. Click OK.
10. Compare the this technique to traditional Hue/Saturation techniques. Rollover the image in this step to see the original image before this technique was applied.
Statuatory Warning : This tutorial is a little tough and those with patience & adequate knowledge could sail thru easily
Create a duotone picture
Well, It's a duotone pic with an xtra colors! Black, white & any other color.
We have seen black & white photos, we have seen color photos, bothhave their own advantages… B&W photos have more depth, Color photos are more vibrant.
So, I thought why not mix both these worlds & get a tritoneepic…
Didn’t get it… it’s a duotone pic with an xtra color…. Black, white & any other color.
Take a picture, preferably with a dominant color… nature pics are preferred.
Duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J)
Desaturate the new layer (Shift+Ctrl+U)
Go to the “background” layer (the color one), SELECT->COLORRANGE, SAMPLED COLORS, select the primary color (here “tigeryellow”) with the “eyedropper”, take necessary fuzziness.
Now that color is selected, copy it and paste upon the DESATURATED LAYER, making the yellow layer copied as OVERLAY blend.
GAUSSIAN BLUR to about 3 pixels.
Layer via Copy(Ctrl+J) if you want to enhance the color.
You can also Ctrl+J the DESATURATED LAYER in OVERLAY mode to add more contrast
Final adjustments, like levels, noise removal… give the desired result.
We can also make more tones this way
