Creating And Using Brushes

What are brushes? How are they used? How do you make your own brushes? How to convert stamps (image packs) into brushes? After reading this tutorial, these questions should be cleared Brush usage Brushes are in fact imitations of the real-life brushes. The idea is to be able to draw with them the same way...

Sun Prints

Quick and easy tutorial to creating an accurate Sun Print. It has been long known that leaving negatives on specially treated paper in sunlight causes an exposure. Later versions of the paper also had the toning salts incorperated, so no other developing process was needed. The typical results of this...

Gel Text

How to create a gel-style text effect with only a few steps. Good for sigs and web layouts. Welcome to this quick tutorial on making a gel-style text. You will need to make the text slightly bigger than you want the end result to be. Im using #139DDE for my colour, works well against the black...

Faking Depth Of Field

A few simple processing tricks to fake Depth Of Field in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily ’fake’ depth of field in Photoshop, rather than with your camera itself. While there are other methods which may be used to create this effect, mine will only work in Photoshop CS and...

Making-Of “Into The Depths”

In this tutorial digital artist Shelley Bergen will show you the making-of process of one of her images called “Into The Depths”. Choose your eye stock. Change the stock image to grayscale (ctrl+U) and increase the color depth to 16-bit (image/mode/16-bit). Using the airbrush tool (mine was set...

Text Inside An Object

This nifty technique will show you how you can get text inside an object using Photoshop. Open up photoshop cs then make a new image of 400×400 (or anysize you like). Next make a new layer and fill with white. Then go to the custom shape tool to get more shapes click on the arrow and select all –...

Making Of “Envy”

Hey everyone! I`ve (finally) done a tutorial. It’s for the piece of art ’Envy’. I`ll try to explain some things – how I do my work in the program ’Paint Shop Pro 7’. I think the greater part of you draw in Photoshop. But I think it’s a similar program. So, here we go! First I draw a...