Stylish Surreal Portrait

In today's tutorial we will combine surrealism and fashion effortlessly to create a state of art portrait. I'll show you how to achieve this essentially through a combination of photos, filters and brushes. You can then translate these techniques into your designs to add an artistic edge to them...

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Draw a T-Shirt in Photoshop

Learn how to draw a realistic t-shirt 100% in Photoshop! This detailed step by step tutorial will show you techniques on creating shapes, shading, embossing, and more...

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How to Animate a GIF Inside of Photoshop CS4

In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the Photoshop animation feature to create a nice animated GIF. I’m sure all of you already noticed the ads at the right side of this page. For some of you, they are annoying, others even click on them, which is why they are there. I personally think there’s nothing to be said against them, so I thought why not creating a nice 125 pixel by 125 pixel ad to demonstrate how easy it is to create nice animations...

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Create a Realistic Soda Bottle in Photoshop

For many, the complexity of Photoshop’s tools can be a bit intimidating. If used properly however, almost anyone can create realistic and impressive-looking graphics. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a stylish soda bottle using some easy-to-learn techniques...

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cool effect

A simple tutorial to show you how to make your image looked warped. A nice effect used in alot of professional advertising ...

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How to Create a Stunning Fire Effect In Photoshop

Showing a realistic, fire effect in photoshop is a bit tough, but in this tutorial we will learn how to use photoshop to render realistic flames and create a dramatic artwork in few simple and easy steps....

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Realistic water running on tap

Through this tutorial, we will learn how to use a combination of photoshop filters to create a realistic effect of water running from a tap.....

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3D Polaroid effect

We are going to create a 3D polaroid styled photo effect.   Find a suitable photograph from which to create this effect. Some tips when picking a photograph include a distinguishable background and an area within the photograph that extrudes beyond the normal outline of the photo. In my example, the dog's leg makes this photograph a perfect candidate for this technique. Note, that this photograph is image #0520011 from Photospin.com. You...

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Create A Wooden House Icon in Photoshop

You might be surprised what you can do with Photoshop’s drawing tools, a few textures, and a basic understanding of light and shadow. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a wooden house icon in Photoshop by applying textures to basic shapes. ...

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Ice Effect

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an ice effect completely from scratch using special Photoshop Brushes. Some time ago playing with Photoshop and trying to make an ice effect I discovered that “dead trees” can simulate very well the ice’s “veins” giving a cool feeling to an image. I’m not going for realism here, but I do like the final effect for this tutorial. I used some text as reference, but this effect can be applied to any shape...

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Create a Barcode Sticker in Photoshop

In today’s quick tip tutorial you will learn how to create a barcode sticker and a paperboard background texture. Let’s get started!...

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Create an abstract Valentine background with hearts

In this tutorial, you’ll see how to create an abstract Valentine background, using a simple shape from Custom Shapes Tool and crosshatch brush from Brush Tool. So let’s star...

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How to Create a Cosmic Photo Composition in Photoshop

In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to create a cosmic photo manipulation using different Photoshop techniques, brushes and blending modes. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get starte...

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Create a Devastating Twister With Photo Manipulation Techniques

If you’re looking to create a really nice photo manipulation, often you will have to combine several photos and apply a few effects to get your desired look. In today’s tutorial I decided to combine a few photos that I took while I was traveling to create a devastating tornado consuming everything in its path. Okay, let’s get starte...

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Create a Realistic Panoramic Matte Painting in Photoshop

Matte paintings are images commonly used in the film industry to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build. In this tutorial I will show you how to turn a single stock photo into a realistic panoramic scene. ...

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How to Design a Print-Ready Flier with Photoshop and Illustrator

In this tutorial we are going to create 3D text and integrate it in a natural environment. We will not use any 3D programs, so all you need is Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create this effec...

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How to Draw a Watch in Photoshop

Final Product What You'll Be Creating You might be surprised how many people use Photoshop to mockup their industrial designs. In fact, Photoshop is a very popular tool among fashion and jewelry designers. In today’s tutorial we will use layer styles and shading to produce a really nice rendering of an analog watch in Photoshop.  ...

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Create a Knife in Photoshop

Photoshop is a fantastic app to use to manipulate photos but it is also a great app to use to illustrate still life objects. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a semi-photo-realistic knife in Photoshop using vector drawing tools, layer styles, textures, and effect...

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Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration

A nice and cool effe...

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How to create a spattered photomontage in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to make a spattered photomontage in Photoshop using brushes and some filters. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get starte...

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Create a Sleek and Stylish MP3 Player in Photoshop

One of the best ways to learn how to create amazing interfaces it to practice by creating electronic devices in Photoshop. These days just about everyone has some kind of MP3 device to play music. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a sleek, stylish, and simple MP3 interface in Photoshop to play audio files for your Flash project...

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Create a Realistic Paper Texture in 5 Minutes

In this quick tip tutorial, we will learn how to create a realistic paper texture from scratch in just 5 minutes. To do this we will use some simple filters and effects. Let’s get started!  ...

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Create a simple but creative graphic typography wallpaper design

In this tutorial we will be creating a very simple but creative typography wallpaper using photoshop. There are many creative individuals who are wanting to become graphic designers everyday. Well today is your lucky day! In this tutorial we will be creating a very simple but creative typography wallpaper using photoshop...

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Without Face: Photoshop Cheating

Hey, are you interesting on cheating methods in Photoshop? If yes then I’ll show u how to create one interesting effect with human face. I’m going to cover almost all the face with plain skin. This lesson is more suitable for those users who have some experience with Photoshop. ...

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Create a Floating Island Scene

In this photo manipulation tutorial, you will learn how to create a realistic composition of a sunset in a world with floating islands! We will cover professional-level Photoshop tricks such as adding accurate shadows and highlights, various blending techniques such as giving the image a soft focus effect and altering luminosity and shadows of the scene, adding haziness, and much more ...

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Book and Spiral Binding

Let's create an open book with Spiral Binding. You can create the book with pages and then add a spiral binding as a special effect. This is not suggested for beginners. You will also have to have a great deal of patience. It can be done is Photoshop CS. So let's beg...

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Diagonal Lines with Photoshop, Pencil Tool

The Pencil Tool is a rarely used tool in Photoshop. You can create straight lines in Photoshop very easilybut what about diagonal lines? Nothing difficult though.You can make this effect easily with this tutorial on creating diagonal lines with Photosh...

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Eye - Make an Eye in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you to create a realistic human eye with Photoshop. So let's begin...

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Framing Photos 4

You can frame your photos in different ways, here is another one. Most of it can be done in Photoshop 7, for two or three steps CS2 or CS3 is needed.I have opened this image in Photoshop to 'frame'. Here is the 'framed' photo. To warp the frames you will need PS CS2 or CS...

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Make up with Photoshop

You can apply make up to a photo just as in fashion magazines with Photoshop. It is quite simple to do and uses a lot of layers. The photo without the makeup and the one with makeup applied with Photosho...

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Note Paper made in Photoshop

You can create a realistic notepaper in Photoshop, just as you would do in real life to send to friends and colleagues. And the text with a Drop Shadow added as an optional ste...

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Drop Shadow in Photoshop

You can add a realistic drop shadow to an image with Photoshop. Versions do not matter. You can do it in Photoshop 7 or higher versions. A drop shadow has been added to the image of the boy...

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Movable Border Action with Photoshop CS

Movable border is an action which will put you back by $37. Why spend good money when you can do it Photoshop yourself. First you need an image. Any image will do...

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Tearing a Photo in Photoshop

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Beard with Photoshop

I have been asked to post a tutorial on creating a beard. You can make a clean shaven person bearded with the help of a brush that is found in all versions of Photoshop. It is quite easy to do. Just follow the step...

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Bokeh Effect with Photoshop

This is a special effects Photoshop tutorial using a particular Brush - SS - Bokeh. This Brush is not available in Photoshop, but can be downloaded free. The link for free download is given in the tutorial.I have taken this free stock image.The same image with  the special effect created with the Bru...

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Shattered Effect with Square Brush in Photoshop

One of the Brushes built into Photoshop, whatever be the version is the Square Brush. You may not have used it. You can use it to make a special effect -- Shattered effect. It is quite simple and can be done in any version of Photoshop. The 'Shattered Effect'. It is simple and can done in any version of Photosho...

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Change color of dress and also learn to use the Pen Tool

Do you find the Pen Tool to be confusing? Don't be. It is very easy to use once you know how. I will also show you how to change the color of the a dress without affecting the rest of the image and in the proces you will be able to use the Pen Tool too without any confusion. I have changed the lady's white sari into red without affecting the rest of the image. The Pen Tool is a powerful Tool. Many avoid it because they find it difficult. It is not...

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Channels for cutting out Objects - II

I had a posted a tutorial on cutting out a part of an image such as a figure cleanly with channels. This is a continuation of the tutorial. The object of the tutorial is to make the object to be cut out, either completely black with the help of channels or completely white. In the last tutorial I had shown how to cut out a figure after turning it complely black against a white background. This will be just the opposite -- a white figure on a black...

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Background - Changing Background

I have been asked to demonstrate something basic -- Changing the background of a photo. It is easily don...

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Wings in Photoshop

Let us create a winged figure in photoshop. You need the wings firs...

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Comic Book effect with Photoshop CS

You can give a comic book effect to any image in Photoshop CS with a few layers and a number of built in Filters. I have taken this free stock image. And applied the comic book effec...

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Day into Night with Photoshop

Day can be changed to night in Photoshop. It is easy and can be done in a number of steps, you just have to have some patience. Get busy in turning day into night with Photosho...

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Waterdrop with Any Version of Photoshop

You can create realistic waterdrops in photoshop (any version) in a few simple steps, which you can add to your compositions or photos as a special effe...

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