Painting A Dragon

This tutorial will teach you how to paint an almighty snow dragon in Photoshop. First off, this tutorial is done with photoshop only, and only interresting for people, how know this program well… because i cannot explain every little step here, but what i can do is, to show how i work out this little...

The Amazing Dissapearing Horse

In this detailed step-by-step tutorial we will teach you how you can mimic the amazing horse dissapearing act in Photoshop and start to become one with David Copperfield and Houdini. In this tutorial I will show you how to take a horse completely out of the picture, and how to simulate the background that is...

Dark Eye – Blend Modes And Gradients

Hello everyone. I’ve used a lot of these tutorials, so I thought it was only fair to contribute to them myself. First tutorial, but I will give it my best. Stocks Used (Eye – Kitty from DeviantArt, Textures – ...

Extracting Images With Photoshop

This tutorials covers 3 methods of extracting an object from the background: the easiest (and least precise) using the Extract Filter, Polygonal Lasso Tool which is not hard to use and gives good results, and Quick Mask which takes a bit more time, but gives the best edge smoothing. Open your image and...

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...

Compositing 101: The Lake Tower

In this tutorial you will learn the basics of image compositing – some rules for composition, cutouts, creating reflections and color correction. All this while merging a tower into a lake photo. Greetings and welcome to another ArtCone Photoshop tutorial. In this tutorial we will be taking a look at...

Ultimate Rock & Stone

In this tutorial you will learn everything it takes to create totally belieavable rocks and stones in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we will exercise on drawing rocks, stones, cliffs or anything made of stone. There are many ways to achieve this… I will just show you my favorite one. depending on their...

Eye Manipulation – Using Masking, Blend Modes, Burn

This tutorial will show you how to created a photo manipulation using Photoshop. Photomanipulation ranges in difficulty. Here I will shoe you a few tips to bring out more depth and get rid of unwanted parts of an image and/or blend them in.These are the stocks I chose to use in this tutorial, but these...

Spectacular Explosion

Be like the pros. Create an amazing hollywood-like spectacular exposion with the help of this tutorial. 1. Start off with a new image of your size with a black backgound. Create a new layer (we’re only going to use one layer in this tutorial so don’t care to call it something). Create dots with the...

Changing A Black And White Image To Color

In this tutorial you will learn a few quick steps on how to change your B/W images to color. The first process we are going to use duotones. First we want to change it to a greyscale. On your top bar go to Images/Modes/Greyscale.It will ask to discard color information click OK.After that go back to...

Create A Stamp

I went ahead and created 2 new layers. Layer 2 is just a fill color so that layer 3 will show up. On Layer 3 use your select marquee tool and create a square and fill it with White. Next lets set up the Eraser tool setting: Select your Eraser tool....