Beginner – Animal Skin Text

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

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....

Believable Water Reflection

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...

Creating And Using Custom Patterns

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Realistic Object Replacements

Realistic Object Replacements
In this tutorial you will learn how to properly replace objects in images to create a believable switch – in this case the basketball with planet Earth with realistic shadows. You will learn about selections, transformations, shadow creation and more.[more] Alrighty, let’s begin… Open up a...

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...

Changing A Black And White Image To Color

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...

Text Inside An Object

Text Inside An Object
This nifty technique will show you how you can get text inside an object using Photoshop. Open up photoshop cs then make a new image of 400×400 (or anysize you like). Next make a new layer and fill with white. Then go to the custom shape tool to get more shapes click on the arrow and select all –...

Artificial Grafitti In Photoshop

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...

Create A Stamp

Create A Stamp
I went ahead and created 2 new layers. Layer 2 is just a fill color so that layer 3 will show up. On Layer 3 use your select marquee tool and create a square and fill it with White. Next lets set up the Eraser tool setting: Select your Eraser tool....

CS2 – Using Warp Transform – Paper Folding And Tape

CS2 – Using Warp Transform – Paper Folding And Tape
First I created a new document slightly bigger than the image I will be using, then I placed my image in a new layer. Next go to Edit/Transform and select...