Busyok Creative

If you want to connect with friends or meet new people on Facebook, you should look best on your profile picture because it is the first thing people will look at.

Professional photographers use special lenses to create soft focus effect on portraits. Soft Focus is an important effect in photography. It is commonly used in glamour shots and to some extent in wedding photography as well.

The good news is that you don’t have to go to a professional photographer (or a cosmetic surgeon  ) and spend a lot of money for your profile picture. Now you can pick any photo of yours and easily turn it into a marvelous (oh yeah!) profile picture.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to improve your Facebook profile picture using diffuse glow effect in Photoshop. This is pretty simple to do. Just follow the 7 simple steps.

Before and After processing

Step 1. Open your image.

I used a photo of Angel Locsin for this tutorial. Angel is a Filipina television and film actress and commercial model (courtesy of pinoyexchange.com).

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This simple tutorial will teach you how to flow text from one text frame to another.

Before I proceed, may I suggest you to read my previous Abode InDesign tutorials:

Basic Adobe InDesign Tutorial #1: Creating a new document

Basic Adobe InDesign Tutorial #2: Creating text frame and placing text to a new document

Okay, let’s proceed.

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This tutorial will show you how to convert a photo into a black and white with splashes of color using brush tool. This is a great technique for anyone who wants to add dynamic color effects and emphasize some part of a photograph.

I have here a photo taken from the recently concluded Bb. Pilipinas 2011 and our task is to highlight the newly crowned Binibining Pilipinas Universe Shamcey Supsup.

Here are the 5 easy steps:

1. Open a  photograph.

Newly crowned 2011 Bb. Pilipinas Universe Shamcey Supsup* (center). Photo courtesy of showbiznest.blogspot.com

* 2010 Architecture board topnotcher and magna cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman Shamcey Supsup, was crownednamed the 2011 Binibining Pilipinas Universe during the pageant coronation night on Sunday, April 10 at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.

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My tutorial for today will teach you simple processing tricks on how to adjust the depth of field of a photo using Photoshop.

Depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image (wikipedia.org). To do this normally you would have to know what aperture to use on a camera.  But with this tutorial you can just artificially lower the depth of field in Photoshop.

Nonito Donaire, Jr., The Filipino Flash*

To do this, you need to:
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Our next tutorial, will teach you how to add text to a new document.
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We can add text to a document by (1) typing, (2) pasting, or (3) by placing text from a word-processing application.
To begin with this tutorial, we need to create a new document.

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