Realistic Clouds

Realistic Clouds
This tutorial will attempt to explain how to get realistic (or at least surreal) looking cloud formations in Photoshop 6 (and up to cs version) ON CLOUDS… No two clouds are alike in nature..it is impossible to find symetrical patterns in swirling gases. Luckily, Photoshop has the means to re-create a...

Cyanotyping

Cyanotyping
Learn how to create cyanotype effects quickly and effectively in Photoshop Hello and welcome to this tutorial on cyanotype effect photographs. Cyanotyping is not quite as easy to acheive well as, for example, sepia effects; hopefully this short tutorial will show you how to get good effects with a fairly...

Environment Painting – A Little Insight

Environment Painting – A Little Insight
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Lith Prints

Lith Prints
How to recreate an old Lith-style print with a few simple steps. In this tutorial, I am going to try and reproduce a lith-style print. Lith printing has a distinctively warm tone and grain, high contrast and some film grain. Open a picture to work with, and Ctrl + Shift + U to desaturate it. If you are...

Sun Prints

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...

Mastering Curves

Mastering Curves
The curve tool is essential when it comes to contolling the colour and tone of an image, don’t be afraid of this feature of Photoshop – Once mastered, you will gain precise control over your work! The curves command works around a graph, Original image against New image with variations being made to...

Gel Text

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...

Basic Emo/Goth Makeup

Basic Emo/Goth Makeup
I will try to make-up on a lady’ s photo. Very Easy. Just paint on the photo and change the blending...

Recreate The Reuters Photoshop Scandal

Recreate The Reuters Photoshop Scandal
In this tutorial we will show you how to recreate the image from the Reuters photoshopping scandal of the Beirut bombings. Learn step-by-step techniques and finish up the tutorial by also adding Godzilla. Hello and welcome to the Reuters tutorial, soon to be taught to photojournalism photographers worldwide....

Finishing “Angels No Longer Desired”

Finishing “Angels No Longer Desired”
In this in-depth tutorial we will tag along as Fantasio completes his artwork. You will see a complete walktrough from the photoshop composition till the finishing of the printing process. Please note: this tutorial is a beginning of Starting “Angels No Longer Desired” tutorial. If you haven’t...

Your Own Massive Signature In Sand

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

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

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

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...

Clothing Naked Women … In Photoshop

Clothing Naked Women … In Photoshop
In this funny tutorial we will turn an art nude into a politically correct version by equipping the model with a red top while teaching you everything about the new Warp tool in CS2. Greetings and a very warm welcome to this advanced “not safe for work” tutorial on using the CS2 Warp tool. In...

Starting “Angels No Longer Desired”

Starting “Angels No Longer Desired”
No, the idea for this work of art does not have any religious background although it sounds that way. It is an experimental work of art, which represents my occupation with symbols and their meaning. As we know, surrealists like Dalí, Magritte, Bosch or Escher often hid messages, visions and dreams in...

Embroidery Text

Embroidery Text
In this tutorial I am going to show you a quick way to do embroidery looking text, this technique can also be used for borders and logos to make patches. The first thing that we have to do for this tutorial is create a Paint bucket pattern fill for later on. Make a new canvas 2 pixels x 5...

Chrome Metal Balls

Chrome Metal Balls
Create nifty looking 3d metal balls in Photoshop without any additional plugins. This tutorial has been developed using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 however you can transfer the 3D transform plug-in onto Photoshop CS & CS2. 1: Make a new document, none of these options really matter much so long as it’s a...

Quick View At Duotones

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”

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...

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