Photo Editing Photoshop Tutorials
Handy Techniques for Cutting Out Hair in Photoshop
When trimming out images in Photoshop, human hair or animal fur always proves troublesome and can be tricky to achieve a realistic look. Here are two techniques I use on images with both plain backgrounds, and those with a varied background tones, each achieving pretty decent end results. The best photos are those professional studio type shots that ar ... [more details]
Added on August 3rd 2009 in Basics, Photo Editing
Creative Photoshop Animal King Photo Manipulation Tutorial
In this photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800’s. Let’s get started! [more details]
Added on July 30th 2009 in Digital Art, Photo Editing
Make Perfect Selection for Human Object by Utilising Channel Mask Technique in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you a rather useful technique I use in Photoshop to make perfect human selection, which requires the combination of channel mask and the quick selection tool available in Photoshop CS3. I have received a number of emails lately in regards to this topic and I have decided to post this short tutorial with a step-by-step guid ... [more details]
Added on July 27th 2009 in Basics, Photo Editing
Creating a Spy Fly Photo Manipulation
Welcome to a new Photoshop based tutorial. This time I'll try to describe the main steps in creating a dead robot fly. Before we get started, I would like to thank Hortensiu Milstein (Personal Portfolio) for the great collaboration. We decided to make this tutorial a year ago, but the lack of time postponed the realization of this tut. This piece was ... [more details]
Added on July 14th 2009 in Digital Art, Photo Editing
It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop
Constructivist graphic design is often associated with communist politics and propaganda, but it's more than that, Constructivism is about using bright colors, playing with lightness, perspective, geometrical forms, besides photomontage techniques and digital collage. This time I'll dare to name this tutorial a 'Neo-Constructivist' des ... [more details]
Added on July 14th 2009 in Digital Art, Photo Editing, Wallpaper
How to Mold Paint Splatter to a Face in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we'll learn how to take splattered paint Photoshop brushes and apply them to the contours of a model's face. This is a relatively simple technique, which yields excellent artistic results. Let's get to it! [more details]
Added on July 6th 2009 in Abstract Effect, Digital Art, Photo Editing
Design an Awesome Space Dancer Scene with Nebula Texture in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the processes I used to design this awesome space dancer scene with Nebula Texture in Photoshop. The inspiration of the tutorial in fact came from the latest “Prince of Persia” game cover (and yes, I do love this game very much!) Together we will be using image adjustment options, layer blending, masking and filter eff ... [more details]
Added on July 6th 2009 in Abstract Effect, Light Effect, Photo Editing
You Will Stand Alone Photomanipulation
Another photomanipulation tutorial from PSD Essential, this time called You will stand alone. In the tutorial you’ll learn to create a dark and creepy effect by blending various images together and adjusting several settings. [more details]
Added on July 1st 2009 in Photo Editing
Super Cool Watercolor Effect in 10 steps in Photoshop
Last year I wrote a Photoshop tutorial for PSDTUTS showing how to create a very nice design using watercolor brushes. It was inspired by the work of guys such as Bruno Fujii, Margot Mace, Raphaël of My Dead Pony and Stina Person. This time I will create another effect but it will be using Masks and Watercolor brushesl; it's inspired by another g ... [more details]
Added on July 1st 2009 in Digital Art, Photo Editing
Dark Grunge Photo Effect
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn a neat grungy photo effect using a variety of Photoshop filters and image adjustments. [more details]
Added on May 15th 2009 in Photo Editing