A comprehensive collection of Photoshop tutorials covering various techniques, tips, and tricks to enhance your skills and creativity.
This Photoshop video tutorial guides viewers through the process of creating a text effect inspired by the Spiderman Homecoming title using Adobe Photoshop. The tutorial caters to beginners and emphasizes a technique called “layer style stacking.” This method involves applying various visual effects, one on top of another, to a...
How can we define what’s a photo effect? That was my main concern when I started scouring the web to build this list. Despite of this situation, I had one thing clear: the final result had to be quite different from the orignal picture and be recognized as a...
This Photoshop tutorial will guide you through the creation of a dramatic Wild West-themed sign, complete with bullet holes and smoke effects. The first steps involve creating a weathered wooden background and crafting text that appears worn and embossed. You’ll learn how to use layer styles to achieve a...
Placing multiple images inside text in Adobe Photoshop is a popular design technique that can add visual interest and depth to your designs. This technique involves inserting images into letters or words to create an eye-catching and unique design. The Clipping Mask feature in Photoshop is used to achieve this...
As a child, I compulsively painted punched eyes, missing teeth, and bloody scars on almost every magazine or newspaper photo I found interesting. Time passed, and while I didn't become a special effects makeup artist, I still enjoy a good horror movie with decent gore and splatter effects....
Chrome effects are notoriously challenging to create because chrome itself has no inherent color; it's all about reflections. Glossy plastics are somewhat easier to simulate, but they present their own set of challenges. In this tutorial, we'll explore some advanced Photoshop Layer Styles techniques to create...
How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements. This tutorial will show you...
This guide teaches you how to transform a photo into an interesting pattern of interweaving strips. You will learn essential techniques in Photoshop, including how to use layers, layer masks, and clipping masks effectively. The process begins with selecting your photo and preparing it in Photoshop. You will then create...
Transforming a single photo into a collage of polaroids is a straightforward yet enjoyable process. Begin by selecting your image and cropping it into a square format. This sets the foundation for creating multiple smaller sections, each representing a part of the whole. Next, you divide the square image into...
This Photoshop Effects tutorial guides you in adding realistic water drops to your photos, making it seem as though water has splashed across the image. You'll explore various filters and adjustments to create random shapes that resemble water droplets. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of using simple layer...
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, you will learn how to create an intriguing optical illusion that combines one main photo with numerous smaller images. The technique involves filling a larger photo with many repeated smaller pictures, allowing for a unique visual experience. You can choose how many smaller images to...
This presentation guides you through the process of blending multiple photos in Photoshop to design your unique movie poster. It begins with a straightforward approach, moving your selected images into a single document. Positioning these images correctly is crucial as it sets the foundation for your poster. Next, you'...
Give your photos an illustration effect in only two steps. Also, add a realistic folded paper effect to the final image.
Oddly enough, whenever we try a new graphics application, we're drawn to applying the cheesiest effects to beautifully designed typefaces. These so-called text or type effects are guilty pleasures that most designers secretly enjoy experimenting with, but would never dare use in professional work. If you're...
In this tutorial, we'll explore how to create a watercolor text effect. This technique makes text appear as if it's been painted onto damp paper, resulting in a distinctive and artistic look. The effect is not only simple to achieve but also produces impressive results that...
By adjusting these sliders, you can fine-tune the blending of your text and wall layers to produce the illusion that the text has been painted directly onto the wall. This effect can add an eye-catching touch to your designs, giving them a unique and artistic look. To achieve this effect,...
Fake images are all around us. Almost every fashion model or artist photo is digitally beautified prior to its public release. Sometimes this goes too far, and the photos are so heavily edited that they leave almost no traces of the original natural beauty of the subject being retouched. This...
No matter how good the photos we take are, we always feel the urgent need to turn them into a drawing effect. The standard installation of Adobe Photoshop gives you a wide range of artistic plugins that have very specific names, but fail to deliver when used with the default...
I’m quite sure that many of you had the chance to try those wonderful Triazzle™ puzzles that are being sold at toys stores all over the country. Triazzle™ puzzles were invented by Dan Gilbert, a Graphic Artist, Product Designer and founder of the Dan Gilbert Art Group, after a...
This time, I'll commit myself to tech you a nice illustration technique in a few steps, rather than my usual detailed explanations. This tutorial explains how to create glowing lights brushes using the Lens Flare filter included in the default installation of Adobe Photoshop. This technique is amazingly...
Finding resources that explain how to program a Photoshop plugin is a extremely difficult task. Why? Just because there is little information on the web. You may ask yourself "Is that possible?" Well, most people agree that creating an Adobe Photoshop plugin is a gold mine business due...
It is very common to find tutorials about making page curls. Many of those tutorials are great, but the final effect is very unrealistic, not because of the quality of the tutorial, but due to the 3d nature of the effect. Creases and folds are more subtle, instead. They can...
Filter Forge is an incredibly powerful Photoshop Plugin. It’s simply amazing. It gives you the power to create your own filters (you must run them from inside Filter Forge though) without any programming knowledge at all. Some technical knowledge about procedural textures and image processing helps a lot but...
For those who never heard about it, Relief Shading is a cartography rendering technique where a three dimensional appearance is given to the topography of a map. The execution of this technique is quite complex and it is usually achieved using special map rendering software. Despite of that, many articles...
