Image Effects, Filters, Masks and Other Image Processing Methods

We have listed 85 of the best free psd text effect tutorials. As well as having details instructions with screenshots and/or videos, many of these free PSD tutorials also have PSD starter files to download so you can don’t have to recreate everything from scratch. Use them to create brilliant 3D typography with amazing effects. You can see all 85 PSD 3D text effects here.

Image recognition is one of the buzz-words of our times. Facebook has acquired Face.com with its flagship product — facial recognition app — and invested huge money to better suggest who’s who on the images uploaded to the service by over a billion of its users. Google+ Photos uses image recognition technology to make photos serachable, and Google Goggles is a new powerful gadget from the Mountain View giant that will let you find information on objects not by typing their names, but by simply "showing" Google what they look like.

Not as easy as you may think

Our mobile team at Goyello has recently faced a challenge of a similar type (in a smaller scale though) — how to recognize if a photographed image of a solved puzzle set matches one of the predefined templates. The task that seems to be so easy to the human brain is in fact a complex feat, and highly sophisticated algorithms out there still fall short of what any of us — humans — is capable of. But the power of today’s computers is tremendous and constantly growing, so we started looking for solutions to our conundrum. And first, we don’t want to send the image to the server for matching, so the algorithm must perform acceptably on a mobile device; second — we’d love the code to be open source so that we can freely play with it and adopt it to our specific demands.

After some research we’ve found OpenCV — an open-source library of real-time image processing and manipulation functions developed initially by Intel in C++ and ported to the most popular mobile platforms. Being both BSD-licensed and native on Android/iOS, it seemed to be a perfect hit, so we started feasibility analysis right away.

If you can't afford a fisheye lens, there is an alternative in the form of image-editing software.

There are quite a few fisheye lenses available, but they are not usually found at bargain-basement prices. Fortunately, there are a few alternative ways to get the same look. As is often the case in this era of digital technology, some image-editing packages such as Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements can be used to introduce the signature distortion.

The easiest way to mimic the appearance of an image shot through a fisheye lens is to use the Spherize filter, but this only works on a central circular portion of the picture. Careful selection is required to remove the surrounding undistorted section of the image so that the circular fisheye look is created.

Another more satisfactory approach uses Photoshop’s Warp transformation. This is much more flexible than the Spherize filter and allows the photographer to stretch and distort the image to taste and still produce a rectangular picture with the original aspect ratio.

In this tutorial, we will show you 4 ways that you can create long shadow effects in Photoshop. Part of the recent, "flat design" trend, long shadow effects are a popular but not necessarily new phenomenon. The trend's strongest impact seems to be on interface design elements and icons but it is being increasingly used as part of web designs, as well. 

Imagenomic announced the release of its Realgrain 2 image effects software plugin. Realgrain 2 is a finishing plugin for Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, CS5/CS6, Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, and Apple Aperture. The effect helps users to produce images that simulate the grain patterns, color, and tonal range of silver halide films for a film-like effect from digital images. Realgrain 2 has had several upgrades. First, Realgrain 2 has increased processing speeds of up to four times its predecessor.  Second, a new Preset Manager now allows photographers to create presets with multiple categories and gives users a place to make special. Third, Realgrain 2 comes with a number of pre-defined effect presets and a library of 25 color and 20 black-and-white film presets. Finally, the new History Control also allows an unlimited number of history steps for unlimited adjustments without losing previous steps.

"Realgrain addresses the 'last-mile' of the workflow, a critical and final stage in making the photograph. If you are looking for a superior black-and-white conversion, toning and color effects or long for the darkroom age to achieve the soft, warm graininess of film, then Realgrain 2 is the plugin for you," explains Art Ghazaryan, Co-CEO and COO of Imagenomic.  "Realgrain provides a multitude of finishing effect combinations that enable virtually an endless alphabet for creative expression. And now that it provides the same interface and processor as Imagenomic's Portraiture and Noiseware, photographers have access to an ideal suite of image enhancement software products that can seamlessly work into their image complete workflow process."

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You don't need a great knowledge of code to use any of this image tricks and effects and I'm sure there is something for everyone in the list. So in the order of when first posted here are some of the best image effects, tips and tricks for your blog.

The best color correction is of course done when you have the RAW file. You can tweak the WB to your liking without destroying information - that's one of the most important revolutions of the digital era of photography. Most take Auto WB for granted most of the time.

Manipulating the RAW file can give you any color you need even after the photo is taken. You can even experiment with White Balance to see how different settings affect the mood of the photo.