Colorising an Image - The easy way!

This tutorial will give you an alternative method to colorising/toning an image. Textures, actions and various other ways can be used to change an image’s tone in a professional way however this method is using Adobe Photoshop, simply changing the image mode into duotone. It is the fastest method and the outcome is pretty impressive!

We will be using this image to show you how to achieve different tones in simple steps.

Original Image:

After Variations:

Applying Textures - Dark Vintage Style

This post will give you an example effect that can be acheived by using the Textures provided here at crazydesigners.net

One thing to remember when using textures is that it is all about experimenting. Once you’ve got the basic hang of layers and layer styles, colour/layer fills and opacity, you can achieve the exact feel of the image by using textures and other tools. And the best thing is, you’ll always end up with a unique effect!

In this post, we’ll be using a beautiful stock image provided by LadyDragonStock, to create a dark looking effect. The textures used in this example can be downloaded here:

• Texture Set 1
• Texture Set 2

Here is the before image:

and below is the image after textures have been applied:

Website Skinning with php

There are many websites that use this skinning technique for allowing the visitors to change the theme of their website and is particularly popular with those users who do not use wordpress - mainly because you can use the Theme switcher plug-in and in seconds, it will automatically allow you to change themes. Here is another technique of achieving the same result…

Skinning allows the visitor to change the theme/layout of the site by using cookies. The content remains the same - only the header and the footer of each skin or theme changes allocated in different folders. An example of a working website that uses this technique is Creative-something. You can see the different themes avaliable for the users to choose from on this page here ^^

This download file (in html format) contains a simple step by step instructions on how to skin your website. You can see a preview sample on the left. Please read the Terms & Conditions before downloading. If you have any problems downloading or want to report any errors etc, do let us know!

Download Link: here