Beginner – Animal Skin Text

A few quick steps to achieving an animal skin text effect. In this tutorial I will show you a quick way to apply animal skin to your text. This process is simple and easy for all to understand with little Photoshop knowledge. I do suggest using a fairly large size image of skin or creating your own on a...

White Eyes

The tools that will be used in this tutorial are: Stamp Tool, Healing Brush, and Dodge Tool. Select your photo. For this tutorial I used a regular eye stock photo....

The Digital Modern Painting

In this beginner-level tutorial we’ll be teaching you how to achieve a modern painting effect using only a few steps. Hello and welcome to this quick tutorial in which we’ll mimic a nice semi-impressionist painting. Let’s start by opening up the building image. You can use the one that’s provided...

Believable Water Reflection

Allright, here is a tutorial how to create a realistic reflection on the water, quite easy one if I might say :> There are various ways how to achieve this effect really. In this tutorial we will use a displace filter. Ok, let us begin shall...

Making Of Tempus Fugit

This tutorial will only cover part of the completed tempus fugit. It will show only one of the faces. To show both would make this tutorial too long and complicated. I begin always by converting the image I am going to be working on into grayscale (image/mode/grayscale). Then I increase the working space to...

Huge Eyes

Digital artist Shelley Bergen shows you one of her hallmark techniques called “Huge Eyes” to create a very interesting effect in the end. I have been asked many times how I make the huge eyes in some of my images. This simple technique was taught to me by noir. It’s really quite simple to do...

Denim-Like Cube Textures

This tutorial will teach you how to quickly create very belieavable denim-like cube textures using Photoshop’s built in features. Open new document. Set it as 700 x 700 pixels and resolution to 300 dpi. Make new layer and fill it with any colour you want, i chose blue to have a bit more of a denim-like...

Simple Recoloring

In this tutorial I’m going to recolor this white rose into a red one. Start by opening the image you want to recolor. You can use mine if you want. Then choose the color you would want on your image. I took a dark red...

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...

Fashion Retouching: Advanced Soft Focus

Hello and welcome to the third part of the fashion retouching series! In case you missed the first two parts here are the links to artificial make-up & fashion retouching – skin & body tutorials. In this tutorial I will showyou an old technique done in the digital age with much more precision...

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 – ...

Advanced Sepia Toning / Antique

How to turn a colour photograph into a sepia toned/antique image without loosing depth or definition. Hello Everyone! I found this method a few days ago – How to convert colour images to sepia *without* loosing depth, as most sepia conversions cause. While other methods may give a more...

How To Read Histograms

How to tell with a quick look at a histogram display whether an image is correctly exposed and contrasting. Hello and welcome to this tutorial. I will be outlining some of the information you can read straight off a histogram with very little understanding of what it is showing. It is a very underused tool,...

Polarising Your Images

How to make your images more polarised, without the need of expensive filters. Hello and welcome to this tutorial. With only a few steps, you can greatly enhance the look of your images, simulating the use of a polarising filter. Lets begin. Stock...

Auto Levels

Hello and welcome to this tutorial on Level Adjustment. At first, Auto Levels may seem crude and hard to use effectively. Learn how to enhance images easily with this tool in just a few steps. Stock: from Rod L. As you can see, this shot had the potential to be good, but poor light and camera adjustment...

Rgb To Infrared

How to convert RGB images to infrared in a few simple steps. Hello and welcome to the tutorial If you have been put off infrared photography because of all the hastle with film storage etc, you can now make convincing infrared shots with your digital camera and a few tweaks in Photoshop ...

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 Custom Patterns

In this tutorial you will learn how to efficiently create and use patterns within Photoshop. Find out everything you need to know about patterns and start using them right away! Patterns can be used as backgrounds, or become helpful when making image blends. Learn how to create and use those popular patterns...

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...

Blending Your Own Cd Cover

Learn advanced blending techniques that were required for the creation of this great-looking imaginary CD Cover. If you have read my other Photoshop tutorials, then you know how to extract images, and how to use and create brushes and patterns. This is essential knowledge if you want a quality blend. Note...