This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images. Let’s get started!
Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume
Nov 3rd in 3D, Illustration, Photo Effects by Marcel Pirosca
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How to Enhance Photos With a Pen Tablet
Oct 20th in Painting, Photo Effects by Alex BeltechiHave you ever come across a photo where all the highlights and shadows seem just too good to be true? If it’s not HDR processing, it’s pen tablet magic. Find out in this tutorial how to give a regular image a subtle, artistic feel with some clever brush work. Read more after the jump!
How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Oct 6th in Photo Effects by Jarka H.In this tutorial I will show you how I created a fantasy photo manipulation called "You Can Not Frost The Time" with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more. Let’s get started!
Adding a Realistic Tattoo the Easy Way with Photoshop
Sep 28th in Photo Effects by Dennis DunbarThe end goal of a good retoucher is to make their work appear invisible while creating some alternative reality. In this case we’re going to look at one method I use for adding a tattoo to an image while making it look like it’s really a part of the original photo.
This method involves placing an Illustrator file (the tattoo source image) as a Smart Object, using the Free Transform/Warp Tool, adding a Gaussian Blur (to adjust the ‘Focus’) and then finishing it all off with a lighting effect created from a Channel Pull. Ready to begin?
How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing
Sep 12th in Photo Effects, Tools & Tips by Matt CampbellIt goes without saying that everyone here has adjusted the contrast and levels in a picture. This tutorial will show you a way of safely using Auto Levels and a better way to adjust the contrast. All this can be built into an Action Script that can be turned into a droplet for drag and drop batch processing.
How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop
Aug 28th in Photo Effects by Simon RuddIn this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks. Let’s get started!
How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork
Aug 25th in Illustration, Photo Effects by Matthew BoothUsing stock photography is not always necessary or desired, but we can reference images of real objects to learn techniques for perspective and lighting. In this tutorial, we will be creating an abstract orb. In order to get the highlights, shadows, and perspective as accurate as possible we will study real images to create our own interpretation.
How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation
Aug 24th in Photo Effects by Loredana PappIn this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fantasy landscape using some simple and easy techniques. Everyone with basic Photoshop skills can succeed to recreate this simple image using the most important thing in this kind of photo manipulation – the right stock. So let’s go!
Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images
Aug 17th in Photo Effects by James DaviesLearn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as I guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move. Let’s get started!
How To Create the Photo Manipulation “Brightness Tomorrows”
Aug 14th in Photo Effects by Jarka H.In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a futuristic looking photo manipulation using some special tools, such as the Background Eraser Tool and how to blend pictures properly using Match Color Adjustments and Lighting Effects. So let’s start!
