Fire, and How To Design Fire Animation with Photoshop?

Have you ever seen fire, I hope no. That is a very bad view, it will result in a very bad feeling for you.

Here I wanted to explain the animation of photoshop on a clear photo .

What is fire ?
  Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide [which is toxic]gases.

The flame is the visible portion of the fire and consists of glowing hot gases.Depending on the substances alight, and any impurities outside, the color of the flame and the fire's intensity might vary.

Fire in its most common form can result in conflagration, which has the potential to cause physical damage through burning.

Fire is an important process that affects ecological systems across the globe. The positive effects of fire include stimulating growth and maintaining various ecological systems. 

Fire has been used by humans for cooking, generating heat, signaling, and propulsion purposes. 

The negative effects of fire include decreased water purity, increased soil erosion, an increase in atmospheric pollutants and an increased hazard to human life.


Fire Triangle
 A fire requires three elements: heat, fuel, and an oxidizing agent (usually oxygen). 

The fire is prevented or extinguished by removing any one of them. A fire naturally occurs when the elements are combined in the right mixture. 


 Fire Extinguishing
 Fire can be extinguished by removing any one of the elements of the fire Triangle.

• Turning off the gas supply.
• covering the flame completely.
• Application of water, which removes heat from the fire faster than the fire can produce it .
•  Application of a retardant chemical such as Halon to the flame, which retards the chemical reaction itself until the rate of combustion is too slow to maintain the chain reaction.

 HOW TO MAKE THE FIRE ANIMATION IN PHOTOSHOP ?

Changing color of an object

Some times we are not happy with some colors of an item in a photo and you do not know how .With photoshop it is easy  . There are different methods to do that .  first of all Open the document you want to change the color in it . Remember to make a back up of the original.

• first method with the use of the Layer Adjustments .Open the Hue and Saturation [Image-Adjustments -Hue/Saturation it will open the dialog box of it from the drop down menu select the name of the color you want to change then select the eye dropper to select the color you want to change .Drag the sliders until you reach the color you like.

 I had changed the color of the red flower to blue with that method   

 

• Second one select the color you want to change with the Quick Selection Tool .and with the refine button in the option bar of the Selection Tool and adjust the options .With the Backspace key in the keyboard delete it .Go to the Edit Menu then fill and select from the drop down menu from where you will fill[foreground , background,color]also select pattern or history and the blending mode [explained in the tips ] 

• Third method almost a combination of the two ways . That is the best method in-spite of it is complicated. Select the area of color that you wish to change with selection tools. Click on the quick mask button, this is the right button located just below the colors. Now you will see  selected area in normal colors, and the rest (unselected area) in transparent red. This is quick mask mode. Make sure your colors are set to black and white, select the "paint brush" tool and set the brush size to 13 hard edge.  

 Notice that if you "paint" over your image with Black, it will  Add to the selection, and if you paint in White, it will Delete  from the selection.  

Now check your selection and find spots that you missed or are not accurate and paint accordingly.Change your brush size according to the area you want to paint .Once you finish click on the NORMAL mode button [the same button again].

Now you create an accurate selection  .Go and add adjustment layer for Hue and Saturation.Adjust the sliders to get the desired colors.

I HOPE IT WAS USEFUL

Queen Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII Philopator was an ancient Greek queen and the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek royal family which ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great 's death during the Hellenistic period. The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek and refused to learn Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents like the Rosetta Stone. By contrast, Cleopatra did learn Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of an Egyptian goddess Isis.

THE ORIGINAL PICTURE OF HERE STATUE IN BERLIN MUSEUM 

Cleopatra originally ruled jointly with her father Ptolemy XII [12th]and later with her brothers, Ptolemy XIII[13th] and Ptolemy XIV[14th] she had married as per Egyptian custom, but eventually she became sole ruler. As pharaoh, she  contacted Julius Caesar that solidified her grip on the throne. She later elevated her son with Caesar, Caesarion, to co-ruler in name.
After Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, she aligned with Mark Antony in opposition to Caesar's legal heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known as Augustus). 

Ocean,And How To Design Free wallpaper

ocean 
 An ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 75% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.
Please read more down .

Holiday ... How to design card with illustrator

A holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals, a government, or a religious group have deemed that observation is warranted. It is generally an official (more common) or unofficial observance of religious, national, or cultural significance, often accompanied by celebrations or festivities.it means any special day of rest or relaxation, as opposed to normal days away from work or school.

The word holiday derived from the notion of "Holy Day", and gradually evolved to its current form. 

Types of holidays .

Religious holidays: 

Many holidays are linked to faiths and religions.

In Islam, the largest holidays are Eid ul-Fitr (immediately after Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha (at the end of the Hajj).

Christian holidays are defined as part of the liturgical year.

Hindus, observe several holidays .

Japanese holidays contain references to several different faiths and beliefs.

National holidays 

States and nations and territories observe holidays based on events of significance to their history .

 

Secular holidays

Like Earth Day or Labour Day, both internationally, and across multi-country regions, often in conjunction with organizations such as the United Nations. Many other days are marked to celebrate events or people, but are not strictly holidays as time off work is rarely given.

 Unofficial holidays

These are holidays that are not traditionally marked on calendars. These holidays are celebrated by various groups and individuals.

 Public holidays in Egypt

Holidays in Egypt have many classifications. There are a set of public holidays celebrated by the entire population. Since Islam is the state religion, the Islamic holidays are observed by all Egyptians. Christian holidays are national holidays also and the Christians are permitted to observe these holidays also.

National holidays in Egypt

• January 7 Christmas :Celebrates the nativity of Jesus Christ, according to the Oriental Coptic Orthodox Church. 
• January 25 : Egypt Police Day. 
• April 25 : Sinai Liberation Day .Celebrates the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982. 
• May 1 : Labour Day. 
• July 23 : Revolution Day . 
• October 6 : Armed Forces Day. Celebrates the crossing of the Suez Canal by Egyptian forces during the October War .

Movable holidays in Egypt

• Sham El Nessim (Spring festival) : The Monday following Orthodox Easter . 
• Islamic New Year : The first day of the year based on the lunar Islamic calendar (1 Muharram) 
• Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (Sunni) The birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, according to the Sunni account (12 Rabi al-Awwal) 
• Eid al-Fitr : Breaking of the fast of Ramadan, for three days (1-3 Shawwal) 
• Eid al-Adha End of the Hajj and commemoration of the Sacrifice of Abraham, for four days (10-13 Dhu al-Hijjah). 
• March 21 : Mother's Day Celebrates all mothers . 
• August 15 Flooding of the Nile (Wafaa Elnil) Celebrates the beginning of the Nile floods. 
• October 21 Egyptian Naval Day Celebrates the destruction of Israeli destroyer Eilat in 1967 
• October 24 Suez Day / Popular Resistance Day Celebrates the resistance of local citizens in Suez during the October War. 
• December 23 Victory Day Celebrates the ending of the Suez Crisis 

I COLLECTED THAT INFORMATIONS FROM MANY RESOURCE AND MY HISTORY STUDIES.  

I had designed that two art work with illustrator .

HOW TO DESIGN THAT ART WORK.? 

Pharaoh Amenhotep III. and Colossi of Memnon.Add Your Touch To Your Photos

The original photo

Amenhotep III or Amenophis III meaning Amun is Satisfied.
He was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty.He ruled Egypt from 1386 to 1349 BC or 1388 BC to 1351 BC,after his father Thutmose IV died.
His reign was a period of unprecedented prosperity and artistic splendour.
During his period Egypt reached the peak of her artistic and international power.
When he died, his son initially ruled as Amenhotep IV, but later changed his own royal name to Akhenaten. 


His Family
Amenhotep III was the father of two sons with his Great Royal Wife Tiye ,Crown Prince Thutmose, who died before his father, and her second son, Akhenaten,who followed him to the throne,Amenhotep III also may have been the father of a third child—called Smenkhkare, who later would succeed Akhenaten. Amenhotep III and Tiye may also have had four daughters: Sitamun, Henuttaneb, Isis or Iset, and Nebetah.


 Amenhotep III is known to have married several foreign women:

• Gilukhepa, the daughter of Shuttarna II of Mitanni [ Mitanni was a loosely organized Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and south-east Anatolia]. 
• Tadukhepa, the daughter of his ally Tushratta of Mitanni .
• A daughter of Kurigalzu, king of Babylon[ was an ancient city-state the remains of which are found in Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad.].
• A daughter of Kadashman-Enlil, king of Babylon .
• A daughter of Tarhundaradu, ruler of Arzawa [ in Western Anatolia].

  
His life 
Amenhotep III characterized by having the most surviving statues of any Egyptian pharaoh. Another  characteristic of Amenhotep III 's reign is the series of over 200 large commemorative stone scarabs that have been discovered over a large geographic area ranging from Syria to Nubia,their long inscribed texts extol the accomplishments of the pharaoh. 123 of these commemorative scarabs record the large number of lions (either 102 or 110 ) that Amenhotep III killed "with his own arrows" from his first regnal year up to his tenth year, five other scarabs state that the foreign princess who would become a wife to him, Gilukhepa[ Gilukhepa, the daughter of Shuttarna II of Mitanni ], arrived in Egypt with a retinue of 317 women. She was the first of many such princesses who would enter the pharaoh's household.
Another eleven scarabs record the excavation of an artificial lake he had built for his royal wife, Queen Tiye, in his eleventh regnal year.
Amenhotep appears to have been crowned while still a child, perhaps between the ages of 6 and 12.He married Tiye two years later and she lived twelve years after his death.  

His Final years 
In his final years he suffered from arthritis and became obese .
  It has generally been assumed that Amenhotep requested and received from his father-in-law Tushratta of Mitanni, a statue of Ishtar of Nineveh [a healing goddess ]in order to cure him of his various ailments which included painful abscesses in his teeth .

His Death 
 An examination of his mummy concluded that the pharaoh was aged between forty and fifty years old at death.Amenhotep III was buried in the Western Valley of the Valley of the Kings.


His Monuments 

• Amenhotep III built extensively at the temple of Karnak including the Luxor temple. 
• Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III.The statue is thought to have been erected by King Amenhotep III, one of the huge number of statues that he set up to himself in Thebes. [ The statue in the picture up]. 
• Colossal quartzite statue of Amenhotep III. 
• The two Colossi of Memnon , which still stand at his mortuary temple at Kom el-Hitan. are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For the past 3400 years (since 1350 BC) they have stood in the Theban necropolis, across the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. 

Colossi of Memnon  WILL BE MY COMING POST .

I collected that information from some resources .

For our picture,again you can see the picture very pale.I had manipulated the photo of the Colossal red granite statue of Amenhotep III, to show its color . I added also animation for the name it will be more clear if you open the picture in a new page. Let's start.

HOW TO MANIPULATE AND ADJUST THE PICTURE? 

Birthday And How To Design 3D Cards With Photoshop

A birthday is a day or anniversary of the particular month and day on which a person was born. 
A person's birthday is usually recorded according to the time zone of the place of birth.

Birthdays are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with a gift, and party . 
The gift like Birthstones, flowers ,gold and jewelry It depends upon the person and the type and depth of the relationship ,like if mother or father and children ,hasped and wife ,  lovers or friends .It will differs also according to the economic state .


Birthstones 
A birthstone is a gift of a precious material (jewelry, mainly gemstones; themselves traditionally associated with various qualities) that symbolizes the month of birth in the Gregorian calendar.

Birth flowers 
Just as there are alternatives with birthstones .It is noted as being rose or camellia.

It is better to give the birthday gift with a card .Simple card with nice deep words will say what you like to say ,just select it suitable for the person ' age , and relation to you .
   I designed some  birthday cards for different persons ,and ages  .
Here two birthday cards ,hoping you will like it.

I chose happy colors to be suitable for birthday celebration.

                  
That cards I had designed with illustrator and finish it with photoshop.
You can find Birthday cards for children in Art Work

HOW TO MAKE ? 

Photo Adjustment in Photoshop { Invert } with video

The ability to Invert images color is a useful feature of most versions of  Photoshop. It is better to save an extra copy of the inverted  image.
By reversing or inverting the colors of a picture, photograph or image, the colors are made complementary of the original value. After performing picture color inversion, black becomes white, yellow becomes blue, red becomes aqua. 

What to do if you got an inverted image color [the negative form] the one on the film after treating the film .It is very easy,only one step .
I had that old image inverted colors so I wanted to know for whom was that picture. 
I fixed it with photoshop

The inverted color picture                                            

                                                                                                               That is the picture after adjusting


for watching the video please click here { THE VIDEO }
Have you ever had a picture that was nice, but you wanted to give it something to make it different?
You can also change the look of your normal photos or background images like this coming background image to invert the colors in an image to create interesting photo effects.
  

So now for how to make ?
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HOW TO MAKE ?

Love You All ..... What is love ?

Love you .
A very nice word you will feel happy if you could say it , you will feel more and more happy if you could  hear it.


What is love ?
Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment ,In philosophical context love is a  representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection.

Husbands and wives of the great Pharaohs

I found many of us do not know the couples or husbands and wives in the Pharaohs’ history, so I wanted to collect some of them in one article.

Khufu and Meritites The First

Khufu

[ Koo-foo in English] was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom from around 2589 to 2566 BC. Khufu was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty. He is generally accepted as being the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza which is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

You want to read more please visit Art Work

 Pharaoh Khufu

Meritites 
Her name means "Beloved of her Father" She was a daughter of King Sneferu.
Mariette recorded a stela at Giza in which Meritites is said to be a favorite of both Sneferu and Khufu. Meritites was buried in the middle Queen's Pyramid in Giza.

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Khafra and Meresankh III

Khafra:
According to some authors he was the son and successor of Khufu. 
He is like Khufu refers to a block cipher. He had his capital at Memphis. Khafre was the builder of the second largest pyramid in the Giza Necropolis complex .His name, Khaf-Ra, means Appearing like Ra
He had two chief wives Meresankh III whose mastaba tomb is located at Giza and Queen Khamaerernebty I who was the mother of his successor, Menkaura..
To read more about Khafra please visit Khafra in this blog.

Khafra 

Meresankh III

Meresankh III:  
She was the wife of the pharaoh Khafra and a granddaughter of the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu. Her parents were brother and sister [ Hetepheres II and Prince Kawab ]. She had married the pharaoh Khafra of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt and bore him four sons and one daughter. 
To read more about Meresankh III please visit Meresankh The Third in this blog.

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Menkaure  and Queen Khamerernebty II


Menkaure
He had ordered the construction of the third and smallest of the Pyramids of Giza. His name means "Eternal like the Souls of Re". He was the successor of Khafra. He was the son of Khafra and the grandson of Khufu.
 Menkaure is thought to have had at least two wives Queen Khamerernebty II and Queen Rekhetre

To read more about Menkaure please visit Art Work

Menkaure  and Queen Khamerernebty II

 Queen Khamerernebty II 
Khamerernebty II was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th dynasty. She was a daughter of Pharaoh Khafra and Queen Khamerernebty I. She married her brother Menkaure and she was a mother of Prince Khuenre.
If you want to read more about Khamerernebty II please visit Art Work 

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Ramesses The Second  and Nefertari


Ramesses II
(Reigned 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE - also known as Ramesses the Great .It is also written Ramses and Rameses. He was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as Egypt's greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh. 
To read more about the Great King please visit Ramesses The Second 

Ramesses the Great 

Queen Nefertari
Nefertari was one of the Great Royal Wives of Ramesses the Great and known as Nefertari Merytmut.
She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, next to Cleopatra, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut.
 Her reach decorated tomb is the largest and most spectacular in the Valley of the Queens.

Goddess Isis is giving an Ankh to Nefertari.

In the picture of the card Goddess Isis is giving an Ankh to Nefertari.
The Ankh is the key of life, or the key of Nile it is the symbol of life.
It represents the male and the female unit, under a decent form.

To read more about Nefertary please visit Queen Nefertari in this blog . 

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Akhenaten and Nefertiti

Akhenaten
Known also as Ikhnaton; meaning Effective spirit of Aten was known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV [ Amenhotep the fourth [meaning Amun is Satisfied ]. He was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt.
He is one of the most important Pharaohs in the ancient Egypt.He is especially noted for attempting to compel the Egyptian population in the monotheistic worship of Aten.
To read more about him please visit Art Work 
    

Nefertiti 

Ikhnaton

Nefertiti
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD 
She was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten .Nefertiti had many titles as, Sweet of Love ,Lady of The Two Lands, Main King ’s Wife, his beloved , Lady of all Women , and Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt . 
To read more about her please visit Queen Nefertiti in this blog .  


I WILL COLLECT SOME MORE IN NEXT POST .
THANKS 
MR

Children are the same everywhere. How to fix the hair of your baby in the picture with photoshop

Children Everywhere are almost the same."A child is any human being below the age of eighteen years .

The child must have 

• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of thought
• Freedom from fear 
• Freedom of choice and the right to make decisions

You know, they likes to play all the time, and you can not stop that ,and I like to much that kind of pictures that record all the nice memories of young kids.  

I got a picture for my granddaughters really the picture was very bad in everything I  do not like its hue and color cast .  

The girl was playing and her hair was coming up and the light was not enough ,and I think the resolution of the camera was law [ mobile camera]. I  thought that what I was looking for to adjust.

 That is the original picture that I do not like .

I liked her innocent face and calm smile . 

That is the fixed picture. 

The look of the picture differs very much. 

I removed the color cast and I gave it different look with the frame .I wanted the frame to be simple like her.

I chose the colors to match her closes and to give the happy feel of childhood. 

 How to fix that picture? 

1. The first step to fix the hair ,go for filter menu and choose Liquify then select the  Forward Warp Tool and adjust it as shown in the diagram and push gently inside to control the hair .You can also use the pucker tool  .It works like suction sucking the pixels inside .Be careful don't distort the pixels of the picture around the area you like to fix. 
2. The second step is to adjust the color .Open the Adjustment Panel and do the following.

• Apply the levels adjustment layer , to remove the color cast.
• Apply the Brightness and Contrast . 

     3.  Add frame to the picture if you like.

     4. Save your work.

Thanks

Manal Raafat

Queen Meritites The First, and her pyramid, with Photoshop lesson.

  Meritites I, or Meryetyotes was an ancient Egyptian Queen of the 4th dynasty.

She was a daughter of King Sneferu and the wife of King Khufu [her half brother].
Her name means "Beloved of her Father". Mariette recorded a stela at Giza in which Meritites is said to be a favorite of both Sneferu and Khufu.
Meritites was buried in the middle Queen's Pyramid in Giza.

The original picture of the pyramid of the queen.

I found it pale, dull, and not clear and very simple. The sky and sand was very pale, the stones is not clear. All the picture was small.
         

That is the new look of the picture

I do not like the look of the picture so I added some adjustments to it explained below.

*I had increased its size.

*I added some adjustments to the sky and sand to make it more bright and to the stones of the pyramid to make more it clear.

*I added also suitable frame and canvas to give more depth and write notes on the picture .    

You can read more below 
                       
Her Pyramid 

Her pyramid is thought to be her tomb.The queen's pyramids were often constructed to the south of the king's pyramid . The scientists thought that construction of her pyramid was in year 15 of the reign of Khufu, It had a small mortuary temple and a boat pit associated with it,but no boat was found in the rock cut boat pit .The mortuary temple was decorated with scenes.
The title of Queen was preserved in a fragment now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 

I COLLECTED THE STORY FROM MANY RESOURCES.

HOW TO DESIGN ?

Animating Name ( Animation in Photoshop)

Welcome to my blog. 
Today I wanted to show you another face of photoshop that is the simple animation.

Animation in Photoshop

What is Animation?
An animation is a sequence of images, or frames, that is displayed over time. Each frame varies slightly from the preceding frame, creating the illusion of movement or other changes when the frames are viewed in quick succession.

Diagram

You can open the Animation panel from the Window Menu .It appears in frame mode, showing a thumbnail of each frame in your animation. Use the tools at the bottom of the panel to navigate through the frames, set looping options, add and delete frames, and preview the animation.
The Animation panel menu contains additional commands for editing frames or timeline durations, and for configuring the panel display. Click the panel menu icon to view available commands.


I will explain it in my tips after I finish the basics .  


Thanks
Manal Raafat

Tarut Island and Tarut Castle in Saudi Arabia, and how to color the black and white photos with Photoshop.

Location

It is the second longest island in the Arabian Gulf after Qeshm Island, which is the biggest island in the Gulf, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.

It extends from Ras Tanura in the north to Qatif in the west.The island includes many smaller towns and villages such as Tarut town.

Tarut Castle in Saudi Arabia before Photoshop manipulation

Climate
The Island's climate is unlike other Saudi Arabian cities, Tarut retains its warm temperature throughout winter, during which it gets around 0c (32F) at midnight to +25c (77F) in the afternoon.Since the island is near the Arabian coast, the humidity is very high; sometimes reaching 96% humidity. Rainfall on the island is rare, but when it does rain, it is usually in December and January.

History  

Tarut Castle in Saudi Arabia after Photoshop manipulation

If you would like to look at the deep past of Eastern Saudi Arabia, your mind will go to a small island in the Persian Gulf. 

Present time has forgotten it and its treasures and it needs to be dusted off. When you are walking in its old villages, you will see adjoining houses that are built from mud and stone with narrow alleyways, too. 
Their presence is in the distant past. When looking at the houses, you draw memories from generation after generation that have long passed. This island is Tarut. Tarut or Tarout means goodness and beauty in the Semitic languages. Additionally, the town’s name is recorded as "TARU" in historical Chinese texts and "Ashtarut" in Arabic history. Today, however, most of the new researchers argue that the correct name is "Ashtarut" because the Canaanites and Phoenicians, who originally lived there, idolized the beauty of the town and called it Ashtarut. The term Ashtarut is also very similar to the new name Tarut , if we delete the first syllable.

Tarut Castle 
It is the most famous castle in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and the oldest castle in the Persian Gulf. It was built by the Portuguese in the 16th century, It is located in the center of Tarut Island .On the towers of the castle, the viewer can see most of the island.

Donkeys Bath
Donkeys Bath was located in Aldeerah Town at the end of the Ein Al-aoudeh channel. Tourists would wash their donkeys since donkeys were the main transportation on Tarut Island before cars. It was destroyed in 1996 and there are no remains.
 
Mohammed Abdelwahab Castle in Dareen 
Sheikh Mohammed Abdelwahab, who is one of the famous pearl traders in the Persian Gulf built a castle in 1885. The castle was a place for meeting, hospitality, and trading. Today, ruins are the only evidence of the castle’s former existence.

I hoped the story liked you I tried to collect it from many resources.
I found the original picture was black and white ,so I added some colors to it ,and that is how to add the colors to the photo  .

HOW TO ADD THE COLOR TO THE PHOTO ?

The Swans ( Changing the Photo with Photoshop Filters)

In the last post I mentioned that we can give our pictures different looks with the use of filters.
Here are some different looks for the same picture of the swans .

 The original picture of swans.   

You can see the different looks with the different filters in Photo-shop .

Simple way to apply filters ?

1. Open the picture in photoshop.
2. Go to Filter menu and choose convert to smart filter so all the adjustments you will apply will not be destructive to the image.[Smart Filters, applied to Smart Objects, let you use filters non-destructively. Smart Filters are stored as layer effects in the Layers panel and can be readjusted at any time]
3. After that try the filters you like and apply to your image.
4. Save your work. 

Here are the different looks for the same photo . 
      

In the third raw I used the Render Filter then Lens Flair and I just change the site of the lens on the dialog box .

Guidelines for Using filters

• Choose the sub-menu from the Filter menu. 
• Filters are applied to the active, visible layer or a selection .
• If no dialog box appears, the filter effect is applied.
• If a dialog box or the Filter Gallery appears, enter values or select options, and then click OK.
• Not all filters can be applied to all images .[It depends upon how many bit]. 

You can find some more in Art Work 

Thanks
Manal Raafat

Adjusting Photo With Photoshop Filters

You can use filters to clean up or retouch your photos, apply special art effects that give your image the appearance you like.

You can give your photos also different look like sketch or distortions and lighting effects.

Using a smart Filters let you use filters non-destructively the same as smart objects.

Smart Filters are stored as layer effects in the Layers panel and can be readjusted at any time.

The original photo of my grandson 

In the original picture you can see how the hair of the boy was standing, it appears that someone took the picture while he was playing to have fun, so I liked to adjust it to show you some effects of the filters.

after the filter application 

I used here two types of filters here to fix the hair and to make the boy little bit prominent ,against faded background.

Let's go and see how to fix it .

HOW TO FIX THE PICTURE ?

Fixing Photos with Retouching Tools by Photoshop

The retouch let you change your images to accomplish a variety of tasks.

• To improve a composition.
• To correct distortions or flaws.
• To manipulate picture elements .
• To add or remove items, sharpen or blur, or merge multiple images into a panorama.

The original photo

How nice.

after photoshop manipulation

 Please visit the Photoshop Learning tab to read more about it.

To fix a photo like that one up you need many tools called the retouching tools, to remove the scars and dark dots to make it clear like the picture on the right.
I used the Spot Healing Brush Tool, and The Healing Brush Tool.

• The Spot Healing Brush Tool  

 Its use is very easy. In the options panel, choose Proximity Match, and check Sample All layers,and adjust the brush size.
You will not do anything more. Just click on the area you want to treat.

• The Healing Brush Tool. 

It is more complicated you need to sample the area you like then add it to the defected area.

1. In the Option bar, adjust Source to sampled and choose from Sample what layers you like.
2. Adjust the Brush size to the size of the good area you want to sample, or little smaller. 
3. To sample the area you like just click the area you like while pressing the tab key. 
4. Go to the defected area and click it.

They are easy to manipulate and use, try it now. 

Thanks 
MR
Manal Raafat