A Cool Advertisement Picture

Start out by creating a new document about 700×500 pixels,
resolution (DPI) of 72 pixels and then fill it with linear gradient using colors
0582ae and 0ab7db.

Step 2:

Find a nice, suitable stock photo to work with. For this you’ll want to use
one of the stock photo websites. Open up the picture and copy it to the main
canvas. Then apply the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create
selection as on my picture below, or click the shortcut keys CTRL+A then CTRL+C
then go to your other document and click on CTRL+V. To resize you you want to
press CTRL+T hold in the Shift key and drag from the corners so it resizes
without loosing quality.

Step 3:

Apply following Blending Options to the current layer:

Inner Glow: Select the box color and use 018fc4, Blend Mode: Normal,
Opacity: 30%, Choke: 0% Size: 59 px, Range: 50%, Jitter: 0%

Stroke: Size: 10pc Position: Inside, Blend Mode: Normal, Opacity:
100%, Fill Type: Color, Color: ffffff

Step
4:

Create a new layer under your last layer. Select the Polygonal
Lasso Tool and create selection like mine and after that fill it with
black color.

Step 5: Edit>Fill>Black then Select>Deselect or Ctrl+D then
Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur setting the radius at 2. After that change layer
opacity to 35%, Should look a little like this:

 

Step 6:

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer, then use Edit >
Transform > Flip Horizontal to flip copied layer horizontal and move
right under the second corner of the photo.

Step 7:

Go to the top layer and click on the new layer icon
at the bottom of your layer pallet. Select the Pen Tool
and draw a shape like a ribbon, right click select, Make a Selection and press
Ok. Then Edit>Fill>Color color #aa2041 on top left
corner. We will put advertisement text here later. Then select Ctrl+D to
Deselect.

Step 8:

Apply the following layer styles:

Drop Shadow: Blend Mode: Multiply, Color: 000000, Opacity: 27%, Angle:
153, Distance: 2px, Spread: 0%,  Size: 2px

Inner Glow: Blend Mode: Hard Light, Opacity: 88%, Noise: 0%, Color:
9a0f33, Choke: 0, Size: 9px, Range: 50%

Gradient Overlay: Blend Mode: Normal, Opacity: 80%, Gradient: 530021 on
the far left side and e5355a on the right side, Style: Linear, Angle: 135,
Scale: 28%

Step 9:

Create a new one layer above and merge it with previous to get all effects in
one layer. After that select the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create
selection as on my picture below. Press Delete button to clear
selected area.

Step 10:

Create a new one selection, apply the Dodge Tool (Brush: 65
px, Range: Highlights, Exposure: 50%) to make brighter part of the ribbon.
Remove selection with Select > Deselect. Apply again
Dodge Tool, but pay your attention that we’ve have changes some of
presets: Brush: 7 px, Range: Midtones,
Exposure: 50%.

 

Step 11:

Use the Horizontal Type Tool
and write out something like ‘Best Seller’ with white color. Apply Edit
> Transform > Free Transform to rotate the text.

Step 12:

Duplicate the ribbon that you made before you put the text on it, click on
Ctrl+T and move it to the right bottom corner. And repeat step 11:

An easy Photo Retouch

This is just a quick easy tutorial to show you how to take blemishes off of a
picture you have taken to make it more appealing.

Step 1:

First duplicated your layer, by right clicking and selected duplicate rename
that new layer copy. That was if you mess up you can always go back to the original
and start all over again. Also, you will be able to hide or top layers and see
the difference between the skin on what you have done.

Step 2:

Zoom 300-400% or until you can see those noticeable blemishes. Select the Spot
Healing Brush Tool . I'm
going to start with this picture i have already zoomed in to 300%:

Resize your brush to the appropriate size to remove a blemish. Don't rush
yourself, do one section at a time so you get all the unwanted areas corrected.
Now it should something like this:

Keep doing that to all the areas until you are finished with the whole
picture.

 

Step 3:

Once you are done, if your picture had eye make up one and you would like to
change the color you can do so by making a new layer setting the mode to Hue or
Color and lowering the Opacity between 20-50% depending on how you want it to
look. The picture I'm using she had pink and yellow glitter eye shadow. I have
changed it to a color close to the color of her shit. and I just brought the
yellow out a little more.

Before:

After:

Step 4:

Back back to your copy layer and delicate it again. name is copy2, set the
opacity to 50%. Select the Smudge Tool
set the strength to 50% and start going over the skin. Do not touch the eyebrows.
If you do, then you can either erase after you are done or just press the
shortcut keys Alt+Ctrl+Z and it will take you a step back. This step is
just to smooth out the skin. But remember when you are doing this step, go in
the direction of the skin. Example, the forehead, smooth your smudge brush in
small strokes left to right, you don't want to go round in circles or you the
picture will not come out right.

Final Result: Click on the photo to see a bigger picture.

 

How to Crop/Cut using Photoshop

Credit to youtube.com/pr1nce34