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New Premium Tutorial – Design a Dramatic and Surreal Rainy Scene with Photoshop

on Jan 21st 2009 with 43 comments
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This is a new addition to the Psdtuts+ Premium section. Learn all about how to manipulate images and combine them to create surreal scenes, in this case a rainy scene. Also, numerous details are covered in this tutorial such as adding highlights, shading, excellent photo-manipulation techniques, and more. Learn all about it at the jump!

New Exclusive Premium Tutorial on Creating a Surreal Rainy Scene

This new Premium Tutorial is titled "Design a Dramatic and Surreal Rainy Scene with Photoshop," by Alvaro Guzman. I wanted to create a rainy scene a long time ago, but didn’t wanted another boring landscape image, so I added a fantastic and surreal style to this one. I’ll show you how to manipulate stock images according your needs, add realistic lightening effects, design rain from scratch, and some quick design tips.

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

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This is an Awesome Tutorial that Uses Detailed Photo-Manipulation Techniques

This tutorial details how to create a surreal rainy scene, and it also provided detailed photo-manipulation explanations. Below is a sample of adding splashes to the main objects in the design. It’s a subtle effect that adds to the overall realism of this stylish illustration. Members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from the tutorial

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I'm Alvaro Guzman from Bolivia, Web developer and Graphic designer. For me digital design is a modern form of art, which allows me to explore innovative techniques, and helps to deliver a clear message to the public.My work covers advertising, corporate image, print design, and web design areas. I am currently the Design Team Leader of SouthMakers. And you can find me on Twitter @alvarocker.  

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  • Gotti

    Thanks for this great tutorial

  • http://www.opensourcehunter.com OpenSourceHunter
  • http://www.broof.de BroOf

    This looks cool. I like the snakeskin on the hand.

  • http://www.pushingbuttons.net Timothy

    Looks cool, but I don’t really dig the extended snake finger…

  • http://www.taddmencer.com Tadd

    Looks pretty cool – but I’m with Timothy. I just don’t get the reasoning behind the snakefinger. But – it’s an artists vision not mine.

    Glad I have the Plus membership!

    • kevin

      ur so hot,man

  • Sjoap

    Looks nice, I just don’t really like the hand. I think a reaching hand would be nicer and more like just a hand not snakehand. Nice concept but could be alot better.

    ~Sjoap

  • Gotti

    I don’t see the tut in the plus section ?

  • http://www.geirbnystad.com geir b nystad

    me neither,where is it?

  • Frederik

    It’s not the result that matters, but the techninques used to obtain it. Mix the techniques learned here and your creativity, and you have something worth paying for.

  • http://www.weeru.com Robert Stenbom

    “Looks cool, but I don’t really dig the extended snake finger…”

    Artists doesn’t see things as they are, if they did, they wouldn’t be artists – van gogh if I remember right ;>

  • http://www.aaronmillerillustration.com Aaron Miller

    The hand looks great, great tones and shadows

  • http://www.inspiks.com loswl

    Cool imagery, I love the atmosphere, details on the hand, including the weird snake fingers, which adds a bit of character to the image :o)

  • http://isis-m.deviantart.com Isis

    I really think the tecniques are most important in this case. But, to me, is clear that an “reaching” hand, softly opened could give a more interesting result for the composition.

    =)

  • http://www.minimalshowcase.com/ Lee Milthorpe

    Very dramatic! Nice results!

  • http://www.instantshift.com Roshan

    That’s great.

    I am going to jump in psdtuts plus membership section!

  • http://blog.insicdesigns.com insic

    Another Alvaro’s masterpiece. Keep it up!

  • Wojciech Pijecki

    Very nice.

  • http://www.timsoret.com/ Tim Soret

    I’ve suscribed, thanks to this impressive tutorial.

  • J

    I´d never pay for tutorials like that

  • http://www.instantshift.com DKumar M.

    Nice and simple Article Alvaro….. Thanks for sharing good stuff !!

  • http://www.geirbnystad.com geir b nystad

    yeah thank alot, this i good stuff

  • http://www.geirbnystad.com geir b nystad

    i think i was a little fast there, but i just can’t find it, where did you guy find the TUT?

  • Ranim

    it’s very nice thank you

  • TopFlySecurity

    Damn s*** looks crazy.. i need to be a plus member, its alot of great tuts it seems..

  • Alexander

    Great. Another PLUS only tutorial.

    Torrent link please.

  • Dale Smith

    Guys… i don’t see the tut… am I missing something?

  • miloli

    Why i can’t see it in the PLUS section? it’s not there.

  • http://kuldar.kalvik.ee Kuldar Kalvik

    Looks really in depth.. If only I had Plus membership.. : D

  • electriccelt

    Sorry… where is the tutorial on Plus?

    By the way, my previous query has been deleted from this list… why?

  • Misael

    Great, will download immediately, glad to me plus member.

  • http://www.gradientgraphics.net Wes D.

    Now that is how you put together a photo manipulation! Beautiful work Alvaro. The attention to details is what sets a good manip apart from a bad one…and this is definitely a good one!

    Keep up the good work and thanks for the tut!

  • http://www.southmakers.com Alvaro
    Author

    Thanks guys!

  • Ariful Alam Khan

    I don’t have plus account. But I think it will be a great tut. Thanks.

  • nobody

    good photoshopping, but the composition is terrible.

  • http://www.crystalprocovers.com crystalprocovers minisite designer

    i hate reptiles , make the bird win, please :P
    but the editing result looks fantastic….
    I bet it will be a useful tutorial you have…

    Regards,

  • eeewww

    wow this site is a rip off

  • Sarah-lee

    it looks like cut and stick

  • BB

    You do know how to use Photoshop, but I don’t like the result. Actually, this tutorial didn’t really interest me and I would not buy a PLUS membership for this one. It may sound sentimental but: where are the ‘good old days’ of PSDtuts, when there were actually USEFUL tutorials posted? E.g., tutorials that inspire you, let you think ‘ah, that’s the way they do it, I’m gonna learn this technique and make it look the way I want it to look’.
    I think a lot of the other PSDTuts readers think the same; just look at the amount of comments!
    This tutorial -> +/- 36 comments
    ‘older’ tutorial, Advanced Glow Effects -> 777 comments
    Honestly, I am not very interested in the kind of tutorial that was written here.
    I hope the next tutorials will be better.

  • aMs

    BB you obviously have no idea how hard it is, to keep up site like this. PSDTUTS needs to have few fresh tutorials each weak. It means they are making tutorial schedules for every month. They approve only quality tutorials with some artistic value or good techniques.

    Writers need now to be above creativity, because most great effects was achieved long time ago, like the glow effect. Thousands of people go through this site, do you think you can satisfy them all?

    Ishhhh, dude, start thinking a little, and apperciate what’s given to you for free. And if you don’t like the PLUS? Don’t buy it.

  • neil

    it’s rude to point

  • justin

    wow, pretty amazing… really easy to follow which is a real pleasure being that i am fairly new to photoshop (1 year) im really happy at the way it turned out. i was able to make my image almost an exact duplicate as yours, and thats hard to do when following tutorials. 8.5/10

  • subin

    o very greate

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