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Welcome to the home of the step by step creative online tutorial. Here you will find detailed, easy-to-understand steps accompanied by screen shots. These tutorials are liable to be about anything from my current project to something that drove me nuts trying to figure out. It is my hope that the things I can convey here will save you time and frustration.

If there's something that you'd like to see written up, please feel free to let me know

Creating a Circuit Board Face

So the other day I get an email asking how to map the image of a circuit board onto a human face. An interesting though slightly unusual request, it's definitely not the oddest email I've ever gotten. Turns out, this is a really useful and easy technique and now that you know what to look for, you'll see it used in ad campaigns all across the country.

To illustrate the effect properly, I trotted over to istockphoto and purchased a photo of a circuit board and a face: a "Scary Frustrated Man Face" to be exact, just to spice things up a bit.

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How to make a drive-free Desktop How to sharpen individual channels Get Sharp!
Livin' La Vida Levels Creating a collage with Linear Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 4
Creating a beautiful fade from original color to grayscale Fading Color Placing an image within an image Simulating Pictures, Part 1: Flat Screens
Joys of Optimizing JPEGs Digital Camera Belly Ring The Making of a Digital Camera Belly Ring
Frame your photo with a Smart Object Ornamental Vector Grunge Frame Tips & Tricks for making photos look old Aging Photos
How to turn a photo into a blueprint Paint it Blue Place a photo inside text Easy Clipping Groups
Goin' Borderless! Fade to White
Creating a painted look with an edge mask Faux Finished Photo Edges Creating a watermark action Protecting Your Photos Online, Pt. 2
How to design business cards in Photoshop Blur Baby Blur!
Pick a New Picker How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 2
How to Create Your Very Own Warp Trail Removing lens glare with the Clone Stamp Tool Glare o' the Glasses
Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Combine Images Creatively in Photoshop Upsizing an Image with Minimal Quality Loss
How to use filters to age a photo in Photoshop Elements Turning New into Old Fixing the animal version of red-eye How to Fix Animal White-Eye, Part 1
The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing, Part 2 Lines of All Kinds
QuickTip: preparing t-shirt artwork in Illustrator Simple steps to get you back to original color Warp Speed Color Correction
Super Funky Edges Mastering Multiply A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 2
Fire It Up! Creative Combinations, Pt. 1
Rotating individual letters and intersecting text Type Tricks The magic of selective blurring Softening Freckles
Photo Spotlight Turning a photo into an illustration or watercolor Fall Painterly Effect
The magic of iris enhancement Eyes of the Otherworld Demystifying Blending Modes A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 1
Soft Edges Changing the color of hair Digital Beauty Shop
How to smash a photo into pieces Break it up! Printing color separations in Photoshop
Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change hair color Digital Beauty Shop Using the Crop tool to increase canvas size
Contemplating Color Burn A Stroll Down Blend Mode Lane, Pt. 3 Fabulous Feathers, Pt. 2
Creating a Circuit Board Face Placing Text Behind an Object

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