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...

Faking Depth Of Field

Faking Depth Of Field
A few simple processing tricks to fake Depth Of Field in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily ’fake’ depth of field in Photoshop, rather than with your camera itself. While there are other methods which may be used to create this effect, mine will only work in Photoshop CS and...

Cross-Processing

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

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...

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...

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...

Advanced Portrait Retouching

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...

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...

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...

Selective Color

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....

Fashion Retouching – Skin & Body

Fashion Retouching – Skin & Body
In this tutorial I will show you some of the techniques used in fashion retouching glamour photos. I will be using a photo I took in March 2005 with a digital SLR. The starting image is very dark because in this instance only window light was used and no additional lightning was pointed at the girl. So how...

Eye Manipulation – Using Masking, Blend Modes, Burn

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...

Managing Your Photoshop Workspace

Managing Your Photoshop Workspace
This tutorial will teach you several neat tricks for Photoshop worspace optimization. Hi there and welcome to this tutorial. I’m going to show you some quick and dirty tips on managing your webspace in Photoshop (CS but it also applies to other versions such as the upcoming CS2 and the older ones). We’re...

Burns

Burns
In this tutorial, I will show you one method to create the appearance of a burn on skin using a texture you may not have thought of before. Here are the 2 images I shall use, a hand and a crab...

The Famous S-Curve Adjustment

The Famous S-Curve Adjustment
I will show you how to make your photos have more depth, and emotion with just one edit. This is called the S-Curve, because in the curves you create the letter S. First you need to open up the curves window. For this go to Image>Adjustments>Curves. You can also make a new adjustment layer if you want to...

Spectacular Explosion

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...

Akvis Chameleon – Review

Akvis Chameleon – Review
Hello, Here’s a review of a plugin I recently found for Photoshop, AKVIS Chameleon. DEMO : Windows Mac AKVIS Chameleon is an efficient tool for automatic adjustment of inserted objects to the target image color range and smoothing of the object’s...

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