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...

Making Of Tempus Fugit

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

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...

Dark Eye – Blend Modes And Gradients

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 – ...

Extracting Images With 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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ultimate Rock & Stone

Ultimate Rock & Stone
In this tutorial you will learn everything it takes to create totally belieavable rocks and stones in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we will exercise on drawing rocks, stones, cliffs or anything made of stone. There are many ways to achieve this… I will just show you my favorite one. depending on their...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cellshade

Cellshade
This tutorial will teach you hoow to create a cellshade-like styled image. 1. Open the image you would like to Cellshade. 2. Make a selection with the “Polygonal Lasso Tool” as shown below. 3. Now click INSIDE the selection you made with the “Eyedropper Tool“. – You can see...

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