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Create Surreal Scenery With Pro Photo-Manipulation Techniques

Dec 31st in News by Jeff Huang

This is a new addition to the PSDTUTS PLUS section. Learn all about how to create surreal illustrations using advanced photo manipulation techniques. Jeff Huang takes us through his process of creating a digital masterpiece in Photoshop. Learn more at the jump!

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Author: Jeff Huang

Jeff Huang is a twenty-one year old graphic artist and illustrator residing in New York City, USA. He specializes mainly in digital illustration and photo manipulation, with knowledge in 3D modeling & animation and motion graphics & compositing. A diverse artist, Jeff demonstrates many styles. You can find his body of work to be a blend of genres such as traditional street art and graffiti, surrealism, digital matte-painting, 2D Illustration, and 3D abstracts.

New Exclusive PLUS Tutorial on Creating a Surreal Digital Illustration

This new PLUS Tutorial is titled "Create Surreal Scenery With Pro Photo-Manipulation Techniques," by Jeff Huang. Learn the complete process Jeff takes in creating these types of illustrations, while explaining each step of this design, and delivering numerous tips and techniques.

Members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! A preview of the final image is below. The final image is below. You can view the large version here.

This is a Complex and Detailed Tutorial with Plenty of Advice and Instructions from a Seasoned Pro

Whether you're creating your own artwork or tackling client work, you've probably asked yourself once or a few times before: "How can I possibly make this crazy idea come to life and look real?". The answer to that question is not a short one, however, more often than not, you would resort to finding and manipulating stock photos. In this tutorial, I'll share and show you the typical technical and creative pipeline that I personally go through when I create this type of imagery.

Members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from the tutorial.

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    Kuldar Kalvik December 31st

    Neeaat.. ! Too bad I don’t have plus membership. : (

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    Douglas December 31st

    nice result

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    Lee Milthorpe December 31st

    Wow! Very impressive tutorial!

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  4. very nice outcome!

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    Ariful Alam Khan December 31st

    Looks nice, but I don’t have the account. OOPS! Anyway Happy new year 2009

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    Magnus Fleig December 31st

    Looks nice …

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    afrix December 31st

    Great tut !! one of the best ones : )

    http://afrix99.deviantart.com/

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    Yosry Sabry December 31st

    thanks tut ..

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    Gotti December 31st

    Damn, this looks impressive.

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    viktor December 31st

    plus tutorial¿?

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    Misael December 31st

    Downloading right now, looks amazing.

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    shivv December 31st

    sweeet.

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    loswl December 31st

    That looks pretty cool!! :o ) love the lighting and shadows.

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    Wazdesign December 31st

    Nice work… I always wonder what photoshop can do.

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    Wazdesign December 31st

    Nice I Always wonder .. photshop’s capability

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    Wazdesign December 31st

    Cool! but i dont have plus membership

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    nobody December 31st

    The good thing is most worth while tutorials are FREE on other sites.

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    braind0ubt December 31st

    gotta get that plus membership…
    does that give an individual the ability to view all the past PLUS!TUTS as well?

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      Sean Hodge August 31st

      Yes it does.

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    DKumar M. December 31st

    Nice Outcome… Thanks for sharing !!

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    colorloaded December 31st

    A very nice looking tutorial from the preview

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    Topflysecurity December 31st

    yea i was about to ask the same thing braind0ubt.. i defenetly gone get it if i can get the other tuts to.. its been alot of tutorials that can take the photoshop skills to the next level..

    let us know about the tuts…

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      Sean Hodge August 31st

      Yah, you get access to all the Photoshop source files from past tuts, all Plus files, and what we’ll continue to publish.

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    xtatic December 31st

    Hi guys!! We’ve all heard and seen the new 3D support in photoshop CS4 !!!

    But if you were wondering if this is possible in older versions then download the plugin that lets you do just that in older versions..

    Here’s the link!!
    http://www.imultimedia.110mb.com/PS/photoshop3d.html

    Have fun!! and Keep sharing!!

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    Sean Hodge January 1st

    @braind0ubt – Yah, there are probably about 150 tutorial files to download now. I haven’t counted them lately. The tutorial files go back to just a few months after we launched, so almost a year back now. Lot’s of files to download. Thx.

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    techwarman January 1st

    Amazing tutorial, I LOVE IT. I love having a membership, best money I’ve ever spent. Keep it up PSD tuts.

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    5ivedance January 2nd

    Looks amazing, but no plus membership.

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    Bob January 2nd

    nice effect. though the shadows are too harsh for that level of lighting…

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    Servant January 2nd

    This one is my favorite, love the lights and holes on statues.
    Too bad it’s only for tuts+

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    himangshu January 2nd

    super cool bad luck i don hv membership….(sad)

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    M January 8th

    Great final outcome but I felt the tutorial lacked in explanation at certain points. I had to employ extra techniques on some aspects to make it look like the example. Nonetheless, satisfied, thanks!

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    Hamdhany February 15th

    Waaaaa…. I Really need this membership. :”(

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    timshapiro March 28th

    This is stupid

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    BigBrother March 30th

    very good. Il est très bien expliqué.

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