A comprehensive collection of Photoshop tutorials covering various techniques, tips, and tricks to enhance your skills and creativity.
In this Photoshop tutorial by Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV, you will learn how to create incredibly realistic water reflections from any photo. The method demonstrated here is refined, offering a fresh perspective that surpasses earlier techniques. The tutorial guides you step-by-step, making it accessible for users at different...
In this Photoshop tutorial by Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV, you will learn how to create a striking black and white 50s retro TV show text effect. This guide is designed for users at any skill level, making it accessible and easy to follow. You'll start by...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a striking post-apocalyptic photo effect using Photoshop. By following straightforward manipulation techniques, you will see how to transform stock images to create an atmospheric scene that captures the essence of a world after calamity. The tutorial focuses not only on the...
In this tutorial, Gavin Hoey demonstrates how to apply the out of bounds technique to a photo. As the name suggests, this method involves making part of the image extend beyond the frame, creating a dynamic and eye-catching effect. Despite its impressive appearance, the technique is quite straightforward when broken...
This Photoshop tutorial from Blue Lightning TV offers a unique approach to creating text with a fur texture, complete with a striking background pattern inspired by African or Aboriginal designs. It is an excellent resource for those interested in enhancing their graphic design skills. You will learn step-by-step methods to...
In this quick tutorial, you will discover how to create a classic blurry UFO sighting photo effect using Photoshop. Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV guides you through the process step by step. You will start with an ordinary photo and transform it into a unique depiction of a UFO...
In this spine-chilling tutorial, Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV guides fans of horror and the macabre through the process of creating a terrifying, dungeon-like wall covered in dark shadows with a blood-scrawled message. The tutorial focuses on achieving a realistic and horrifying effect that looks like a desperate plea...
In this advanced Photoshop tutorial by PSD Box, Andrei shows how to transform a daytime photo into a nighttime scene. They start with basic adjustments like cropping and precise sky selection using color range and layer masks. Adding a dark, cloudy sky layer sets the nighttime tone, enhanced by layer...
Today, Marty Geller from Blue Lightning TV will show us how to create a text effect that looks burnt onto a wood background, similar to a branding, using Photoshop. This tutorial is extremely detailed, loaded with useful techniques, and very easy to follow. Marty guides you through the steps to...
Adobe Photoshop offers a lot of ways to apply color effects to your images. But maybe the Gradient Map adjustment layer is the most flexible and easy to use of them all. With this tool you can apply one of the many great sample gradients provided by Adobe in the...
In this tutorial, Lee Varis presents a unique approach to skin smoothing in Photoshop. While the technique might seem non-intuitive at first, it is straightforward and accessible for intermediate users. Even beginners can take advantage of this method, as it doesn't require advanced retouching skills. Lee Varis guides...
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to give a grunge dirty retro photo effect to any image in a quick and easy way. For this matter we are going to use the awesome Perfect Effects Free Edition Photoshop plugin, which is, by the way, absolutely free. 👁️This...
From Cosmic Pop art in the 60’s to neo Expressionism today, the colorful artworks of Peter Max have become an important part of the popular American culture. This tutorial is inspired in his works from the late 60’s, know as the Cosmic style that made him famous worldwide....
Struggling to capture the artistic flair of oil paintings with your digital photos? Look no further! This short and sweet Photoshop tutorial, clocking in at just 90 seconds, will show you how to use the Mixer Brush to transform your photos into captivating works of art. The instructor, Jesus Ramirez...
The introduction of digital cameras has revolutionized photography. Gone are the days when quality relied solely on film development services, which often meant dealing with color errors or issues like expired rolls or light leaks. Nowadays, these concerns are virtually eliminated, allowing photographers to focus on creativity rather than technical...
Toy cameras are fun to play around with but most of them take 120 film and for a quick experiment, processing 120 film can get pricey. Also, toy cameras are quite unpredictable. More often than not, you don’t know what will come out of them nor can you get...
In this tutorial, Julianne Kost will delve into an often-overlooked yet highly versatile tool in Photoshop CS5—the Art History Brush. This tool, which utilizes history states and snapshots, allows users to transform their images into stunning painterly effects. Julianne emphasizes that while the default settings of the Art History...
Back in the day, when one would print their own black and white prints, you had a choice of a zillion different papers. They basically boiled down to cooltone and warmtone papers. This combined with different developers gave one an array of tones to choose from for any given picture....
Bleach bypass is a photo effect used very often in the movie industry. It has been used in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report and many others. To achieve this effect, filmmakers either partially or completely skip bleaching during the processing of a color film giving as a...
Autochrome was a color positive transparency process developed by Lumiere in 1907 and used by such photography greats as Edward steichen and alfred stieglitz, just to name a few. The process consisted in coating a glass plate with a random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch dyed red, green...
Embraced by the lo-fi photography movement and toy camera fanatics, redscale film consists in exposing photographic film from the wrong side. In other words, the emulsion is exposed through the base of the film which acts as a red-orange filter. The resulting colors range from bright red shadows, orange midtones...
Ever wanted to shoot Polaroid again but can´t seem to find any film for that old dusty polaroid camera in your father´s basement? Well, in this tutorial I´ll show you how you can achieve that old faded Polaroid look in a snap using Photoshop´s Curves Adjustments....
X-pro (short for cross-processing) is basically developing your film in the wrong chemicals. If you are shooting color negative film you develop it with E6 (chemicals for slide film) and you will get slides. If you´re shooting slide film, you develop it with C-41 (chemicals for color negative film)...
The Fileteado is a popular decorative art form typically used in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the beginning of the 20th century. It was, and still is, usually applied to almost anything from signs, leaderboards, objects, trucks and buses, to mention a few. It is mainly composed of a text element,...
