Tuesday, May 26, 2009 No Comments
Go simultaneously backward and forward in time with this Steampunk tutorial. The main focus, aside from the style of course, is fusing elements from different sources together to create a cohesive whole. There are many tricks to this end and we shall be looking at light sources, shadows, and image grading.
Tags: Photo Effect, photoshop
Category: Design
Thursday, April 16, 2009 No Comments
Often we are unable to turn a photograph into a realistic watercolor painting by simply using the default watercolor filter in Photoshop. This tutorial provide another method of achieving that classic effect.
Tags: Photo Effect, photoshop
Category: Design
Sunday, April 5, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to design this awesome Fantasy style Castle Scene with icy background texture, space and debris brushsets.
Tags: fantasy, Photo Effect, photoshop
Category: Design
Thursday, April 2, 2009 No Comments
These days colorful lines are one of the most malleable effects you can easily create in Photoshop. They simply fit everywhere and can look really awesome. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create these fantastic colorful effects using only Photoshop. I’ll show you how to compose illustration with these effects. Let’s get to it!
Tags: Photo Effect, photoshop
Category: Design
Sunday, March 29, 2009 No Comments
It’s quite trendy these days to use bright, vibrant colors with wavy lines and a silhouette of a person. This tutorial will aim to show you how to create this look. It’s the longest and most extensive tutorial I’ve written to date. I really hope you can learn from it; I know I did, by creating it!
Tags: Photo Effect, photoshop
Category: Design
Sunday, March 29, 2009 No Comments
Every Photoshop tutorial writer should have a space explosion effect in their arsenal. This is my interpretation of a space scene. The fun part about working with a space scene, is that you can let your imagination go crazy. Please use this tutorial as a guide, but don’t feel limited by it. It’s by experimenting and playing with your own techniques that you’ll learn the most, and create something unique.
Tags: Photo Effect, photoshop
Category: Design
Sunday, March 29, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial, we’re going to create a fantasy photo manipulation mixing different images and learning to use and modify the stock images in a creative way. The idea is to get a compact image that looks absolutely real, and at the same time, absolutely impossible!
Tags: Photo Effect, photoshop, surreal
Category: Design
Sunday, March 29, 2009 No Comments
Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode).
Tags: Photo Effect, photoshop, Screencast, surreal
Category: Design
Sunday, March 29, 2009 No Comments
I decided to show my personal way of creating stain based designs in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we’ll grab a picture, apply several filters to it and obtain a monochromatic stain, which combined with stain brushes and a texture will transform into an eye-catching grunge result. Let’s get it started!
Tags: grunge, Photo Effect, photoshop, Screencast
Category: Design
