[Devils Workshop] “Changing the Color Tone of an image in Photoshop” and 2 more...

Changing the Color Tone of an image in Photoshop
Create your own Chrome advertisement on YouTube
Renren: Chinese Facebook with over 160 million users

Changing the Color Tone of an image in Photoshop

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 06:30 PM PST

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to change the mood of an image. This is the easiest and yet a very attractive effect in Photoshop that can be achieved in a few easy steps

So lets play with color today!

Step1: Open any image of your choice.

Step 2: Make sure the image layer is selected. Next, go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/saturation. Set the Hue to 0, Saturation to -70, and lightness to 0

Step 3: Create a new layer.

Step 4: Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool and draw rectangles as shown below and fill them with colors.

Step 5: Fill the complete picture. Refer the following image. (give darker shades.)

Step 6: Go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur.

Step 7: Change the settings as shown below

Step 8: Change the blend mode to soft Light.

And now your Final image is ready. Do drop in your comments and suggestions!

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Create your own Chrome advertisement on YouTube

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 08:54 AM PST

I have started using Google Chrome pretty much exclusively. I am not a fan of Internet Explorer at all. Also I do not like how the fan on my laptop starts running over time when I start Firefox.

Chrome is light, simple and has a really clean interface to work with.

I was impressed with a particular advertisement from Chrome a while ago. This advertisement simple wrote a part of famous quotes and left it to our minds to work out the rest. Most cases we will think about the right answer.

Here is the video of that advertisement often simple called as “E=”

Create your own Chrome challenge

A great concept, but now YouTube allows you to create your own challenge and share it with friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Visit the Chrome Fast channel on YouTube and you will have the opportunity to create your own personalized Chrome advertisements.

I created a DW Challenge for our readers at this link. Unfortunately we cannot embed the videos we create from this channel. Hopefully you do crack the challenge.

I think this is a fantastic way for Chrome to create a loyalist base and have them spread the word. Try our Chrome Fast on YouTube and let me know your thoughts through your comments.

Link: Chrome Fast YouTube | DW Challenge

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Renren: Chinese Facebook with over 160 million users

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 02:45 AM PST

"Facebook me!" – these two words have always been around since Facebook came to inception. The World has been Facebooking each other since then, however there is a quite different story going around in China. Renren.com - a website in China which means "everyone" is hitting the streets there with more than 160 million registered users and is almost similar to Facebook in terms of functions and features, however it is tailored for users in the Chinese market.

It is also in the news that Renren.com which started in 2005 is even preparing for a Public issue while Facebook's present valuation is estimated at US$ 63 billion. The Chinese Facebook is clearly taking an advantage of the International restrictions in place in China which has even resulted in a huge growth in its advertising sales.

A Chinese user quotes – "I use Renren to connect to my Chinese friends and Facebook for International news and information".

We all are not yet sure when Facebook is going to enter the Chinese space or if Renren is going to be the next Facebook connecting the Chinese masses, but the website is definitely giving a chance to the Chinese to say – "Renren me!"

Link: Renren

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