Photoshop Tutorial: Turning Your Picture into a Puzzle

We have a PowerPoint template that has a nice looking puzzle in it:

blue-puzzle-powerpoint-template

It’s not a real photo of a puzzle.  We make the puzzle with Photoshop.  We are going to screencap every step and write a tutorial on this because we actually found a great tutorial for this on someone’s website.  It’s a good step-by-step tutorial with screencap on every step:

Photoshop Puzzle Effect

 

How to tint (change color) with Photoshop?

You see how we have some PowerPoint templates in our website that have the same design but with different colors.  How do we do that?  We tint it with Photoshop.  Here’s how:

1) Open the original picture with Photoshop

2) Change your original picture to greyscale:  Image > Mode > Grayscale

3) Change the mode back to RGB: Image > Mode > RGB

4) Select the layer and apply the photo filter (refer to the following picture):

photo-filter-1

5) Select “Color”, Change Density to 100%, select your desired color, click OK (refer to the following picture):

photo-filter-2

It’s done.  If you want to apply the exact same photo filter to another picture, simple duplicate the photo filter layer and put it on top of the other picture.

How to turn off that annoying beep sound of Windows Vista

My laptop comes with Windows Vista, and the most annoying about it is that the system beep sound is turned on by default.  Beep, beep, beep, beep, eveytime I do something wrong, I hear that high-pitch annoying sound.  I have been looking for ways to turn it off.  I have no luck until I find the following tutorial.  I hope that saves your ears from that painful sound.

Disable System Beep