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 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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cross-Processing

In this tutorial, I’ll recreate the effect of Cross Processing – the method of developing slide film with the chemicals for developing print film. Here is the photo I’ll be...

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....

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...

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”

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...