20 Insane Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects

Sep 3rd in Articles, Web Roundups by Danny Outlaw

Comic books and graphic novels combine two things every designer aspires to meld: real meaning and pure, unadulterated eye candy. Here we introduce 20 of the best ever tuts on using Photoshop to create stunning comic-book style art.

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Author: Danny Outlaw

Danny Outlaw is best known for his work at Outlaw Design Blog. Aside from blogging, he also works full time as a Wordpress designer. Danny has freelanced from all over the world and is working on a book and website in which he will share his experience about Freelancing Abroad. Danny also has an unhealthy obsession with toys, LOST, and Sharpie markers.

1. Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect

2. Drawing Comics in Photoshop

3. Create rainy comic strip effect

4. Comic Art Effect

5. Turn Photos of People into Line Art

6. Pop Art Inspired by Lichtenstein

7. Colouring Line Art

8. Super Hero Coloring Tutorial

9. How to Color in Photoshop

10. Advanced Cell Shading in Photoshop

11. Popular Comic Tutorial

12. Digitally Paint Comics Like the Pros

13. From Sketch to Vector Illustration

14. Comic Book Style Graphic Design

15. Creating a Graphic Novel With Photos

16. Comic Book Photos and Layouts

17. Sin City Style

18. Comic Effect Tutorial

19. Vector Comic Tutorial for Photoshop

20. Comic Style Painting

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    Lucy September 3rd

    Sofa! So nice!

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      Leotsing October 27th

      little ban den.. hahaha

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    moukadesign September 3rd

    good tuts thks

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    Chakal September 3rd

    Nice tuts, some of them I already knew it.

    Great recopilation.

    P.D. screw you firts! maniacs.

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    rjton September 3rd

    wow!

    first ;)

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    Brent Nelson September 3rd

    I like the sin city one.

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    Philo September 3rd

    Nice Article :)

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    w1sh September 3rd

    #20 looks a lot more intimidating than it is.

    I love the Sin City one too.

    The graphic novel one is a good idea, just poorly executed. I’d love to see that done right.

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    Jaroslav Zapadlo September 3rd

    And… anything else then just showing others’ work ?

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    Darrin September 3rd

    Ohhh Baby…….

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    andré September 3rd

    wow impressive

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      bee August 28th

      Cooll

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    sumit September 3rd

    just awesome

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    Alen September 3rd

    Very nice collection.

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    Shane September 3rd

    impressive list – thanks for compiling :)

    just one thing – when am I going to get the time to look at all this great stuff? :)

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    SnakeJake September 3rd

    Nice collection, but there are only a few gems in here.

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    Dullface September 3rd

    Fantastic roundup here, Hope I have time to look through them.

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    BroOf September 3rd

    Very nice collection!

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    Dainis Graveris September 3rd

    oh..and how You supposed not to love those effects..Just great..what can I say :)

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    Joefrey Mahusay September 3rd

    Great Comic design. Thanks.

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    Manuel Minino September 3rd

    amazing! thnx

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    NaldzGraphics September 3rd

    i like #20 and tuts from gmediazine.great post

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    Topps September 3rd

    Very cool lessons! I will try some out soon.

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    Make Design, Not War September 3rd

    Very nice collection – love the Sketch to Vector tutorial. Thanks for sharin these :)

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    insic September 3rd

    really nice list you have here!

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    reezluv September 3rd

    thanks..great collection of tutorials for comic style..:D

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    Mark Papercraft September 3rd

    Fantastic !!! I love comic style !

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    Janko September 3rd

    Very nice selection :)

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    Zora September 3rd

    great collection of tutorials.
    some of them are very popular tutorials (melissa clifton’s).
    gonna see the rest of the list.
    thanks for compiling and sharing.

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    erichansa September 3rd

    3. Create rainy Game Boy Printer effect

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    Jiff Woods September 3rd

    That is truly fascinating indeed. I always wondered how that was done.

    Jiff
    http://www.privacy.mx.tc

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    Harry September 3rd

    Very nice collection of different arts effects

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    shannon September 3rd

    I agree. Number 20…that kid is an awesome colorist. Cool roundup.

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    Aerton September 3rd

    very nice!!!!!!!!!!

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    Timberooni from Assault September 4th

    Great collection of articles. Now if only I could learn to draw again!

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    Arjen September 4th

    Great list of awesome tutorials. I’ve just tried the Pop Art Lichtenstein tutorial, and it’s great! I don’t have a lot of Photoshop knowlegde, but I was able to get a nice image.

    Thanks for sharing this!

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    Permana Jayanta September 4th

    Whoa, great list … no wonder many people love the sin city. btw, looks like there are no list about japanese comic style. I love japanese comic style :)

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    Seraphim Collective September 4th

    Thanks a lot for this, I’m loving the superman tut.

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    Comic Guy September 5th

    This is an awesome set of tutorials. I wanta try no 2 , the superman one and the cell shading one out

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    Habib September 6th

    Thnx for good tuts

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    J Pash September 7th

    I was going to say something interesting, but it looks like “very nice collection!” is all that is needed around here. Wouldn’t want to come across as “high-minded” or say something “educated”.

    Woo! You go psdtuts! Nice list! Very good. I like it. derrrrr

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    max September 7th

    Nice list, dude!!!

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    michela September 9th

    Oh, it’s beaultifull
    I like edition of photos

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    Fotografo matrimonio September 9th

    Wow. Sin City style just rock.

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    Phpballer September 9th

    Nice!

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    KronicDreamer September 10th

    Very nice set of tips/cheats here :) Thanks.

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    rayees September 10th

    hi really i like this site love it

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    crowdadmin September 10th

    Exellent!

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    Anthony September 12th

    These are some of the nicest graphics ive ever seen. Thanks

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    website design September 13th

    awesome shiz as usual from that site. word to your mother.

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    rudytarigan September 17th

    Great job……………

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    Oba October 26th

    Fantastic collection.

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    Milan November 23rd

    Excellent!

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    zedde December 4th

    Give me moore…..

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    lily December 27th

    amazing amazing amazing!! Love it!

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    bemz February 7th

    nice……..so help me

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    lucy March 24th

    really beautiful… good job!!!!!

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    HEM-SINGH June 28th

    very very niceeeeeee?

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