Banhegyesy Antal

Banhegyesy Antal
I’ve not been quite so assiduous in buying Black and White Photography magazine this year. It only seems to be at the bigger WH Smiths in railway stations, and for some reason I’ve not passed through casually or nipped into town to pick up a copy. Or maybe it’s that when I do catch a train home , my iPad means I already have plenty to read and just want to sit down and resume my Nordic noir or that Steve Jobs biog? Anyway, I do still love my b&w and yesterday after enjoying a grown up pint with my nephew (at a great discovery called The Speaker in Westminster) I wandered over to Waterloo station and was glad to see the magazine’s not gone under.

In fact, it was particularly full of great b&w thanks to their BWPOTY (do such acronyms need to be written in full) and my favourite was a series of studio nudes by Banhegyesy Antal. It turns out he’s Hungarian and I very much enjoyed his site – even if there’s only a thumbnail of the picture that really caught my eye (legs in the air, her knickers strung between). Well worth a visit, well worth getting buying Black and White Photography magazine again.

What is Adobe Photoshop Touch?

What is Adobe Photoshop Touch?

Adobe® Photoshop® Touch, a new Adobe Touch App, lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, and share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook — all from the convenience of your iPad or Android™ tablet.¹

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1. See your images like never before with Retina display.
2. Work on files up to 12 megapixels with higher resolution capabilities.
3. Work with core Photoshop tools designed for tablets.
4. Use your tablet camera to fill area on a layer.
5. Select part of an image to extract by scribbling.
6. Perform Google searches and share images on Facebook right in the app.
7. Sync files to Adobe Creative Cloud™ and open them in Photoshop.²

Creativity anywhere

Work with images on your tablet, and then take them further on your PC or Mac in Photoshop. Sync your projects with Adobe Creative Cloud and open layered files from Adobe Photoshop Touch in Photoshop.²

What's new in Photoshop?

What's new in Photoshop?
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Design an Interesting Cloud Text Effect in Photoshop

Design an Interesting Cloud Text Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design an Interesting Cloud Text Effect in 3 Easy Steps in Photoshop. We will mainly use custom brushsets and utilise brush options to achieve this text effect. This is a beginner level tutorial, have a try :)Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)PSD File DownloadYou can download the PSD File for this tutorial via the VIP Members Area for only $6.95/Month (or less)! You will not only get this PSD File, but also 100+ other PSD Files + Extra Goodies + Exclusive Photoshop tutorials there. Signup now and get exclusive :) Find out more about the VIP Members AreasOK Let’s get started!To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:Cloud BrushSmoke BrushHot Air BalloonStep 1Create a new document sized 1400px * 700px, grab the Gradient Tool and fill the background layer with a light blue gradient:Click to enlarge the following screenshot to reveal the colour code:Use the cloud brush set you downloaded, paint some white cloud on a new layer and we will use this as our background:Step 2We will type some texts onto our canvas, I used the “Lucida Handwriting” font that comes with Photoshop:Load the smoke brush into Photoshop and use the following set:Press “F5″ to bring up the brush options window, apply the following setting:Shape DynamicsMake sure you tick the “Smoothing” and “Protect Texture” option.Use the brush, gently paint over the text as shown below, adjust the brush size accordingly:Turn off the original text layer, and you will have the following effect:Then on this newly painted cloud layer, apply the following “Bevel and Emboss” layer blending effect:and here is the effect so far:Step 3We will add some retouches to this effect. To make text slightly sharpen, we flatten the image and apply the following “Unsharpen Mask” filter (Filter > Sharpen > Unsharpen Mask):We can paint some cloud under the text, just to make the text look like floating above the cloud:Load the hot air balloon PSD File into Photoshop and add some hot air balloons into the image:Finally we can use the same brush in step 2 to add some extra cloud texture around the text:and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!

cloud text effect psd

Clouds Text Effect in Photoshop

Let's take a quick look at the effect that we are about to create in Photoshop. The text will be transformed into a clouds text effect, better said a text that looks like it is made out of clouds. We will only need some simple Photoshop filters so nothing to complicated.

To create a clouds text in Photoshop we need a beautiful blue background to start with. This blue background will be our sky. So create a new layer, fill it with #4db0ff color and name it Sky Layer.

Add a new Text Layer and with the help of the Horizontal Type Tool write your text that you want. I will write "clouds" with Cooper Std font. You can choose whatever font you like, but I think it looks best on round fonts.

If you decide to use another font and you don't know how to install it check out this tutorial Install Font in Photoshop.

Right click on the Text Layer and Convert to Shape the text. Pick the Path Selection Tool, select the letters and move them up and down to look nicer.

Select the Sky Layer and the Text Layer and press CTRL+E to merge the two layers. Go to Filter,Distort and choose Ripple effect with the following settings.

Go to the Filter menu again, this time choose Brush Strokes and from that list pick Spatter effect. The settings are 10 for the Spray Radius and 4 for the Smoothness. You can of course play with this settings to obtain interesting results.

To make the text look more cloudy use the Gaussian Blur filter and you should obtain a similar result.

You can apply the Photoshop Filters that we've use in the previous steps one more time with different settings if you want to distort the text even more. You can also use some clouds brushes for the background to make it look more realistic. Remember that all this little details make the difference.

golden spiral cs4

I am trying to use the shapes tool to draw a few circles which I can eventually turn into the Golden Spiral. I am running into a few problems.

I have guides placed in my file and have it set to snap to guides. The circles that I place always wind up being centered a few pixels away from the guide intersections. Same thing happens when I place rectangles even though I have selected Center as the method for both shapes.
Oh, that is perfect. That maybe all you need for a grid type thing, but to expand upon it for maybe oher things is easy enough. Your Golden Arc [GA] is very similar to the first step of the circle in lesson 4A....


...manipulate just that arc in the tutorial, and you will hae the only portion you need. The [GA] can start as a qurter circle....then scale the height only up, to match the true Golden Arc. When that is done with the pen tool, you get optional points. By sliding one point over another, they click perfectly, then you join them in theflyout for paths....Points>join points.


Your ilustrator file may be able to be brought into photoshop as a Path....click in the middle of one arc, and copy....then go to photoshop and paste....you should get a new window asking for import as Path....that is what you want. That will import as if you drew it with the pen tool, and can be added to and manipulated in any ay in photoshop.


That arc image above has the tutorial in the comment, but here is a link to the 3-page tutorial....
Automatic Download of 3-Page tutorial in .PDF format:
Lesson4A: Pen Tool Introduction | PDF file
It will download when you click that link, and there are links within the PDF for full size screen caps and support files. I hope that helps you out some.

Edit to add:
The easiest way for to you use the A and B plots...scale it vertically so it is the exact proportion you need. Follow the same steps athe arc describe in the tutorial in regards to holding the shift key down while dragging. The path you draw will match perfect.

You will need to use the white cursor t join any points...once you have only two selected, the option will be available. That part is explained some in lesson 4a, but more in lesson 4b. Just replace the A for the B in the PDF file link, and it load lesson 4b for you. 
Why is that?

Yes, the Golden Spiral is made from quarter circles that diminish in size by the 1:1.618 proportion.

I have used the Illustrator to build one which I have then exported into PSD so that I can bring into any image and use as approximate cropping guide. 

I like to see your tutorial though. Where can I find it?


Also is there a way to simply specify the pixel location for the center of these shapes? Circle, especially?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Remember too the Golden Spirqal is not a circle. It gains, or loses on every quarter revolution. That can not be done with the circle shape, but can be done with the pen tool. I have a tutorial on how draw a perfect circle with only four points. That part is critical for the spiral to evolve properly. If you draw it like the tutorial, you can precisely move one point, and the bezeir curve will be exact and properly proportioned.

You can plot any point very precisely in photoshop too, you use the x,y plots in the boxes above. The Illustrator spiral applies that formula, but you can also create it simply in photoshop. The spiral is always made up of repeated sections. If you create one revolution of the spiral properly, copying, pasting, and one precise scale will develop the spiral to any degree you want. The points of the pen tool are precise and snap properly to any gude you have placed. If you want the tutorial for the circle, just search my stream for lesson4a. You will see the pages, and each has a link for the pdf of the tutorial.

It may sound hard to draw it that way, but it is actually simple once you learn the pen tool a little. I hope it helps you out some.