Picture This: How to make a mirror image

Seeing double can sometimes be a lot of fun. In today's tutorial we will go over a quick and easy technique to mirror your images.

Step 1.Open the image you want to manipulate in photoshop. Open a new canvas twice the width of your image. Using the move tool, drag a copy of your opened image onto the canvas.

Step 2. Go to the original image you opened in Step 1. Go to Layer>Duplicate Layer. You will see a copy of your image show up on top of the original image you opened. Next go to Image>Image Rotation>Flip Horizontally. Your new image will now be flipped.

 Step 3. Using the move tool, drag your new image to your canvas. Align your two images, crop your canvas and enjoy your creation.

Easy as Pie! See more of our photoshop tutorials.

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Picture This: Editing your photos the Ruche way

Get the Ruche look with our easy DIY photoshop tutorials.

1. To Get This Look:

Try This:
Dreamy Photos in 1 Step
Working with Gradients

2. To Get This Look:

Try This:
One Step Photo Effect


3. To Get This:

Try This:
How to Give Your Picture a Summer Glow

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Picture This: How to Achieve Dreamy Photos in One Step

Guest post by Little Luck Tree
I probably use this trick on 90% of my photos to achieve a dreamy look. It's so easy--just one step!

All you need is Photoshop! Let's get started...

In the Adjustments window, open the Levels tool.

 Click and drag the center knob to the left--the further left it goes, the lighter and softer the image.

So pretty! Enjoy!

♥ Shannon

Little Luck Tree

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Picture This: How to turn a photo into text

Guest Post by Key & Bones

I love words, but sometimes they look better in a hot outfit. Don't we all? Here's how to get from lovely to

Step 1. Start with an image you love. Broad gradients tend to work best, but never be afraid to experiment.

Step 2. Open the image in Photoshop and type your words. Thick fonts work well. If you’re bored with your font selection, check out DaFont.com (and get comfortable ‘cuz you’ll be there for awhile).
Ok, should look something like this:

Step 3. Make a copy of your background layer: Layer > New > Layer from Background. If it doesn’t go on top of the text layer automatically, put it there. It should look like your text disappeared and you’re back to the original image. But really, we’re almost there.

Step 4. Go to Layer > Create Clipping Mask. It should make the letters appear where the photo was. Don't see it? Click the eye icon on your Background Layer to make it invisible.

Step 5. Play around! Move the text (or the background copy). Add a new, visible background image for juxtaposition. Change the hue, saturation or lighness of your original. Once you’ve mastered the basics, variations are endless — good luck!

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Picture This: How to make a GIF in Photoshop

Guest post by GrowlingSteph

Hi! My name is Stephanie and I blog over at Growlingsteph.com. I am currently new to Denver, CO and a jobless, ranting blogger who spends most of my time at home with a cat in my lap. I like to share tech tips and tricks along with music I’m loving at the moment, my favorite TV shows and movies, and personal adventures.

Today, I am going to teach you something that I could not do for a long time but when I discovered how easy it was, I started making gifs for every blog. Haha!

Instructions:
Step 1. Take a few pictures to create your gif. To make it easy, I took only 3 pictures I will turn into a gif.

Step 2. Open Photoshop and create a document with each of your images as different layers. You can do this a couple different ways, but the easiest way to do this is: for each image, select all (crtl+a) and copy (ctrl+c) then paste (ctrl+v) onto the first one. After you’ve done this, you should have three layers. (Note: Make sure to have your layers window visible by pressing F7 or going to the Windows menu and selecting Layers.

Step 3.Go to the Windows menu and select Animation. You will see a window appear on the bottom. At first, you will only see one frame. At top right corner of the animation window, there is a small menu button. Click on the menu and select Make frames from layers. You should see 3 frames now.

Step 4. Click on the first animation frame. In your layers, there is a small eye (treat this as a check box) to the left of the image meaning that layer is visible. Toggle these eye icons on your images so only the image you want to show first has an eye next to it. Click on the second frame and only make one image visible. Ditto for the third frame.

Step 5. In the animation window, just below each frame, you can see a time with a drop down menu. I usually have each frame on 1 second but if you want it to be longer or shorter, that’s okay. Play the animation by clicking on the play button in the bottom row of the animation window.

Step 6. Save the image by going to the File menu, select Save for Web & Devices. A new window will pop up. On the top right, for the Preset drop down menu, select Gif 128 No Dither, change Color to 256, and uncheck Transparency. (Note: After you do this, you’ll see the preset is now call [unnamed]. If you want to save these new settings, click on the menu at the top right and save the preset.) On the bottom right, adjust the image size. My blog posts are 420 pixels wide so I use this size but I would suggest making it even smaller. Lastly, click Save on the very bottom.

 Step 7. Enjoy! 

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Picture This: Working with Gradients

In our latest lookbook, Autumn Reflections, we used a Gradient technique to manipulate some of the photos. We love the effervescent and illuminated  look gradients give our photos, and in today's tutorial we've come up with a simple introduction to using this technique.

Step 1. From your Adjustment Layer Menu (black and white circle at the bottom of the right hand side toolbar) select Curves. Brighten your image by pulling the curve line up to the left.















Step 2. Next select a color you want to use for your 1st gradient. We did a mint green. Select Gradient from your Adjustment Layer Menu. Play around with the scale and angle of your gradient. Lower the opacity.

 Step 3. Open up curves again and darken the image by dragging the line down to the right.














   

Step 4. Select another color and repeat Step 2.

Step 5.  From the Adjustment Layer Menu select Brightness/Contrast. Adjust brightness.

Step 6. Select the Color Burn Tool from the toolbar on your left hand side. Set the range to Shadow  and Exposure to 50. Click over to your original background layer and mouse your curser over parts of the images you want to darken. This will bring out some of the details lost in the editing process.

Enjoy Your New Image!

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Picture This: How to Give Your Pictures a Summer Glow

As a follow up to our Picture This: Giving Your Pictures that Vintage Look blog post, we're going to go over an easy Photoshop tutorial to give your photos a soft vintage look.

Before

After

Step 1
Start by 1st creating a new layer. Click on the adjustment layer button ( looks like this) and select Hue/Saturation. Adjust the Saturation to +25 or +30 and the lightness to +10 or +15 (depending on how light the original image is).

Step 2
Next create another adjustment layer using the Color Fill option. Select a pale yellow, set to Multiply at 80% Opacity and 80% Fill (adjust opacity and fill to your liking).

 Step 3
Create another Color Fill layer. Select a pale purple color, set to Lighten at 50% Opacity and 50% Fill (adjust opacity and fill to your liking).

Step 4
Create one more Color Fill layer. Select a light blue, set to Color Dodge at 50% Opacity and 50% Fill (adjust opacity and fill to your liking).

Step 5
Create a Gradient adjustment layer. Set the gradient from transparent to white, adjust the angle to your liking. Set to Soft Light at 80% Opacity.

Save and Enjoy. Remember that these are just guidelines, every image will be a little different. Don't be afraid to tweak, adjust or omit some of the steps as you see fit.

(Tutorial Source: The Design Nocture)


xo,
Ruche

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Picture This: Adding Color

Here's a quick little tutorial for adding/changing the color of your photos.


Step 1
Select the photo you want manipulate and open it in Photoshop. Make a new Layer.
Find the small black and white circle icon at the bottom of the toolbar.
Select the Photo Filter option.

Step 2
From the drop-down menu, select the color you want use.
Using the density slider adjust your photo until you're satisfied.

Step 3
Save and enjoy!

                                                            Final Version                                                 Original Version


For more tutorials click here and here.

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