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Photoshop Tutorial: Create Photo Curves

We publish photos on blog, websites so often that sometimes they just don’t look special anymore. Here is a simple Photoshop tutorials on how to add curves to photos, making them more interesting on views.

  1. Plan how big your image will initially be, and create a new canvas with white background. Create a new layer, draw a rectangular at any color. This rectangular represents the size of your photo.
  2. Create a new layer on top, use Pen tool and draw something like this. I’ll use red color for now to differenciate these 2 elements.

  3. Move the rectangular layer up, right click on Blending Options. Enter the following:

    Drop Shadow

    Inner Shadow

    Gradiant Overlay

    Location:0% Color:#dadbdf

    Location:100% Color:#f1f1f1

    Stroke

  4. Select the layer with the red element, right click and select Blending Options. Choose Color Overlay and select black color. Now that it turned black and behind your rectangular, go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur and enter radius 5.9. You should now have something that looks like this image.
  5. Change the shadow layer’s Opacity to 19%, it should look sweet. Now let’s insert an photo inside, before that, drag and select the inner rectangular.
  6. Find an image, copy it and paste it inside the selection using SHIFT + CTRL + V (win) SHIFT + Command + V (mac)
  7. Your final output will look something like this.

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Posted by hongkiat in Photoshop Tutorial, at 09.17.07

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  1. Alvito

    September 17th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    Thanks a lot!
    I always knew that it used gradients … but never really knew how to execute them correctly !!!

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  2. mott

    September 17th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    cool..thanks. i’ve scoured photoshop tutes for tips like this..but they are not real easy to understand if one is not a pro.

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  3. Leonardo

    September 18th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

    I really think that exist better and faster ways for doing that

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  4. Leonardo

    September 18th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

    I really there are better and faster ways to do that.

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    September 18th, 2007 at 11:28 pm

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  6. Leonardo

    September 18th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

    I really think there are better and faster ways to do that.

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  7. hongkiat

    September 19th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    Leo: you made your point during the first comment, dont really have to repeat it so many times though. Yeah, i think there is, in fact there is a plugin that allow you to do it. Let me search for it, will share once found.

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  8. m.o.m.

    September 20th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    I like it, i use it… thank you!

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    September 20th, 2007 at 8:02 pm

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    September 20th, 2007 at 10:42 pm

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  11. Pinny Cohen

    September 30th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    This is actually very neat, I haven’t seen this effect before, but it looks clean and makes the photo really stand out. I’m bookmarking it!

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  12. Nguyen Vu

    October 12th, 2007 at 4:59 pm

    Very nice PS tutorial, thanks :)

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  13. matt

    November 11th, 2007 at 6:48 am

    very cool tutorial, thx!

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  14. kate

    January 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    good job!!!!

    მაგარია!

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  15. Syokkahwin.com

    February 7th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    wonderful..very easy ..thanks..do u know how to make round curves for pictures?

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  16. Tahtali Teleferik

    February 13th, 2008 at 2:16 am

    Great Curves and Tutorials. Thank you admin.

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  17. hongkiat

    February 13th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    fayz: Do you mean photo curves up on the edge? If yes, I do.

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  18. naxo

    April 17th, 2008 at 4:21 am

    ¿Y para esto hace falta un tutorial? Esta web de hoy en día está hecha para que la gente no tenga que pensar ni saber. Total, siempre habrá alguin que lo haga por tí …

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