Free Photoshop Frame

Your nice photo, picture, painting or another image could be place inside Personalized Frames so they will look better, attractive, and more artistic with appropriate borders. In this case you can try to create your own personalized Frames using Photoshop.

Of course you can buy photo frames at your favorite photo shop classes in you place, but it's just a virtual personalized picture frame that creating buy Photoshop as prototype for your real picture frames. Beside, you can also use picture framing software for this purpose.


Placing photo frame in your blog will enhance appearance quality as well. We have agreed that pictures, painting, photos, or images will be less good without appropriate frames even they may not be valuable at all.
This section contains samples of Photoshop frames for free but if you wanna more detail and download link, visit http://pictureframes.net46.net.

Simple Shadow

Making shadow effects with Photoshop for a master's of course very easy, but I mean to write basic Photoshop Tutorial is for a simple photo shop training or virtual  photo shop course for beginners who want to  learn photoshop not for masters.

In the future, this shadow effect can be used for various purposes including as a header, banner ads, footers, etc., because with the addition of  Photoshop effects will create a more beautiful appearance and more attractive.

Step by step creating Simple Shadow :

1. Open Photoshop
2. Create a new layer (background) with the size 300x200px, 300 resolution and a white background (just an example).
3. Click Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) and then on the layer, drag the mouse from top left to bottom right so that the square shape or form like that.
4. Right click and select Layer Via Copy until you see the new layer (layer 1) on the layer properties window.
   
   
   
5. Double click on Layer 1 to Layer Style window displays.
6. Check List Drop Shadow.
7. Set all the settings as needed, such as size, distance, and opacity.
   
   
   
8. You can add other options by selecting the appropriate settings to your tastes to enhance the image of which Inner Shadow, Bevel and Emboss and others.
9. Final appearance will be like this or maybe your picture will be better.
   
   
   

Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop for most bloggers is a basic requirement while designing a blog or website. Adobe Photoshop exists to improve the quality of a site made especially in terms of appearance  including a header, footer, banners and other images in a post or on the sidebar.

Bloggers should be able to know basic photoshop (for minimum) to build the blog in order that it'll be looked more attractive with a matching color combination so that visitors will feel at ease and will likely revisit the blog, of course it must be supported also by the interesting and informative content.

On one side of photoshop can improve the quality of the appearance or display of a website and on the other side of a website can have interesting content on it own photosop including photoshop tutorials.

A brief explanation below irrespective of SEO and promotion of a site because the fact of a very ugly site can have a good visitor traffic every day, it was certainly supported by many factors, including SEO and paid campaigns. There's also a site that has the look ugly even with the less interesting content, has a high Google Pagerank, it too did not escape from paying promotion and purchase of a permanent one way link, despite the fact the site has few visitors.

With Photoshop, a blogger are expected to:

1. Able to set the color of the header, footer, banners and other images so that the more harmonious and pleasing to the eye.
2. Able to create a gradient background color or background image by way of repeat-x, repeat-y, and no-repeat. 
3. Able to set the pixel resolution and an image that looks good in addition can also be opened or accessed quickly when online.  Many sites have good image but very slow to open (slow loading) so the visitors will get bored waiting and unlikely to return, otherwise a site that has good content but it has templates and mismatched color image, also less perfect. But of course not all sites like that, only if a webmaster with a good mastering photoshop program then it is certain to create a work of quality art  on the site that he has made. 
4. Able to create a logo, icon, favicon , easily customizable banner. 
5. Able to create watermark on a personal  image so that if someone is copying and pasting the image, a watermark can still be seen as an identity of its maker. 
6. Able to create menus, sub menus, buttons, menus and background more interesting and varied. 
7. Able to create and personalized picture frames without buying picture framing software.
8. Able to design a simple frames i.e engraved picture frames.

This is just a  Basic Photoshop Tutorial or Photoshop Course for beginner which I will describe in broad outline specifically for beginners who do not know yet how to design a picture or create a particular effect with photoshop. Hopefully will be useful to improve the quality of your blog.

Learning Painting

Painting is the practice of applying color to a surface i.e. paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer or concrete use several appropriate media include colored pencil, eraser, ink, paint, brush, oil painting, etc. We also usually say it “drawing”. When used in an artistic sense, the term “painting” means the use of this activity in combination with drawing, color composition, and other aesthetic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioners or artists.

Painter or Practitioners of the craft usually play their expression and imagines use the painting. Painting is used as a mode of representing, documenting and expressing all the varied intents and subjects that are as many as there are painters. The result…Painting can express feelings and ideas.

There are several type of painting that usually used by painters while they applying their expression i.e. naturalistic painting, representational painting (as in a still life, or landscape painting), photographic painting, abstract painting, be loaded with narrative content, symbolism painting, emotion or be political painting in nature. A large portion of the history of painting is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas; sites of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting Mythological figures on pottery to biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of The Sistine Chapel to depictions of the human body itself as a spiritual subject.

This section doesn't contain tutorial brushes but describes about definition of painting.

Painting idioms

1. Allegory
2. Bodegon
3. Body Painting
4. Botanical
5. Figure Painting
6. Illustration
7. Industrial
8. Landscape
9. Portrait
10. Still Life
11. Veduta

Painting History

The oldest known paintings are at the Grotte Chauvet in France, claimed by some historians to be about 32,000 years old. They are engraved and painted using red ochre and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, mammoth or humans often hunting. There are examples of cave paintings all over the world—in France, Spain, Portugal, China, Australia, India, etc.

Cultures oil painting and watercolor painting are the best known media In Western, with rich and complex traditions in style and subject matter., Ink and color ink historically predominated the choice of media with equally rich and complex traditions in the East.

Painting Media

Different types of paint are usually identified by the medium that the pigment is suspended or embedded in, which determines the general working characteristics of the paint, such as viscosity, miscibility, solubility, drying time, etc.

Painting Media

1. Acrylic
2. Enamel Paint
3. Encaustic (Wax)
4. Fresco
5. Gouache
6. Ink
7. Oil
8. Water Miscible Oil Paint
9. Dry Pastel
10. Oil Pastel
11. Spray Paint (Graffiti)
12. Tempera
13. Watercolor
14. Light

Painting Styles

Painting style is used in two senses: It can refer to the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an individual artist’s work. It can also refer to the movement or school that an artist is associated with. This can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously involved with or it can be a category in which art historians have placed the painter. The word ’style’ in the latter sense has fallen out of favor in academic discussions about contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts. Such movements or classifications include the following :

1. Abstract
2. Abstract Expressionism
3. Art Brut
4. Art Deco
5. Baroque
6. Boy Painting
7. Cobra
8. Color Field
9. Constructivism
10. Contemporary Art
11. Combined Realism
12. Cubism
13. Expressionism
14. Fauvism
15. Folk
16. Futurism
17. Graffiti
18. Hard-Edge
19. Impressionism
20. Lyrical Abstraction
21. Mannerism
22. Minimalism
23. Modernism
24. Naive Art
25. Orientalism
26. Orphism
27. Outsider
28. Painterly
29. Photorealism
30. Pinstriping
31. Pluralism
32. Persian Miniature
33. Pointillism
34. Pop Art
35. Post-Modernism
36. Post-Painterly Abstraction
37. Precisionism
38. Primitive
39. Pseudo realism
40. Realism
41. Recto version
42. Reductive
43. Representational Art
44. Rococo
45. Romanticism
46. Romantic Realism
47. Socialist Realism
48. Stuckism
49. Surrealism
50. Tachism

Painting Methods

The key is to do your research and to have fun painting – a piece always looks that much more alive and you can tell an artist enjoyed painting it! I hope I have inspired you to pick up a paintbrush/airbrush – even if you are a total novice, give it a go. I always have greater satisfaction showing a horse I painted, than one I bought from someone else.


You can try to make an art painting then make it better with an appropriate picture frame like many people used in their pictures i.e. Family photos, illusion images, 3D Image or hidden images, Art Arabic calligraphy images, etc. Combine them perfectly and place it in your favorite room, wedding party, or anyplace you like.

Happy painting!! (Source : An Article on Painting, by Louise Pitt, 2005 www.hollywoodhopefuls.co.uk)