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...

Making-Of “Tac”

In this step-by-step walktrough tutorial we will show you how illustrator Anze Versnik uses the Photoshop/Illustrator workflow and creates his artwork called “Tac”. Exclusive to ArtCone. Well here is the tutorial how I make my ilustrations. For all my work I am using two programs that I am...

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...

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...

Ok Now I Want To Print – Color Management

The Color management Basics Color management: This tutorial will be written from the perspective of the artist. Photographer or other. Essentially what an artis does is communicate a creative idea via a variety of mediums. In the visual arts a great deal of the image will be created using color or grey...

Blend Modes

A comprehensive guide to what every blend mode does and how! Ever wondered exactly what all those blend modes do? Here’s a very detailed guide explaining exactly what goes on and what makes them different! The interaction between your layers is important, the exact effect depends on what the blend mode...

Your Own Massive Signature In Sand

Recreate this massive alien-crop-circle effect and write your own name in the beach for all to see. No buldozers needed, just Photoshop. Hello there and welcome to this week’s tutorial. We will be making our own massive signature in the sand. Open the beach image that we will be working with in this...

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...

Sleek-Looking Sticky Pitch

Create sleek-looking sticky pitch with this easy-to-follow tutorial. Welcome to my second tutorial. In this one we will learn how to make a pitch-like substance or in this case it will be a pitch. (Some of you don’t know what pitch is so lets say it is the tree juice… All you need for this tutorial...

Creating Futuristic Logotypes

In this tutorial you will learn some simple techniques to create a stylish futuristic logotype. Get your design groove on and let’s begin! Hi there and welcome to the futuristic logo creation tutorial. Hopefully you’ll learn some very exciting new tricks along the way. Let’s begin! Create a circle...

Advanced Portrait Retouching

In this tutorial you will be learning the intricacies of real-world photography touchups and manipulation. Follow photographer Mitchell Kutney as he shows you step-by-step his workflow of manipulating close-up portraits…[more] Alrighty, this is what we have to work with – a high resolution...

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...

Quick View At Duotones

A beginners tutorial on Duotones. This tutorial is written for anyone with little photoshop knowledge to understand. Duotones can be found in Photoshop under Image>Modes. A Duotone is a great way to achieve monochrome image A Duotone takes grayscale images and allows you to change the tonal range of that...

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...

Selective Color

Step 1 We load our photo in to Photoshop. Then goto Image/Adjustments/Selective Color. Step 2 In the Selective Color Palette we see a few options....

Artificial Make-Up

Hi there and welcome to the fashion retouching series. In this excercise we will cover applying make up to skin the artificial way. Alright, open up an image and let’s start! Press F5 to bring up the brushes pallette. Start from using one of the regular...

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...

Cellshade

This tutorial will teach you hoow to create a cellshade-like styled image. 1. Open the image you would like to Cellshade. 2. Make a selection with the “Polygonal Lasso Tool” as shown below. 3. Now click INSIDE the selection you made with the “Eyedropper Tool“. – You can see...

Artificial Grafitti In Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to do artificial grafitti in Photoshop. 1. open up a new photshop document 900 by 300px with a white background. 2. ok first, find a nice brick color, like DA2C2C, and set it as your foreground color. 3. select the paint bucket tool (g), and fill the document with your brick...