A comprehensive collection of Photoshop tutorials covering various techniques, tips, and tricks to enhance your skills and creativity.
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...
Creating virtual Lego models on your Mac or PC is easier than ever with various software options available. These applications utilize detailed Lego part data in the form of 3D objects, allowing you to construct intricate Lego scenes or even generate instruction booklets for your creations. For added creativity, some...
