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Create Classic Ivy Running Up a Building – Psd Plus Tutorial

Nov 25th in News, Plus by Tomasz Opasinski

We have another Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level, then we have a great tutorial for you. Learn how to add ivy that appears to naturally climb a building. And of course, this technique could be applied to just about anything. Learn more at the jump!

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Author: Tomasz Opasinski

Currently employed as Senior Art Director at BLT & Associates, Inc. (Hollywood, CA, USA). Participant, finalist and jury member of many national and international competitions.Author of many professional articles about artistic and technical aspects of design. Teacher. Mentor. Coworked on projects such as AeonFlux, Bourne Ultimatum, Cars, Harry Potter, Hellboy II, I Am Legend… and many other for Seiniger Advertising Group, The Ant Farm, Trailer Park, Crew Creative Advertising, BLT & Associates, Inc. and also as an independent consultant.

This Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips

For quite some time I've been thinking about simplifying my everyday tasks in Photoshop. Over the years I have collected tons of different techniques… here is one of them. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to "paint" ivy over almost any object imaginable - in just a few easy steps!

The Idea behind this tutorial and technique: I'm going to use base image on top of which I'm going to paint "ivy"… the secret behind a continuous string of green leafs is that… they’re all on one layer. Shall we begin?

Tutorial Details

  • Program: Photoshop CS4
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 30 minutes

Plus members can Log in and Download! If you're not a member, you can of course join today! Below is the final image we'll be creating in this tutorial.

Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside

Plus members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from this tutorial.

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    Shimansky Pavel November 25th

    That’s reaally awesome!!!

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    bodhi November 25th

    Thanks ENVATO!

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    designfollow November 25th

    thank you

    great

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    g3niuz November 25th

    looks professional guys ;D

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    James November 25th

    Awesome outcome too bad its a plus don’t have one.

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    ADrian November 25th

    Where have i seen this before?

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      Dennis November 25th

      There is another Tut here that shows you this building but with fire on it.

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    Pablo November 25th

    Simple and professional. Nice!

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    Rainy May November 25th

    Wow. That’s really cool. And allot simpler than I thought. Good job!

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    Ary Mega November 25th

    Anything by Tomasz Opasinski is money. I highly respect him.

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    tvandang November 25th

    You are amazing!!! Your art works are just mesmerizing. I visited your website with all the posters you made, especially the before and after effect transformations are so incredibly astonishing. More tutorials please!!!! Thank you for the tips!

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    Design Informer November 25th

    Looks like a cool tutorial. Great outcome!

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    idon'twannabeplus November 25th

    i don’t want to pay to see a tut like that, i can do it without be a PLUS member.

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    AEVION November 25th

    This effect is quite simple… does this really need to be a plus tutorial?

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    Martinho November 25th

    Brilliant

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    spiderm0nkey November 25th

    Hahahah. I spent the whole year doing this for my photography portfolio. It’s very simple to do and I’m not sure that it’s worthy of being a PLUS tut. I’m sure there are many ways to do it but the way I did it was quick, easy and required very little effort to get a decent result.

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      AEVION November 26th

      That’s exactly what I said

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    Tao Chen November 25th

    Looks ok!

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    Daniel Whyte November 25th

    Looks like a great tut, i wish i could justify geting + membership

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    SmegO November 25th

    ITS REALY NICE ANY ONE CAN GIVE ME 9$ to GET THAT :D

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    w3planting November 26th

    awesome That’s really cool. Good job Tomasz Opasinski

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    تجريبي كوم November 26th

    vere goooooooooood

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  21. Very good.
    Thanks.

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    ajir November 26th

    that was amazing! thanks for sharing buddy!

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    neil November 26th

    happy thanksgiving

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    geir b nystad November 27th

    super!

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    Sim Kamsan November 27th

    Wow!! very good

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    Bob November 28th

    Thanks for the help, realistic!

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    wien November 28th

    good work, thanks

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    Mark November 29th

    I need PLUS :(

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    Autonomy November 29th

    Awesome. Thanks!

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    Rameexgfx December 1st

    Easy and Nice

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  31. very nice.. :)

    thanks

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    Farhan December 7th

    Looks very good! Too bad, it requires membership which I don’t have :(

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  33. very nice.. :)

    thanks

    yesss:
    this is thank you.. :)

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